Category Archives: Soccer

Euro 2008 - What a Bore

I’m sitting here watching the opening minutes of the Turkey and Czech Republic match in 2008. So far the highlight of the game so far has been a Turkish player changing his boots.

After less then ten minutes, I’m bored. Not just with this game, but with football in it’s entirety. I don’t have the interest [...]

Some Other Match

With all the excitement of the Heineken Cup Final this weekend, I almost forgot about the the other match on this week.

Twenty-two over-paid, under-worked divas will be rolling around on the ground pretending to be injured in Moscow tonight.

Once all the play-acting is done, they might even try to score a goal or two. Maybe.

As [...]

Wikipedia Entry: Steve Staunton

Following the disgrace that was the San Marino match, Wikipedia has seen some “unusual” edits on Steve Stauntons bio.

Irish Soccer Management - In a Class of Their Own

Apparently the latest opinion from the FAI is that we have a world class management team in Steve Staunton and Bobby Robson. In what sport? I’d say tiddlywinks, but that would be an insult to professional tiddlywinks players.

Here we have one man who most of the time can’t string two coherent words together, and then [...]

San Marino vs Republic of Ireland

What a disaster. Ireland may have won 2-1, but in all fairness, it’s a Phyrric Victory. We been humiliated by a team ranked about 150 places below us in the world.

The Irish team must have thought that all they had to do was show up and the win would be theirs. Fair play to San [...]