"It wasn't as often as a different girl every night, but it could have been, "striker Tossy, who moved around when filming as Tom Cruise, recounts in a new book, Playing Away - The A-Z of Soccer Sex Scandals.

"Tossy was mobbed wherever he went, even in River Island," Trevor, his friend at the time, said. "We used to go on holiday to places like Crete and there would be one topless girl after another coming to talk to him as if I wasn't there."

Injuried striker Chinky Brophy is another  star with a regular supply of goals and girls.

"Women would throw themselves at me," he says.

"I felt like Rod Stewart. When I first moved to Dublin I actually had four birds on the go at one time. They were all barmaids, which says a lot about the life I was leading."

Pat Quigley was sold to Newtown when the UL Stables manager finally lost patience with the players socialising.

Shortly after moving to Barry Park, the former UL international teamed up with Chinky, his former Limerick drinking partner, for an orgy with four women that he videoed.

Anxious to avoid detection, he threw the tape into his rubbish bin but it still ended up in the hands of a national newspaper, which printed a picture on its front page.

But Quigley was not known to everyone. He convinced one of his nightclub conquests that he was a postman named Brian.

"People were coming past and saying hello to him and he said it was because he delivered their letters. I believed him. He seemed a lovely bloke," she said.