… They have their own pitch and proper Gaelic goals and everything.”Egan has always relished exposing the native codes to the uninitiated from across the water.“I remember a few years ago, I brought a lad from Spain who was in my Sunderland youth team to a Cork county final with me. While Egan grew up in Bishopstown in Cork, the 27 year old has very close ties to the Kingdom through his father John. This service is provided on News Group Newspapers' Limited's Sheffield United paid tribute to Egan after his winner Egan with his sister before the 2004 All Ireland final But Dublin are a class team and if they do it, fair play to them. It was Castlehaven-Nemo and he was looking around at the crowd — a big crowd, something like 10,000 or 20,000 — and he was like ‘how much does this player get paid? I just don’t agree with it.”Latest news from the world of sport, along with the best in opinion from our Your Irish Examiner delivered to your doorSelect your favourite newsletters and get the best of Irish Examiner delivered to your inbox© Irish Examiner Ltd, Linn Dubh, Assumption Road, Blackpool, Cork. I wanted to play football, I wanted to come to England and do well.”And in choosing to make that move, as he proceeded to explain with a smile, it meant he also avoided what would have been potentially tricky family situation arising from his own Cork-Kerry ‘dual eligibility’.“I’ve always thought that if I’d stayed at home I probably would have played Gaelic football or hurling, whichever one I enjoyed more and I would have given everything to play for the county,” he said.“But I don’t know if I would have played hurling for Cork or football for Kerry. He came on as a substitute for the injured Wes Brown in the 3rd place play off against F.C.
I was just, head down, hood up — just devastated.“I went home for two weeks. John Egan's All-Ireland Gold continues on TG4. But it’s still tough for me and the family to this day.”The only healing balm, he suggests, is “time, really, just time. I was still playing hurling and football for Bishopstown and Cork but when I went on trial to Sunderland and they offered me a contract, then I had to make a decision. Every day we'll send you a roundup e-mail of all the latest from Dublin covering news, entertainment and sport, all in one handy e-mail. He talks to As you would expect, John Egan is fully focused on Sheffield United’s visit to Stamford Bridge today for the promoted side’s first meeting of the season with one of the Premier League big guns.But it should also come as no surprise to learn that the opposition’s famous kit won’t be the only sporting shade of blue on his mind this weekend.As the son of the late Kerry Gaelic football legend with whom he proudly shares his name, John is also hoping to be in Croke Park tomorrow to cheer on the Kingdom as they bid to prevent those other Blues from claiming the fabled five in a row.Which begged a leading question when we met the Irish centre-half at the Blades’ training ground two days ago: who does he reckon are the biggest underdogs this weekend — Kerry or Sheffield United?Everyone thinks Dublin are going to win the ten in a row, never mind the five in a row. “Being a Kerryman is the greatest gift God can bestow on any man ... in belonging to Kerry you belong to the elements, to the spheres spinning in the Heavens. So around the days when Kerry won an All Ireland or two, you’d think about it now and again.“But I’d never, ever change my mind. Egan's late father is Kerry GAA legend John Egan Sr, who won six All-Irelands and nine Munster Championships during his time as a player with the Kingdom. “Do you know, sometimes you think it goes like that but then sometimes you think it’s been a long 10 years because so much has happened.
Internationally, Egan has represented the Republic of Ireland at In July 2012, Egan was called up by Martin O'Neill for Sunderland's pre season tour to South Korea to take part in the Peace Cup.
Then I got the call the next morning that my father had passed away.“Football was the last thing on my mind and I was on the first flight home.
I used to go to Kerry games all the time: Munster finals, All-Ireland quarters, semis, and finals. But the beauty of GAA is it’s amateur.”“If it went fully professional where there could be transfers, I think that would be all wrong.
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