Category: SIDELINE CUTS
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Sideline Cuts – 48
Liverpool not hanging around Just a short time ago (Thursday evening), former Bournemouth boss Andoni Iraola was officially unveiled as the new manager of Liverpool FC. Thus completing one of the quickest pieces of football business seen in a very long time. So fast was it, in fact, one does wonder had the wheels of…
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Sideline Cuts – 47
Ireland’s quietest hero calls time News broke a short while ago the 1997 Snooker World Champion Ken Doherty has called time on his long and illustrious career in the professional ranks in the sport. One of the quietest and most unassuming sporting heroes the island of Ireland has ever produced, the Ranelagh native never did,…
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Sideline Cuts – 46
Desperation in which corner? If you take it that, at the time of typing, the soccer season – at club level – still has one assignment to hand in, the Champions League Final between Arsenal and Paris Saint German – it’s a bit difficult to quantify that, in the formative stages of the off-season, the…
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Mixed bag for assorted Meath teams – Sideline Cuts 45
As would only be expected, the senior footballers’ annexation of promotion to Div. 1 of the NFL nabbed most of the GAA-related headlines over the weekend, but there was a mixed bag of results for various other Meath teams who were also in action then. Let’s do a whistle stop tour of their fortunes. ***…
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Sideline Cuts – 44
McCloskey In From The Cold The major talking point from the Irish rugby team announced to take on the All Blacks in Chicago on Saturday night has been the inclusion of Stuart McCloskey to partner Garry Ringrose in the centre. It will be the 33-year-old’s first start in green since 2023. Other notable occurrences include…
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Sideline Cuts 42 – Money doesn’t always have to talk
“Money talks, but it don’t sing and dance and it don’t walk”. It could save you having to walk and pay for singing and dancing lessons though. So in short, yes, the more of the stuff you have available, the easier life can sometimes be. Sometimes. It’s only in such circumstances does the concept of…
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German lessons and a need for a farrier and mirror!
All’s fair in love and war, right? When emotions had partially returned to equilibrium in the wake of Dunboyne’s bitterly disappointingly tame exit from contention for the Meath SFC, or as close to such so as not to make any difference, Summerhill manager Dave Clare and I embraced as happens more regularly than anybody on…
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Sideline Cuts – 40
Midweek Meanderings For reasons that hardly need elaborating, there are those who think I have my knife in the GAA at large presently. For said reason and that alone, a guilty plea will readily be entered. However, outside of the aforementioned subject area, even the most steadfast Gael must surely on occasion admit that the…
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Opportunity , not redemption
There are those who would contend that the FA Cup doesn’t matter any more. That the big clubs don’t care. Bovine excrement. Manchester United would take your arm off to be still therein. Arsenal too. Even the once thought to be invincible Manchester City would take any fleck of brightness going on their horizon right…
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Sobering Saturday underlines it’s tough at the top
Derek Thompson, arguably the most recognisable horse racing anchor/presenter over the past few decades, once drew the ire of Ruby Walsh when, after the latter had just finished second in the Cheltenham Gold Cup aboard the legendary Kauto Star – to his Paul Nicholls teammate Denman. Now, I will admit that, to me, it was…