Tag: Paul Scholes
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If Beckham talk isn’t a ball hop it could be worth exploring
Manchester United could use some good news. After all, they’ve just pissed off the highest profile, arguably most important player at the club and let him walk away without as much as a whimper. Even with him, their hopes of getting top four football by the end of the season would’ve been slim enough but…
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Who’d be a Dare Devil and fill up on hope
Chances are in-running betting didn’t exist in April 1993. Had it, Lord only knows what price Manchester United were entering the dying embers of their Easter Saturday clash with Sheffield Wednesday. The home team needing to win to keep their hopes of a first title in 26 years alive. When David Hirst gave David Pleat’s…
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Will it always be sunny at the Racecourse Ground?
Several times in recent months mention has been given to the fact new avenues have to be unearthed and explored in a sometimes vain attempt to maintain some degree of emotional strength and hope. Horizons have had to be broadened. With farming out of the equation by circumstances beyond my control and NPHET/the ‘Government’ making…
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Days you can’t forget to remember
It may come as a shock to some to learn that there was a time yours truly gave serious consideration to becoming immersed in the local soccer scene. Indeed, the fact is that I had been to several soccer matches before wheels transporting this writer parked up on a GAA pitch. Thanks to the kindness…