Northern Ireland’s Paul Smyth fires Michael O’Neill’s second coming

Wearing the away kit colours that reflected the blue skies above them, Paul Smyth sent the Northern Ireland faithful into seventh heaven on a sunny spring‑like afternoon in Belfast. Only four minutes after coming on, the 20-year-old Queens Park Rangers winger shook off his South Korean marker just inside the penalty area and fired home the winner on his international debut. He marked it with an acrobatic backwards flip as Windsor Park celebrated.Smyth’s dream start as a Northern Irel