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For those who have a country, hard to better witnessing your country win a big game even if technically it was not the best football.
Ireland v Holland 2001  Keane's last hurray, a perfect day.
the rest in order of time
Irl 3 Russia 0   1974,  Brady's debut, took over playmaker CM from Giles who went into holding role, almost bigger impact than the stunning result. Rock and Roll.
Irl 1 France 0  1977   Brady genius,  we had a dream.  
Irl 2 Holland 1  1979 Lansdowne gale & semi darkness, win orchestrated by Brady.
Irl 3 France 2   1981       When Brady had yer man in his pocket all game long
Irl 2        Bulg 0 1987      Brady master performance then gets sent off, game sealed qualification but it was a secret.
Bulg O   Scotland 1    1987      


Best game on TV
Brazil 1 England 0    World cup Mexico, slow motion excellence. (Did Brady score for Brazil by any chance?? )

Well fcuk that. Was Skrtel marking Cahill and then left him when he went on to the keeper?

Keane getting hauled off by the sounds of it. he's hardly touched the ball in the 2nd half though

Thanks Gerry

Any streams? Really have to get Setanta 

Interviewer: Gordon, could we have a quick word?
Gordon Strachan: Velocity

Strachan had some great ones alright. Following a defeat as manager of Southampton he was asked what specific areas did he think his team where outplayed. His instant reply: "That big green one out there" 

Yeah very good show. Seems to be an awful shithole but I would imagine it would be the same in parts of any American city.
Louis has a great way of getting people to open up to him. He comes across as a bit of an oaf which at times I found funny. There was a few times you could see he was shitting himself, very funny!

From 2001 when the GAA originally signed up to it

http://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/2001/0710/gaa.html

that's me corrected then! Lads, in all fairness comparing a Kerry footballer to the likes of cyclists and sprinters iis a little harsh. These are quys who are part of a team, not part of a solo event. To me, it is a matter of the player/doctor/management not declaring the inhaler or not filling out the forms correctly. While I'm not naive enough to think that every GAA player is squeaky clean, I think this is more down to a mistake. The media reporting is a bit much IMO. This is the type of story which could blacken a players name (and his career) never mind any ban that he faces.

I agree in that the Salbutamol could be used in a way to enhance performance but my guess would be that it was just an inhaler which was not properly declared to the Doping Council (I would be surpised if it wasn't). What I'm most surprised about is that for a team like Kerry who are so high profile, so well prepared etc you would imagine that they would ensure all the "dopiing" boxes had been ticked off. If a team like Kerry can't get it right what chance is there that smaller teams who mightn't have regular access to a team doctor would have similar "drug takers"?

Oh, and PM me the name if anyone knows!

[the GAA sign IC players up to those codes yonks ago.]

To get grants they had to sign up to the antidoping rules but would not and should not have to as amateur players.

Nonsense. the IC players were eligible for the grants for a number of reasons, one of them being that they had already been signed up to international anti doping regulations years before. the GAA sign IC players up to those codes yonks ago.
being prescribed the inhaler doesn't clear you at all. it must be submitted to croke park at the relevent time or is looked upon as manipulation.
lads, there is abuse of performance enhancers out there in our games. there is no doubt in my mind.

That's not quite the way I remember it. I'm nearly sure that players had to sign up to a variety of things in order to qualify for grants. Like professionals, they had to sign up to drug tests, make team/individual goals at the start of the year, make development plans etc. Now, I could be wrong on this but I think it's something the GPA and Sports Council agreed on prior to vetoing the grants.

You would have to feel for the player. Yes, if he was on the inhaler he should have been declaring it but a lot of the blame must lie with the doctor/backroom team. At the end of the day, there's more chance of a Kerry footballer being drug tested than, say, a Louth hurler (more high profile, play more games etc.) so you would have thought they would leave nothing to chance.

St Pat's lordship and dromintee are both in the same parish - dromintee - but in different provinces

Not true for RC parishes. St Pats is in Lordship parish and Dromintee in Dromintee parish.
http://www.parishofstluke.net/links/ireland/armagh/index.htm

yes, that may be technically correct but st pat's club's area of capture for players reaches well into the dromintee parish

Yep, thats correct. Most of our players are based in the Lordship-Bellurgan-Ballmascanlon parish (I think that's the name of it) while we would also have part of the Jonesboro/Dromintee parish as it runs right up to Ravensdale.

Classic! VOTE FOR PEDRO

The Tyrone Armagh 2005 game was one of the best i was at. What sticks out for me was Sean Cavanagh and McGeeney jostling off the ball, Cavanagh pushed Geezer falls to the groud shouting to the linesman for a free, Cavanagh wins the ball, jinks on to his right and clips one into the Hill. I remember being shocked that McGeeney would lie down looking for a free like that.

I remember seeing the 1977 semi and thinking it wasn't as good as i thought it would be.

For me, the best has to be Louth/Tyrone 2006 in Navan. Down by 8 points to the AI champions and it looked like Louth were out but they came out in the 2nd half and completely over run Tyrone scoring some beautiful points. Highlight were Paddy Keenan's awesome fielding and his great point, long range points from subs Ray Finnegan and Brian White (on their debuts if I remember correctly), JP pulling the jersey over his head Ravanelli-style when he scored the equaliser! Good times!

I would like to know how that game compares to some of the other greats from the Tyrone supporters. Obviously, I am biased but I honestly think it was one of the best I've ever seen

Pedro -Its unlikely a goal like Mulligans would have been scored but that is mainly due to the fact that hard physcial tackling has been removed from the game totally to try and make it nearly non contact...As for saying that sort of thing was cowardly there is nothing wrong with some serious hitting of hte guy with the ball etc....far more cowardly is the diving and cheating that takes place today...

trust me, I love seeing the likes of Bellew, Fay or our own Colin Goss putting a man on his hole (fairly) when he's coming through the middle. 90% of the time it lifts the crowd more than a score and gives great cenouragement to a team. However, in the Mickey Ned/Sean Doc clip, Mickey Ned was cleaned out with two tackles to the head. That is not tough, hard football. That is thuggery. I can't understand how people reckon these were 'real men' when very often they made no proper attempts to tackle fairly. That's not to say that referees have completely turned it on its head with their blowing of every single tackle, fair or otherwise. The players, too, have to take their fair share responsibility too though.

All in all, I refuse to believe that football in the 70s were better. Technically, IMO, the footballers of today are miles ahead, they are stronger, fitter, more tactically aware and are far, far cleverer on the ball. It's the same in any sport, it evolves so much that the way we kick the ball, catch it etc. changes. You wouldn't have seen the same type of player playing at the top level in soccer in the 70s as we do now.