THERE ARE WORSE reasons to have half the country looking for you, I suppose.
Setanta Sports today say they want to find the young lad who became the face of Ireland’s football fans in the wake of the Lansdwone Road riots of 1995.
Ireland meet England at Wembley on Wednesday night for the first time since that abandoned match 18 years ago. And the station — who broadcast the game next week — want to send the now grown-up Ireland supporter.
So if you want to sort him out with an all expenses paid trip to London for the game, tweet @SetantaSports with the hashtag #Send95KidToWembley and they’ll be in touch.
YouTube: SetantaSportsIreland
TheScore.ie tracked down the guy this week but we’ll leave this to you.
You’d want to be pretty certain that there’s not going to be a riot in Wembley before sending him
Tell Setanta to watch the scannal episode about this, it’s from maybe 5 or 6 years ago, anyway they interview the young lad and his family in it so at least they can get his name from it
James Eager is the lads name.
I was there , my first time ever bringing my late dad to a soccer international
It was fairly memobrable alright !
its me
Me too and my mate Richie.
I heard he moved to England after school, as he thought they were such nice friendly people!
yeah rich your right i saw him on a danny dyer program he is part of the chelsea head hunters now
Didn’t they go lookin for him on OTB last year? he’s a record producer now or something from what I remember
Hopefully he doesn’t cause the same trouble again
James Eager is the lad’s name.
I’d be eager too if I was in for free tix and travel to Wembley…..
the kids turned down the tickets and asked Setanta to donate cash to a charity instead
nice touch
https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Send95KidToWembley&src=hash
dont mind ken people its really just me give me my ticket i deserve it i nearly got a smack of a chair off an english hooligan that night
He’s had nightmares ever since and now you want to send him over to them??
I’ll have them instead
He’s from Greystones as far as I remember. I was at that game and we were around the same age, think he was slightly younger. Pretty terrifying at that age!