Tag: Dimitri Van den Bergh
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Mike is a poor champion – don’t be like Mike
Do you remember some years ago there was a style of advert being used, to pitch a variety of different product or service or cause, which was basically pencil drawn stick figures with short, sharp messaging. Now read on… An example would be something like ‘Bill disinfected the shopping trolley when leaving it back for…
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Mike sweeps De Decks to hit the bigtime
The abolition – officially it may be ‘suspension’ but the masses know what’s at play here – of the pre season competitions in GAA slithered through with barely an eyebrow being raised. Yet I would suggest the vast majority of counties would have had no objection to their retention. As much as I can’t stand…
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Green Machine going up through the gears
In sports where combatants compete on an individual basis, it logically follows that opponents will cross paths with each other fairly regularly. For example, Tennis and Snooker and Darts. The latter being the focus of attention hereafter. Between the ordinary ‘Floor’ tournaments and the bigger televised events, even Stephen Hawking would get hard to keep…
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Changing of the guard?
No matter where one looks, online or in other media outlets, there will be reference to the oddity that is the period between Christmas and the New Year. You’ve no clue what day it is, you’re just about sick of eating turkey but cake/pudding/sweets are still fair game. For someone like myself with whom mental…
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Rocky sets up a Riot with dominant display
Earlier this week, in relation to players turning up to the Alexandra Palace laden down with expectations, the point was made that, regardless of any possibilities, producing on the greatest stage in the sport is another matter entirely. Or for most players it is. Evidently, nobody sent the memo to Josh Rock. The 21-year-old Antrim…
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Last dance up for grabs – you can’t turn back the clock
In one of his autobiographies, Tony McCoy told a story about the Aintree National won by Red Marauder. The ground at the Liverpool venue was bottomless, with the result that when The Champ and another rider – possibly Mick Fitzgerald – were unseated from their mounts they realised they were in fact the only ones…
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Cross comes crashing down at first hurdle
One of the hazards of being in this line of work is being wrong. In terms of predicting the outcome of events, in this instance. Then again, punditry is mostly guess work with a bit of background information for optics. Doing so for GAA matches or horse racing is one thing, venturing into other sporting…