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20 May 2018
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13 May 2018
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6 May 2018
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Remember when
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15 Apr 2018
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LOI Legends
'Liam Brady ran across to me and said ‘Paddy, your Panathinaikos players are f***ing mad!''
8 Apr 2018
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Perfect 10
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25 Mar 2018
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his father's son
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18 Mar 2018
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11 Mar 2018
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4 Mar 2018
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'I genuinely don’t have any regrets. I’m honest enough to realise that I didn’t put in the work'
25 Feb 2018
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karl marx of the left wing
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18 Feb 2018
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the life of brian
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23 Dec 2017
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LOI Legends
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4 Nov 2017
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29 Oct 2017
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LOI Legends
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22 Oct 2017
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Interview
"I was going in training with the youth team and I just thought: 'What's the point?'"
15 Oct 2017
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Interview
'I told Bobby Robson I wasn’t coming back to England'
8 Oct 2017
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long read
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1 Oct 2017
40.5k
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LOI Legends
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24 Sep 2017
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Peerless
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17 Sep 2017
36.0k
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Goal Machine
‘People think that football started in Ireland with Jack Charlton, but that’s simply not true’
10 Sep 2017
24.5k
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Rico
'That was the beginning of the end at Cork City because the new owners were strange, strange people'
3 Sep 2017
28.3k
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LOI Legends
‘I was confident that I was good enough… But I was worried about having a nightmare’
27 Aug 2017
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The case for the defence
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20 Aug 2017
36.3k
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LOI Legends
'Pat hands me the phone and it was Kenny Dalglish. He goes ‘We really want you to sign’'
13 Aug 2017
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Candystripes
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8 Aug 2017
12.3k
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Nutsy
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30 Jul 2017
23.0k
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UNSUNG HERO
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23 Jul 2017
28.2k
14
LOI Legends
'It was weeks before I realised that it was actually Eusebio'
16 Jul 2017
28.3k
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Interview
"I hated football and was contemplating getting a 'real job'... Then I got called up by Libya"
9 Jul 2017
46.3k
16
LOI Legends
'You were against Pele and Beckenbauer. It was like going to play in Hollywood'
2 Jul 2017
26.1k
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Talk to Joe
'We used to kick the s**t out of each other in training but the bond was incredible'
25 Jun 2017
33.5k
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long read
'He said 'there’s no f***ing way you’re leaving this room until you sign the contract!''
18 Jun 2017
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