Irishman Eddie O’Keeffe who interrupted a French TV broadcast at the World Cup drove for nine hours over 655 kms to do so, he has revealed.
O’Keeffe decided not to fly the 40 minutes between his home in Dubai and the match in Qatar because of costs, saying petrol is priced only 60 cent a litre.
A video of the football fan interrupting a live interview to shout “Je suis une baguette” into the French TV camera went viral this week.
He said yesterday on Cork radio station 96FM: “We drove from Dubai, across the UAE border, the Saudi Arabia border, and into Qatar to Doha.
“And accommodation was crazy, but a litre of petrol only costs 60 cent a litre. So it cost about €200 for the nine-hour journey.”
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