Tag: Tom Brady
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Whelan still rollin’ as Cowboys get ambushed
Someone once said to me that football is a language which the whole world can communicate through. It makes sense on a lot of levels. However, that needs clarification as its considerably more nuanced than the original quote would imply. Simply as there are so many variations of football around the world. From Gaelic, to…
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If Beckham talk isn’t a ball hop it could be worth exploring
Manchester United could use some good news. After all, they’ve just pissed off the highest profile, arguably most important player at the club and let him walk away without as much as a whimper. Even with him, their hopes of getting top four football by the end of the season would’ve been slim enough but…
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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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Assuming the limelight in the afterglow of Brady’s brilliance
Whether Colm O’Rourke made a formal announcement regarding his retirement from inter county GAA cannot be recalled. There was definitely activity in the media the following year when rumours of a comeback began to swirl. Either way, feelings in this seat were of tremendous sadness. An era was ending. Of course, the disappointment from a…
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Master still holds sway as great story rumbles on
One of the great things about having a life centred around sport is that sometimes all is not what it seems to be. For example, Leitrim shouldn’t win the Connacht Senior Football Championship – on perceived rank and status within GAA – but in 1994 it happened. Indeed, the people of that great county have…
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New Brady bunch, same outcome
The two greatest things derived from reading Con Houlihan’s mesmeric meanderings were a vastly increased vocabulary and an ability to scribe on a much broader range of subject matter. Or, to be more accurate, having the confidence to do so. Now read on… Baseball and ice hockey remain as the two bridges that have never…
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Trump used sport for his own benefit
Roy Keane has had many famous utterances throughout his playing, management and subsequent media career. “Fail to prepare, prepare to fail” may be the most famous thereof, but, for me, his correct excoriation of the “Prawn Sandwich Brigade”. Those corrosive pests are in every sport. The suits in Croke Park on an All Ireland weekend…