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13th May 2017
02:52pm BST

"The last penalty, their umpire threw the green flag at me and told me to 'get back to England, you diving b*st*rd'," Quinn recalled on Second Captains.Naturally, handbags took hold of proceedings after the game.
"I - as I would always do - swerved that and looked for someone to say hard luck to and I saw their goalkeeper," he explained. "So I went over to him and said, 'listen, Jesus, hard luck there, young fella. I'm sure you would've liked to have saved one of them.' "And he went, 'f**k off, ya pr*ck, you wouldn't take one against Spain.' "I was brought back down to earth. There was this retired 'hero' thinking he was coming home to this adulation he had been accustomed to and good old Irish humour or wit - call it what you want - I was buried and put in my place."If you ever needed the GAA explaining to you, there's a pretty decent insight right there. That sums up its competitiveness, it's wit and the fact that, no matter who you are, we're all the same in this way of life. There's something magical in that that even Niall Quinn appreciates. Now he's coaching the senior ladies team. Listen to the full interview here.
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