With 493 appearances for Liverpool and 19 trophies along the way, Ronnie Whelan is an unquestionable legend. Yet he’s still underrated in some quarters
Tag: ireland
The boy has wisdom beyond his years. “You learn more about yourself in the tough times than you do in the good times,” says James McClean. Less a boy now at 27-years-old,…
Eighteen months ago, Ray Power had to pull up a map on Google to find out exactly where Tanzania was located, but nowadays he’s right at home in the east-African country. He’s…
Ireland has always had a challenging relationship with football and a laborious course of acceptance of it. Once encompassing of all that was alien and English, those who supported it, played it…
Mention the name Dundalk to most football fans a year ago and very little would register it on their radar as a name within European football. A quick Google search evokes memories…
It was blatantly uncomfortable, but we simply could not take our eyes off our television screens. This was the battle that we had waited for, a moment in time for Irish football:…
SOME VOICES intrinsically command respect, others obedience, but as the powerful, deep growl boomed out there was only one emotion flooding over the shaking 12-year-old boy: pure fear. “What do you want?”…
You would be hard pressed to name a League of Ireland graduate who has scored a hat-trick in a continent’s biggest derby before 83,000 people to turn a 2-0 deficit into a…
MUCH OF WHAT makes football the engrossing game that it is are the stories of glorious near-misses, as a sort of side dish to the main course of euphoric glory. All fans will…
“There will be no past tense here,” Eamon Dunphy begins, as the mood turns sad and nostalgic. The date is 10 July 2016 and John Giles is appearing for the final time…
CATANZARO IS A SMALL CITY located in the Calabria region of Italy. Known as the ‘City of Two Seas’, it is occasionally dampened by the sea and is subjected to snow-capped winters…
In August 2004, Shelbourne played Deportivo La Coruña in the third qualifying round of the Champions League, with a place in the group stage at stake. Joan Capdevila, a future World Cup…
Picture the scene: an apprentice footballer walks into his manager’s office to learn his fate. It’s decision time, a contract or no contract, a yes or a no. It’s a lifetime of…
GOING INTO the game, Aston Villa had suffered three successive defeats and were looking more than a little ropey. Up against Manchester United in the 1994 League Cup final, the Claret and Blues…
At his best, Damien Duff was an outstanding player, a shining light for Blackburn, Chelsea, Fulham and Ireland. We celebrate the dazzling winger’s career by looking back at what made him so special and the memorable memories he gave us.
The average attendance at League of Ireland matches in 2014 was just 1,559. In the same year, 120,000 Irish fans travelled to attend Premier League games, accounting for 15 per cent of overseas…
This feature is part of A Tale of One City Dublin is a city with an astonishing history. Walking through it, you find yourself regularly captivated by a building or statue that reminds…
Elegant, intelligent, incisive and a match-winner; terms that can be applied to the greats of the game, and terms that unequivocally apply to Dublin’s Liam Brady. A midfielder with touch and poise ahead…