Gordon D'Arcy
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Appearances Over Time
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And that was something we were quite conscious of with the first book, that we wanted to make it a little bit more collaborative, a little bit more open.
And because particularly at the ages there, it's, you know, when the kids are playing sport at that age, it's all mixed, it's all getting in and there's a much wider playing base there.
Is there a period in your life, obviously, let's take Mary out of this, but is there a period in your life where you've been this happy watching this movie?
You do think 15 minutes is a 10 or 15 minutes?
Yeah, but it's the Americanisation of it where they're splitting straight to ads.
So you do feel it's been very much, we needed to get ads into this, into a non-traditional American sport as quickly as possible.
And it was very serendipitous that we were playing in the middle of the summer and it was an opportunity to go into it.
I can't see European football, there we go,
The only sport I played was hurling until I was about 12.
So I'm from Wexford.
I might have forgot my maths book, but I never forgot my hurl going to school.
So then I went to a boarding school in Kildare and I went in and I started playing rugby.
Wasn't very good at that.
And everybody followed me.
I was like, oh, I need to figure something out.
So Ian Wright was around at that time.
I just fell in love with him as a personality.
And I loved the Arsenal red and white hoop socks at that time.
So that's how I ended up as an Arsenal supporter.
I turned out to be a very, very proficient goalkeeper because that was the only position I was allowed to play in.