Tag: Sir Alex Ferguson
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Selections for Naas – Mar. 31st 2022
1.55: DOUGLAS DC (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.30: TAKE TEA (MARK WALSH/WILLIE MULLINS) 3.05: GOVEN (MARK WALSH/WILLIE MULLINS) 3.40: KINGSGATE – EW – (DONAGH MEYLER/KIERAN PURCELL) 4.15: PADDY ROCKET – EW – (RICHIE DEEGAN (3)/EOIN MCCARTHY) 4.50: CHAMP ROYAL (BRIAN HAYES/COLM MURPHY) 5.20: SWEET MAGIC – EW – (DAN HYDE (7)/TIM HYDE)
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The only predictable thing is their unpredictability
ATHLETICO MADRID… 1 MANCHESTER UNITED… 1 Manchester United currently resemble a volitile backside – you just don’t know what they’re going to do next. In truth, that has been the state of affairs at the Old Trafford club since Sir Alex Ferguson vacated the dugout. On and off the pitch. The second part of that…
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Selections for Naas – Feb. 12th 2022
1.05: BEN SIEGEL (SEAN FLANAGAN/NOEL MEADE) 1.40: O’TOOLE – W/O FAV – (JJ SLEVIN/STUART CRAWFORD) 2.15: HARALD HARDRAD (SEAN FLANAGAN/NOEL MEADE) 2.50: GOVEN (MARK WALSH/WILLIE MULLINS) 3.25: FAIR MINDED – EW – (LIAM MCKENNA/DES MCDONOGH) 4.00: ELIMAY (MARK WALSH/WILLIE MULLINS) 4.30: ASK DMAN – W/O FAV – (BARRY O’NEILL/DAVID CHRISTIE) 5.00: ICARE DAUBRELLE – EW…
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Selections for Punchestown – Jan. 31st 2022
1.20: CRATLOE HILL – EW – (MARK WALSH/PADRAIG ROCHE) 1.50: DOCTOR CHURCHILL (ROB JAMES (7)/GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.20: TAKE TEA (MARK WALSH/WILIE MULLINS) 2.50: CLASSIC GETAWAY – (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 3.20: BOIS DE CLAMART – W/O FAV – (RICHIE DEEGAN (3)/LIZ DOYLE) 3.50: MY NEWBROOK ROSE – EW – (SEAN FLANAGAN/ADRIAN MURRAY) 4.20: I DON’T GET…
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Take tonight for what it is and no more
You just knew it. The minute the under siege manager is shown the door, his erstwhile players come out and record a crucial in the Champions League. Not with a worldly performance by any means, but a damnable improvement on what they’d been producing in the closing stages of Ole Gunnar Solksjaer’s reign. Coincidence? Let’s…
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Sideline Cuts – 15
Does anybody else remember 7/11 Supermarkets? Whoever was behind the business was certainly well tuned in from a marketing perspective. Not only do the numbers rhyme, in a sporting context at least, they are and for a long time have been seminal digits. Most notably at Manchester United, where the almost inevitable – and merited…
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Boylan Talks Sport Brain Workout – No. 20
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Football needs to sing the world’s most powerful song
Two songs repeatedly reverbarated in the mind when commencing construction of this offering. When will I See You Again and Sing A Powerful Song. The latter being one of a number of emotion-stirring hits for the incomparable Saw Doctors which will forever strike an emotive chord in this seat. Now read on… Manchester United fans,…
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Two red corners on very different paths
Easter Saturday, 1993. The talented but luckless David Hirst gives Sheffield Wednesday a very early lead at Old Trafford. On a day that, if Manchester United won, they would virtually have one hand on their first League title in over a quarter of a century. Having blown a similarly promising position previously against Leeds United,…
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Lampard a victim of his own relative success
There are certain jobs in the sporting world that everybody would want, yet nobody would queue up for at the same time. Some roles are a poisoned chalice. Who would want to take over from some of the greatest managers in any sport – Sean Boylan, Brian Cody, Sir Alex Ferguson, Phil Jackson, the list…