Hugo Keenan hat-trick sees Ireland into the clear against disjointed Argentina

With about 10 minutes to go here, Ciarán Frawley kicked a penalty into the fifth row of the East Stand. The ball was snaffled by a young bucko in a tan jacket, who immediately stuffed it under his seat and acted the innocent when the ball boy came looking for it. What ball? Dunno about any ball, no siree …

Now, he might have got away with it, except the ball boy had already lost one for the night. At the end of the first half, Sam Prendergast’s kick into the crowd had got swallowed up and the teenaged, blue-bibbed ball boy was forced to slope off chuntering away about the bad mannered yahoos of the East Stand.