When Ireland got to Giants Stadium to play Norway at the 1994 World Cup, Jason McAteer was still trying to get his head around the fact he was starting.
McAteer and Gary Kelly were rooming together in New Jersey and neither of them slept properly.
Before the match, McAteer went outside the ground to give his family their tickets and told them he was playing.
His mum could see what state he was in, so she tried to calm him down.
“You’ll be fine.”
Then he went back in and lined up in the tunnel.
John Aldridge was in front of him.
Roy Keane was behind him.
During the national anthems, McAteer saw a whisper starting to come down the Ireland line from Andy Townsend.
He thought it must have been something important.
Maybe some last instruction from the manager before the game.
Eventually it got to Aldridge.
He turned round to McAteer.
“Row F, bird with the Viking hat.”
McAteer looked back at him.
“Yeah?”
Aldridge carried on.
“Look at the size of her f****** knockers. Pass it on.”
McAteer had the cameras on him, the anthem playing, and Roy Keane standing right behind him.
There was no way he was turning round to Roy Keane before the biggest game of his life and telling him that.
So he passed on a different message instead.
“Roy, manager says to keep it tight for the first twenty minutes, pass it on.”
Keane passed that on to Gary Kelly.
And Kelly was left wondering why McAteer was standing there laughing at what sounded like the most basic tactical instruction in football.
Ireland drew 0-0 and advanced through the group.
“I wanted to swap shirts with Viking girl after the game.”
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🚨 FURIOUS CLASH ON GMB: Jermaine Jenas Snaps Back as Kate & Ranvir Grill Him Over Sexting Scandal! 🔥
Former England footballer and TV presenter Jermaine Jenas, 43, exploded during a tense interview on Good Morning Britain as Kate Garraway and Ranvir Singh pressed him on his devastating sexting scandal.
“I’ve lost EVERYTHING: my job, my family, everything has been taken away from me!” Jenas admitted, opening up about the brutal two years since his BBC axe.
When Kate asked what he had learnt, things got a little prickly:
“I think that’s a very specific thing to try and put your finger on… I think it’s probably a little bit of an unfair question… You go through life, you make mistakes…”
The atmosphere turned very heated when the hosts challenged him on taking responsibility.
Ranvir:
“You’re skirting around what you’ve learnt… but clearly these women did not want to receive what you were sending them.”
Jenas fired straight back:
“I’m not skirting around anything. I’m more than happy to have the conversation, which is why I’m here. I’m not here to be defending myself in any way, shape, or form. I know what I did was wrong. I accept those punishments. Nobody is skirting around the responsibility of what I did. I know what I did!”
He then took direct aim at the hosts:
“I’m a human being. We make mistakes. You two can’t sit in front of me and tell me you’ve never made a mistake in your lives. We all make mistakes!”
Throughout the interview, Jenas came across as someone who clearly feels hard done by. He insisted he’s not after a job, but this felt very much like an attempt to get back on TV.
It was all a bit “woe is me”, poor old me, it’s so unfair, I’ve lost everything. A little pathetic and humiliating, really.
La razón por la que John Wick no mató al portero Kevin Nash es una locura: John dice, “Has perdido peso”, Francis responde, “Más de 60 kg”. El actor dice que era un código:
“No podías haber perdido tanto peso. Eso era yo diciéndole cuántas personas había allí.”
OFFICIAL TRAILER - Brad Pitt stars in survival thriller HEART OF THE BEAST from director David Ayer.
In theaters September 25.
After a plane crash, Special Forces officer James and his combat dog are stranded in the wilderness. They are forced into a brutal fight for survival.
Netflix is releasing all eight episodes of its new series adaptation of The Human Vapor on July 2, 2026, reimagining the iconic 1960 Toho tokusatsu film originally directed by Godzilla creator Ishirō Honda.
🏴| The Tartan Army deserved something special.
We teamed up with the world-famous @EdinburghTattoo to give the Tartan Army a proper send-off as they head to the USA.
Come on Scotland!🤞🏴
28 years of waiting for our Scottish friends come to an end on Sunday morning, as the World Cup gets underway tonight!
After the wonderful moments we all enjoyed in the city two years ago, here's hoping for more magic and an Archie Gemmill moment for this generation! 🏴 #effzeh
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Gina Gershon explains why she didn't like Paul Verhoeven's "Showgirls" (1995) at first, but learnt to appreciate it over the years:
"I couldn't watch "Showgirls" (1995) for years 'cause I was like, I was too, a little bit of PTSD, I think, in a very slight way, no disrespect to real PTSD, but I would get very tense and anxious when I thought about certain things and stories, and so I never really watched it again, and I would kind of use the excuse of like, 'Well,' and it was a real excuse, like, 'I can't deal with my accent, 'cause I had to lie about my accent.
I thought the movie would be closer to one of [Verhoeven's] Dutch films, which are a little bit seedier, a little bit darker, and I think his American films, now that I've kind of studied it and I've stepped out of it, I mean, they're really interesting comments on America and fascism.
Going 30 years later, 25 years later, a friend of mine, a writer friend, she said, 'No, you don't understand how great Showgirls is.' I'm like, 'I guess I really don't,' but when I saw it from afar, not being in it, and all of a sudden I'm like, 'Oh my god.' It was really a comment on ugly America and on capitalism and power struggles and dynamics and all those things. That r*** scene has to be there. It's the grossest thing in there and the powerful men, they're all protected and, you know, so that's why it's exciting when she kicks the guy's a$$.
I thought it was gonna be a different movie than it was, but you know what? It's also an interesting lesson in, you know, when you get to the set or any situation really, you know, in your mind, you think what it is, but when you go there and it's not, then you have to assess and... You gotta make it make sense, but then I just changed my approach to the whole character, so that was kind of interesting. It was a good lesson."
("Gina Gershon Says Watching Her Performance in Showgirls Left Her Feeling 'Tense and Anxious': 'Like a Little Bit of PTSD'", Virginia Chamlee, People, 2026)
P.S: Happy 64th birthday, Gina Gershon!