May as well raise that white flag on campaign

IRELAND SOFA OFF QUALIFYING FOR FINALS

- PAUL O'HEHIR

ALL white on the night? Absolute s**** more like it.

Ireland fans will be stocking their fridges with pizzas and beer and making sure they have spare batteries for the remote as another summer of couch surfing awaits.

And the players will be doing it too as they won't be going to the World Cup either — not after being outplayed, outthought and outmuscled by the world’s 105th-ranked team.

Ireland have endured some dreadful performances against low-ranked teams ~ think Luxembourg for example - but nothing quite like this horror show in Yerevan.

This was record-breaking stuff as Ireland ~ kitted out head-to-toe in their white strip - had never lost a competitive game to a team this far down the FIFA rankings

And were it not for a slew of Caoimhin Kelleher saves, they would have been beaten out of sight by a side that had conceded 21 goals in their previous five games.