Hosts determined to combine brains and brawn in quest to frustrate visitors
World Cup Qualifier: Ireland V Armenia Preview
A glance through the sports sections of the newspapers sold on the chaotic and traffic-clogged streets of Yerevan would give the reader the impression that wrestling and chess were the obsessions in this land, with football the poor relation.
An Armenian-made mixture of brawn and brains which, if combined, could make this nation able to compete in team sports but instead, their national football side – who host Ireland tonight carrying the pain of a 5-0 thrashing at home to Portugal – flail and drop like a stone.