Posts Tagged ‘stupid’
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 [...]
No one interested in Irish football needs FP to inform them of events in Cork. The situation seems hopeless, and one can only hope that somehow City can pull of a miracle in the last minute of extra time.
A little late, but worth noting… RTÉ Sport have been busy putting on the poor mouth to justify their refusal to televise any of this week’s vital European matches involving Irish clubs, not least the CL cliffhanger set for Dalymount Park tonight.
Why, you might ask, are you reading about Palestine in a blog concerned with Irish football?
While reserving the right to challenge the national governing body’s obsession with British football and boys in greenism, FP doesn’t generally subscribe to the simplistic opinion, default for much of the Irish media, that the FAI is staffed by morons [...]
The Deloitte Football Money League 2009, with some very big numbers, and very big names in it. Not so much a different league as a different planet.
The €2.04bn auction for broadcast rights to the English Premiership circus, in which Setanta has lost out to Sky, gives expression to the scale of the challenge that live football faces in Britain and Ireland.
(At the time of writing, it’s not known how much our public service broadcaster will have to pony up to the [...]
If the LoI has a grievance over the paucity of press coverage, it is also true to say that some clubs are their own worst enemies in this regard.
