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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.
It&#8217;s great news for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=footballpress.wordpress.com&blog=4976302&post=1798&subd=footballpress&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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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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		<title>Wolves man Doyle shows the way</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:39:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;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 &#8216;glamour&#8217; friendlies where the home support is likely to be out-numbered by the day-trippers cheering on the visitors.

Doyle [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=footballpress.wordpress.com&blog=4976302&post=1784&subd=footballpress&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Villa glory brings league gatecrash</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:07:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Galway United sneaked into the Irish edition of the Sunday Times at the weekend.

The sports section runs a nostalgia interview with Eamonn Deacy, who won an English league title with Aston Villa in 1981, and who received an honorary degree from Galway University last week.
Asked &#8216;What is the worst thing about football today?&#8217;, Deacy mentions [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=footballpress.wordpress.com&blog=4976302&post=1772&subd=footballpress&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Och, you don&#8217;t love ManUpool?</title>
		<link>http://footballpress.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/och-you-dont-love-manupool/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s mega game, which surely has re-defined our understanding of hype.

Let&#8217;s just note in passing that Patrick Horan is convinced that it is not natural for an Irish [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=footballpress.wordpress.com&blog=4976302&post=1768&subd=footballpress&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Trickledown reality</title>
		<link>http://footballpress.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/trickledown-reality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.

Relevant here is this insight from Twohundredpercent into the vexed question of whether to go [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=footballpress.wordpress.com&blog=4976302&post=1760&subd=footballpress&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Go global, go Galaxy!</title>
		<link>http://footballpress.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/go-global-go-galaxy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s heart-warming to read, courtesy of the Irish Independent, that LA Galaxy are recovering from their injection of celebrity culture. It vaguely calls to mind that great story of the  Skibbereen Eagle keeping its eye on the Russian Tzar.
Actually, the piece, prompted by the meeting tomorrow of Galaxy and the San Jose Earthquakes (yes that&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=footballpress.wordpress.com&blog=4976302&post=1752&subd=footballpress&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t say &#8216;fuck&#8217; if you&#8217;re a fan</title>
		<link>http://footballpress.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/dont-say-fuck-if-youre-a-fan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:33:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t say &#8216;fuck&#8217; if you&#8217;re a League of Ireland fan. It can get you into trouble with the law.
That&#8217;s the message from this Galway Independent court report (note the inevitable &#8217;soccer&#8217; in the headline), which documents a garda&#8217;s evidence against a foolish chap who ran onto the pitch after a goal. Not good, and not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=footballpress.wordpress.com&blog=4976302&post=1745&subd=footballpress&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Come on you Brits in green!</title>
		<link>http://footballpress.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/come-on-you-brits-in-green/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:34:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sacre bleu! Raymond Domenech is posing some serious challenges for boys-in-greenism and Irish national identity.
After calling the Ireland squad &#8216;England B&#8217; (see previous post), he now offers the opinion that it&#8217;s the British who will be snapping up  tickets for the crunch tie in Paris.

Says the Guardian:
Appealing to supporters to snap up tickets for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=footballpress.wordpress.com&blog=4976302&post=1740&subd=footballpress&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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