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# league of ireland legends

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'We beat Le Tissier's Southampton. Lawrie McMenemy shook my hand and said: 'Listen kid, sensational f*****g goal''
‘I’ve good friends that are in prison and some that are dead. For me football was an escape’
'My mother told me to stick with the butcher's trade as she said I'd need it more than the football'
'I played for that jersey' - The Limerick lad who marked Maradona and battled Real Madrid in the European Cup
'Sometimes you can feel sorry for yourself but there's no point - I was the lucky one'
'I drew crowds wherever I went. Even when we played away I put a couple of thousand on the gate'
'Things were going really well and what killed me looking back was Ron Atkinson got the bullet'
"They asked me about Effenberg. And I said: 'If he thinks I was like his father, he played like my mother'"
‘People think that football started in Ireland with Jack Charlton, but that’s simply not true’