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Throwback to Sean O'Neill's epic Al Pacino speech from 2018 stag

Sean O'Neill channelling his inner Al Pacino is probably one of the greatest things you'll see - and hear - today. The Ballymena United goalkeeper pulled out this epic performance during his 2018 stag do.

It may have been four years ago, but former Crusaders teammate Gavin Whyte couldn't resist sharing it on his social media this week. And why not.

In the video, O'Neill delivers Pacino's iconic 'Inches' speech from the 1999 movie Any Given Sunday. At the time he told Belfast Live that his performance was for his flagging mates who had consumed a beverage too many the night before.

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The footage proves his point. You can see recently retired Declan Caddell in shot, looking visibly 'under the weather'.

O'Neill said at the time: "It was day three of five and there were probably just two hours sleep in that. We were in Portugal, we went to Albufeira for five days.

"It was just carnage really. Never, ever again will I be away with those boys.

"It was five days with the maddest fellas. We have played Gaelic with each other since we were so young, so it was just carnage.

"I don't know where it came from. I'm a bit of a movie buff and obsessed with my films and speeches in films and all the boys know that.

"Most of the boys away on the stag are part of my Gaelic team and now and again I would throw out a random speech just for a bit craic really. I did that one before and someone said, 'do the inches speech, it's the perfect time for it'.

"We were all really dying so I just did it. One of my mates that was on the stag sent it to a random guy saying 'check that out', and he sent it on and all of a sudden it's absolute mayhem.

"Thankfully it's gone down really well, because there is a bit of cursing in it."

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