Alan McLoughlin: "“When I do find myself at home, flicking between television channels, or just feeling a little bit down, I occasionally get out the video of that goal against Northern Ireland. I watch my volley and I watch the elation on my face as I wheel away from hitting the goal. Then I think back to touching down at Dublin airport as the hero of the hour. And then I think back over my life and over my career. Serious illness brings with it the inevitable thought of standing at the pearly gates and accounting for your life. So I think back on the characters I’ve come across. I think back to Big Jack telling the cameras that, with that goal, I’d justified my existence. And I reflect, with a wry smile, that yes, when all is said and done, I’ve done exactly that.” RIP
@Dáithí Mullins because they were same countries bit due to diversity there was conflict and to avoid that the country was divided into 2! Northern Ireland became part of UK
@@FannyShmellar A united Ireland is on its way and that is the inevitable fact. Loyalists will choose to ignore this of course and continue with their seige mentality. No more glorious 12th live on the BBC. Nothing is going their way lately😂
Dude Ulster Unionists and Loyalists are just as sectarian as Irish Republicans/Nationalists we Irish are chimpanzees that can't unite against real enemy the English/British.
@Ho Ho Ho soami ... below n kerry...that was a classgoal..if in a big tournament ... pundits would be ravng about it.. all i am trying ..to say is...it was a wonderful hit... it was a class goal. probablyget excommncated or attackked for mspellong it
Michael Riordan Fine goal, though McLoughlin’s was as good. Didn’t Quinn score some ridiculous amount of goals for Reading at that time? Seem to remember they lost in the playoffs due to the Premier League going from 22 to 20 clubs, would have been promoted automatically otherwise.
Dear Ireland north and south, join forces and unite as one team. If you did you would have better team and pathway towards reconciliation. Its been done in rugby so it can be done. Im Australian with heritage from Belfast Protestant and Wicklow Catholic, the world would love to see it and even Protestant in the north would like to see it, I know the Republican Irish would. Best wishes Ireland
The bitterness of Billy Bingham knowing his team could not qualify and also the nasty element of some of there players and everyone there was Irish. It's unbelievable.
Ulster Scots Presbyterians have always had inferior complex towards Irish Roman Catholic majority in Ireland has do Anglo Irish Anglicans they are obessed with Irish Republicans.
kirkham111 no it’s not. It’s Englishmen who pretended to be Irishmen playing people from Northern Ireland, who are a separate and different people and country. Ireland made international football farcical.
@@whosthis7216 seriously... Like John Barnes and Stirling are English.... Micheal Owen? Where was he from..near Sure all Rooney's family are Irish.. Hypocrite.
James Le Funny Cunt Funt John Barnes was raised in England. Sterling has lived there since he was 3. Michael Owen was from Chester... in England. Rooney was born in Liverpool... in England. All of these boys are either born or raised in England, none of them are using the birthplace of their grandma to earn easy international caps for a country they don’t care about. They’re repressing THEIR country, the Irish team do not do this.
@@whosthis7216 already lost your argument in the 1st line. Barnes was born in Jamaica, Raheem Sterling also born in Jamaica and these are just two examples!. Don't have me start talking about Mo Farah 😅. It must annoy you to think that wee Ireland next door can beat you from Rugby to Soccer to basically any sport you partake in. Would love to see an English Hurling Team or Gaelic Football side. Then maybe you could beat somebody at their own game.
Billy Bingham really disgraced himself that night. An otherwise decent career ended in a shameful and bitter legacy. The NI players on the other hand were all very sporting and decent. They realised what qualification meant to their fellow professionals. On the field the match was played in a good spirit. The crowd were rabid and obnoxious from what I could hear. The RUC did a good job in protecting the Irish players.
never forget watching this as a kid in Dublin with my dad (who is English) and could never understand how northern Irish supporters hated us as much as they did. Have never seen such hatred towards Ireland. Took me 20 years before I would even visit Northern Ireland. Had been in 18 African countries, Libya and Syria before I went 2 hours on a train to Belfast. An opinion cemented in my mind as a result of this game
I'm sorry if I sound insensitive, as is really not my aim, but don't you think its bizarre that he didn't know why they hate us so much? I mean are English people so clueless about their past, and the damage they have caused throughout the world?
Árón by your name (and flag) I’m guessing you’re a nationalist. But you have your team and we have ours, this works so why change it? You must know that making such a huge change and taking away something that is very important to Northern Irish people will endanger the peace. This gives us a way of expressing our pride without violence or controversy, it should not be taken away. And there is no way a British citizen will wear an Irish shirt with the Irish national anthem playing, that’s not their nation, and there’s no U.K. team for them to choose, you know that.
@Cheeseburger Your right, but the ordinary folk like me takes everybody as I find them. Green, orange, black or pink, who cares anymore. But your right at the time there was conflict, but even then most didn’t care.
@@ericengleby265 the match was worth nothing for Northern Ireland only local pride (yes they have to try to win it I understand)but as usual the sectarian fans were in a hate filled frenzy against the Irish team. Bingham was the cheerleader conducting them singing the Billy boys and other bigot songs not that they needed any encouragement.so Bingham was just a bigot
Must be strange for the 'N Ireland' fans to be supporting an entity that 95% of the island of Ireland (and 50% of the 'Northern Ireland' soccer team, itself) finds wholly artificial. It would be like north east Scotland/ or France/ or Italy setting up a team against the wishes of the majority of the population...bizarre!
I am Portuguese as a starting point. I will never understand that Northern presbiterians want Independence and with the Union Jack. Northern Ireland should be an Independent country and not aggregate to the Queen. Ulster should be a Republic or a province of Republic of Ireland. I am sorry if my thoughts are absolutely wrong.
Yoda Google Ulster is a province in Ireland, consisting of nine counties, Derry, Antrim, Down, Fermanagh, Tyrone, Armagh, Donegal, Cavan and Monaghan. The first six make up Northern Ireland, the last three are in the Republic of Ireland.
Red Pill Mackerel what about brexit most of northern Ireland aren't happy about leaving the EU i don't like the Euro anyway but it's still stronger than sterling atm
TOMHDGAMING1996 we’re unhappy about it because of the unrest it might bring, we don’t want to go back to what it was. Atm we live in peace, “uniting” Ireland would bring so much death and destruction, there would be a civil war. We don’t want to be anything other than British, Brexit threatens that but we still want to be British and that’s it.
Red Pill Mackerel hard border or no hard border doesn’t bother me at all, we’re a separate country and the republicans who care all have Irish passports anyway so a border isn’t even an issue for them, but you know how they are, the slightest thing and it has the potential to destroy the peace. But yeh, I don’t think it’s the big deal the papers are making it out to be at all.
Scummy Northern Ireland 😄😄 uncle was at that , was drunk for three days after that he said , and Celtic beat hearts in a semi final 😄😄👍, ooh an by the way he played hurling with Waterford ☘️☘️☘️💚🤷♂️🇮🇪🙏
@Caden Patton Hamilton I know what it is, but when you think of Britain you think of London, the stereotypical English accent and lots of other English things, you don’t think of Inverness do you? And the Scots don’t even themselves as British and some welsh don’t either
Football's most hatefilled team and supporters.you will never see hatred in sport like this anywhere.look at billy bingham a manager of an international football team cheerleading the billy boys!!! Why? Cos they're taigs.plain and simple
You divided countries should learn from Germany that despite being split into 2 countries against their will, fought back and got to be an unified nation again.
Different from Germany where you were uniting ethnic Germans together. Here you have ethnic Scots and English who want to stay part of UK and not in a United Ireland where they would be in a minority vs Ethnic Irish. Sad but the loyalists won’t budge
