The Irish Guy

Michael Ramsay, known better online as The Irish Guy, is an Irish YouTuber known for his football (soccer) videos. The channel was initially created on February 12, 2021 and would begin uploading that same month. He would upload videos with a variety of topics while he made his football videos on HITC Sport (now HITC Football). After he left the channel on March 14, 2022, he would move his football content to The Irish Guy.
==Early life==
Contrary to public belief, Michael was not born in a public bin. 
Michael comes from County Clare, Ireland but says that if he said he was from Clare, people would "look at him as if he just named some intergalactic space planet", so he just usually says he's from Limerick.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmDzulmJGV0 
==History==
The Irish Guy was created as Michael's personal channel on February 12, 2021. While he did his football-related videos on HITC Sport, he would upload non-football related videos on this channel. His first video, Irish Guy REACTS To JAKE PAUL Nonsense was uploaded on 18th February 2021 in which he discussed YouTuber Jake Paul challenging UFC fighter Nate Diaz to a fight along with other news topics. He would also make videos varying from other sports (like the Super Bowl LVI) to movies/TV shows (like The Batman and The Simpsons). After he left HITC Sport on March 14, 2022, he would upload his first football video, RONALDO IS PROVING ME WRONG. (again) which discussed the Premier League matches of the week, most notably Manchester United's 3-2 victory over Tottenham Hotspur.
He still uploads football videos to this day.
==Dares==
Michael has made many dares over the past few years. The dares are usually all football related. Most of the dares he states in his videos expire as the players or teams in the football world don't meet the deadline. When he does lose to his own dares, he usually makes up ridiculous things to do for failing that dare. Currently, Michael has many ongoing dares.
One of the first dares Michael failed on was that if Watford didn't sack Javi Gracia by Christmas, he would sleep in a bin. He lost the dare so he slept in a binhttps://www.instagram.com/p/Br0HgHXDuVi/. Another dare Michael failed was when he said that If Ole Gunnar Solskjær wasn't sacked by Manchester United by Christmas, he would take a bath in a gallon of milk. Ole Gunnar Solskjær was not sacked, and hence he had to bathe in milkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6B8gN2K2AM. In April 2021, Michael stated that if Liverpool failed to reach Champions League semi-final, then he would eat an entire bowl of stale cereal out of a used sock. Liverpool were eliminated in the quarter-finals after losing to Real Madrid 3-1 on aggregate over the two legs (lost the first leg 3-1, drew the second leg 0-0) and the Irish Guy completed the darehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52xw_DyRtsQ.
Michael's worst dare was that if Brentford were promoted from the Championship to the Premier League, he get a tattoo of their midfielder Pontus Janssonhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6NXD5gwV2M. Fortunately for him, Brentford lost to Fulham in the play-off final 2-1 after extra time after finishing 3rd in the regular season and they were not promoted. He repeated the dare the following season where he would get a tatoo of forward Patrick Bamford playing the violin if Leeds United finished in the top halfhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=563uxu9r4ek. After they finished 10th, he got the tatoo on his foothttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJysRWoKC1c. He also has made a bet that if that Aston Villa stayed up in the Premier League, he would dedicate a whole week to appreciate Jack Grealish. He did with Aston Villa finishing 11th, 23 points above the relegation zone. In the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, he stated that for every prediction he got wrong, he would eat a potato dipped in milk. He stuck to his promise, eating the potatoes in this videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekoe2P6r9w0&t.
For the 2022/23 Premier League, he promised 6 dares. Firstly, if Leeds United stay up, he will box Thogden and Thogdad on the same night. If Nottingham Forest get relegated, he will make a video naked while eating breakfast. If Crystal Palace don't have a points tally in the 40s, he'll share a bath with a pig. For every winning goal that West Ham United's new signing Gianluca Scamacca scores, he will eat a load of Weetabix out of a public bin. If Tottenham Hotspur are within 5 points of 1st place at Christmas, he will get piercings of the Tottenham club crest in his ears and belly button. And finally, if Arsenal fail to qualify for the UEFA Champions League, he will do an interview with AFTV in a wig and a dress. None of the five forfeits related to team results were required, as Arsenal placed 2nd, Spurs 8th (being 4th at Christmas, 8 points behind 1st placed Arsenal), Crystal Palace with 45 points in 11th, Nottingham Forest in 16th, and Leeds relegated in 19th. Whilst Scamacca scored 3 times for West Ham in the Premier League, and gave them a single goal lead on each occasion, as 2 of them were added to by a teammate for West Ham to win by 2 goals, and the 3rd cancelled out by an opponent equalising for the Hammers to draw, he never had to carry out this particular dare either. He has made another bet that if Jude Bellingham signs for Liverpool in 2023, he will get a tattoo of him. This ultimately did not happen, with Bellingham joining Real Madrid on 14 June 2023.
For the 2023/24 season. Michael has agreed to 7 new dares. If Sheffield United stay up, he'll walk to Sheffield and beg the local priest for forgiveness, if Fulham finish in the top half, he will drink 5 litres of tea whilst standing on his head, for every week Everton are in the relegation zone, he will pour a keg of milk over his face, if Crystal Palace don't finish with a points tally in the 40s, he'll walk to Sunderland wearing nothing but a bin bag, if Brighton & Hove Albion finish in the top half, he'll spend an entire weekend buried to his neck in sand, if Burnley get relegated, he will spend 20 minutes in an ice bath with his mum chucking piles of mud at him, and if Manchester City don't win the Premier League, he will eat 500 grapes in one sitting on camera. Unlike the previous season, some were fufilled; Sheffield United were relegated finishing 20th, but Everton spent 5 weeks in the relegation zone, forcing him to piur 5 kegs of milk over his face. Crystal Palace finished in 10th with 49 points but Burnley were relegated finishing 19th. Manchester City then won the Premier League making sure he didn't do his final dare.
==Series==
===The Prem Catch-Up===
This is a weekly round-up of all the results of the Premier League that matchday. Michael says he hates the name, calling it "the type of boring language you'd hear in an episode of Wallace and Gromit". 
===Football Origins===
This is a comedy show with skits that Michael does. Most of the videos are on his old channel.
==Trivia==
*He supports Newcastle United. This is probably because he lives in Newcastle upon Tyne.
*His favourite footballer is Hatem Ben Arfa.
*He hates Jack Grealish and Declan Rice becaused they both represented Ireland at youth level (with Rice even winning three senior caps) before switching international alleigance to England.
*He also hates Paul McShane because of his bad defending.
*He also despises Thierry Henry after he handballed an assist to William Gallas that qualified France for the 2010 FIFA World Cup at Ireland's expense.
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