Tag: Garth Brooks
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It’s a fairly safe bet he didn’t watch Italia ’90!
Italia ’90 – even now, mention of the words together conjures so many memories. Pat Bonner’s grimace before that booming kickout against the Dutch, Genoa, Penalties, Bonner again, David O’Leary, the pub scene from The Snapper. Now read on… Another recollection from that glorious summer prompted what you are about to intake. A proclamation by…
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Who needs Friends In Low Places?
A pair of sporting genii. Bastions of their time, or any time. Fierce rivals, yet imbued with a mutual respect often sadly lacking in many places. The photo of Mick Mackey encountering a stricken Christy Ring is one of the iconic sporting images of all time. To me, and many, most likely, it represents a…