"And It's Come through here....McATEER"...George Hamilton (01/Sept/2001)..10 years on

[back of the net]

With the great times just around the corner again folks for the green army, I thought a reminder that 10 years ago today was another fantastic day for the B.I.G and its followers......love to hear yere memories of the build up to the game, the nerves, the excitement , feelings at the final whistle and of course the moment when Jason Mcateer crashed the ball home with that sweetly struck shot into the Dutch net ?

What a glorious day.....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePNST9aczFI&feature=player_embedded#!

[BonnieShels]

Still makes the hairs stand up on my neck thinking about it.

Thanks Jason.

[prince20]

Was in Slane Castle at U2 concert watching the game on the big screen. Will never forget the celebrations that day. What a day. More of the same tomorrow please.

[jbyrne]

Still makes the hairs stand up on my neck thinking about it.

Thanks Jason.

i think the first 3 mins of this might do so also...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdWVc8j4P44&feature=related

[BonnieShels]

i think the first 3 mins of this might do so also...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdWVc8j4P44&feature=related

Yep. What a game and performance that was. bar v Bronckhorst's goal happening to go in... I was so gutted at the end of that game it's not funny.


However...

We all remember this surely... one of the great ads...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RojpJ843Mko

[paul_oshea]

Good man botn...ive been sick all night burnfoot that's give me some much needed energy!!!get the good times going!!

I remember being in the pub and then running down to the church to say a prayer.came back and 2 mins later or so we scored

i rememebr we had a lot of mates at slane that yr.said it was unreal when mcateer scored.and bono knob head mentioning edge flying from landsdowne etc

[paul_oshea]

I rememebr as well jumping up and whacking the stool and then my mate took the brunt of it on his shin but not noticing he was lepping around and the pain till about 10 mins later.i also remember jumping into a middle aged fella and lifting him up and down and the two of us looking at eachother pause and then just continue lifting him hahaha

[BonnieShels]

I rememebr as well jumping up and whacking the stool and then my mate took the brunt of it on his shin but not noticing he was lepping around and the pain till about 10 mins later.i also remember jumping into a middle aged fella and lifting him up and down and the two of us looking at eachother pause and then just continue lifting him hahaha

Found myself in Chasers in Ballyfermot drinking Bulmers all day watching it. God bless those carefree pre-College days. Remember having a similar incident as you Paul with a stool.

I love that moment of elation where things are allowed that wouldn't normally be, where grown men cry and all is right in the world. Roll on Friday. Getting very excited now.

[loscherland]

Was in Slane Castle at U2 concert watching the game on the big screen. Will never forget the celebrations that day. What a day. More of the same tomorrow please.

I decided to give away my U2 ticket that day to watch the match in the boozer instead (since they hadn't confirmed they were showing it down there!!)...

I actually tried selling the U2 ticket + 100 quid to get a ticket for the match with no takers... So in the end just gave the U2 ticket to a mate for free...

Anyway... I've decided not to go to Electric Picnic this weekend!!!...

[freewheel30]

Finnan with a bit of a "Cruyff turn" an' all :D

[Sullivinho]

Keane going through Overmars and Kluivert's 'pi$$ed off but secretly fearing for my own safety' reaction. Kelly's sending off and McAteer consoling him. Zenden missing an easy lob opportunity. Van Gaal putting every striker in Holland on the field simultaneously to no avail and his own bemusement. Staunton's unconventional headed backpass that threatened disaster. Stam going through Keane.

Finnan...

McAteer!

The giddy feeling we're probably going to the World Cup. The strangeness that the Dutch probably weren't.

http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/629/caption001.jpg

Thinking all was well and wondering what it would take to stop us...

Watching a recording of the game the next day while trying to recover.

[MagicMon]

10 years, wow. I remember going to the window and sighing when Kelly was sent off expecting it to end up 4 or 5 nil (Holland had whipped England a few weeks earlier), then going mental jumping around and shouting when the goal went in.

Duff playing up front, Matt Holland, Staunton before he was ever a manager, Richard Dunne when he was the Honey Monster, Jason McAteer running round like a mad thing because he got more games for Ireland than Blackburn. I miss that team.

[lionelhutz]

By far and away the best atmosphere I've ever experienced at any sporting event. I was in the South Stand with my da and two friends and nobody seemed to leave the Stand for about an hour after the game. I always remember they blasted out U2's beautiful day at the end and everyone giving it socks. What a day!

[punkrocket]

To be honest I can't remember the game very much at all. Had a few drinks before during and after (actualy considerably more than a few) in the Eg in Belfast. I remember the elation of it but the details remain sketchy. Drinking really does mess your memory up. I do remember next day doing some serious research (while seriously hungover) on getting tickets, flights to tokyo etc, probably the longest I'd spent online up to that point of my life.

[paul_oshea]

How times have changed punkrocket eh?

[punkrocket]

I didn't have the desk job then.

[punkrocket]

Or was it the drinkyou were referring to? Sshurly not?

[CraftyToePoke]

I was living in Amsterdam at this time and ended up watching this alone in my appartment due to a catalogue of logistical and communication disasters within my circle of friends as we tried to reassemble from the chaos of the night before. But in hindsight, I am glad, as I was so tense and nervous about the game that being among the Dutch fans was not really in my best interests probably.

We had been to the 2-2 in the Arena and left the ground that night adamant we had seen enough to be confident of winning in Dublin and when McAteer scored, well .... there arent words for it. One of the best moments of my life.

As I walked into town after the game finished, there was a stunned silence in the city, it was unlike anything I had experienced there before or after, almost eerie, they just could not believe we had done that to them, they could not process what had just happened as they had, being Dutch, been very confident, and by that I mean disrespectfully arrogant.

I will never forget how proud I felt to be Irish that evening, and also how happy the Scots and English communities we mixed a lot with, were for us.

[paul_oshea]

Haha could be both, but only from what I read here, i'd go with the former.

[OwlsFan]

http://www.roguery.com/outings/hollandgame/mac.jpg

The best day ever at Lansdowne as far as I am concerned. Went home singing "My mamma always told me there would be days like this". The joy of seeing the despondent Dutch fans following on Gelsenkirchen and Anfield.

[Metrostars]

Roy Keane set the tone early with a few clattering challenges.

[tetsujin1979]

Few interesting comments around about it also being the anniversary of England's 5-1 win over Germany in Germany, but perhaps the most telling is from Didi Hamann:

"I'm surprised the anniversary is a big thing because it was only a qualifier."
While the same accusation could be leveled against the Holland game, the England win meant Germany would go on to a play off where they beat the Ukraine over two legs 1-1 and 4-1, whereas the Dutch losing put them out of the World Cup completely

[gustavo]

http://foot.ie/threads/902-Ireland-v-Holland-predictions foot.ie thread on the game at the time

[Irish_Praha]

I was living in Sheffield at the time doing my PhD and didn't have any Irish friends interested in the game; just English guys looking forward to the German game later that night. I had a bad exerience a few months before looking around the city for somewhere to look at the Ireland-Portugal game i.e. loud Yorkshire phuckers annoying me when I was trying to concentrate on the game. So I decided I would just listen to this one on the radio.
I remeber the supermarket around the corner had a special offer on a 6 pack of Löwenbrau beer and my plan was to drink 2 or 3 during the game and go out later. But my God listening to the game on the radio is even more nerve wrecking than on TV and by half time I had already drunk 4 cans and bitten all my fingernails off. By the end of the game all 6 cans were gone and I went out on the town to celebrate. I can't remember much after that only that all the locals were in a good mood because of their win over Germany although that was a few hours later.

[Yard of Pace]

http://foot.ie/threads/902-Ireland-v-Holland-predictions foot.ie thread on the game at the time

It's easy to laugh at people with the benefit of hindsight but there's some gas posts on there!


Also, the atmosphere at Landsdowne is c**p! Full of ole ole & bar stool "fans"! I'd guess a lot of the people on saturday have probably never stood on a terrace!

[Yard of Pace]

Scarily prescient....



And if somebody finds a job in California and decides to move there, then fair play to them!

[geysir]

The beginnings of Robbie skepticism


29/08/2001
"Robbie Keane 'n stuff
IMO he became an international too early in his career. Now that hes got a few years older & got a bit heavier hes slower on his feet & really hasn't learned anything since first making the breakthrough."

[Supreme feet]

Keane was having a hard time of it at that stage... 2000/2001 was his longest spell without a goal for Ireland (8 games I think, the last of which was the Holland game). Only ended up with two in the whole campaign. Still popped up with the crucial goal against Iran, though.

[paul_oshea]

IMO he became an international too early in his career. Now that hes got a few years older & got a bit heavier hes slower on his feet & really hasn't learned anything since first making the breakthrough.

If its a decision between Duff & Robbie Keane then Duff has to get the nod. Duff may not be an out 'n out striker but he will get us lots of freekicks which are probably the only way we can hope to score too.

Also, the atmosphere at Landsdowne is c**p! Full of ole ole & bar stool "fans"! I'd guess a lot of the people on saturday have probably never stood on a terrace!

Is Pete Brnie3 in disguise?! :D

[MagicMon]

I was living in Sheffield at the time doing my PhD and didn't have any Irish friends interested in the game; just English guys looking forward to the German game later that night. I had a bad exerience a few months before looking around the city for somewhere to look at the Ireland-Portugal game i.e. loud Yorkshire phuckers annoying me when I was trying to concentrate on the game.

Its a f*cking awful city to try to watch an Ireland game in, not helped by the fact that I lived there during the Staunton era

[koneinc]

Watched it in Dublin, straight from working the morning in town to Brogans on Dame St, spent the entire day there celebrating, even managed to sneak a pizza in from Apache later!

[Colbert Report]

Any way to get a video of this match?