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LOI Legends
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The Benin international who lit up Irish football
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Looking Back
Winning the '4 in a row,' getting capped by Ireland and escaping a 2016 terrorist attack
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The story of one of Irish football's greatest servants and how he almost chose GAA
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Lining out in the San Siro aged 20, playing with two legendary Irish sides and moving to Australia
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Joining Manchester United at 16, glory in Ireland and the 'rollercoaster' of management
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Dedication
'I was considered not to be Irish... I could have buckled at any stage and drank'
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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’
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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'
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Interview
Working with Martin McGuinness in a meat company, singing for the Dalai Lama and playing at the World Cup
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Coming up against a great Liverpool side, breaking records and trying to get Stephen Cluxton to play soccer
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Looking Back
'The senior guys, they didn't like me, they didn't want an Irish guy coming over'
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No regrets
'There's no hard-luck story with me. I wasn't good enough to play Premier League football'
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Journey
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The Irishman who made his La Liga debut in front of 90,000 at the Camp Nou
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origin story
'If you were from Ballymun, you could be turned away from an interview, let alone a job'
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Local Hero
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The Irish star who joined Premier League giants in their mid-90s peak
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‘John Giles didn't want me to leave, but I was determined to play first-team football’
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'I feel like I was Irish' - The Barbados-born footballer who found a second home
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'Did I think Damien Duff was going to make it? I always thought he had a real chance'
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'I look back on my life and for a fella with such a lack of ability on the ball, it's been amazing'
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'I had never played centre midfield until my very first game at Leicester, when Martin O'Neill told me to'
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'We used to kick lumps out of each other in training and Pat Fenlon would just sit back and laugh'
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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’
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'We beat Le Tissier's Southampton. Lawrie McMenemy shook my hand and said: 'Listen kid, sensational f*****g goal''
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Good Times
'Bayern Munich had already sold tickets for the next round... We were minutes away from history'
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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'
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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'
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'It’s nice to have the feeling that you belong to a club and I don’t think there are any better than Bohs'
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Facing Zidane in Dublin, an ill-fated stint in England and becoming one of Irish football's all-time top scorers
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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'
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'It had become slightly more difficult. Your wife starts to realise that actually, weekends exist'
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'We had another bottle of beer. Next thing, the agent came in and said: You have to play a match tonight'
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'I learned English in school but it wasn't really the same English in Derry': from Belgrade to the Brandywell
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