Jackson Irvine
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Yeah, so I've got so many memories of that, but I've got more memories of playing for the, you know, the under sevens, under eights, whatever it was, and then going to watch the first team where my uncles played kind of later in the day and your typical, you know, standing around, running around the outside and watching the games.
Like that's, I often think about those times and my dad played, also played good level state football in Victoria and,
when I did eventually make it to that level right before I moved to the UK, you reflect on that as when you were a young kid and there's something so special about that local scene of sport at that level.
Like there's no glamour, no glory, no nothing.
It's just pure love of the sport, doing it with your mates, having a laugh and, like, yeah, it's just the atmosphere is something –
And the further away you get from it, I don't know, you tend to miss it more and more.
hard to pinpoint one specific thing um I immediately fell in love with playing the game itself uh there was something I found there was something something beautiful about the game itself like I don't know I've always just been in love with it and obsessed with it from as long as I can remember but then I think when my eyes kind of got open to the world of it I suppose I look back on certain moments like 1999 when Manchester United came out to play against the Socceroos
I was there and I think I was about six and I was already Beckham and football mad at that time.
But I don't know, there's just like little moments in there where you realise the scale of the sport and kind of what it means in a global sense.
And I just, I'm a romantic and I kind of got like, yeah, I was entranced by it, by the, yeah, how, what, yeah, the game itself and how romantic it can be.
I was at all the early qualifiers in 2001 at the G and then obviously in 05 for the big night.