Irish Soccer fan blags way onto Estonian bench (17/11/11)
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RTÉ News Short - Six One News (17/11/11)
A stolen tracksuit and a bag of balls helped one ticketless Ireland fan to the best seat in the house for their Euro 2012 playoff win over Estonia - in the opposition dugout.
Corkman Conor Cunningham travelled to Tallinn's A. Le Coq Arena and managed to bypass security after sneaking in a stadium side entrance.
After sitting next to Estonia manager Tarmo Ruutli for Ireland's 4-0 first victory last Friday, he was spotted by TV cameras on the pitch afterwards celebrating with the Ireland players.
"I just spotted an open door and I thought I will stick my head through there but it was just a closed-in room but I found an Estonian tracksuit and I just threw it on," he told the Mirror.
"I threw the bag of balls over my shoulder and just went for it. I didn't know what to do, to be honest, so I thought I'd better go into the Estonian dug-out."
"No one said anything to me and then I realised I was sitting beside their manager (Tarmo Ruutli).
"It was about 10 or 15 minutes into the match when a UEFA official got suspicious of me. He came over and, after talking to me, told me I had to move.
"Even after the match I just strolled out on to the pitch."
He was unable to travel to Dublin for Tuesday's return leg as Ireland qualified for Euro 2012 with a 5-1 aggregate win.
http://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2011/1117/ireland_fan.html
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My hero.
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im called conor cunningham too! XD
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Irish Rémi Gaillard
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hahaha, yup, we estonians have long wires... Actually I speak only for meself.
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FUCK VIKTOR KASSAI!!!!11!!!!
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Bad stealer, shame on u !!
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Shame on u Irish man, how dare u to steal/wear our stuff. sneaky cheap-case. Booooo u .
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a true cork man!
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i was reading about this in swedish news amazing :)
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Haha watta legend
darraghkiid123 3 months ago 14
pure cork
jhc15colonial 3 months ago 8