Days Like This: The Big Match

Dir: Joel Simon/Ireland/2008

Hugh Gilsenan had never been really close to his father. Then, a surprise visit to a sports shop, a new Ireland strip and an international match led to a precious day for a young Belfast boy.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• days like this: the big match
• future shorts
• Ireland
• love
• family

[maximylyanovich]

Anyone else had to restart a couple of times just to get used to the accent?

[silent4fail]

I can tell that this is supposed to be a touching story. But im sry, i cant !@#$ understand the accent!

[jeffray3]

Nostalgic, emotional animated vignette of a childhood memory. Nearly everyone has some similar event that they carry with them. Great work here from the whole crew in creating a painting of a memory.

[Mozarttheflower]

I don't understand why people are having such a hard time understanding him... I understood what he said the first time around

[paws27]

@ratlash yhea i can under stand him perfuctly becasue im irish :P i dont sound like him but i know lots of people who do so i know whats he saying :D

[ratlash]

subtitles please

[SketchSmith]

Omg Im crying. That was so bitter sweet, and just real. Thank you for taking the time to make this, to turn something so simple and overlooked as one kind jesture and show how much that can matter to some one.

[kiki74110]

@BiffyBiro Thx, now i understand and i appreciate this beautifull story. ;) Thank you for you time to did it.

[BiffyBiro]

"... and i'll always forgive him for everything else that he done 'cause i knew he put himself out that day." wish i'd not started typing that out, didn't think how long it would take.. hope everyone can grasp the northern irish accent now though, i know it's a bit rough on the ears.

[BiffyBiro]

"...and everytime even when i see r.o.i playin' even now if it's a big.. if they ever get to the world cup final it still wouldn't replace that day like.. my first football match, ever. i was about 11 when he died, it was just somethin' that he done that was just sorely for me when i was a wee 'un. he put himself out, for me, and it was one of the things.. nearly, i could say, the only thing that he done for me that was great that i'll always remember..."

[BiffyBiro]

"...waitin' for the team to come out, like, put me up on his shoulders for the national anthem and his shoudlers again for the end of the game and you could see right over right onto the pitch and i was nearly youngest in the sorta section that we were in and i was threw in the air and bounced about and people givin' you 20p here and there and goin' home with your big load of change in your pocket. everything. it was just fantastic. just somethin' that i'll always remember..."

[BiffyBiro]

"i was ready to see the boys in green i was delighted and off we went to see the game it was the old lansdowne road then was more less all stalls it was great all people selling things flags for like a punt it was great i got five punts given to me to go and spend on what i wanted took me by the hand 'cause you had to stay close 'til him there was that many people about but i just held on, i just held onto him until we got up until the stalls got a bovril thought it was great and then..."