Posts Tagged ‘Tribune’
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’s mega game, which surely has re-defined our understanding of hype.
You’d imagine that they, and we, would have learned after Lehman… Business types in Ireland love to lecture us about ‘commercial realities’, and seem to think that simple devotion to money-grubbing somehow gives them a wisdom not shared by the non-pinstriped hordes.
Amid the sea of self-flagellatory dross and cliché written about Irish football, here’s a great piece of contextualising journalism from the Tribune’s Miguel Delaney.
The Tribune, via Miguel Delaney, offers a good season preview which is relatively free of the dreary obsession with finances, recognising the fact that, even if there is a lot of action off the pitch, the game must go on.
It’s bash the League of Ireland time again in the Tribune, with an early pre-season spot of moral panic over ‘football hooliganism’.
All this Italian mallarkey with the international set-up is getting too much for Dave Hannigan in the Tribune.
