Would-Be-Bennies Live on YouTube
Talking Balls Comments[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTFFhJ60CPA[/youtube]Exclusive footage has shown up on the popular self-publicist website YouTube featuring non-other than the GAA’s fittest former goalkeeper, Benny Tierney.
Benny, who now makes a comfortable living on the after dinner circuit making jokes about his wife, his mother-in-law, Joe Kernan, Kieran McGeeney and everyone else to whom he should be grateful, is revealed in a most unusual role – that of goalkeeping coach.
Talking Balls understand that the twelve coaching clips , each between a minute and a half and three minutes in length, were recorded across a ten month period – the time duration apparently so as to allow Benny sufficient recovery time from his exertions. Viewers will not be surprised to see the garrulous goalie out of breath as he walks and talks his way through each session. Benny is a firm believer in the one in four coaching rule: that is out of every four minutes coaching, the players should listen to the coach for three minutes and do the drill in the remainder of the time.
Viewers will also notice how he frequently assures the watching would-be-Bennies that these drills ‘will get you tired.’
However, Talking Balls has it from a reliable source that Benny’s preferred means of coaching keepers is to have them round to the house to watch his collection of videos. His own performances are a special favourite, not least a football one of the 2002 All Ireland final. Ever-hospitable Benny, the guests are welcome to help themselves to popcorn, Doritos, Coke and that beloved South Armagh delicacy, diesel boiled cauliflower.
