Tag: London
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Help! I agree with Gary Neville
Do not adjust your sets. This is not a drill. But nor does it change the fact that he was one of the biggest imposters to ever milk a living out of Old Trafford. Just as he is currently doing with Sky Sports. In a playing sense, such were his underwhelming contributions, that my late…
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Smudger has his copybook blotted out as R and V find a way
It’s probably fairly safe to assume that, for players and/or their entourage and next of kin, waiting to ‘tog out’ for your seasonal debut in the World Darts Championship must be the same as what it’s like prior to a club or county championship match. For them, it may be butterflies in the stomach whereas…
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Usual suspects but can it be as obvious as it looks?
There was a time in the mid 1990s when Clare, Leitrim and to a certain extent Mayo, delivered shock results which threatened to upset the world order in Gaelic football, but eventually those possibilities faded away as Dublin took care of the first two in 1992 and 1994 while both Cork and Meath took care…
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Race for Sid wide open as they head for the third last
“He’s had his little run, now it’s time for the real men to take over”. Peter Wright on Michael Van Gerwen before MVG won his first World Championship
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Paddy Power PDC World Darts Championship 3rd Round Draw
Smith is gone, Wade is gone, Anderson is gone. Schindler’s no longer on the list. But there are still enough top notch performers left therein to ensure that the overall victor therein may not necessarily be a toss up between the two Lukes. The draw for when the action returns on December 27th for Round…
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‘Also-rans’ cause carnage carving up the field
It’s actually very fitting that what you will read hereafter is being produced so close to St Stephen’s (Boxing) Day. For the day after Christmas itself was the occasion on which Gavin Sheehan cajoled a truly rousing rally out of Hewick which nabbed the King George in most unlikely fashion for ‘Shark’ Hanlon’s (temporarily Tara…
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Doets has the horsepower to outstay the Bull(y)
Another Ally Pally clascic. Another Dutch darting star comes of age. Kevin Doets – the surname pronounced the same way some people pronounce Deutz tractors – just about having enough horsepower to outrun the Bull(y) Boy, Michael Smith. The only thing reducing the seismic nature of the world No. 2 being catapulted out of the…
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Cool Hand crucial for Humphries but they both have world in their hands
Something had to give. Two lads of the same name. Both stars of their sport in their own way. Either of them would have been fitting and deserving winners of the Sid Wadell Trophy. One had had the sporting world in spin since the action got underway at the Alexandra Palace on December 15th. The…
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You can throw the form book in the furnace
When Meath football was at its zenith in the late 1980s and early to mid ’90s, they must have been a nightmare for anybody attempting to preview matches going on what sort of form teams had been in leading up to the fixture in question. Furthermore, oddsmakers must thank their lucky stars in-running betting wasn’t…
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Seven switches for Meath ahead of trip across the water
The Meath Senior Hurling team to play London in the final round of regulation fixtures in Div. 2B of the Allianz NHL shows seven changes from that which defeated Tyrone in Omagh last Saturday. Into the side come Mickey Burke, Killian Swaine, Shane Brennan, Daire Shine, Evan Fitzgerald, Jamie Leavy and Mikey Cole. Simon Ennis…