Paul O'Brien

YNWA

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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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