Tag: SOCCER
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Keeley keeps up Cup heroics
That momentum is often the biggest game changer in sport is surely indisputable at this stage. Just ask Josh Keeley. What doesn’t seem like all that long ago, the Dunboyne lad was on the bench with Leyton Orient and had, as a result of same, lost his berth between the posts with Jim Crawford’s Republic…
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FA Cup 4TH Round Draw
Following Sunday’s epic penalty shootout victory over Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium, Manchester United will face into a home tie against previous winners Leicester City in the 4th round of the world’s greatest football competition. A bookie would surely have offered you long odds on Ruben Amorim’s players progressing as, including extra time, the Red…
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Seamie finally gets accreditation for what we’ve always known
I’ve tickets to see Nathan Carter in concert next weekend at the TLT in Drogheda. One of my favourite venues and one of the most wheelchair friendly spots about. Wagon Wheel might have been the track which launched the Sheffield crooner into the bigtime, but, if he doesn’t sing The Homes Of Donegal it’ll be…
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Polarised fortunes of Meath’s soccer exports
Instagram – like all social media, or perhaps internet business full stop – yours truly was at least a decade behind the rest of the world getting into the photo based website. Initially out of an inclination that circumstantial limitations would render attempted interactions therewith pointless. As has proven to be the case for the…
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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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Those crying ‘Woke’ at latest historic Ladies First need a good poke
Just because you may be braced for an incoming negative occurrence doesn’t make the impact thereof any easier to absorb when it does hit. Trust me, as somebody who fell with walking aids and out of wheelchairs more times than I care to painfully remember, you can think you are as ready as you like,…
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Champagne or slurry – too much of either will make you sick
In the very first page of Champagne Football – the wonderful, yet stinging chronicling of the shambolic governance of the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) during John Delaney’s tenure at the head thereof by Paul Rohan and Mark Tighe, the descriptions of the display of lavish opulence put on in Mount Juliet – the world…
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Duffer delivers silverware as others bring defiance
Agreeing with Pat Spillane is not something done lightly by the occupant of this seat. In fact, the mere thought of doing so makes one shudder. It is my firm belief that the pontificating Templenoe publican is of the belief that the world was made either by or for a Kerryman. However, even that inclination…
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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…
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It’s up to you to strike when the iron’s hot to your own benefit
There was a line doing the rounds some time ago – presumably with the stats to back it up – which maintained that Ladies Gaelic Football was the fastest growing sport in the country. In terms of participation numbers. Very understandable given the backing affixed to the sport by the likes of Lidl and TG4.…