We’ve all done it, big night out, too much to drink, new friends, and you try something you wouldn’t normally do! Unfortunately someone’s there with a camera phone and your night of shame comes back to haunt you.
With Ulster’s big European away match against Stade Francais in Brussels coming up next month the following is a warning for all touring fans. Trust no one, as you might end up on a trash talk website like The FRU!
It all happened last January, the location was Limerick, the occasion was Ulster’s absolute thrashing of the Turnips. It started quietly enough with a bit of dancing in the stands with the Cave’s as Ulster ran in try after try but as the night went on things started to get hazier and hazier.
I remember meeting up with our Munster mates James and Des and going round a few pubs after the game and everyone was so friendly, they genuinely were. I doubt if we would have been so welcoming after such a thrashing! We started collecting little mementos here and there, a small Munster flag, a 8ft inflatable Heineken bottle, that sort of thing but after a few hours things started to get sordid!
I was approached by a Munster fan in one of the bars and the proposition was made. We were both adults, about the same size and no one was going to get hurt, or so I thought! At first I said no, but they were insistent and a few more joined in to encourage me and a few more drinks were taken and eventually I gave in. Yes folks, I gave in and to my eternal shame I swapped my Ulster shirt for a Munster one!
It was all over so quickly I’d hardly realised what I’d done but as I walked back to the hotel with Dergman the reality of the situation began to sink in. “What the f#@k are you going to do with that?” asked Derg. I tried to make up excuses, “I’ll get the team to sign it and I can give it away as a prize on the site” I replied but I was fooling no one. We both knew it would be hid away at the back of my wardrobe along with my Toulouse and Stade Francais shirts behind that stupid hat I swapped for a wig, all constant reminders of the danger of drinking on tour.
Footnote.
It all ended quite well in the long run as I was visited by some American fans over the summer and they were more than happy to take the Munster shirt along with the usual selection of Ulster goodies that we handed out!
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Suppose this is the one you can tell us about! hmmm!
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Ballpark, all I can say is that after reading the headline there were quite a few of us wondering who exactly he was going to “take down” with him! Just think yourself lucky that the caption covers his modesty, the original picture is soooo much worse.
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“after reading the headline there were quite a few of us wondering who exactly he was going to “take down” with him!”
To paraphrase: Never in the field of human shame has so much been owed by so few to keep one man from Larne quiet!!!
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Flattop – your so right the pouch was not a pretty picture. when I read the headline I thought immediately of South Africa and Capetown …… but thats another story !!
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Fair play, Dewi…publish and be damned is so true. Still, as Junty & Flat-top have said – at least we were spared the posing-pouch. Thankfully.
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For your full and frank honesty, absolution has been granted!
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