Pat Bonner: One Night in Genoa
Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter
Graham Hunter
4.5 • 863 Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Pat Bonner was made in Donegal: his values, resilience and work ethic were instilled in him by his family and his community, while playing Gaelic football toughened him up for a glittering soccer career.
He was Celtic’s stalwart No1 for years, winning nine major honours at the club, and he earned 80 caps for the Republic of Ireland. His penalty save in a shootout in Genoa against Romania - exactly 30 years ago this week - earned his national side a place in the quarter-finals of Italia ’90. Just weeks before, Pat had failed to save a single kick in the shootout against my beloved Aberdeen in the Scottish Cup final. But he analysed and strategised and gave his country one of their biggest parties ever. Everyone in the world was a little bit Irish that night.
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| 1:07.0 | Today, this time, my guess is Pat Bonner, toi Bonner to his friends. |
| 1:13.6 | Republic of Ireland goalkeeping legend. |
| 1:16.8 | Paci talks and analyzes football |
| 1:19.7 | just as well as he used to keep goal. |
| 1:21.5 | And in this first half of our interview you're going to hear |
| 1:24.0 | reflections on Dunneagal. If you've ever been to Ireland, I heard about Dunneagal, you'll know that it's a specific |
| 1:30.9 | kind of lifestyle there. It breeds an identifiably different human being. |
| 1:36.0 | Paki is brilliant talking about giving out in Ireland, talking about how to keep your feet in the ground and what happens to you if you don't. |
| 1:46.0 | Toughness, the way of life conditioned this man. He's also very good on the art of saving penalties. |
| 1:52.0 | And did you know, yes yes it's Aberdeen time again |
| 1:55.4 | how a mighty dandy's Scottish Cup went in 1990 inspired the greatest moment of |
| 2:02.1 | Paki Bonner's career at Italian 90, 30 years ago now, that's impossible to believe. |
| 2:09.0 | And maybe the Dandies had a hand in one of Ireland's great sporting moments. |
| 2:15.0 | Tune in, tell people about it, because Patrick Bonner, native of Donegal, is terrific in this big interview. So this is me here Graham Hunter saying welcome to everybody who's either coming |
| 2:39.5 | back to the big interview or has been a fan since we started this long running series some four |
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