Ibaraki. Behind the goal, to the right.
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Ibaraki. Behind the goal, to the right.
I was working in Nurnberg Uni at the time. Me and about 30 German postgrads and professors looking on a small telly in the social room.
I remember the German commentator saying look at all those sad (as in unhappy) Guinness drinkers the first time they showed Irish fans after Klose's goal.
They were all looking very smug in the social room and were sure of the win until disaster struck and Kean scored. All of them were totally silent and I of course went nuts ;)
I was in a local pub running through the permutations in my mind for the final round of games, and none of them included us scoring late equaliser in the game on the screen. The bar was mobbed to an extent that we'd never see these days. There was a surreal pause of almost disbelief when Quinn knocked it on and Keane's first touch put him in a position where something might just happen. The bar went absolutely mental, pints were literally just dropped on the ground as strangers wrapped around each other. There was glass everywhere, soaked and crunching with every step. Later that evening I went home for my dinner, p!ssed, with the intention of going straight back out to continue the celebrations. Instead, I feel asleep, head down on the kitchen table, with my barely nibbled at dinner beside me. My mother was never so proud. I eventually woke up to about twenty missed calls from my buddies who made the wise choice not to go home. I went down to meet them again but a peculiar same day hangover replaced the earlier intoxication. The only other football match that generated such hysteria, that I was old enough to be in a pub drinking for, was the Dutch game in the qualifiers, but the Germany one even topped that. You really can't beat the euphoria that comes with a significant injury time goal.
Sounds like you might have felt the Banner Roar, probably best experienced in the middle of a room full of stunned Germans.Quote:
Originally Posted by Irish_Praha
Robbie signs an extension at LA: http://www.lagalaxy.com/news/2015/06...ract-extension
A friend of mine lived in a mobile home in his aunty's back garden in Wexford. We were both broke students so watched it there with the door swinging open as it was sweltering heat as I recallQuote:
Originally Posted by TheOneWhoKnocks
I was squeezed against the bar in the Bound for Boston pub at the top of Waterloo Street in Derry when I really should have been revising for my GCSEs. (Well, actually, no; one can always repeat their GCSEs...) Glasses, chairs, tables and tricolour-draped people were literally upended when Robbie scored. The place was left a complete mess. Everyone cleared out of all the pubs then - the weather being an absolute treat - and we all gathered down at the bottom of Shipquay Street to watch more balls bouncing around.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheOneWhoKnocks
MOD EDIT - PHOTO NSFW
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CGwwdPVW8AAoURP.jpg
I've posted that photo before, and I'll post it again. Great day. :)
Danny, we've told you before. If you want to show off your body, there are more appropriate websites you can visit.
It was a great end but that was an ott celebration by Danny.
Dancing almost buck naked (wearing shoes) on the roof of a car, denting the panel, was more of a late winner to get through to the 1/4 final celebration.
Hat-trick for Robbie in the US Open Cup - The King is back!
Marca saying he was Rafa's biggest blunder
(although I think it was fairly well documented that Benitez didn't want him in the first place, maybe the actual blunder was not making the best of it when he had him).
Edit- Plus, wasn't he just sold straight back to Tottenham, not originally loaned back... I can see why Eamon Dunphy swears by this newspaper.
Surprisingly no goal but a nice assist for Keane as Galaxy hammer Philadelphia 5-1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=27&v=WEFgFVIJ7FM
The stadium in Ottawa where they are playing some wwc games is called lansdowne stadium.
Who was this lansdowne chap?
I don't know who the blighter was but here is the etymology of the surname Lansdown(e). http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/LansdownQuote:
Originally Posted by Crosby87
I've noticed that a few times when I have seen a Lansdowne Road / Terrace / Place etc. in the UK a nearby road is called Havelock something. I think in other parts of the Commonwealth (Toronto?) places are often named after each in proximity. Has anyone got any other examples?
Edit: they both seem to have been involved in governing India during the colonial years. Lansdowne was also an Irish peer.
Lansdowne: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henr...s_of_Lansdowne
Havelock: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Havelock
Lansdowne Road and Shelbourne Road were apparently named after this guy who was both the 1st Marquess of Lansdowne and the 2nd Earl of Shelburne. He was also Prime Minister from 1782-1783.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willia...l_of_Shelburne
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lansdowne_Road#Location
The Lansdowne Road in Luton is within a couple of streets of Cromwell Road. Whether it is named for Thomas or Oliver though, will no doubt remain a mystery to me.
You blighters are on today. Was just wondering if the ottawa place is the same person. Perhaps Fox's team of 400 analysts will mention it when the us plays our mortal enemy there on thurs.....
I would reckon he is.
When I was living in Ottawa I could never fathom just how creepily familiar it looks from the riverside at Colonel By Drive as it does to its Dublin namesake.
http://www.chez106.com/files/lansdowne.jpg
1890
Grounds are renamed Lansdowne Park, named after the Marquis of Lansdowne, Governor General from 1883-88, although the name first appeared in the Ottawa Journal in The Exhibition 1886.
From http://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-...lansdowne-park
This was the 5th Marquis of Lansdowne, great-great-grandson of the gentleman who gave his name to Lansdowne Road in Dublin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_...s_of_Lansdowne
Wow, this place is beginning to sound like an episode of Downton Abbey
That shot looks the exact same but the other sides are well different though, aren't they? I can't really get a good proper view of it all on google but the other stand in Ottawa looks far more like one of our old Landsdowne Rd stands!Quote:
Originally Posted by BonnieShels
I haven't seen one episode of Downton Abbey but this whole saga is creepy enough to be an X File.Quote:
Originally Posted by samhaydenjr
Whatever really happened to our heroes??
Leo Trotsky
https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/i...n-lNmcuRsIOTZS
was not assassinated in 1940 by an ice pick in Mexico, but he and his all his doubles congregated at Lansdowne Pk in 1947,
the real Leo is seated on the left of his 5 doubles.
https://postmediaottawacitizen2.file...y=55&strip=all