England’s bad World Cup day at Belo Horizonte
The England soccer team qualify for a major tournament and bomb? It’s been happening for some time …
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The England soccer team qualify for a major tournament and bomb? It’s been happening for some time …
Pity the Ireland soccer fans are not so lively at the Aviva Why is it Irish fans only seem to get soContinue Reading
Those tears and admonitions were not for scuffed golf shots, they were for myself, for all that was happening, or rather not happening for me in the world
Even the great Kerry football team of the Seventies and early Eighties only considered an All-Ireland truly won when Con delivered his seal of approval in the following day’s Evening Press
Some of us turned back to our typewriters and the other implements of our labours and pondered again the Kodachrome gloss that sporting combat and skill of the highest order occasionally visits upon otherwise routine lives
Maybe we should look a little deeper into this disparity between our more fanciful notions of noble sporting engagement and the reality. We’re talking ambiguity, or the lies we tell ourselves even when he think we are telling the truth.
There was also the chastening realisation that I had become the dreaded PlayStation dad I had often scoffed at; trying to direct their on-field reincarnation
Different sports, same ambivalence towards macho antics The TV cameras seemed to show Philly McMahon’s hand had made contact with the areaContinue Reading