Tag: Sir Alex Ferguson
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If you have the belief you must have the patience
On July 7th, 2023, a post was published in this space heralding Manchester United’s annexation of the services of Mason Mount from Chelsea as a sign that the club were serious about mounting a challenge for honours at that time. Remember, here we have a guy who had just scored the winning goal for his…
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The Late John Hales
Leading National Hunt racehorse owner John Hales has passed away. The deceased, who was 85, made his money through the Golden Bear Toys company he co-founded in 1979, which went on to produce products from major children’s shows such as Teletubbies, Basil Brush, Thomas the Tank Engine and In The Night Garden, owned some champions…
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Bruno strikes knockout blow as ferris wheel goes up again
MANCHESTER UNITED… 2 RANGERS… 1 Only hours before production of what you are now reading commenced, from the same space emerged pertaining to the picking of Eoghan Frayne and Ciaran Caulfield as captain and vice captain respectively of the Meath senior football team. The point was made, and will be again, that while surprise at…
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God help the janitor with United like a toilet seat
I have little or no recollection of the 1991/’92 English soccer season, other than that it was the last in the format of the old First Division prior to the inception of the Premier League. That a Leeds United side managed by Howard Wilkinson and backboned by players such as Tony Dorigo, David Battie, Gary…
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If the mighty hadn’t fallen ten Hag would be unemployed by now
Throughout my lifetime to date, I have been fortunate to see some of the greatest managers to ever practice their trade across several sporting codes. From Sean Boylan, Mick O’Dwyer and Jim Gavin, to Brian Cody, Liam Sheedy and John Kiely in hurling, or Six Alex Ferguson, Arsene Wenger and Jose Mourinho in soccer. Then…
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A case for belief
Manchester United… 2 Newcastle United… 0 It doesn’t happen too often, but when a gut feeling turns out to be right it adds another layer of glow to any success which may accrue from what the hunch was. The arrival and impact of Casemiro at Old Trafford fits snugly into the above bracket. It will…
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Running Ralf unlikely to change the reality
Manchester United 3, Southampton 6 in what I think was 1996. The game which will be forever remembered as the one in which Sir Alex Ferguson famously binned the ghastly grey strip during half time at The Dell. It had some bit of an impact as the three scores they did register came after the…
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Being around them doesn’t necessarily turn you into them
An opinion poll was recently encountered in one of the myriad Manchester United fan groups on Facebook posing the admittedly interesting question as to who has been the best manager of the Red Devils since Sir Alex Ferguson retired nearly a decade ago. Now read on… Perhaps being a little trigger-happy, this corner immediately plumped…
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Boylan’s Sporting Wordle No. 28
This former Manchester United defender would come into his own at this time of year. https://mywordle.strivemath.com/?word=iop
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Drifting like a candy wrapper caught in an updraft
In the episode of The Simpsons where Homer ends up crash landing into bed with Alec Baldwin and Kim Bassinger, the world’s favourite safety inspector was after being in a parachute pulled behind a jetski. When the contraption reached its peak height, Homer reckoned he was “Like a candy wrapper caught in an updraft”. Similar…