Washington looking for omens

Northern Ireland striker Conor Washington is hoping his team’s final group match in Euro 2016 will be a good omen.

The sides will meet in Paris on Tuesday, June 21 at the Parc des Princes in their Group C encounter, and the 24-year-old ex-postman revealed he used to relish playing on a Tuesday, rather than arriving for Saturday fixtures fatigued during his time with non-League St Ives between 2010 and 2012.

“At the time scouts were coming to watch I was praying they would come on Tuesday night because at least I would get some sleep in the afternoon,” Washington said.

“I was turning up to some Saturday FA Vase games, the biggest games of my career at the time, and I literally had to run my round. I probably shouldn’t say this but I had to bring my mate in – there was late post, it was probably delivered to the wrong address, parcels going missing – just to try and get to this …

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