‘You can't make this up' – Irish fans in stitches at Ruesha Littlejohn's playful prank upon Katie McCabe's camp arrival
KATIE McCABE received a champion's welcome - and a bottle of water - as she linked up with her Ireland team-mates in Istanbul.
The Ireland captain clearly played a leading role
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The 29-year-old played the showwoman as she happily held it up to great applause
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Littlejohn, 34, is known for possessing a keen wit
That's what made Ruesha Littlejohn handing her the water as she was serenaded upon her arrival into camp so funny.
The amusing allusion to McCabe's draining
Tami laughed: "Ruesha giving her the water you can't make this up!"
Similarly, Ally quipped: "Ah she's alive (laughing emoji)."
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Lastly, journalist Adam Moynihan remarked: "The world would be a better place if everyone got this kind of reception when they turned up for work late and visibly rattled after three hard days on the beer."
Hopefully McCabe maintains that winning feeling in the Nations League against Turkey on Friday.
Ahead of Friday's clash, Marissa Sheva told SunSport how she is psyching herself up to drive on the 'wrong' side of the road, having quickly
The Sunderland midfielder, 28, is in Istanbul preparing for the clash on Friday and the home game with Slovenia in Cork next Tuesday.
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But by July she will be back in England for pre-season training, with her off-the-field priority to buy a car.
Signed from Portland in March, the US-born star has been settling into life in England easily with the help of Ireland club-mate Jessie Stapleton.
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But knowing the English season ended in April and that she would then be on international duty, she put off her car search until July.
Instead, Stapleton has been her chauffeur, with payment in flat whites.
Sheva said: 'My apartment isn't too far from the training ground.
"So I was like, I can bribe Jessie into driving me or figure out public transport and then I will sort a car for pre-season, because I knew I was going to be away all summer.'
But getting wheels will mean driving on the left side of the road — the opposite to what Sheva is used to, having been brought up in Pennsylvania.
She said: 'I have driven my auntie's car in Ireland before, I think I was 18 the last time I drove and it mentally scarred me.
'Because she kept hitting me because I was trying to drive on the right side of the road every time I had to turn!
'I think I will be a little bit better now that it's ten years later and I have been spending a bit more time in Europe.'
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