Tag: Roy Keane
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Did nobody tell Gary about glass houses?
There was something nauseating about listening to Gary Neville eviserating Gabrielle Martinelli shunting Jeremy Frimpong out over the sideline towards the end of the Arsenal-Liverpool game. Now, I would consider myself as big a Roy Keane fan as there is, but, Gary is in no position to have a barb at anybody over skating the…
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Good for the heart… Eventually!
Move over Barcelona, you have been eclipsed. The SAS (Sheringham and Solksjaer) deposed by MAM (Mainoo and Maguire). The absense of Roy Keane outweighed by being 4-2 down against 10 men. Peter Schmeichel’s cartwheel being replaced by Andre Onana running over to celebrate with manager Ruben Amorim and cramping up in the process. ITV commentator…
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There’s no instruction manual for captaincy
It’s funny, the things that pop into your mind when looking for solace. Actually, that’s not the term. It’s more reassurance. Hope. I’m sure, like me, there were plenty of people a tad surprised at Robbie Brennan’s nomination of Eoghan Frayne and Ciaran Caulfield as captain and vice captain respectively for his first campaign working…
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Could it be, the FAI actually doing something right?
Google had to be consulted when Jonathan Hill’s name was seen trending on X. Even though he’s the head honcho of the Football Association of Ireland, his is not a name you’d see popping up too often. Certainly not an accusation you could level at the individual who held the position before him. With plenty…
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As Captain Katie was entitled to express an opinion – which was all she did
There’s a story which has now been granted admission to the annals of Meath GAA which goes along the following lines: a very senior player is earmarked for substitution, but is not of a mind to row in with the idea and in the end it was a youngster in his debut season who succumbed…
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Kicking Kenny misses the point
Liam Brady’s bidding arrivederci to RTE’s soccer coverage the other night got me thinking. About several things, actually. Some of which were before my time, others that became central tenets of my life. Directly or indirectly as the case may be. To begin with the second bit, that revolves around the late Bill O’Herlihy and…
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Boys of summer shortening the winter
Manchester United… 3 Reading… 1 One night what is a scarily long time ago, yours truly was making his way home from the one and only house party I’ve ever been at. It was the time of the night/next morning that my main concern was trying not to bump into my brother on his way…
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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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When do reasons simply become excuses?
The most plausible answer to the above pondering is, most likely, when people run out of patience. Which, in top level sport, happens with the rapidity Boris Johnson’s gaffes once provided Russell Howard with material and the rest of us with comic relief. In some cases, though, one can’t help feeling that the impatience is…
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O’Rourke completes backroom team
Several additions to new Meath senior football manager Colm O’Rourke had several additions to his backroom team ratified at Monday night’s Co Committee meeting. The extra recruitment is headlined by the appointment of Paul Garrigan as team trainer, only weeks after the Oldcastle native stood down from a similar role with the county’s back-to-back All…