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		<title>What John Delaney thinks of Irish football</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:44:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You are the boss of a national football association whose international team has been dumped out of the World Cup by blatant cheating. You want to stress the seriousness and importance of this situation. How do you do it? How about offering a comparison with something you &#8212; and, you assume,  everyone else &#8212; holds [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=footballpress.wordpress.com&blog=4976302&post=1857&subd=footballpress&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>None of us are fans. All of us are fans</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:07:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two episodes of Prime Time this week neatly demonstrated the absurd polarities in Irish attitudes to football. None, or very few of us, are football fans, and we are all football fans.

None of us are football fans: This was  a report by Mick Heney, occasioned by Derry City&#8217;s expulsion. It was one of those facile, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=footballpress.wordpress.com&blog=4976302&post=1842&subd=footballpress&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Call in the UN</title>
		<link>http://footballpress.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/call-in-the-un/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh dear. Now Ireland is out of the World Cup, Dermot Ahern wants to call in the UN to sort out the French.

He&#8217;s right to be outraged. Football is in a sorry state when such low cheating as that seen  in Paris last evening is rewarded so magnificently.
Ahern may be &#8216;a passionate soccer fan&#8217;, but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=footballpress.wordpress.com&blog=4976302&post=1835&subd=footballpress&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fingal breakthrough in Dáil</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There must be something in the air out in north county Dublin. The recently invented, politically-sponsored Sporting Fingal has featured in a Dáil debate already.

KildareStreet.com reports that last week local Fine Gael TD James Reilly, pleading for better school provision for Lusk, took the opportunity to sing the praises of the council&#8217;s football franchise, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=footballpress.wordpress.com&blog=4976302&post=1830&subd=footballpress&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A hoot from Hearts</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:05:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Someone at obscure Scottish outfit Hearts is having a coronary over the warning by Aberdeen boss Mark McGhee that the Scottish league could soon be at the level of League of Ireland.

Wouldn&#8217;t take this too seriously, mind you. This chap also want to abolish the offside rule to make the game more entertaining. Seriously.
But imagine [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=footballpress.wordpress.com&blog=4976302&post=1826&subd=footballpress&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Post can&#8217;t get over non-mainland keeper</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:14:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Irish newspaper based in Britain is anxious that an Irish goalkeeper based in Britain might get injured, perhaps leaving the Irish team in the disastrous situation of having to play France with an Irish keeper up until recently based in Ireland. Geddit? Neither do I.

Brian Flynn of the Irish Post is worried&#8230;
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		<title>Calm down People</title>
		<link>http://footballpress.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/over-the-top-at-bray/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every now and again, you get to read a news piece on an event that you saw for yourself, and wonder if its reporter is on the same planet.

Last Friday, during a game at Bray, a small number of fools calling themselves Bohs fans threw broken seats at a number of gardai,  souring  what was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=footballpress.wordpress.com&blog=4976302&post=1814&subd=footballpress&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>There&#8217;s only three teams in Galway</title>
		<link>http://footballpress.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/theres-only-three-teams-in-galway/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:18:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.

The end of the Thoroughbreds experiment, coming after the shock of Derry&#8217;s expulsion,  prompts Dermot Keely to call for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=footballpress.wordpress.com&blog=4976302&post=1802&subd=footballpress&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Brian who? Trapattoni sees the light</title>
		<link>http://footballpress.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/brian-who-trapattoni-sees-the-light/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Class, and not religion, as Kieren Westwood would have it, has won through in the end for Bohs keeper Brian Murphy.

Murphy, whose quality is acknowledged by people across the league, and not just Bohemians fans, has finally made it into Giovanni Trapattoni&#8217;s squad to face France, after a series of frustrating snubs.
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		<title>Greedy yanks, &#8216;orrible Chelski, holy Liverpool</title>
		<link>http://footballpress.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/greedy-yanks-orrible-chelski-holy-liverpool-cching/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:14:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;t realise exist.

In this case, it&#8217;s a discussion yesterday evening sparked by the hoo-ha over Chelski Corporation hinting at selling naming rights to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=footballpress.wordpress.com&blog=4976302&post=1788&subd=footballpress&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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