The Boys in Green (RTE One)

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Two part documentary about the Irish football team about to kick off on RTE One.

Obligatory KillianM2 clip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K8YLnMz9lE

Assetbacked

Talking Heads in the introduction is enough to get me tuned in to give it a go!

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She makes Charlton sound like a Healy-Rae.

Skid X

Gary Mackay, I remember that goal well. Never celebrated a Scotland goal so much!

Loads of talk at the time of us sending over crates of Guinness and Champagne to him, but he says he never received anything

https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2014/nov/11/republic-of-ireland-gary-mackay-scotland

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Love Stapleton's enthusiasm singing along there.

Andrew00

Some characters in that Irish team

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The days before the contrived "mad bastard" viral clips these days.

Wheety

Loving this so far.

appledrop

Is Eamon Dunphy going to admit on this programme that Jack Charleton was actually a good manager?

We have had plenty of good players since this era but never reached the height of success like this ever again.

Skid X

Class soundtrack on this too

appledrop

Most of the lads you still recognise just much older but holy f##k what happened to Kevin Sheedy.

JP Liz V1

Where has David O' Leary been hiding, is he gone from management completely?

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JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Where has David O' Leary been hiding, is he gone from management completely?

Well he did practically bankrupt Leeds United so no wonder he is in hiding.

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appledrop wrote: »

Most of the lads you still recognise just much older but holy f##k what happened to Kevin Sheedy.

Wouldn’t know him at all if they hadn’t put his name up. Didn’t he have (has?) cancer?

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ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

Wouldn’t know him at all if they hadn’t put his name up. Didn’t he have (has?) cancer?

Oh god did he. I feel bad now for saying how different he looked!

Hurrache

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

Wouldn’t know him at all if they hadn’t put his name up. Didn’t he have (has?) cancer?

My first, and probably the last, soccer related t shirt!

"Ole Ole Ole, Sheehy saves the day!"

Wheety

The glory days! I would have been 9 when Italia '90 took place. Would have loved to have been an adult during that. Some craic with the Irish team back then.

Wheety

Wheety wrote: »

The glory days! I would have been 9 when Italia '90 took place. Would have loved to have been an adult during that. Some craic with the Irish team back then.

It was some craic. I still remember me and the mother watching the Romania penalties in through the sitting room window with the nerves and my Da sitting back breaking his heart laughing at us.
And the 1990 homecoming. Jesus that was unreal.

wirelessdude01

Remember the game against Romania and my dad making me leave to go to hurling training and I missed the penalties. Guess what, no one else turned up to training, not even the manager. Always hold that against my dad.

statesaver

I'm really enjoying this

Wheety

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

It was some craic. I still remember me and the mother watching the Romania penalties in through the sitting room window with the nerves and my Da sitting back breaking his heart laughing at us.
And the 1990 homecoming. Jesus that was unreal.

Yeah, I remember jumping up on the sofa and bouncing around when O'Leary scored. Think I ran out side and some neighbours had the same idea.

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ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

It was some craic. I still remember me and the mother watching the Romania penalties in through the sitting room window with the nerves and my Da sitting back breaking his heart laughing at us.

My mother had the rosary beads on the tv + blessed it with holy water!!!!

It must have worked! I'll never forget the celebrations on the road when we won the penalty shoot out for hours after. We were only kids but it was amazing. Everyone young + old were dancing on the streets + every car passing by were beeping their horns.

We will never see the likes of it again. Back then we all had nothing so something like Italy 90 gave people hope.

Skid X

Bill O'Herlihy was the man.

Still miss him.

Call me Al

statesaver wrote: »

I'm really enjoying this

Yeah, a real feel good programme. It brings back some great memories of the 90s.

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Richard Branson getting locked in that clip??

Arghus

Like how Dunphy called in the "Gah".

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Dunphy nearly in tears before the famous Egypt rant

Arghus

Most Irish goal ever against the Dutch.

ooter

1988 I was doing my inter cert, 1990 I was doing my leaving cert, nice one jack :eek:

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McCarthy saying Dunphy was right about the Egypt game :eek:

ooter

1988 I was doing my inter cert, 1990 I was doing my leaving cert, nice one jack :eek:

Wheety

This agreement is gas. Just passing it around. Didn't work out well for the Dutch.

Andrew00

Imagine two teams doing that now. Happy with the 1-1 so just passing it around the back

They'd be done for match fixing or something

Skid X

If Egypt had equalised against England it would have been a four way drawing of lots to see who went through.

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End of the Dutch game makes me think of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0mHp3iyWGg

The head on Stephen Alkin
Pornstar.

Arghus

"We'll prepare as well as we can."

Cue shots of players boozing.

Wheety

Didn't win a game at that World Cup

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Keeper knew straight away he should have stopped Cascarino's penalty.

Wheety

I get a bit emotional with these scenes.

Arghus

The footage of that oul lad in tears gets me every time.

Wheety

Wheety wrote: »

I get a bit emotional with these scenes.

I love the scene of the old baldy lad clapping and crying.

Skid X

Alf has been deferred, Home and Away has been deferred ...

Arghus

Skid X wrote: »

Alf has been deferred, Home and Away has been deferred ...

Ciao Roma.

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ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

I love the scene of the old baldy lad clapping and crying.

Always my favourite + you know that men like that years ago never would never cry.

This was something special.

Skid X

Arghus wrote: »

Ciao Roma.

... Buongiorno Roma !

Arghus

Ah those pre-Coronavirus days.

Granadino

Arghus wrote: »

The footage of that oul lad in tears gets me every time.

Full of porter.

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You'd think Haughey won the thing on his own there, the way he was acting.

ooter

Schilachi the little swine.

Skid X

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

I love the scene of the old baldy lad clapping and crying.

He was a hard nosed journalist at an EU Conference, it got to everyone

"There was a shot from Dublin Castle where there was a European summit, and John Healy, the great political journalist from the Irish Times, burst into tears of emotion. Now John Healy was not a soccer fan - anything but. But it got to him.

"That was a moment that I will never forget."

https://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2017/1106/917861-one-summer-in-italy-a-moment-to-take-the-breath-away/