Posts Tagged ‘bohs’

Class, and not religion, as Kieren Westwood would have it, has won through in the end for Bohs keeper Brian Murphy.

Galway United sneaked into the Irish edition of the Sunday Times at the weekend.

By now, every football supporter in the country knows that there was disgraceful racist abuse of Bohs player Joseph Ndo by a section of the Shamrock support in the derby at Tallaght recently. And Sport Against Racism Ireland (SARI) are on the case now.

The highly-regarded When Saturday Comes, a proper English football magazine/website, marks tomorrow’s Dublin derby between Shamrock Rovers and Bohemians with a comment on the state of the league that places the blame firmly at the door of Irish sports media editors.

Finally, Giovanni Trappatoni has name-checked an Irish player in Ireland as being in his sights — possibly, maybe, sometime — for a senior jersey.

We’re used at this stage to fans of British clubs outnumbering Irish football supporters at summer friendlies, but having a similar scenario with a Romanian team playing in a proper game definitely is something new.

Pat Fenlon used his trip north of the Border last week to put in a plug for an all-Ireland league, something that football desperately needs to start thinking about.