He can effortlessly put into beautiful words what everyone is thinking, but doesnât know how to express themselves
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Kevin Moran is au contraire a cunt. I left him play through in Waterford Castle and he never so much as grunted at us.
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Prick
Youâre nursing that grudge a long while
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At least a decade.
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Roy giving a Tour De France in the Kevin Moran documentary. Great footage of the Dublin v Offaly game from 1978 when Moran came back from Manchester to play. To be fair it was pre-season I suppose.
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Unreal stuff.
Iâd love to go drinking in Kavanaghs of Marino.
Donât mention you know Shane Dalton
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Mate did you hear who won the DDSL U12 Cup Final over the weekend?
Kevin Moranâs wife is holding up well. Dare I say one for the Auld Birds Thread.
Shane wasnt even safe walking down Jones Road to a Railway Cup match.
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That was great stuff.
Des Cahill made some job of that production.
It was a great oulâ programme. That career. To play against and beat Maradona and Mikey Sheehy, to beat Kerry twice, revolutionise half back play, to win two FA Cups, to beat England and play in a World Cup quarter-final and still be going with the second best team in England at 38. It is the THE most remarkable Irish sporting career of all.
Legend has it when Kevin Moran was called into the Dublin panel, Kevin Heffernan asked him âDo you think youâre fit, Kevin?â âAh yeah, I think Iâm fairly fitâ, replied Moran.
Heffo then, without warning, gives him a dig in the stomach. Moran doubles up, winded.
âWhen youâre done training with us, you wonât even feel that, Kevinâ, says Heffo.
One of the impressions my oulâ fella used to do when I a nipper was of what happened in the 1985 FA Cup final.
He used to do the stage English impression of the referee, Peter Willis, a policeman, doing a stage Cockney accent âoi oi, off you go, sonâ (I think Willis was from the north of England).
Then the furious protestations of Moran: âYa canât send me off ref, ya canâtâ.
And then the best bit, Stapleton: âYou have to go, Kevin, you have to go.â He was doing spot on impressions of Stapleton long before Apres Match existed.
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That was iconic watching Moran with the torn hamstring and the bandaged head tearing into Kerry who were hammering the dubs .
He had the bandaged head in Wembley in '91 as well. He was fucking great that night.
That Whiteside goal in '85 was something else.
Moran was miles ahead of his time soloing the ball in Gaelic Football.
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He missed out on the Blackburn title winning season by a year? Christ he was unlucky in that regard. A remarkable feat though to be playing professional football and still travelling back to play major championship games for Dublin. The career in commerce on top of all that. He was like an educated but sports mad member of the IFSC clique long before it came into existence. What GAA club did he play for?
He won a League of Ireland title with Bohs which wasnât even alluded to such was the long list of accolades and achievements.
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An unbelievable goal. I think itâs the greatest Cup final winner ever, given the context, extra-time down to 10 men against a team going for the treble.
Whitesideâs career is itself worthy of a documentary.
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Good Counsel
Iâd only heard of the New Ross based school with the same name. Are they junior in Dublin now?