sport

[ionnsaigh]

Have the order of the topics changed, on the main page - re sport above speakers corner?.

[general jack o'niell]

if you see it as such then it must be so, i could have just said yes but wheres the fun in that? its a cunning ploy to make sport appear more important and interesting. which admittedly it often is.

on a sporting theme, my nephew played his first game for his new school in brisbane, they hadn't won a game all year, both he and another boy from london started at the same time, played their first game and won 3-1, they scored the goals, he said the standard is dire, similiar to five yr olds here, big punt up the park and everyone running after it like a swarm of bees, the local semi pro team couldn't give "satans touch" a game nevermind the pupils, so i expect to hear he's in their first eleven before xmas, his dad too no doubt if his knee holds up.

[ionnsaigh]

As a father who's son Michael , plays for Cambria (between the sticks) and has travelled to your green shores, to play the beautiful game, can testify. The level of hospitality in Campbeltown is second to none.

So well done whoever you are.

[general jack o'niell]

what were the circumtstances? did he come over to play in the annual(sadly no more) soccer centre soccer festival? i had the joy and honour of being official MC and timekeeper for seven or eight years, much rather have coached a team, which i did the first year(undefeated champions, ok so they were only 5yr olds) or even refereed, but i enjoyed every minute of it, and my selection of mugs and Tshirts have pride of place in my home.

the amount of organising by just one man would put any other occassion to shame, take a bow david martin, he did it all himself, most years it ran like clockwork, another group tried a similiar thing but egos and extremely biased officiating got in the way and it was a shambles, davie was the master organisor, nothing left to chance, i'd turn up on the day to be presented with a big folder with all the information i needed, even had my family crest on the front, silly i know, but when you think of the work he put in to get things set up a little touch like that meant a lot.

my best memory? my son curling a left foot free kick from out wide on the left into the far top corner with the outside of his foot, think it even fooled himself, i only wish i had half his skill when i was that age, but then like me then he's as thin as a rake, has a dodgy knee and gets overlooked in favour of the lesser lights who carry a bit more weight, both physically and wee toon mafia wise.

[ionnsaigh]

Both my sons will be visiting tonight . I will (hopefully), get more information.

[ionnsaigh]

God, football info - it's like trying to get blood out of a stone, (sometimes) . Temperamental tendencies tend to offer a very slim window of opportunity- to talk football. However- apparently the last time he played Campbeltown was Three or Four years ago. In the league. he reckoned, as you lot got relegated- and his mob elevated to promotion, in a higher league.

Aye nevertheless that's fitbaw fur ye. One of my lasting memories- is Michael saving a penalty kick. Honestly a coudnae take my eyes aff him. The other team where losing by one goal, about 10 min from the final whistle.
They where a talented team trying their up most to score. Michael attempted to take the ball from the feet of a striker in the box-penalty.

He immediately started to employ psychological tactics, ( glad he picked up something from his Dad )
Anyway the crowd went quite ( Ibrox like ).

You know the way things can slow down in memory, I watched him almost glide through the air, he looked like a dancer performing an intricate step. Someone defying gravity in flight , gracefully an artist painting their finest work. a flying feckin angel oor Michael. albeit a complete contrast - as before the ball was kicked he stood frozen- waiting for that split second recognition of the balls direction.

The only other memory that belongs in this category, is a front page photograph the Sunday something.
A young youth in flight -strikingly artistic , majestic. Funny thing was that we had noticed the boy in a cafe, perhaps the term cafe fails to adequately describe what appeared to be a feeding station for the Irish Republican Army. that's another story.
We had noticed this particular boy ,as he was wearing a Jacket similar to Mathews. Same age, same type of clothes anyway, Unbeknown to us we had booked our two day holiday from Campbeltown- Ballycastle - Derry. in July the marching season, we could see large groups of people gathered around bonefires, singing the sash, and threatening to come over the river. Gunfire followed by cheering- added to the fear for me, and thrilling excitement for Fiona.
We ended up staying in a nationalist area, we had no choice in this as it is - either one or the other. The other being the protestant estates on the other side of the river. To cut a long story short we ended up having breakfast in the White hart with a bomb disposal squad, we had breakfast the day before with the bomb makers and the bomb throwers- the guy with the jacket- on the front page -throwing a petrol bomb at the occupying forces.
Aye memories.

[Ninja Mania]

Whoot idiot started a sport thread in here?, och ah mite have guessed !!!!

[ionnsaigh]

Och a no, jist kickin the baw aboot.

[A Horse called Juan Face]

if you see it as such then it must be so, i could have just said yes but wheres the fun in that? its a cunning ploy to make sport appear more important and interesting. which admittedly it often is.

on a sporting theme, my nephew played his first game for his new school in brisbane, they hadn't won a game all year, both he and another boy from london started at the same time, played their first game and won 3-1, they scored the goals, he said the standard is dire, similiar to five yr olds here, big punt up the park and everyone running after it like a swarm of bees, the local semi pro team couldn't give "satans touch" a game nevermind the pupils, so i expect to hear he's in their first eleven before xmas, his dad too no doubt if his knee holds up.

the standard over here is pretty poor. Theyre all just built like tanks and run all day.

[general jack o'niell]

how many miles to the galleon do these tanks get? or should that be in the pirate day thread?

redskins 2- 0, ooooh i feel a superbowl coming on(remember the time and date, thats my official foot in mouth for the year)

i hear a rumour of a franchise based in london, there were 2 million applications for the wembley game at the end of october, another kick in the teeth for us loyal claymores who regularly got between 16 and 20,000 for all their home games, thats nearly as many as chelsea get in a home champions league tie

[Friend of Dorothy]

He immediately started to employ psychological tactics, ( glad he picked up something from his Dad )
Anyway the crowd went quite ( Ibrox like ).

Aye, you may well roll yer eyes!!!
If Michael was tactical, he certainly must have picked it up fae his mother.

[ionnsaigh]

Well his Mother was a goalkeeper too, with I may add a terrible temper - as you well know.