Tag: #Season2024/25

  • Tuchel takes the poisoned chalice as United are cut further adrift

    Tuchel takes the poisoned chalice as United are cut further adrift

    A Manchester City fan account on X posted a skit video on Tuesday night purporting to show Pep Guardiola celebrating Thomas Tuchel taking the England job. The inference being that the ex Chelsea boss now won’t be able to take the Manchester United job. Accompanied by a photo of Gareth Southgate, giving the current champions…

  • Dunboyne’s Keeley swaps his Spurs for a taste of the Orient

    Dunboyne’s Keeley swaps his Spurs for a taste of the Orient

    It’s highly unlikely Josh Keeley has ever been clad in spurs or a Stetson, but even if he has been, he may hang them up for the time being. The big Dunboyne goalkeeper having marked another career step when being loaned out by Tottenham to League One outfit Leyton Orient for the remainder of the…

  • Selected Europa League groupings

    Selected Europa League groupings

    Ironically, with a dastardly international break commencing after the meeting of Manchester United and Liverpool on Sunday evening, the first sign of the new soccer season ratcheting up a gear or two arrived on Friday with the draws taking place for the Europa League and Europa Conference League group stages. Personally, it was the group…

  • Misfiring meddlers still the gift that keep on giving

    Misfiring meddlers still the gift that keep on giving

    Yours truly is old enough to remember a day when Bernard Flynn had the ball 90% over the bar in a Leinster SFC encounter with Wicklow when the referee decided to blow for full time and thus the ‘score’ was declared null and void. Luckily for Meath (and the referee) our lads negotiated the replay…