Six best smilies
- :o
- :guns:
- :rolleyes:
A poor bunch overall.
Six crucial moments in All-Ireland Football Finals
6. Johnny Culloty’s mistake, 1960
The only time priests were seen shagging young ones on O’Connell Street. A clearly superior Down tea struggling to push home their one point advantage half way through the second half. Jim McCartan lobs a high one in, Culloty has been handling Kerrygold. Goal. Sam goes into BOI for the first time ever.
5. Pascal McConnell’s save, 2008
Kerry are better than Tyrone. Better. They’re just better. Better players, better team. They’ll stuff them. The invincibles. Negative Northerners. Anti-football. If a team with Brian Dooher wins an All-Ireland I’ll eat my hat. Three chewy pieces of headgear to munch on so, Mr O’Rourke?
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Bill McCorry’s missed penalty, 1953
Six minutes left, Armagh down by two, 0-10 to 1-5. A then record crowd at a final of over 84,000. A penalty at the Canal End to give them the chance to go ahead. No BOI team has ever won the All-Ireland. McCorry puts it wide. Kerry go on to win by 0-13 to 1-6. -
Conor Gormley’s block, 2003
One of the worst All-Ireland finals ever, but one of the greatest moments. Two in it, two minutes left. Tyrone have never won the All-Ireland. The ball bounces around the square and falls to Stevie McDonnell. The best goal poacher in the game pulls the trigger. Gormley dives full length to stop a certain goal. Sam rests on the Northern side of the Blackwater.
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Charlie Redmond’s missed penalty, 1994
Pissing, dirty, dank, rain, the kind that seeps down the back of your neck and gives you the flu for a week. Trousers turning dark up to the knees. Pages of the programme of the game sticking together as on the top of your head. Free cans of Irn Bru given out outside the ground rotting your teeth, Here’s to poor health. Dublin were stuffed for 50 minutes. Then the comeback. 6 to 3. Tommy Sugrue stretches his arms. Redmond steps up. Taps a limp, impotent penalty against Neil Collins’ outstretched arm. The rebound comes back, Johhny Barr pulls the trigger, off target. Miserableness.
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- Seamus Darby’s goal, 1982.
Diddling, dawdling, you’d think they were winning. Light up a smoke while you’re at it. The Offaly way. A high, lobbing, dropping ball. Darby gives a nudge. Only a wee nudge, but enough to send Tom Spillane tumbling. A shot, a goal. Sensational.
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Six misleading national hurling league finals:
1991-92 Limerick 0-14 (14) 0-13 (13) Tipperary Gaelic Grounds
Limerick demolish Cork in the semi-final and pip Tipp in the finale. Glory beckons for the shannonsiders. Unfortunately Cork have other ideas and take Limerick to pieces in Munster come the summer.
1994-95 Kilkenny 2-12 (18) 0-09 (9) Clare Semple Stadium
Clare on the back of two munster final humiliations, get a shot at redemption under new management. They fail horribly and Kilkenny win at a canter. Clare are written off as a team who just don’t have it.
1998 Cork 2-14 (20) 0-13 (13) Waterford Semple Stadium
Cork obliterate Clare in the semi-final in Thurles. They go on to outclass a promising Waterford in the final. Their time has surely arrived. Except it hasn’t. Clare roll over them in championship.
2007 Waterford 0-20 (20) 0-18 (18) Kilkenny Semple Stadium
Waterford finally deliver. Silverware at stake, top class opposition in their way, and they finish strongly and power home to a national title. The revert to type and surrender several months later.
2004 Galway 2-15 (21) 1-13 (16) Waterford Gaelic Grounds
Galway look to have finally recovered from the fallout of 2001. Except they haven’t. Kilkenny maul them in Thurles amd many careers end.
1977-78 Clare 3-10 (9) 1-10 (13) Kilkenny Semple Stadium
After promising to deliver for the previous half decade, Clare look to finally have matured enoough to deliver. Two leagues in a row, Kilkenny profesionally beaten. Championship glory awaits? No. Clare choke again when it nactually matters.
Jesus your a tool.
Copy and paste nevr covers all the angles…clearly.
2010
Kev is a miserable whiney cunt
Six dramatic league finishes
- League of Ireland - April 23rd, 1995
Athlone Town 1-1 Derry City
Dundalk 2-0 Galway United
Derry, spearheaded by the prolific goalscoring partnership of Liam Coyle and Harry McCourt, had gone on a long winning run to see themselves ahead on the final day, but needed a win at Athlone to seal the title. Dundalk were waiting in the wings with a home game against Galway. Derry went behind but got level. It all came down to a penalty. Stuart Gauld v Shane Curran. The Scotsman v The Cake.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCwp3NqZi_0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgoOij19hnU
- English Premier League, May 14th, 1995
Liverpool 2-1 Blackburn Rovers
West Ham United 1-1 Manchester United
My brother is, or was a Blackburn Rovers supporter. I was, and still am although not as much, a Liverpool fan. I was at Ewood Park for the second last game of the season against Newcastle. By the end I was a Blackburn fan. A throwaway “I bet you’d love to be going to Anfield on Sunday”. A fatal moment of weakness from my auld lad. Three hours of a tantrum on the Wednesday night and a ferry journey on the Saturday was booked. No chance of getting tickets though. Scouse touts? You might need a Bank of England loan. How much? Twenty faahve quid, mate. What’s face value? Fifteen. Eh, okay, deal. In.
Kenny Dalglish’s faltering Blackburn came to Anfield . Manchester United would surely win at West Ham. But the script read that Liverpool wouldn’t try. With the Reds having nothing to play for, and Dalglish going for the league against their hated rivals, it couldn’t turn out any other way. Until the double twist. Five Live’s coverage was appalling by the way. Alan Green should never have been let near a microphone again after it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVzZWLJ-VZ4
- Bundesliga, May 19th, 2001
Hamburg 1-1 Bayern Munich
Schalke 5-3 Unterhaching
Bayern went to Hamburg three points ahead and needing a draw. Schalke, in their last game at the Parkstadion, played relegated Unterhaching. It looked to be going great for Bayern. Schalke went 2-0 down. Then the fightback started and the goals started raining down. Into the last five minutes and Schalke had kept up their side of the bargain in a crazy match by winning 5-3. Then Hamburg struck for what had to be the decisive blow. The Parkstadion pitch filed with delirious supporters, tearful in the knowledge that their first ever Bundesliga title was about to be won. The big screens at either end of the pitch showed what was happening t the Volksparkstadion. It was Schalke’s day. Until a free kick inside the box from Patrick Andersson three minutes into injury time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDUSJJ0_gaQ
- La Liga, June 7th, 1992
Tenerife 3-2 Real Madrid
Barcelona 2-0 Athletic Bilbao
Barcelona had won their first ever European Cup two and a half weeks earlier. Whatever happened, the year had been a success. But Real Madrid would gain some consolation by winning the league. A win in Tenerife meant the title would rest at the Bernabeu. And that’s the way it transpired, or at least the way it looked when they went 2-0 up, helped by a magnificent Gheorghe Hagi free kick. Tenerife pulled one back before half time, and Madrid grew more and more nervous the more it went on, knowing Barcelona were winning against Athletic Bilbao. With six minutes left, disaster struck for the lisp afflicted filth as the islanders drew level. Seconds later, they had blown it in magnificent style with a bizarre goal which saw a shot from the halfway line beat a hapless Francisco Buyo only to hit the crossbar, before being bundled back in by the advancing forward. It was Barca’s league, Barca’s European Cup, Barca’s Olympics, Barca’s year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuHBHnnTMls
- Scottish Premier Division, May 3rd, 1986
Dundee 2-0 Hearts
St. Mirren 0-5 Celtiic
Celtic went to St.Mirren barely alive, four down on goal difference and needing Hearts to lose at Dundee. Playing in a hideous snot green kit, Celtic made no mistake, with McClair, Johnston x 2(including a magnificent team goal finished by the future Judas) and McStay wrapping up the game before half time at 4-0. Attention now turned to Dens Park. With Hearts hanging on at 1-0, Celtic supporter Albert Kidd made his entrance as a sub and within a few minutes had poked home from a corner. Seconds later he applied the poison with a devastating run, one-two and finish, consigning a clearly desolate Jim White to his nightmare of having to grab a hold of jubilant Celtic players for interviews at Love Street.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cpJXnG9uAU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCjEsN4E85s
- Liverpool v Arsenal, May 26th, 1989
“It’s up for grabs now.”
The ultimate match, the ultimate occasion, and something that went way beyond football. An English league season has never finished so late, it was never decided this late in a match. Everybody knows what happened and where they were and what they did watching it. There’s no way I’ll tell you how I reacted.
It will never happen again.
A guy up the road from me, ardent Liverpool fan, locked his wife and kids out of the house for a hour after the game!
We had a sex ed talk in school that day, and we lost our under 11a league decider against Caherdavin that evening…and then Michael Thomas struck… A dramatic day in the life of young mouse.
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is that what this whole “la na gclub” thing was about?
Six great Cup Final winners:
6. John Hewitt - Aberdeen v Real Madrid, 1983 Cup Winners Cup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG3k2TgSzj4
- Ricardo Villa, Tottenham Hotspur v Manchester City, 1981 FA Cup Final
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R44tPArJIy4
- Ronald Koeman, Barcelona v Sampdoria, 1992 European Cup
Continued from above
- Zinedine Zidane, Real Madrid v Bayer Leverkusen, 2002 European Cup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crDzasp1-60
- Jorge Burruchaga, Argentina v West Germany, 1986 World Cup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeleVz86uKI
- Norman Whiteside, 1985 FA Cup, Manchester United v Everton
Six great All-Ireland Football Final goals:
1.Jack O’Shea, Kerry v Offaly 1981
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Barney Rock, Dublin v Galway, 1983 (from 1:10)
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Peter Canavan, Tyrone v Kerry, 2005 (from 7:30)
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Jim McCartan, Down v Offaly, 1961 (from 3:30)
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Super thread this.
Really enjoyed the above refereeing decisions
Six great goals that never were:
- Hans-Günter Bruns (Gladbach v Bayern)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4pP9rd_pOA
- Paolo Di Canio (Celtic v Rangers)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwqD5zR6Egs
- Pele (Brazil v Uruguay)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UzRsvCsC4c
- Luis Suarez (Ajax v PSV)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-B8g-oGC1s
- Bobo (Besiktas v Porto)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKr83ndtLls
- Cassano and Totti (Roma v someone)
Six shit All-Ireland winning hurling teams:
Cork 1999
Clare 1995
Wexford 1996
Offaly 1985
Kilkenny 1979
Kilkenny 1963
dishonourable mention: Tipp 2001
Six best All-Ireland hurling winning teams
Kilkenny 2008
Tipp 2010
Cork 1978
Tipp 1965
Clare 1997
Wexford 1956
honourable mention: Tipp 1991
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6 sid waddell seething moments
3rd July 2011 4.22pm
3rd July 2011 5.23pm
3rd July 2011 10.11pm
3rd July 2011 10.30pm
3rd July 2011 11.27pm
4th July 2011 12.23am
A year out, that was on this day in 2010 when Argentina lost 4-0 to the teutonic cunts
Enjoyed this weeks one
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2012/sep/14/joy-of-six-one-on-ones?CMP=twt_gu
6 of the worst career moves in no particular order…
- Mendieta from Lazio to Middlesbrough
Just before leaving Valencia Mendieta was as good a midfielder as there was in Europe at the time. He was a crucial player in a Valencia team that were pretty much as good as any other side in Europe, though never quite good enough, and unlucky not to win a Champions League. He moved to Lazio for a huge fee and that didn’t work out but after being a regular at Barcelona on loan for a season he chose Middlesbrough as his next club.
Maybe there weren’t many better offers but it’s hard to believe. There’s little doubt he was paid very well to move to Middlesbrough and went on to win a league cup and had a role in their European run. It was a terrible level for a player of his talents to be operating at and he seemed to fade into retirement with ever decreasing appearances and then what seemed a strange rejection of a chance to rejuvenate his career at Athletic Bilbao.
Smashing player for a few years but he effectively retired in his late 20s with that move.
- Liam Miller from Celtic to Manchester United
Whether Miller was ever as good as his early performances suggested he might be is sort of irrelevant. He was 23 by the time he moved to Manchester but a long string of injuries in his teens and early 20s meant he had only 25 appearances to his name by that time. He was progressing really well in a good side that was playing good football but the one thing he needed was to keep playing to keep improving.
He was obviously swayed by his agent but there was an element of greed in his decision to “cash in” on his form so early in his career and move to Manchester. He hadn’t enough experience playing football and hadn’t enough fight in him to make the grade when he had to prove himself again. In the end his talent was questionable but he never gave himself a chance really.
- Maurice Johnston from Nantes to the Huns
Fuck off Mo you dick.
- Ruud Gullit from Milan to Chelsea
Gullit was one of the first bona fide superstars to move to the Premier League, though he was 33 at the time and his talents were certainly on the wane. That didn’t mean he was ineffective at Chelsea but the brilliance of his athletic midfield play at Milan was only a memory by then.
What really made this move a disaster was his subsequent exposure to people in these islands on the media. Gullit was an iconic figure, undoubtedly excellent, and yet somehow even more revered because of his appearance and his elegance on the pitch and his pivotal role in two era-defining teams: Milan and Holland. He was safely admired from a distance because we had no exposure to him other than his places in those teams and the sheer style with which he stamped his authority all over them.
Then he moved to England, looked all too human and the mask slipped to reveal a bit of an imbecile underneath. His stint at management was certainly unconvincing and the shambles of his time in Newcastle was an embarrassment for a star of his status. But worse was to follow with his appearances on Sky’s Champions League coverage where he looks ridiculous and sounds even worse. Could this banal waffling idiot without an interesting word to say really be the same iconic midfielder with the flowing dreadlocks who looked untouchable in a Milan shirt.
The move to Chelsea wasn’t the nadir for Gullit, but it was the first step on a slippery slope that now puts Ruud Gullit sitting on a faux steel stool beside Jamie Redknapp on a Tuesday night while the likes of Maradona is getting himself arrested for snorting coke off a shotgun.
- Paul Dempsey from Sky to Setanta
Whatever you think of Sky they own football in the UK now. The only threat to their monopoly in the last decade or so was Setanta Sports which splashed the cash to try to steal that action. Paul Dempsey was very much #2 at Sky behind the immovable Richard Keyes so when Setanta came knocking asking Dempsey to be their main man the decision was probably straightforward.
The whole operation was built on borrowed money as we know. Setanta lost their UK rights and all their glitzy studios. Dempsey is now hosting matches on Setanta Ireland in front of a cardboard backdrop and flanked by the suicidal-sounding Brian Kerr and Lou Macari. Keyes is gone from Sky and Dempsey can only dream of what might have been if he’d a little more patience.
- Fuck that it’s time for Aberdeen v Celtic. Make the last one up yourselves.