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Wednesday, Mar 17th 2010


Articles Covering Football

Is a Crying Shane!

Behind You!!!!
I am not having been bothered to watch the useless football match last week between Ireland and France in Paris, France, if you remember, because I was say already back then that France would definitely win and therefore there was no point in staying up so late to watch it.  Anyway, I am only [...]

Glen Newey | Rectification - London Review of Books Blog

An article by donagh of Dublin Opinion • November 23rd 2009

Glen Newey | Rectification - London Review of Books Blog
Glen Newey looks at the calls for rectifcation of Thierry Henry’s handball in France’s World Cup qualifier against Ireland last Wednesday. He says that calls for a rematch shouldn’t stop with Ireland’s claim against France. Why not go all the way back to England World Cup [...]

La Main of the Match

Sometimes a team needs a leader, to take a game into their hands and turn it around. For France, Henry was that man. A disorganised and unmotivated French side were harried and fraught by an under-valued Irish team, but extra time put the win up for grabs – and it was the French who reached [...]

‘Much more important than that’ – Football and the Left

The recent visit by Ken Loach and Eric Cantona to Dublin for the première of Looking for Eric drew a surprise guest who Loach, at least, was unpleasantly surprised to see. Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern muscled in on the occasion, accompanied by his hapless brother Maurice on the latter’s doomed election campaign. The Aherns presented [...]

A Face Only Jesus Could Love

I am being perturbed this week to learn about the disgraceful treament that was being meated out to a shoal of English nuns in Crete, where they was doing the missionary work, bringing civilization to the pagan ancient Greeks. According to all the reliable news report, the nuns was being banged up abroad like a [...]

Escape to Victory!!

I Flap My Wings and Fly Like Icarus!!
Si, is the great news that Real Madrid the Best Team in the World have deigned to sign from the useless Manchester waste-of-space-can’t-even-beat-Barcelona team their only decent player, Cronaldo of Portugal (which historically belong to Spain). He is will play alongside the Brazilian genius Kaka, who will also [...]