Posts Tagged ‘blogs’

What is it with WordPress and Arsenal?  How does this rich man’s club keep topping ManU, Real, Liverpool and the other global football franchises, not to mention other sports, on the blog network?

If you ever wonder why LoI teams find it so hard to make headway in a country which we are constantly told is sports-mad, and why attendances at ‘glamour’ friendlies don’t translate into long-term conversions, you could do worse than read Deiseach’s account of his freebie  big day out with the Tractor Boys at Waterford [...]

Changed the Irish Blogs link (bottom of sidebar) to point to sport (http://www.irishblogs.ie/channel/sport/). Seems to make sense, especially as there is no direct navigation to the channel from the site’s home page.

The Irish blogosphere is predictably awash today with observations on Robbie Keane’s transfer from Liverpool to Spurs and its attendant hypefest, and one of the most striking, and telling, posts is by skilled caricaturist Niall O’Loughlin.

Why, starting now, is FP putting the words ‘football’ and ‘media’ in its tags, when it is patently obvious that these are its core concerns?

We Irish have been concocting our own footballing reality for quite a while. But the internet gives us powerful new tools in this adventure.

The malaise at the top in chequebook football finds muddled expression in the latest posting of the British-centred okeydokeyfootball blog.