You couldn't write that script

**A face** · 22/10/2005, 4:30 PM

I just pinched this from another site !! Classic !!

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Let's just say a famous author decided to write a football story and make a film out of it.

Let's just say then, that the closing chapter went something like this.......

"So to the crunch game. Two big rivals go head to head in the Cup Semi Final. The game is a dogged affair with both sides having chances but nothing to show for it. Then, with the clock ticking away, both Managers decide to make changes.

The away team's coach opts for an "Impact Substitution" by bringing on his big striker who, ironically enough, used to play for the home side. The hosts go for the sublime skills of their English striker.

The game ticks by. The flamboyant hero to the home crowd George, who earlier was booked for a simingly "nothing" tackle on their 'keeper, is still leading the charge. The game, however, seems like it is going to head for a replay next Wednesday night.

Then, with 1 minute of injury time played, the two substitutions clash in the box. One goes down, the other holds his head in his hands. The impact sub certainly has made just that, bringing down the local hero - spotter!

Up steps George.

What is going through his mind?

3 years ago he saw his best friend John miss a spotter in this exact goal, against this exact team at the exact same stage of the cup and then saw them run up field to score the winner.

45 minutes before he saw Forde the 'keeper go down like a roll of lino, to get him booked. No way is he getting the better of him again.

He walks back 5 steps turns, runs up and thumps it high towards the top right hand corner.

You could hear a pin drop.

Then all hell breaks loose. The peoples champions were in the Final.

2002 - RIP"

Pity this is just fiction because if someone wrote it, sure no one would believe it .........would they?

**dancinpants** · 23/10/2005, 10:04 PM

Yeah you could

**dcfcsteve** · 23/10/2005, 11:50 PM

I can imagine Hollywood are beating a path to Leeside as we speak to sign up the rights to that little beauty.

It's definitely up there with 'Calendar Girls', 'Kinky Boots' and 'Goodfellas' as too good to be true real-life stories.

Or alternatively - it's just the usual sort of think that happens in football every now and again. Hardly earth shatteringly unusual.

I vote the latter.....

**diamond** · 24/10/2005, 8:46 AM

ive got a better one.
a struggling club on the brink of extinction are saved by a lifelong fan. now the guy is not abramovic but a humble solicitor with claret and blue in his blood. he digs deep and rescues the club from deep water. he can only however keep them afloat for a while alone so he goes on a one man mission to convince the people of the town that the club is worth saving. this one man gets the will and the money to succeed from others and shares his dream of building an empire with a at first skeptical folk. he wont give up the dream though and little by little the people start to believe that the club that has won nothing, ever, ever can be a team of heroes and can bring silverware to the boyne. they laughed, they doubted, other clubs inexplicably decided to mock him, to criticise the money and hard work he put into his dream, to criticise the team that dared to dream and dared to challenge the "big" clubs who have an automatic right to win.?? he persevered though and no matter how many obstacles were put in his way he was single minded in his goal to drag the club from the shadows of their craptown neighbours who have the past, the history.
then in a moment of unrivaled joy on a beautiful sunday evening the impossible happened. the people believed, the players believed and they did it! i was celebrating in the club bar afterwards and i caught a glimpse of a man sitting in a corner with tears of joy in his eyes, quietly contemplating what he had done for each and every football fan in drogheda. he let us dream. the future is ours
the ending of this story is as fairytale like as the beginning. david and golith met in the final. and they all lived happily ever after down boyneside.
thanks vinny for bringing the town to life. we owe you big time.

**Dee75** · 24/10/2005, 9:34 AM

Originally Posted by A face

The peoples champions were in the Final.

Yeah, you could hear the delight all over the country, I wondered what the horns and fireworks were for in Dublin.

Well done lads the 'Country' is behind you............................................

Oh and by the way maybe you should sing songs to support your own team instead of this boring "What's it like to have a queen" song that you pinched from some smart Rovers fan

**Ronnie** · 24/10/2005, 1:46 PM

That Drog story sounds a bit like....the club that finished bottom of Div 1, with the smallest average crowds in the league, who persuaded a man to take over as chair and an ambitious young manager and gave him no money and who then won promotion and built a ground, stayed up and reached a cup final and built a stadium and qualified for europe, left the club, club stayed up by the width of a post, sacked a manager and brougt in a new one, got to cup finals, rebuilt a stadium, qualified for Eurpoe, suffered disastorously their, won trophies and eventually on the eight season they all had a rest!

**A face** · 24/10/2005, 4:46 PM

Originally Posted by Dee75

Oh and by the way maybe you should sing songs to support your own team instead of this boring "What's it like to have a queen" song that you pinched from some smart Rovers fan

Agreed .... didn't sing it !!

**Bosco** · 24/10/2005, 9:42 PM

Did stephen o'flynn ever actually play for the cork first team?

**A face** · 24/10/2005, 10:05 PM

Originally Posted by Bosco

Did stephen o'flynn ever actually play for the cork first team?

Four minutes i think .... was in U21 games etc. but never quite got ot the first team .... but would have featured alright, he would have done very well with our team imo. He is not getting enough of a look-in in Derry to be honest

**Speranza** · 24/10/2005, 10:34 PM

Supposedly O'Flynn has had loads of niggling injuries all season long meaning his fitness has never been top.

**A face** · 25/10/2005, 11:01 AM

Originally Posted by Speranza

Supposedly O'Flynn has had loads of niggling injuries all season long meaning his fitness has never been top.

when with us he broke his leg and just as he was about to come back, he was in a car crash !!

**Bosco** · 25/10/2005, 8:24 PM

Originally Posted by A face

Four minutes i think .... was in U21 games etc. but never quite got ot the first team .... but would have featured alright, he would have done very well with our team imo. He is not getting enough of a look-in in Derry to be honest

Thought that.Just found it funny the way the commentater kept mentioning him being a former cork player when he never kicked a ball for the 1st team

**A face** · 25/10/2005, 8:32 PM

Originally Posted by Bosco

Thought that.Just found it funny the way the commentater kept mentioning him being a former cork player when he never kicked a ball for the 1st team

He was on the books for ages though .... and even when he was with Limerick, he was on loan from us !!

**Bosco** · 25/10/2005, 9:40 PM

Oh right,didnt realise he was only on loan at limerick.Thought thaat he just spent 1 season with ye sitting on his arse with a broken leg.Anyway keeping on topic,yes you could write the script,hardly fairytale stuff.Look at ronnies post again,thats more like it!