I’ve heard the great Tim Vickery tell several times of how it’s a tradition in Brazilian football that when a game is going against a home team in terms of momentum on the pitch, that a dog suddenly appears out of nowhere and gets the game stopped for a couple of minutes. Sort of like the Brazilian equivalent of the tactical injury in GAA.
One of the earliest recorded instances of a dog holding up play must have been at the 1976 All-Ireland hurling semi-final replay between Wexford and Galway at Pairc Ui Chaoimh, something I know from TG4 showing this game sometime circa 20-25 years ago.
One of my main memories of the horrible night Lineker scored in Poznan to knock Ireland out of Euro '92 was there seemed to be a very loud dog inside the BBC commentary box. Commentary was provided by John Motson and a barking Polish dog.
But you’d have to seriously hand it to that International Rules dog. Sensational work rate, tenacity and turning and sprinting speed. Willingness to get on the ball. Moral courage, honesty of effort. A great example to any children watching out there, as they say. Made the Tyrone lads swarming all over Kerry in '03 look lazy.
Valid point but you ought to consider the family of @iron_mike here.
They’re dependent on his ability to shift 175 tonnes of Ferrero Rochers during this ‘busy’ period as he refers to it himself.
The obsession a large number of adults in Ireland have with the Late Late Toy Show and their desire to “recreate” their own childhood Christmas for their children rather than let them establish their own tradition is extremely narcissistic behaviour.
there was no tradition around the toy show when I was a kid. We stayed up and watched it, that was it. There was no snacks or no big hoopla… we just watched the show.
