Gary Cooke

2008. Another year. Another summer. Another European championship panel. In fact the was Bill, Eamon, John and Liam's 12,000th major championship and they show no signs of leaving our TV screens yet, except Liam of course, who already has left. It was a divorce of sorts, as the youngest member of this 'ménage-a-quatre' packed in his punditry and walked out on studio life.

Some of the most requested Après Match material from the 2002 World Cup. 'Tired & Emotional' also features much previously unseen material, the unbroadcastable, the incomprehensible, the out-takes, the unrealted, the absurd - The Best of 2002.

Irish satirical television series.

Après Match is an Irish comedy show normally screened after competitive Irish soccer matches on RTÉ. It is performed by Barry Murphy, Risteárd Cooper and Gary Cooke. It grew out of Barry Murphy and Risteárd Cooper's Frank's Euro Ting sketches which first enlivened RTÉ's coverage of Euro '96 for which Rep. of Ireland had failed to qualify. "Après Match" proper was born when Gary Cooke joined the duo and soon became a fixture following each of Ireland's qualifying games for the 1998 World Cup. The show mocks famous, mostly Irish, soccerstars and pundits including Bill O'Herlihy, Eamon Dunphy, Johnny Giles, Liam Brady, Frank Stapleton, Colm Murray, and Graeme Souness, as well as pundits from the British channels, including Richard Keys, Andy Gray, Jamie Redknapp, Gary Lineker and Alan Hansen.