{"id":450595,"date":"2026-05-15T17:45:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T17:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/450595\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T17:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T17:45:12","slug":"i-was-an-18-year-old-playing-in-the-premier-league-and-i-thought-i-had-made-it-but-you-become-a-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/450595\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I was an 18-year-old playing in the Premier League and I thought I had made it . . . but you become a number\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">In the latest interview from our League of Ireland legends series, we speak to Shelbourne great Tony Sheridan, who spent his formative years with Coventry\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Having missed out on the league title with Shelbourne on the final day of the 1998 season, Tony Sheridan was only too happy to help Damien Duff\u2019s side not to suffer the same heartbreak in 2024.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/051c492d-147e-4a30-b2a7-655543f4af8c.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Having missed out on the league title with Shelbourne on the final day of the 1998 season, Tony Sheridan was only too happy to help Damien Duff\u2019s side not to suffer the same heartbreak in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The business end of the 2024 Premier Division campaign was approaching as Damien Duff\u2019s Shelbourne hunted a first triumph in 18 years. They were so close they could almost taste it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Having sat top of the table since May, the Reds managed to get over the line courtesy of Harry Wood\u2019s late winner in Derry on the final day, a goal that snatched the title from Shamrock Rovers and finally brought it back to Tolka Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the latest interview from our League of Ireland legends series, we speak to Shelbourne great Tony Sheridan,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,4876,25201],"class_list":["post-450595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-sean-oconnor","tag-shelbourne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}