Everton released a soft porn style video of Frank fumbling with his shirt in an “I’m sexy” way at the weekend but it sort of got overshadowed by the audio of Mason Greenwood raping a woman.
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Ange Postecoglou must be on the radar of premier league clubs. Plays great football and has an eye for a player.
Sunderland’s first game of the 2007/8 EPL season featured a last minute winner didn’t it? Against Tottenham maybe? A 12.45 kick off?
Simply incredible times.
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I nipped into the Bohemian for two minutes to see the very end of that match while on the way down to Croker for pre-match pints before Dublin v Derry, and saw the goal live.
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I remember it well.
Everyone thought Keane was going to win the League with Sunderland after. There used be plane loads of fans going over from Ireland every week.
There’ll be no ABBA in the dressing room this time round.
This is not true. After seeing that Sunderland goal I nipped into the Spar shop a few doors down on the North Circular for a packet of 20 and a bottle of 7Up. As I left the shop I said “Come on Liverpool” to a chap in a 2006-2008 Liverpool home jersey who was going into the shop. Big mistake. He was fervent like that Pat’s fan in Henry Street and insisted on engaging me in conversation about how Liverpool were going to win the league and Fernando Torres was da man. He delayed me for at least three minutes.
The Drumaville consortium of Irish businessmen created a huge nationalistic lure towards Sunderland for a certain type of rootless Irish consumerist looking for an identity. I’d say there was a big crossover between the nouveau Irish Sunderland fanbase and fans of the Jordan F1 team, which at that stage had either recently collapsed or was about to collapse.
The Stadium Of Light became the new “Paddy pilgrimage” to replace the Hungaroring.
@Aristotle made a great point, if they could keep Keane away from recruitment this would be a great appointment for them. He’d carry them into championship at least through sheer personality and they won’t care after that, they can get someone proper in after that goal is achieved. They must be in their fourth season now in league one?
Yes, 4th season in League One. Had never spent more than a year in the third tier before that.
This is the best squad they’ve had since going down (bar maybe the first season, but they were still saddled with a few prima donnas who didn’t give a fuck). Arguably the other top sides in the division are stronger this season but not so much that it’s an impossible task.
Michael Chopra scored. I watched that game. Scenes at the end.
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Is that tv show following them still a thing? It was gold and will continue to be.
No, think the new owners binned it.
Michael Chopra with the late winner wasn’t it? There was genuine talk of a European push. Reality set in shortly afterwards when they got beaten 3-0 by Wigan.
I remember his final game at Bolton. It was on Setanta Sports at 3pm on a Saturday.
Pat Dolan on punditry telling Gary Megson or whoever was Bolton manager at the time not to listen to the fans about signings as ‘They knew nothing about football, if they knew anything about football, they wouldn’t be supporting Bolton in the first place.’
Tbf to Keane, stayed up relatively comfortably that season despite a few blips along the way and that’s all that would realistically have been expected at the outset.
It was probably between 2009 & 2011 that a European push was probably a realistic goal, had they been a bit smarter with their purchases & had the right man in charge.
The likes of Bent, Jones, Gyan, Henderson, Malbranque, Zenden, Cana, Cattermole were all good Premier League players; a step up from the purchases they had made in the years before.
O’Neill seemed like a perfect fit but after a great initial start, his football was so so dreary, set up as if he was terrified to lose and just pulled away any attacking threat. And then when 0-0 draws turned into 1-0 losses, it was miserable stuff.
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Netflix should offer to pay Keanes wage. Be well worth it
A pity we never got to see Keano and Charlie Methven working together.
The abrasive Corkman would describe the below as “nonsense”
Ireland went nuts about Sunderland them years, They were a real Celtic tiger phenomenon . Paddy buying up the mainland
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