Celebrity Deaths - 2017

[balbec]

I remember watching the 78 final. And '74 vaguely.

[dodgy_keeper]

@Sidney

@Locke

The sound of the claxons,

Sadly banned pretty much everywhere now. An incredible wall of sound which is much missed from both association football and GAA stadiums.

@dodgy_keeper

Think it’s an age thing that would apply to most people. First World Cup I can properly remember as a child was 1990. Not just because we were in it and there was a carnival atmosphere around the country generally but because I remember watching practically every minute of the whole tournament and being engrossed by it. Watching all the group games involving countries I had never even heard of. The panini sticker collections. The little stick man who was the official logo for italia 90. (Watching the Seria A highlights on RTE on a Monday night way past my bed time and the immortal theme tune. Golazzzzzzzzzooooooooooooo.)

That theme music didn’t appear until the 1992/93 season when Channel 4 started covering Serie A.

RTE started covering Serie A from the 89/90 season on. An hour on Monday nights at 8pm with Martin Tyler commentating on the main match and then doing a round up of the other matches. Only the second half of the season was covered.

Then I think they took Channel 4’s highlights package for a couple of years or so from 92/93 on, with a later start time of 9:30 or 10pm.

It’s not generally remembered but Sky Sports had live Serie A coverage during the 91/92 season but this stopped when they got rights to the Premier League.

Am I imagining things or did TG4 - or TnaG as it was in its early days - have a football highlights package as Gaeilge of some association football (foreign I think?) once every week. May have been highlights in Spain or Italy.

I’m probably losing it but almost certain I remember watching soccer on that station at some point.

As someone said earlier there is too much football on tv now. It has gone beyond saturation level. Football seven nights a week.

Even when Sky first came on the scene one game on a Sunday afternoon and one on a Monday night was plenty.

[Sidney]

@Ashman

James Richardson had a show on C4 on a Saturday morning called Gazetta Football Italia and it was very good.
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They showed a live game on Sunday lunchtime .
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There was a big hike in interest in Italian soccer in England when Gazza went there .

Serie A remained strong throughout the 90s, but its peak was really the 87-90 period, when Maradona’s Napoli battled with the first and greatest AC Milan team of the era, managed by Sacchi, featuring Gullit, van Basten and Rijkaard, and Inter Milan under Trapattoni, with Matthaus, Klinsmann and Brehme starring.

[Sidney]

TG4 definitely had Spanish football in the late 90s - around '97/98 I think. They also covered Scottish football at some point around then, and even broadcast at least one Celtic-Rangers game live - the 2001/02 League Cup semi-final.

[caulifloweredneanderthal]

Didn’t network 2 have the highlights show of Italian football on a Monday night ? (It was a repeat of the UK one - we didn’t have the foreign channels)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kHXfHFNlJ_w

[Sidney]

@backinatracksuit

Didn’t Devine marry Michelle Rocca?

Michelle Rocca presented the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest with Pat Kenny.

Towards the end of the voting, Michelle says “it’s really getting exciting now”.

Pat looks across schoolboyishly at Michelle and exclaims “yes, I’ve been excited all night”.

[balbec]

We need a good death to get this thread back on track.

[Locke]

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We need a good death to get this thread back on track.
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[myboyblue]

+1

@rocko split out this sentimental drivel please

[anon61956325]

I was a tadpole and egg who hadn’t met yet then.

[Mullach_Ide]

@balbec

I remember watching the 78 final. And '74 vaguely.

Remember not being allowed to stay up to watch the 78 final.

[Brimmer_Bradley]

Now. Cunts. See the scumball thread and how it’s ruined with shite talk.
Fuck off over there with your soccerball talk.

[myboyblue]

Barry Cassin, aged 92.

Any man who stars in The Irish RM; Pure Mule and Killinaskully deserves a

Oh and he directed the first ever stage production of The Field.

[Brimmer_Bradley]

Gunners had a good win today.

[Sidney]

Anything to Anne?

[myboyblue]

Father

[Sidney]

Anne, like her Nationwide co-host Mary Kennedy, is the thinking man’s older crumpet.

[myboyblue]

Absolutely. My thoughts are with her tonight

[balbec]

She was nice

[Bandage]

Just tuning into Molineux on SS1 now. I’m very emotional.