Soul murder with a seven-iron
My golf game goes to pot and my very sanity almost follows suit
Category: Sporting
Articles with a sporting theme
The last great blaze of a fading autumn (first draft)
“ What the fuck does he want?” The familiar low-arsed heft of coach Hauley O’Brien was silhouetted against the gatheringContinue Reading
Diary of an unknown football legend
How can a twinge in my stomach or anywhere near my heart in the middle of the night have me thinking the end is nigh, and a moment later I am dreaming of that cracking volleyed goal that night – my second! — and giddily thinking of ways to beat that burly but surprisingly nifty guy who usually cleans up everything in defence?
Next time out it could be a hat-trick or it could be a heart attack.
We only hate the GAA hit men when they’re on the other team
Gaelic games, particularly football, have been infected for some time by a particularly virulent strain of the man-made virus, Agent Machismo.
Tipperary hurlers lift the Kilkenny curse
Dark forces waged against Premier and me dispelled! No desire to add to the superlatives after Tipperary’s wonderful double-All-Ireland day yesterday. I’mContinue Reading
Shutters go down on transfer window madness
£155m spent on transfer deadline day alone Anybody else think the spending during the Premier League summer transfer window justContinue Reading
England’s bad World Cup day at Belo Horizonte
Still the hype machine rattles on, swelling England’s qualifying progress from easy groups into a tsunami of anxious expectation, followed by the inevitable crash against the rocks of public opprobrium
Ireland a great ould country over there for Euro 2016
Pity the Ireland soccer fans are not so lively at the Aviva Why is it Irish fans only seem to get soContinue Reading
