That was both brutal and brutal
That has to have been the worst match of the World Cup so far. The US did nothing but foul, and the Italians did nothing but dive. Terrible, terrible game. I...
17 June 2006
You can go to the end of time, the last World Cup in the history of mankind, and the All-Blacks will be favourites for it
So I got out of bed with surprising ease this morning. Dressed in my Irish top I almost poisoned myself with sour milk, but spotted that there was something wrong with...
17 June 2006
Football is much harder if you don’t have the ball
Oh dear god in heaven! Gorram, mother-fucking, clicking on the wrong humping button! I’d just finished a long post all about the World Cup and what have I gone and done,...
16 June 2006
The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic – just one of those unfortunate things
So it seems that the conflict between the rugby players and the meeja peoples isn’t actually resolved. Of course, there is nothing about it on the official rugby website apart from...
15 June 2006
I did what I had to do and saw it through without exemption
Rugby Rugby report on how a match in Russia was mistaken for a mass brawl, leading to arrests of the players: The police broke up proceedings and detained some 100 people...
13 June 2006
Hands of blue
In the past 30 minutes I have managed to spill water down my top and stick a wall staple-type-thing in my finger. I wonder what the third will be? Still, can’t...
12 June 2006
Team morale is brilliant, there are no worries about that. The lads are the best bunch you will ever meet and they will get on with it.
*Auto post no 2* The World Cup is almost here. Football is going to dominate all the newspapers and tv coverage. The whole world will go football crazy. Well, parts of...
31 May 2006
New Zealand had superior teams to the opposition in the past few World Cups but they faltered because they lacked the essential spirit that Munster demonstrated
Although I continue to be delighra and exi’ra[1] over Munster’s win, it has had a negative impact on my life. Well, a positive and negative. See publicity for Munster means that...
25 May 2006
Sean Óg Ó hAilpín…. His father’s from Fermanagh, his mother’s from Fiji – neither a hurling stronghold
Seems that the kerfuffle over the New York hurling win is growing. See they were supposed to lose, like they do every other year, but on this occasion they defeated Derry....
23 May 2006
It’s not our destiny. We’ve got to go out and bloody work for it.
There are moments in sport that will live forever. As a small country we don’t get too many of them, so they are so much more important. Ronnie Delany’s gold medal...
20 May 2006
We had dreams and songs to sing
The countdown has begun. And I can honestly say I’m more nervous about this match than any other match/sporting event I’ve ever watched. Maybe because Irish teams don’t tend to get...
20 May 2006
When you look with your eyes Everything seems nice But if you look twice You can see it’s all lies
They are drilling for oil[1] out the back at work. Or round the side, depending on where I am. Direction is relative after all. It is a little annoying, but don’t...
18 May 2006