Yesterday a group of rather excited late 50s/early 60s Jerries found their way into Ron’s to watch the football. They provided such an atmosphere, sitting there in near silence drinking steins of Paulaner and generally being most amused when England’s goal that crossed the line wasn’t given.
40 years of hurt wiped away in one blind official’s heartbeat. It was very funny, I have to admit. Especially as Yorkshire Joe had called in to ‘mash fuckin’t'crap out out o’ Fritz’. He left shortly after.
I, however, tiring of Dirty Dave’s incessant chatter about how England should not have left behind Dean Whitehead, for whom he has some kind of weird thing, wandered into town with Jimmy crawled the pubs. Mulligans, The Long Hall, The Duke, that place with no name but a snail outside above Hogans, outside the Clarendon people watching and such and finally a classy end to the night and a couple of swift ones in The Swan on York Street.
Dublin is such a fantastic place when the sun is shining and the air is warm. I know we bitch about this and that and pretty much everything else but is there anything better than wandering the streets in short sleeves getting pissed as a cunt in your home town? I don’t think so.
Jimmy decided he’d walk home, I decided walking was for fuckin sherpas so I hopped in a cab, the windows down, some odd reggae playing and me and Antoine the Taxi from Benin chatted away about football. I think he was the first person from Benin I’d ever met and a jolly nice chap he was too.
“England … they need to shut up!”, he said. It was like a meeting of minds.
Had that very Sunday a couple of weeks back. The Bank, Stags, Long Hall, Long Stone (gone to shite, that pub), Mulligans and somewhere on the Liffey. Lockt.
You’re right about Dublin, and England.
Is the Long Stone on Townsend St? Used to quite like that place if so.
The taxi driver was most right of all.
A fine choice of establishments Sir, I salute you.
I’m thinking Gracia for Spain’s match tomorrow. A pox upon Ronaldo, the lanky-necked smug cunt.
That would be a fine spot, indeed. I was always a fan of Plç Rius y Taulet
Indeed.
That’s ‘Garys’ over Hogans. You big Mary.
between the lame duck and parteen tailrace pubs, Argentina went two up and by the time I got to posh willies, it was 3. the drunk but very mute englander in parteen did not appreciate my empathy or when the other two opened the dart board to reveal a WW II slogan under a picture of a german’s soldier head.
Jaysus, how come, no matter where a taxi driver comes from, he has to be called Anto?
Dublin balmy and the English barmy.
Here’s my top 10 from 2008. Dont get in much now much to my dismay…
Top 10 pubs
Capello to hold a news conference shortly.
What’s the betting it’s, “so long and thanks for the £12 million.”
all this fucking talk of drink
An update to your 10 Sam…
Kehoes, South Anne St
(Best during the week. Too many cunts at the weekend)
Grogans (Still a great pub with shit art. The tall blonde is a ride)
Hogans (Nasty place with horrible staff)
Mc Daids (Good for a passing pint)
O Donoghues (Diddly-ay to beat the band, very touristy these days)
Slatterys, Rathmines (The only good pub in Rathmines)
The Stags Head, (Solid but why the floor staff?)
The Oak, Dame St. (The fringes of a Saturday night)
Farringtons, Temple Bar (Was nice when it was the Norseman)
Leeson Lounge, (Is it good to be the smallest pub?)
Mexico got done too, with a blatent offside. That FIFA honcho, Blather, needs to get with the 21st century.
i like hartigans of leesons st’ or tropical murphys koh samui
I like outside of Grogan’s on a nice evening. I quite hate Hogans. And the surliest cunt of a barman I ever met in my life works/worked in McDaids.
Conan – yeah, Tevez was about half a continent offside. Blatter is a joke and his refusal to use technology is ridiculous.
Funny thing is they used video evidence to send off Zidane
in the last world cup so I can’t see what the problem is.
WHAT DO BLATTER AND PLATINI HAVE IN COMMON?
they are the two most powerful men in football
presidents of FIFA and UEFA in that order
Answer – they are both cunts
they have the power to bring football in to the 21st century but they wont do it bcoz they are stubborn bastards
did i mention they are cunts
Not officially, Div.
Platini’s another fucking clown. World Cup every 2 years my hole.
Good to know that Sulry Bollocks is still in McDaids.
A few years back, I spent the day working in Croker on a glorious sun filled Paddys Day. Was meeting friends in town later … I was actually refused into McDaids because of my sun exposed head. No world of a lie. I was sober as the proverbial, but he was adamant I was more pickled than Alec Fergusons nose, which I probably in passing, looked like, but still, I wasn’t designed for 8hrs in the sun. The bollix.
I’m aware of the irony of mis-spelling ‘surly’, given the nature of the story.
World Cup every two years? Fuck sake. Sounds like the short term thinking of a marketing fucktard.
Do you reckon Platini is trying to encroach on the Champions League competition with the idea of a world cup every two years.
Seems mental when you consider players having to fly from Europe to South America and back to their clubs..
With domestic competitions they’d only get one summer in every three off … It would wreck some leagues. Seems a mental idea and it would mean the Euro Championships would die as well?
It’ll never happen but clearly Platini and Blatter want to nobble club football as they make their money off the international game. This is very well worth a read (it’s long though):
http://swissramble.blogspot.com/2010/06/money-makes-world-cup-go-round.html
Sieg Hail Twenty! Thanks for your support, and thanks to all your friends who write in your blog for their support, and thanks to all the Irish people for the help they gave to my two uncles when they had escape from the Father land after the war, the stupid British wanted to bring them to justice for doing their duty in the SS, one got to America, the other one lived out his life in your great country, he died three years ago.
Thanks again.
the more patriotic a country´s citizens are, the more i want to see them fail at anything they do.
Meaningful look at England and the US
was this the english shower room after the match http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6wypGvAJmw
“the more patriotic a country´s citizens are, the more i want to see them fail at anything they do.
Meaningful look at England and the US”
Or indeed any wanker in a Celtic jersey in Ireland.
Where’s Anne?
Still in Limerick Crispy.
On the dry, I just ate something when I watched that clip. Cheers.
No honourable mention for La Cave anyone? One of Dublin’s finest establishments, even if it is limited to the grape.
Welcome back morgor.
What was it like in Wheatfield?
La Cave brings me back to the days of Davy Byrne’s followed by the System… often stumbling into La Cave off of my biscuit!
What an odd mix of venues that is.
HM, Leeson not Dawson.. it was near an old work place…
platini has also increased the european championships to 24 teams, from 2016. fucking idiot.
Absolutely, Davy Byrne’s is a nice pub, especially of week day evening. The other two were purely out of the madness of the early ones early 20′s and chasing young wans..