Troy Parrott’s completes stunning hat-trick at the death to keep Ireland’s World Cup dream alive

World Cup Group F qualifier: Hungary 2 [Lukacs 3; Varga 37] Republic of Ireland 3 [Parrott 15 pen, 80, 90+6] All changed, changed utterly, as Troy Parrott takes flight. There was five minutes and 12 seconds of additional time played when Parrott poked a Liam Scales header, from a Caoimhín Kelleher hit and hope, into the Hungary net. The 3,000 Irish fans in the upper deck of the Puskas Arena needed a second to realise what had just happened. Only a second, mind. The silence of the other 64,000 souls inside the stadium and wild celebrations of Irish players on the pitch allowed the realisation to set in. Parrott’s hat-trick had just put the Republic of Ireland into Thursday’s World Cup playoff...