Tag: Neil Reynolds

  • Whelan still rollin’ as Cowboys get ambushed

    Whelan still rollin’ as Cowboys get ambushed

    Someone once said to me that football is a language which the whole world can communicate through. It makes sense on a lot of levels. However, that needs clarification as its considerably more nuanced than the original quote would imply. Simply as there are so many variations of football around the world. From Gaelic, to…

  • Just when you thought the GAA couldn’t frustrate you anymore…

    Just when you thought the GAA couldn’t frustrate you anymore…

    David Clifford is a phenomenon. The best ever to play Gaelic football? That’s a subjective issue but he’s certainly in the vanguard thereof. Though only via video in my case, comparable in style and class to Matt Connor and – perhaps more aptly in this case – Maurice Fitzgerald. But, as I always say in…

  • High fielding is a multi-sport art

    High fielding is a multi-sport art

    Do you remember when, in GAA, the National Leagues used to be used to trial experimental rules? Many of which would, eventually, make it onto the set menu of playing rules. Stipulations such as the introduction of red and yellow cards, the taking of frees sideline balls from the hand, several incarnations of the Sin…

  • New Brady bunch, same outcome

    The two greatest things derived from reading Con Houlihan’s mesmeric meanderings were a vastly increased vocabulary and an ability to scribe on a much broader range of subject matter. Or, to be more accurate, having the confidence to do so. Now read on… Baseball and ice hockey remain as the two bridges that have never…