Tag: SOCCER
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Eze to forget about loyalty or is it common sense?
No matter how many straws one attempts to clutch at, sometimes you’ll never find the one you’re looking for. Or the one you’re hoping might be there somewhere, buried in a stockpile. Go back to a piece on these pages within the last week, and you will find reference to the fact that Dermot McCabe…
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The annual six week obsession
The sporting calendar is, I suppose, identical to the ‘normal’ one, in that, it’s a matter of ticking off milestones on the annual schedule. Instead of Christmas think Cheltenham, for Easter see Fairyhouse, Listowel Writers Week = Listowel Harvest Racing Festival. Similarly, for me, the commencement of a new soccer season in Britain is also…
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Meath men on the move
The wheel of the sporting year turns again as one segment closes off with the playing of the All Ireland SHC Final, and those in men’s and Ladies football and Camogie imminently awaited, while in other sports things haven’t even kicked off. Quite literally. In recent week’s we’ve seen the brightest star in Irish Basketball,…
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Steady Eddie’s stock continues to rise
If it quacks like a duck and waddles like a duck, you can be fairly sure it is a duck. Likewise, if managers such as Mikel Arteta and Ruben Amorim appear to be under pressure ahead of the new season, it’s because they are. Arteta more so of the two. For one thing, he’s in…
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If you thought Septic football disappeared with Blatter… Think again.
Do you ever cast your mind back to the world before Netflix? Before specialised channels on the Sky platform. Like the individual discipline channels. History, Arts, Golf, Movies, Racing, Cricket, Documentaries, True Crime. You name it. Now, I’m sure the non sporting genres listed previous always got their run out, it was just that they…
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Silly season doesn’t do setaside!
What must be close to if not over three decades ago, some ‘Genius’ (can you smell the sarcasm off that description?) in a carpeted office somewhere in Brussells came up with the bright spark of paying farmers not to grow crops on particular parcels of land. Officially the terminology was that the ground was to…
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Is Kelleher about to buzz into The Bees?
Speculation is mounting that Republic Of Ireland goalkeeper Caoimhin Kelleher is on the verge of signing for Brentford just days after the Corkman collected a Premier League winners’ medal at Anfield with Liverpool. The Irish stopper has made no secret of his desire to leave the now champions in order to get more first team…
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Believe what’s in front of you – not what others say
MANCHESTER UNITED… 0 TOTTENHAM… 1 The above line of advice could probably be appended to any facet of life. You’d hope that if the Ineos idiots are still in charge of the Old Trafford club going forward, they might belatedly begin to pay heed to it also. In fairness, I actually couldn’t be too critical…
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What a difference a day makes… If your name is Josh Keeley
Did you ever notice how one occurrence in life can often lead your thoughts to somewhere else entirely? Recently, the mind here was drawn to when my sister had a set of football goals in her garden when her ‘kids’ were, well… Kids. You know the type, plastic, collapsable, built in such a way that…
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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…