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Jesus, red all day long

Elbow to the head, a yellow card.
An incompetent referee who over the years seems to enjoy his power and often putting his fingers to his lips seemingly telling players to stop talking, rather than making critical decisions

Showing my age, but was in the canal end that day.
It was absolutely bananas.
The surge of the crowd forward was unreal.
One of those you were lucky to witness in person.
RIP I am sure he was a true legend in Offaly.

Not at all.
It was his boyhood dream to play for Kilmacud...... 

it was his boyhood dream to be a great footballer. He probably spent hours on end practicing to be better.
He achieved that, he should be proud.
As for the Kilmacud club, F them.
They will probably continue to do it.
bigger Q, with a more complex answer, what dont politicians in rural counties, put more emphasis in decentralization, so that less Mayo Roscommon, Sligo Leitrim Lonford, etc next generation are not being
forced to live up there and therby see another round of young fellas with parents from said counties playing for Dublin.
That is the end game IMO.
simple partial solution to this, Knock Aiport, imagine how many thousands of people it would keep in the west and mid west if it got half them money Shannon Got.
digressed a bit too much there. My bad

Anyone else find Arteta seriously hard to like?

That Arsenal all or nothing documentary on Amazon was unwatchable because of him

I would say that on the surface, I like the way Klopp carries himself more than any other premier league manager.
I have been an Arsenal fan for probably longer than a few on this board have been alive, and usually go to one or two games a year.
Arteta is ok, I am sure he is under a lot of pressure to win a championship. He needs the balls to put Saka (and maybe Nketiah) on the bench for a while. If Saka wasn't English, there would not be a word about him, a 40 MM contract over four years FFS. This past Saturday was another glaring example of this.
Without Odegarrd, and if Martinnelli is not on, they are easy to contain.
They got very lucky V Many City a month ago, if they lost that one the would be out of it already.
Positives, they play attractive soccer, easy on the eye, I just hate lazy over payed players.
Saka should go watch Rooney back in the day bursting his arse running the length of the filed to defend.

It is a huge success if you are a FAI or Rugger administrator or supporter.
I will challenge anyone to some up with GAA coverage on RTE, Independent or Irish Times from August 3rd to January 31st.
The Saturday edition of Times on August 5th (week after the all-Ireland) had 3 pages of Soccer, 2 pages of Rugby, one horse racing, 1/3 gaelic games.
It will be like that until next January, barring the odd manager change or retirement.
Wonderful PR move by GAA. You really could not make it up.

read this on the news
"Gardaí believe the teenager is part of a group involved in other attacks in the area in recent weeks and months."
Please tell me that if true, that when arrested these dirtbags will not be given bail.

the garda would soon turn up if they seen hundreds marching into the areas where tds live

Saw about 50 of them at an eviction few weeks ago, a useless shower of pricks

I am certain there are some assholes on the force, but do you think 50 of them showed up voluntarily.

How terrible and disgusting is this.
What kind of people are Ireland turning out.
As a fairly regular visitor 3x4 times a year,
I have always watched my bearings and socialized between two or three pubs close to Stephens Green area where I usually stay.
This is just simply unacceptable.
Last year I was walking around Stephens Green on a Sunday morning for some exercise at around 11am, Three or four dirt bags out of their mind waiting for a Luas were physicially confronting people who were just out casually walking.
I actually looked for a guard to alert them before something bad happened, I had to walk half way down Grafton St, to find some. In fairness they did go up there to check it out.
All the politicians will be out no doubt screaming about it.
I wonder how many Guards were recruited over past 5 years relative to how many retired.
How many of these politicians vigorousley supported hiring more.
most rural towns don't even have a full time guard.

Jack O'Connor in third stint as kerry manager. Has 4 All Ireland medals as kerry manager. He is level behind the great Sean Boylan 2  behind Jim Gavin 4 behind  Mick O'Dwyer.  Can Jack beat the legendary Mick O'Dwyer record? He has Shane Ryan, Jason Foley, Tom O'Sullivan, Gavin White, Diarmuid O'Connor, Sean O'Shea,  David and Paudie Clifford coming into their prime.

He will become first kerry manager to win back to back All Ireland titles since Micko.Only matter of time before Jacko succeeds.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_All-Ireland_Senior_Football_Championship_winning_managers

Was that one of your questions on your inter cert.
Just go away with all your other new aliases.

Kingdom deserved winners. Sean Cavanagh is some dose it must be said lol. Should be a great Final hopefully.

Derry 100% left that behind them.

totally agree, feel so bad for them.
btw, pigskin is just the same WUM  aka EIRO OG, KERRY FOR SAMS and many others.

Poor to watch
I have it on mute
Who is wind favoring and is it that strong

It's on the wrong day. Loads of people looking for tickets. Croker is sold out. Should have been on before Kerry Derry

Of course it should.
Way more logical
But then again remember some idiot holds sway over the fixture list
Using some illogical methodology

It could be used as a great motivator in next years connacht final or playoff at the Hyde.
Teams are lined out ready for the throw in, someone from the county board lets a sheep wearing a rossie hat or jersey loose at the half way line and proceeds to chase it across the field to the other sideline. It would throw the Rossie crowd into an absolute frenzy, could easily be worth two or three points.

Two Victims  Ryan  &   Noel   Ffs give me a  breaker  , Two Lying arrogant tnucs if you ask me

Correct, two bluffers.

Watched about twenty minutes of it, pretty much thought the same.

And Co Finals at Christmas?

County finals in Antrim are played in the middle of October, that hasn't changed with the compressed calendar

Rossfan is in denial regarding this fact, same with all counties.
Mayo out on July 1, last round on group club championship games on September 15th.  Final Mid October.