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24th Feb 2016

Drunken Irish man buys Suarez’s Liverpool jersey at an auction, instantly regrets the decision

Paul Moore

His girlfriend will absolutely kill him.

Football fans are a unique bunch because the sheer levels of love and passion that they have for their favourite team can provide them with some of their best memories but as we all know, football can seriously f**k you up also!

This story about an over eager Irish Liverpool fan named Conor that stumbled into an auction in Wellington, New Zealand was too good not to share. It seems that Conor had one too many drinks at the event and absolutely lost the run of himself after finding out that Luis Suarez’ jersey was up for bidding.

Conor’s mate David sent this story into us and it’s absolute gold because it involves all of the following; a meet and greet with Jamie Carragher, a rake of drinks, an angry girlfriend and the worst hangover imaginable.

In Conor’s own words;

I’m just wondering if you guys could help a friend of mine out. He managed to get himself in quite a drunken predicament last night. Conor you see has been living in New Zealand the last seven years. He’s a massive Liverpool fan, so when he heard Jamie Carragher was coming to Wellington last night, it was an opportunity he simply couldn’t pass up.

Anyway, Conor decided to go on the batter and as we can see from the photo with Jamie, he didn’t even bother to leave the bottle out of his hand for the picture during the meet and greet. To say this is classic Conor would be an understatement, but who am I to judge, I’m just as bad.

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This is where the story gets tricky. There was also a charity auction on at the time and they were auctioning off some signed Liverpool jerseys from past players. Conor is quite inebriated at this stage and he went a bit mad after hearing that there was a signed Luis Suarez jersey on offer. The bidding started at $1,000 NZ dollars. Conor jumped in instantly with a bid of $2,000 NZ dollars without a care in the world. This offer blew basically everyone else out of the water.

Suarez Jersey

The problem for Conor is, he and his girlfriend Kat has been saving this money for their first trip home to Ireland in April. Needless to say Conor, woke up with a pounding headache and a furious girlfriend and nothing but a signed Luis Suarez jersey to show for it (which is basically nothing, right?)

Conor couldn’t afford this money, but is willing to take a hit on the jersey which is framed and signed. He has no choice but to put the jersey up for auction. He is more than happy to take $1,500 NZ dollars for the jersey (bearing in mind he will be already giving $500 NZ dollars of his own money to the charity last). He has also pledged to donate anything he makes over $1,500 to a charity of Joe’s choice if you are to help him promote this sale.

When he popped up on our group chat this evening telling us he got quite a ridiculing. It would be great if you could help a drunken Irishman, with a serious case of the fear out guys. He asked me to write this piece to you and include the pictures attached. He looks very happy with himself this morning after his purchase right?

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If you fancy helping Conor out then here’s a link to his Ebay advert, we really hope that he’ll never have to walk alone through New Zealand and who wouldn’t want the Uruguayan’s jersey in their room?,  but we’re also sure that he spent quite a decent amount of alone time in the doghouse after this one!

Cheers to David Connors for sending these pictures into us. If you have something you would like to share with us, send it to our WhatsApp number 087-4001102, [email protected] or hit us up on Facebook or Twitter.