SCARRED & FEATHERED

Irish boss believes his team are paralysed by fear after a litany of qualifying failures

- BY MARK MCCADDEN

HEIMIR HALLGRIMSSON says Ireland's players are ‘scarred’ from successive qualification campaign failures.

And the Boys in Green manager, whose future has suddenly been cast in doubt, is struggling to “see the light at the end of the tunnel” after Tuesday night's bitterly disappointing defeat away to Armenia.