Tag: Cristiano Ronaldo
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DriveThru Sports Show – Ep. 23
Just a single topic up for discussion on this evening’s show – the latest spin of the managerial roulette wheel at Manchester United and the end of Michael Carrick’s 15 year association with the club. Hopefully just for now. You can also find us on: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzrRcny5VLQ6BmUH_x8r5pg https://www.buymeacoffee.com/BoylanTalks https://open.spotify.com/user/314c54jqf4da4zhfemh3jxemzk6y?si=b0039c9310cb42c0
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Take tonight for what it is and no more
You just knew it. The minute the under siege manager is shown the door, his erstwhile players come out and record a crucial in the Champions League. Not with a worldly performance by any means, but a damnable improvement on what they’d been producing in the closing stages of Ole Gunnar Solksjaer’s reign. Coincidence? Let’s…
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Boylan Talks Podcast – A good week for wearing of the green
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The obvious answer is often the only one
It’s funny how the wheels of time often come full circle. In the autumn of 1995, the late Shane McEntee TD ran against Sean Boylan for the position of Meath senior football manager. This being against the babkdrop of the ten point drubbing against Dublin in the Leinster Final. The Nobber native, who was a…
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Sideline Cuts – 15
Does anybody else remember 7/11 Supermarkets? Whoever was behind the business was certainly well tuned in from a marketing perspective. Not only do the numbers rhyme, in a sporting context at least, they are and for a long time have been seminal digits. Most notably at Manchester United, where the almost inevitable – and merited…
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Gap between the great and the good glaringly exposed
Rotor Volgograd – no, I’d never heard of them before (or since) either. Peter Schmeichel scored what this corner reckons was his only goal for Manchester United against the Russian outfit, in the UEFA Cup. Drawing the encounter on the night and indeed over the two legs. But the minnows went through via the away…
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Masterstroke or madness?
It’s said sporting stars, be they human or equine, never come back as good as they once were after a long term layoff. Of course, in most instances, it refers returning from injury. Occasionly, though, it’s a case of the road coming back to meet itself. Gareth Bale going back to Tottenham, Neil Lennon returning…
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Football needs to sing the world’s most powerful song
Two songs repeatedly reverbarated in the mind when commencing construction of this offering. When will I See You Again and Sing A Powerful Song. The latter being one of a number of emotion-stirring hits for the incomparable Saw Doctors which will forever strike an emotive chord in this seat. Now read on… Manchester United fans,…
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Echoes of the past pointing to a bright future
In an article in this space not so long ago, surprise and no little jealousy was expressed at seeing Sean Boylan attending the National League meeting of Dublin and Meath at Parnell Park. Owing to the Covid-19 restrictions and the perception – back then at least – that it was predominantly people of certain vintage…
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An uneven 50/50 split as noisy neighbours roar back
When Cork eventually beat Kerry in the Munster Senior Football Championship of 1987, though it was undoubtedly the end of an era, the result scarcely represented a monumental shock given the mileage which those vanquished had clocked up on their legs. In contrast, when Clare conquered The Kingdom in 1992 and Leitrim broke out of…