Only over a number of years can you say whether someone is a ‘waster’ or a ‘legend’

Around the early 2000s, I was at a few Ireland matches in Lansdowne Road. 

Only over a number of years can you say whether someone is a ‘waster’ or a ‘legend’

Now, as any football fan attending a match will know, just by attending qualifies you to call it as you see it. It’s time for blunt talking and you’re just the fella to speak truth to power. Even though you don’t know nothing about nothing.

Anyway there I was, in a seat I hadn’t paid for. Giving out about Robbie Keane. He was losing possession and complaining to the referee that he was fouled and generally throwing shapes.

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