Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Very good. Liam Brady played there for a while. Anyway, myself and four other fellas went to the match but we had no tickets. Obviously, we had to buy tickets outside the grounds but in England it is illegal to sell tickets outside, even at cost price and not to mention over the odds. We thought that it would be difficult but the selling goes on in the same way as it does here, even though it is illegal. The cops were around, watching to see if people were buying tickets. There were five of us and I was the one who was going to do the bartering. I was probably the shyest of the five but I was good at buying tickets. Deputies should have seen the other four. The tickets cost £20 each. I got five tickets for £30 each, meaning that we paid 50% more or £10 above the odds for each ticket. No sooner did I get the tickets into my possession than a policeman came over and took them off me. I was not impressed because there was no way I was going to be able to get more tickets. First, we did not have any more money. We were in a Hiace van and were sleeping in it for the night. We parked it up about a kilometre from the stadium on a piece of grass where there was no legal parking. There is a great story about that. We were sleeping in the van. It was May and it was a really warm night. Asics runners had just come into fashion and one of the lads, Eugene White, had spent a fortune on a pair of Asics. We said-----

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