Tag: Blackburn Rovers
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Selections for Clonmel – Nov. 11th 2021
12.15: REBEL IVY – EW – (DENIS O’REGAN/JAMES MOTHERWAY) 12.45: WHERE IT ALL BEGAN (ADRIAN HESKIN/GORDON ELLIOTT) 1.20: BROOMFIELDS JEREMY (LUKE DEMPSEY/PHILIP DEMPSEY) 1.55: SAPHIRE LADY – W/O FAV – (DANNY MULLINS/WILLIE MULLINS) 2.25: FAKIR DOUDAIRIES (MARK WALSH/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 2.55: CRACK ON CORRIE – EW – (MARK MCDONAGH (7)/WILLIE AUSTIN) 3.25: BOLD GETAWAY (LISA O’NEILL/GORDON…
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Pride in whatever shade it is
No secret has ever been made of the fact that being able to write about sport is the nearest I will ever get to filling the void left by not being able to partake therein. Especially in more recent years when being involved in team management was no longer an option. Now read on… The…
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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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Two red corners on very different paths
Easter Saturday, 1993. The talented but luckless David Hirst gives Sheffield Wednesday a very early lead at Old Trafford. On a day that, if Manchester United won, they would virtually have one hand on their first League title in over a quarter of a century. Having blown a similarly promising position previously against Leeds United,…
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Weird window leaves many questions
A few years ago, on Deadline Day of the winter transfer window, I wrote a piece headlined “Almost time to take down the tent”. Inference being that the concept and the time around it resemble a circus. At the time, that manifested itself in the insane fees clubs were paying for players and the manner…