# LOI Legends
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LOI Legends
'I was looking up to these older lads who weren't good for me' - The Englishman who found redemption in Ireland
4 Jul 2021
60.7k
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Looking Back
Winning the '4 in a row,' getting capped by Ireland and escaping a 2016 terrorist attack
17 Jan 2021
43.2k
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LOI Legends
The story of one of Irish football's greatest servants and how he almost chose GAA
Updated
10 Jan 2021
32.6k
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LOI Legends
Lining out in the San Siro aged 20, playing with two legendary Irish sides and moving to Australia
1 Nov 2020
41.4k
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Looking Back
Joining Manchester United at 16, glory in Ireland and the 'rollercoaster' of management
20 Sep 2020
49.6k
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Dedication
'I was considered not to be Irish... I could have buckled at any stage and drank'
2 Aug 2020
57.9k
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dreams
‘It was only after we scored, you’re 50 odd minutes in and thinking: we’re 1-0 up in White Hart Lane’
24 May 2020
30.3k
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One Club Man
'I was just hoping to get a game with the reserves... staying for 17 years was beyond my wildest dreams'
17 May 2020
32.8k
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Interview
Working with Martin McGuinness in a meat company, singing for the Dalai Lama and playing at the World Cup
19 Apr 2020
31.5k
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LOI Legends
Coming up against a great Liverpool side, breaking records and trying to get Stephen Cluxton to play soccer
13 Apr 2020
31.6k
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Looking Back
'The senior guys, they didn't like me, they didn't want an Irish guy coming over'
26 Jan 2020
55.1k
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No regrets
'There's no hard-luck story with me. I wasn't good enough to play Premier League football'
27 Oct 2019
44.1k
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LOI Legends
The Irishman who made his La Liga debut in front of 90,000 at the Camp Nou
22 Sep 2019
45.5k
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origin story
'If you were from Ballymun, you could be turned away from an interview, let alone a job'
1 Sep 2019
33.6k
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Local Hero
'My second oldest brother was a Rovers fanatic... All I could see were the tears running down his face'
18 Aug 2019
29.0k
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LOI Legends
The Irish star who joined Premier League giants in their mid-90s peak
14 Jul 2019
38.6k
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LOI Legends
‘John Giles didn't want me to leave, but I was determined to play first-team football’
30 Jun 2019
31.5k
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Looking Back
'I feel like I was Irish' - The Barbados-born footballer who found a second home
9 Jun 2019
35.5k
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LOI Legends
'Did I think Damien Duff was going to make it? I always thought he had a real chance'
26 May 2019
22.8k
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LOI Legends
'I look back on my life and for a fella with such a lack of ability on the ball, it's been amazing'
12 May 2019
32.0k
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LOI Legends
'I had never played centre midfield until my very first game at Leicester, when Martin O'Neill told me to'
28 Apr 2019
32.3k
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LOI Legends
'We used to kick lumps out of each other in training and Pat Fenlon would just sit back and laugh'
31 Mar 2019
21.9k
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mentor
‘I would have come from the flats… Brian Kerr gave me the confidence to go into any room and meet people’
18 Mar 2019
44.1k
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longread
'We beat Le Tissier's Southampton. Lawrie McMenemy shook my hand and said: 'Listen kid, sensational f*****g goal''
3 Mar 2019
35.7k
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football man
'You give everything you have, running around like a lunatic, and I’m still doing that at nearly 70'
17 Feb 2019
30.9k
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Good Times
'Bayern Munich had already sold tickets for the next round... We were minutes away from history'
28 Oct 2018
31.3k
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misfortune
'Leeds United were over for a second or third look at me the day I got my ankle broken in two places'
21 Oct 2018
28.5k
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regrets I've had a few
'Boredom leads to a lot of things and we ended up going to the pub and wasting ourselves'
14 Oct 2018
43.2k
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goalscorer
‘I’ve good friends that are in prison and some that are dead. For me football was an escape’
23 Sep 2018
44.6k
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LOI Legends
'It’s nice to have the feeling that you belong to a club and I don’t think there are any better than Bohs'
16 Sep 2018
24.0k
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LOI Legends
Facing Zidane in Dublin, an ill-fated stint in England and becoming one of Irish football's all-time top scorers
9 Sep 2018
26.8k
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Looking Back
'It does make you stay awake at night and struggle to sleep, and not want to get up in the morning'
2 Sep 2018
57.4k
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LOI Legends
'It had become slightly more difficult. Your wife starts to realise that actually, weekends exist'
26 Aug 2018
31.5k
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LOI Legends
'My mother told me to stick with the butcher's trade as she said I'd need it more than the football'
19 Aug 2018
33.6k
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Local Lad
'I played for that jersey' - The Limerick lad who marked Maradona and battled Real Madrid in the European Cup
5 Aug 2018
41.2k
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Looking Back
'We had another bottle of beer. Next thing, the agent came in and said: You have to play a match tonight'
29 Jul 2018
48.4k
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LOI Legends
'I learned English in school but it wasn't really the same English in Derry': from Belgrade to the Brandywell
22 Jul 2018
27.9k
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