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EIRCOM LEAGUE PREVIEW with Mark O'Shaughnessy-Cummings-Bono |
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MARK O'SHAUGHNESSY-CUMMINGS-BONO EIRCOM PREVIEW
1/3 from the smallest county on this island won the biggest honour - Champions of Ireland. Of course, Drogheda won’t be entering the Champions’ League on the back of this win. Which is a pity. Who wouldn’t like to see players like Ronaldinho or Henry strutting their stuff in United Park. Of course, Drogheda would have to move the game to Lansdowne if it were open. But it’s not. So maybe Croker would be the preferred option. Imagine that, Drogheda V Barcelona before 80,0000 Eircom League fans. The GAA couldn’t object as the Setanta Cup is an all-Ireland competition like the Sam. I can’t wait for this to happen.
2/3 So Bohemians played the mighty Everton to a draw during the week. Pity that the papers decided to concentrate on the Champions’ League semi-finals and not this great achievement. I know Everton didn’t send out their strongest team but neither did Bohs so surely that evens things out? It was upsetting to see how many Irish fans of Everton there are. Some of them tried to tell me how Liverpool is an Irish city. Funny. Last time I looked it was located abroad. (This is me being controversial - please support me in this or they will have me looking after the local sports section on Network Two’s Aertel pages again. (Pages 501-592 in case you are interested). I can’t go back there. Five long years it took me to make my breakthrough).
3/3 The World Cup is not long away now. Eircom League fans will get a chance to feel like most football fans in Ireland as they watch the games on TV. It is hard to know who will win. One thing is for sure, a team from one of Europe’s strongest leagues will be there or thereabouts come the shake out. If we all went to see Eircom League games more we could be one of Europe’s top leagues similar to Scotland or Belgium. Don’t laugh. We used to send out the Nolan Sisters as our representatives in the music world. Look at us now. Homegrown acts like U2 and the Corrs and Westlife now rule the world. Why can’t this happen with football? St Pat’s are already like the Pete Doherty of the Eircom League. Not that this is a good thing. It would be better if teams modelled themselves on good role models. Like the way the Housemartins put Hull on the map, Drogheda could do the same for Drogheda. More next week!
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