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KEITH FRIDAY | "It's a strange one!" | Hattricks, rival jerseys, and more! | Keith Treacy | OTB
16 Jan 2026
Chapter 1: What insights does Keith Treacy share about wearing the Kerry jersey?
Well, it's important to put in some bit of experience along with the newbies because they need a bit of direction.
It was a big night for a lot of them for the first time wearing the Kerry jersey in a competitive environment. Thank God for Keith Friday. It says Rick Jagger. Very welcome back to the end of the show. Arthur is back with us. Arthur, hello. That's correct. Keith is still here and very relieved. Very relieved, yeah. Physically so. Describe the last few minutes.
Me back teeth have been swimming. I've been a little bit uncomfortable here.
I've been dying for a week. And welcome for the first time today, Dara Smith. Knock the... Hello, boys. How's it going? Good morning. So, plenty of Keith Fridays to get through. What order did you put your gear on before a game?
Em... Not, like, there was no massive thing I used to do. I used to get me slips on, then go and get a little massage in me slips. I used to have a whole Tonka thing I used to do, Jordan, that. You remember Tonka in Mike Bassett, England Manager? Yeah, yeah. I used to walk around in me slips pretending to be Tonka after me massage for a while.
It depends on what sort of... Tonka was the Gaza character, was he? Yeah, the Gaza character, yeah.
That's 25 years old this year, that movie.
Is it?
Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Iconic.
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Chapter 2: What unique pre-game rituals does Keith Treacy have?
Nicholas Bentler had to colour in his tape to match the socks.
They started chopping the ankles off the socks for you. So they just came as normal socks without ankles.
That's right.
Yeah, I had no major routine I used to do. Whichever way I felt.
Is it okay to wear a jersey or top of a team in the same league as the team you support? In brackets, not a rival team.
No. No, that's utter woke nonsense that is. That's half and half scarf stuff. That's not for me either.
DSN, welcome. So yeah, I'm a Man United fan. but I recently bought a Bournemouth jumper, a retro Bournemouth jumper. Is that, that's not acceptable? No, no. No, I'm not having that. It's a nice jumper.
It's fine to do. You can do it. You can do it if you want. Like, it wouldn't be a thing, but I'd question how deeply held the fandom is. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's a strange conversation. Like, if I see you in a pub and I go, oh, Bournemouth fan, don't see many of them. No, I'm actually a Knight fan. I go, oh, that's weird.
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Chapter 3: Is it acceptable to wear rival team jerseys?
But yeah, half the time I feel like I'm talking about a different person. Do the people around you see you as a footballer?
Like that's how you're defined or...?
Yeah, yeah. Still, when I walk into places, I'll hear people muttering, that's the footballer over there. And I'm like, no, I haven't kicked a football in, what, 11, 10 years now or something. So, a long time. So, no, I just feel like I've moved on in life. But I realise, I'm not silly enough to think that everybody else sees me as a pundit or a journalist.
When I get asked for pictures now with kids, it's the dads behind them. Because the kids are like, they know me from the fella on the telly, but the dads know me as an ex-footballer. So, it's a strange one.
Your favourite way for the ball to go in? Crossbar, wraps around the corner of the net, etc.
I've got two. I love a half volley as it's rising. So you hit it and it's still rising as it hits the back of the net. But I love one where you're running in one-on-one and your touch is a little bit heavy and you commit the goalkeeper and as he goes in to get it with his hands, you just lift it over him. I love committing him and just dinking the ball over the top of him.
Troy Parrott, hat-trick. Would you prefer, as a footballer, a tap-in hat-trick or one outrageous solo goal?
Probably a hat-trick. You can boast more about a hat-trick. I scored a couple of, like, one goals off the... I nearly... I got very, very close to a hat-trick. I scored two against Sheffield United and I took a free kick and I hit the crossbar. Nearly scored a hat-trick against them, but...
I scored two goals in that game we beat Sheffield United 2-1 and United got relegated after an interleague one so even after the game I'm down the tunnel and I knew all the Sheffield United backroom staff so I spent the next half an hour apologising to everybody it was a mad mad feeling
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