The phone rings, it is before 7am. Probably bad news. No. It is my Italian friend. The one who lives in Italy. He works for Juventus. I ignore it. It rings again. I answer and hang up. He’ll get the message. I’ll call him back later.
He gets the message. For three minutes. The phone rings again.
“What are you doing ringing me this early, you Berlusconi loving cunt?”
“Good morning, Irish bastard”, he says.
“It’s very early”.
“You should be working anyway”.
“Fuck off”.
“Are you in Dublin next Thursday?”
“Where the fuck else would I be? I live here. Why?”
“Because I’m coming to Dublin next Thursday”.
“Oh fuck. I mean ‘great!!!!’.”
“Yes, it’s great. We can catch up, go for a few beers”.
“Sounds like a plan. How long are you over for?”
“Just one night”.
“Work?”
“Yeah, but not for long. We arrive on Thursday morning. Do a bit of work then we can go drink beer”.
“Excellent”.
“Actually, if you want you can come along to the work thing”.
“What’s that then?”
“Pre-season game, Juventus are playing … what the fuck is a Shamrock Rover?”
“Shamrock Rovers?”
“Yeah”.
“Ahh, I just remembered. I’ve got to go … erm … for an operation on Thursday. Very serious. Very, very serious. I’ll be in touch before. Honest. So, how’s eve-”
*click*
*snooze*
Aw … Juve are my Italian team .. you could have gone along and posted a match report … brought a calculator to keep tabs on the goals etc.
Tch.
Soon sporting fingal will be the torch bearers of irish football!!
OLE!
I fucking hate Juventus. I will never forgive them for what they did.
I will go to the match, hang out with Buffon a bit, take them to Ron’s for a pint and some scampi fries, show ‘em the sights, like.
Sporting Fingal is the most hilarious name for a football team ever. It’s like one of the ‘clever’ Fantasy Football team names …
Okay I’m late to the tourism post and I’m shamelessly plugging for a mate, but there’s good coffee to be had every morning in Fafie’s on Kevin Street. Apparently it’s a french restaurant by afternoon and by night. But in the morning Gary sells free trade coffee there.
Plus fafie’s doesn’t say french restaurant to me – it says fallafel. And I fucking hate fallafel, and humus and all that kind of gear. Kebabs are just about okay.
Shit-fuck-ass-balls. and just so you know it’s me: Vagina.
http://www.caughtoffside.com.cdn.tixdaq.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/alena_seredova_2.jpg Buffon’s wife….he’s earned those scampi fries
i have a love/hate relationship with fallafel, humus and italians..
Sounds like you hedging for a carton or two of the Major that “dissappeared” from two trucks outside turin last week!
Jesus Twenty – make sure they don’t use that anaesthetic that did for Michael Jackson …. are you really entrusting the major piles to Harney ?
“Sporting Fingal is the most hilarious name for a football team ever”
There’s a local side in England called Norfolk Enchants. Say it quickly.
What have you got against Juve twenty?
Ah. I get you. Pity they didn’t take O’Leary.
There was great red-faced embarrassment from Brady during the world cup coverage on RTE when Johnny Giles compared Ozil, a german player, to Brady. Dunphy chipped in with “he reminds me of Liam too but not in the same class yet”. Brady muttering “lads, lads…”
“Sporting Fingal is the most hilarious name for a football team ever.”
But think of the great names in the Scottish League. Partick Thistle always gave me a giggle. And I always had great admiration for any results announcer who could manage “East Fife four – Forfar five”.
O’Leary was a great player, bit a twat since but a top player.
Would always assume a compliment from Dunphy was in some way backhanded.
Lung, yeah, the old classic. I remember a few years back when they were trying to drum up interest they changed the name of Richmond Park in Inchicore for St Pat’s home games.
You see it on posters as ‘The Stadium of Light’. heh
You’ll all be sporting fans by the end of today, i tell ya!
Check out this goal
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs/world-of-sport/article/17281/
“I’ve got to go … erm … for an operation on Thursday”
On your hoop?
Ah no, I’d rather watch League of ireland football than that
Sporting Fingal is a fucking stupid name for an Irish Football name. It makes no sense in an English language context.
When were they bucked out of Milltown by the developer Jesuits? That might be the definitive beginning of Celtic Tiger greedonomics.
Riverdance was the official start of the Celtic Tiger. The death of Katy French was the end of it.
somtimes watching LOI is as painful as (one might imagine) a colonoscopy though!
I always thought there was a whiff of gooner about you. That explains your ongoing justifications of the cheat Henry.
At least Sporting Fingal are trying though. The people behind Salthill Devon are just taking the piss.
I never justified it, just tried to put it into context.
Now, I’m off training with Deportivo la Kimmage
“When were they bucked out of Milltown by the developer Jesuits? That might be the definitive beginning of Celtic Tiger greedonomics.”
1987.
i was at the last ever match at milltown. rovers were playing sligo rovers in the cup. my uncle was playing centre-half for sligo.
http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/berties-selfpraise-reaches-a-new-high-at-nigerian-summit-2269706.html
Juve got to be joking Bertie.
I can see the SPAM now:
Hello,
My name is Bertie and I have €10 Million in uncollected overseas funds and with God’s and your help We will be able to make transaction.
Please reply with Bank Details. etc etc etc
It’s like one of the ‘clever’ Fantasy Football team names
Like Vuvuzela Wednsday?
We’ve a long way to go before we catch up with such splendidly named teams as:
FC Jazz (Finland)
The Strongest (Ecuador)
Hearts of Oak (Ghana)
and best of all Deportiva Wanka (Peru).
Sorry, my cocaine wholesaler was just on to correct me: The Strongest play in Bolivia, apparently.
So HM in the history books it’ll be known as a Ireland’s River-French period?
Or maybe it began with an exhale and ended with an inhale ..
A mate`s sister married into a family of Italian chipper owners.I can assure you that spiceburgers are not an energy snack.One of the chippers is down the country and they had a sacred heart of jesus picture up on the wall.They had no problems with rats.All talk of football was banned, yet every friday this large drunken culchie used to come in doing Deniro one liners out of the Godfather films and shadappayaface and arguing that he`d been shortchanged. He was fond of rats without realising it.
In other news I see Sinéad O’Connor has married Steve Cooney. I’d say you could have got stoned if you’d gone within 200 yards of that wedding reception.
Shamrock La Caruna.
If Maradona played for Boca Juniors, it begs the question, how good are the Boca Intermediate & Boca Senior teams?
Would like to hear Sharon Ní RTE newsbabe say “Inverness Caledonian Thistle” out loud, but the bestest ever football headline was when they beat the bhoys,
” Super Caley go ballistic, Celtic are atrocious”
If Maradona played for Boca Juniors, it begs the question, how good are the Boca Intermediate & Boca Senior teams?
heh
Saw a big Deportivo la Coruña flag in a chipper in Dingle not so long ago.
Also, please don’t be alarmed by any oddness on the site in the next little while. The themes they are a changin’.
“Super Caley go ballistic, Celtic are atrocious”… the same hero that came up with that one had another crackin headline when Dmitri Kharine, the Russian keeper joined Celtic… “From Russia with Gloves”
ref said to manager your centre forward got a knock on the head he doesen’t know who he is ‘take him off’ manager says tell him he is george best
Racing Ballymun
who’s steve cooney?
I spent a night in a pub near the ..mother redcaps it was with an ex of sinead o’connor, big beardy yanky bloke with a comb over, i think. i;ve got all the time in the world for sinead o’connor. steve cooney is a lucky dude.
Itchy, was’nt that yanky bloke married to Mary Couglan, the singer?
yes, she was there too. It’s coming back to me now in bits. And a detour to the point depot and the tour bus with Willie Nelson…it was all a bit hazy. Were you there muscles?