Secret Irish Footballer

**ATFC-1887** · 27/06/2015, 7:55 PM

https://secretirishfootballer.wordpress.com/

Interesting read.
My guess is Killian Brennan. His father played LSL and on that site it says "the secret irish footballers" father played with LSL teams. Also says he was with an english club when he was young. Brennan was with Peterborough when he was a teen. Might not be him though

**Jofspring** · 27/06/2015, 8:12 PM

The article is two years old as well. Could be someone that isn't playing anymore.

**Olander** · 27/06/2015, 8:17 PM

Definitely not Killian Brennan, unless he got somebody to write it for him... he wouldn't be the most articulate chap.

**pineapple stu** · 27/06/2015, 8:18 PM

He says he did get someone to write it for him because he's not very articulate.

But it also says he's early 30s, and Brennan was 29 at the time.

Not that that necessarily means anything.

**gufcfan** · 27/06/2015, 8:29 PM

If I was in the same position, I would purposely change details that are not necessarily important to the point I was making to throw people off.

**total hoofball** · 28/06/2015, 12:09 AM

Not one player in the 2013 season matches the information provided by the footballer (PL youth, 16 year LOI career, league winner, experienced relegation)

The blog is fleshed out enough to suggest it's legit and not created by some bored WUM

**Longfordian** · 28/06/2015, 1:38 AM

It's probably real but it doesn't say much we don't know already. Players don't really care who they play for and fall out with their manager quite a bit. Would probably disagree that the Spanish third division is a higher standard too based on some players I've seen who played at that level.

**gufcfan** · 28/06/2015, 9:02 AM

Originally Posted by Longfordian

Would probably disagree that the Spanish third division is a higher standard too based on some players I've seen who played at that level.

There's 80 teams across 4 concurrent divisions in the Spanish 3rd tier. Big differences in quality between some teams. I'd put the best Segunda B teams comfortably above LOI, with the rest a mixture of on par and well below. Cádiz would easily outclass most LOI teams I reckon.

**Briuk** · 28/06/2015, 9:42 PM

Originally Posted by gufcfan

There's 80 teams across 4 concurrent divisions in the Spanish 3rd tier. Big differences in quality between some teams. I'd put the best Segunda B teams comfortably above LOI, with the rest a mixture of on par and well below. Cádiz would easily outclass most LOI teams I reckon.

Well Cadiz would probably outclash Limerick, I think they would lose against Dundalk, the LOI has huge gap between best teams and low-table teams, specially this year. Spanish football in second tier and third tier changes completely, the country is poor. And the style is closer to Italian than Spanish with lots of teams playing very defensively.

Everything on that blog sounds like K. Brennan just dressing up the story a bit.

**Charlie Darwin** · 28/06/2015, 10:14 PM

Lads, Killian Brennan isn't the only bell-end in the league. Just because it sounds like him doesn't mean it doesn't sound more like tons of others.

**nigel-harps1954** · 29/06/2015, 7:14 AM

Indications that it may actually be Mark Quigley.

**Dodge** · 29/06/2015, 8:59 AM

Lads, there's no way its Killian Brennan. He just wouldn't be arsed enough to do this

**Longfordian** · 29/06/2015, 9:31 AM

Whoever it is wasn't arsed enough to keep it going by the looks of things.

**disgruntled** · 29/06/2015, 10:47 AM

My first reaction was "What a w*****." but in reality its sad.
There's probably quite a few like him who all end up in the same place,the gutter.
If he is who he says he is I feel sorry for him.
Maybe he'll feck off to Bergan or where ever his girlfriend is from.
That's if she's still with him

Or maybe its just all in his head because it looks like there's nothing else in there.

**Kingdom** · 29/06/2015, 11:23 AM

I've never played LOI, for a premier league academy, or had a girlfriend from Bergen. I could however, have done a better blog on the LOI as a secret irish footballer than that.

I don't believe it's real.

**TheOneWhoKnocks** · 29/06/2015, 12:24 PM

I know of one promising player several years ago. He went to one of England’s most famous clubs as a youth. While over there, he got mixed up with some of the clubs’ more colourful fans and ended up doing things like going around in robbed cars and smoking hash. He was a brilliant, brilliant player. He played for Ireland at various youth levels, but threw it all away by being lead astray by some ******** fans. What a waste.

I have a good idea who this is supposed to be.

**Nesta99** · 29/06/2015, 12:33 PM

Originally Posted by TheOneWhoKnocks

I have a good idea who this is supposed to be.

There is more than one that similar stories!

**Straightstory** · 29/06/2015, 12:38 PM

Reads like a long suicide note. Very depressing. Does every player in the league not give a damn about the club they're playing for; seeing everything as a means to an end - so that they can eventually play in England?

**gufcfan** · 29/06/2015, 1:03 PM

I don't think any player can really be blamed for a lack of loyalty. Contracts only run from March to November. People talk about some players in the league being mercenaries and fair enough, some of them are , but really, being a professional footballer in Ireland is a tough business.

Even lads with real love for a club get treated badly.