Tbf, never been an Indo' fan (generally a 'blueshirt' rag) but some of the soccer writers surprised me recently with their coherence and analysis of various pieces on the national team...
Dion Fanning et al.
Yeah, but in fairness, it is George Byrne. And since when has his opinion ever been worth anything. I particularly like him dismissing the Scotish league as "mickey mouse". This coming from an alleged Shamrock Rovers fan.
(Not a Trap fan, or a Celtic one either - just in case anyones asking)
Out for a spell, got neglected, lay on the bench unselected.
Tbf, never been an Indo' fan (generally a 'blueshirt' rag) but some of the soccer writers surprised me recently with their coherence and analysis of various pieces on the national team...
Dion Fanning et al.
Delaney is something of a clown, but tbf is a good communicator for all his other faults and is amenable to speaking to all and sundry.
Even if much of it is vacuous nonsense.
I see certain bookies have O'Neill at 1/32 now to be the next manager. Surely they can't be that wrong?
1/32 eh?
How appropriate.
Sounds suspicious. They have decent writers, but unless there has been a complete sea change and they are writing about actual events instead of inventing them, as they did with egg on face circumstances before the Thorshavn game, I think you're being extremely kind. If what Georgio Byrneo has written is indicative of this, then I think you're being kind beyond bias.
As a mainstream public we get the mainstream media we deserve. Clowns given prime Friday and Saturday night tv gigs, paid for hate-o-mercials by the Indo and politicians destroying the country generation after generation.
Bring back Jack!
The Indo regularly jump the shark, but with the Barry Egan interview I think they may have jumped an entire school. Everybody in entertainment knows that if you want a softball interview and a shoulder massage, you call Barry Egan, but this is something else entirely. Three hours?!
The O'Neill attack-piece is almost as baffling. The Indo are so eager to bash the next Denis O'Brien-sponsored appointment they haven't even bothered to wait to find out who it is. Expect 2-4 years of articles from the likes of David Kelly and Dion Fanning decrying the fact we could have had the tiki-taka of Hector Cuper but instead FAI politics led them to plump for Martin O'Neill, a manager so unadventurous and old-school he doesn't even trust our players to play football, etc.
O'Neill is at 1/6
Tricky will probably make his move before the evening curfew on bets.
Well, did say much of it is nonsense. Anyway, blame the rest of the FAI for allowing JD to continue regardless...
Think much of that was largely sarcastic...
Here's my theory as to why Barry Egan did interview...
Wasn't Delaney out of country post Vienna, probably at some overseas Irish celeb wedding that Egan was at....???
Anyways whatever the reason, Bazza's football reporting continues next week when he interviews "Irish Singing Sensation" Carol Anthony about nabbing married former Welsh footballing beefcake heartthrob Ian Rush....![]()
Reasonably so.
WGS & even NL have done as well in CL terms.
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