Not until 2018
It’s on Ryle Nugent that we lost the highlights package so.
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I don’t think anything screams “November 2006” more than the words “Highlights of Reading v Portsmouth on RTE 2”.
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Did it finish 7-4 or something ridiculous?
Leroy Lita, Dave Kitson, Pedro Mendes all in their pomp.
I have no idea. The years 2006 to 2008 saw my interest in the Premier League bottom out.
Jason Wilcox a shocking omission.
That was in 2007 iirc. The 07-08 season when Pompey won the FA Cup.
Why was that?
I always felt like 2001-02 was a near perfect season of English Premier League. You had about 5 teams in contention for the title in February (Arsenal, Liverpool, Man Utd, Leeds and Newcastle). Chelsea might have been in the shake up too. A relatively novel winner too with Arsenal topping league rather than Man Utd.
I don’t know. I just wasn’t feeling it. I didn’t like Houllier era Liverpool that much, he was too smarmy and self congratulatory and he was a bluffer. I liked Rafa and the Champions League in '05 will never be forgotten but I found the Premier League itself tiresome around that era and there was a feeling that Liverpool was moving away from its roots especially when Hicks and Gillett bought the club out with money they didn’t have and loaded the debt on it.
I think the coverage of the Premier League back then was a lot blander and more corporate and smug English than it is now, just the whole thing seemed more bland really, especially around the mid to late 00s. Steve Claridge talking to lads from West Mead on You’re On Sky Sports and bigging up the Golden Generation and all that (“you cannot doubt Steven Gerrard”), Premier League phone ins with Michael McMullan etc. I’d say for most of the 00s my interest in the Premier League was skin deep enough really. But particularly from around the time Mourinho took over Chelsea to around 2010/11 the football itself wasn’t great and don’t remember many classic matches from that time. It was the shit on a stick era.
When the King returned as Liverpool manager in early 2011 I suddenly got the bug back in a big way and it hasn’t let up.
At almost the exact same time, Sky’s coverage suddenly got way better when Keys and Gray were sent to broadcasting St. Helena and then Gary Neville arrived in short order.
Plus I have come to appreciate the sheer absurdity of the soap opera nature of it.
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That used to be quality listening on a Saturday evening. There used to be a regular Liverpool supporting caller from Kerry. It was sheer comedy at times and felt like a seminal opportunity in the growth of the “Irish Footix”. I always found listening to a match to be a more tense experience. Liverpool were often on the 3pm kick-off on Today FM back then. Mick Martin and Brian Kerr offering insightful musings on Co-Com.
There hasn’t been a rivalry like it since really
I always enjoy GAA games more on the radio than on TV, although I’d obviously always choose the TV given the option, but the tension is far greater when you can’t see the action, not sure why
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Premier League ‘Team of Steves’
- Steve Ogrizovic
- Stevie Potts
- Steve Watson
- Steve McMahon
- Steve Staunton
- Steve Howey
- Steve Sidwell
- Stevie Stone
- Steve Fletcher
- Stevie Gerrard
- Steve McManaman
Manager: Steve Bruce
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Five most ICONIC injury time winners in the Premier League
- Origi v Everton 2018
- Collymore v Newcastle 1996
- Gary Mac v Everton 2001
- Carvalho v Saudi Arabia 2022
- Origi v Wolves 2021
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Was just thinking earlier that we’ve witnessed some volume of Kloppage time winners since he took charge.
•Lallana in the 5-4 v Norwich in 2016
• Lovren in stoppage time to beat Dortmund a few months later
•Milner pen against Leicester in 2019
•Salah you little dancer v Spurs in April 2019
•Origi against Everton in 2018 and Wolves 2021
•The Firmino bullet header against Spurs in late 2020.
•Alisson against West Brom in 2021 was one of most iconic winners.
•Mane at Villa in 2019 was a seismic stoppage time header too.
•Fabio Carvalho last night obviously.
I’ve probably forgotten a plethora of injury time winners there too.
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