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St Patrick’s Athletic played Steaua Bucharest in association football in the Europa League last night at the RDS, south Dublin, Ireland. The match (was it shot by an RTÉ crew?) was given the full treatment on Romanian TV and relayed on the internet. It was nowhere to be found on Irish television. What on earth [...]
Three Irish football clubs play in European competition this week — Bohemians away in Salzburg in a Champions’ League qualifier tonight, St Pat’s at home in the Europa League to Valetta FC tomorrow, and Derry away in the Europa League to Skonto Riga tomorrow. Naturally, FP wishes each of them the best.
We’ve had a (probably brief) break from the hysteria over Gary Dempsey’s €20 bet, but Stephen Kenny finds space to air a little common sense and put things in perspective in today’s Indo.
It’s not every day, or even every season, that Irish football displaces British clubs and other codes on the front pages of the sports supplements, but that’s what happens this morning, with the Times and the Indo.
So, St Pat’s player Gary Dempsey has issued a statement admitting that he placed a €20 bet against his team in a game he didn’t play in. Is this really the basis for the moral panic of the FAI and the media?
Prepare to see Keith Fahey in an Ireland shirt any time now. According to the Indo, the St Pat’s midfielder was watched by West Ham scouts during his team’s defeat at Richmond Park last night, and is likely to be off soon to east London.
