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MARK O'SHAUGHNESSY-CUMMINGS-BONO

EIRCOM PREVIEW

 
1/3
Poor Bohemians just can’t seem to get

it right. They will soon have more

money than most EuroMillions winners

but can’t get it together on the pitch.

Over on the Bohs internet message

boards most of the Bohs fans seem to

want Farrelly to go but don’t know

how to do this without it costing a

lot of money.

The best idea seems to be to get Pat

Dolan onside in an advisory capacity

to cause friction and thereby force the

ex-Premiership dynamo to quit.

But there’s an easier way than this.

Simply transfer Farrelly the player but

keep him on as manager. Unless  he

possesses powers of bi-location he

can’t be in two places at once. (Given

that he doesn’t seem to possess

managerial powers it does seem a long

shot). This will give Bohs the perfect

opportunity to fire him for dereliction

of duty without having to give him a big

pay off. And who involved with Bohemians

wouldn’t want that?

2/3
The World Cup means that the Eircom

League will soon be taking an enforced

break. Not because Eircom League

players are in the World Cup, but

because people in Ireland prefer to

watch football on the telly than live.

Why don’t the League get Power City in

as a main sponsor? They could show LOI

games exclusively in their showrooms.

Bored men who were dragged along by

their wives to examine gas hobs their

wife’s best friend Tracy (who the men

don’t like anyway as she’s a

hatchet-faced bitch who will never have

a man of her own and is consequently

always talking bad about them behind

their backs) recommended, would be

introduced to the League as members

of a captive audience.

Surely some of them would get hooked and

start following their local team.

And anyone who cares about the league

would surely want that!

3/3
Damien Richardson is not happy with the

standard of refereeing in the League.

What he seems to forget is that the

X-men (in black) are amateurs with

families, jobs and hobbies such as

making tin soldiers.

It is not easy to be paid to go see League

of Ireland games. Imagine if there were

no refs and we simply appealed to all

teams to conduct themselves in a manner

befitting gentlemen - such as the

legendary Corinthians team from England.

Costs would go down and fair play would

go up. The possibility of a betting

scandal would be greatly reduced.

Surely the Genesis report should have

been looking at innovative thinking like

this rather than forcing ground sharing

between teams that don’t have a ground to

share?

Finally, a Dundalk player was reprimanded

for betting against his own team - seems

to me like he is the only one with brains

up in Oriel!!!

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