I know many people like to claim that the 2022 World Cup Final was the greatest game ever, but this game may very be the best day of my LIFE and I didn't even attend! To start with the odds, they were stacked against us to say the least. A win against Portugal and a win at Hungary for just the chance to make it to North America for the World Cup. After that night against Portugal the country started to dream, and one man would guide the dream to its physical state, Troy Parrott. A player I've held very close to my heart because of his both Irish and Tottenham roots, always wanting him to break through to the first team. Now, with the chance to singlehandedly bring his nation to their first WC in my lifetime. I dont have the words to describe what that hat-trick did to me, especially having known the player prior to his first callup, made me feel so proud of him. Even if you were not into football, the entire country erupted and started feeling as one again for a while. For at least those 5 minutes after that hattrick goal. Nothing mattered anymore, no politics, no nothing, all there was, was an Irish team, a roaring nation behind them and two games separating them from the World Cup. I felt proud to be Irish. And it left us with a quote that will be permanently engraved into our souls and into the sporting folklore of this very nation. "One Last Throw of the Dice."