Say goodbye to Kildare County, who just about succeeded in fulfilling their last fixture on Saturday. And say hello to more trouble in store down the line, as, insanely, Galway gets a third team in the league.
Class, and not religion, as Kieren Westwood would have it, has won through in the end for Bohs keeper Brian Murphy.
Off The Ball may be obsessed with English and European football, to the detriment of coverage of the Irish game, but its bright presenters can sometimes go places that RTÉ sports folk don’t realise exist.
It’s great to see Kevin Doyle, a product of the League of Ireland, get off the fence and urge people to do their bit for their local football club. Especially in the context of one of those ‘glamour’ friendlies where the home support is likely to be out-numbered by the day-trippers cheering on the visitors.
Galway United sneaked into the Irish edition of the Sunday Times at the weekend.
At this stage, there is hardly any point in a non-ManU and non-Liverpool supporter railing against the excesses of the Irish sports media in the run-up to today’s mega game, which surely has re-defined our understanding of hype.
LoI people often debate the level at which the Irish game matches the English one. Most often, the assessment is wildly chauvinistic, with claims that we would tank anyone in the lower Championship (or second division in plain English). Yeah, right.
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