Former Ireland Player Joe Kinnear Passes Away at 77

He wore the green jersey 26 times during his time as a player while playing club football for Tottenham Hotspur and Brighton.

Kinnear enjoyed a stellar career in football, winning the FA Cup, two League Cups and the UEFA Cup during his time with Tottenham as a player between 1966 and 1975. The Irishman called time on his playing days at 30.Balls.ie shared a video of Kinnear predicting Ireland’s famous 1-0 win over Italy in 1994 on RTE.

Kinnear's wife Bonnie shed light on the ex-Magpies boss' dementia in an interview with the Daily Telegraph back in 2021, six years after he was diagnosed. "He started to get moody - a bit depressed. I thought, 'This isn't right'," she explained. "Then he got aggressive in certain situations. It just wasn't Joe. It was a problem trying to get him to see somebody but we eventually got him to a doctor and he was diagnosed in 2015.

"They classed it as early onset vascular dementia and, since then, he has just deteriorated. He's in the late stage. It is heartbreaking to see how someone can change. "He was larger than life. He loved people. He'd walk in a pub, buy everyone a drink, tell funny stories and be the life and soul of the party."

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