Parrott: I couldn't sleep after my goals

TROY PARROTT said he's watched his winning goal about '500 times' but he won't be getting a tattoo to commemorate it.

- Vic MULLIGAN

Parrott inspired a magnificent comeback to rekindle Ireland's World Cup dream with a dramatic hat-trick against Hungary on Sunday.

And his last-gasp winner has already become iconic.

"How many times I have watched it back? Probably about 500 times - every time I go on to my phone, it's there," Parrott told the BBC.

"Even last night when I got to bed, I couldn't sleep imagining it over and over and over again.

Emotional

"In general, I'm not really an emotional person, it's the first time I've cried in years. Look I can sit here and try to describe it, but it is the first time I've felt something like that.