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Can’t believe I never saw this before… The Aprés Match crew doing Weebl’s Badger Badger Badger” during RTÉ Sport’s Euro 2008 coverage. 
As I said in a recent tweet (wow, I’m so up to date… like, using Twitter, man! That was even on CSI!), … today I was a bar manager - tomorrow I’m teaching 5th class in a local primary school (just standing in, “natch”), tomorrow night, I’m a footballer (getting better at that recently), on Thursday I’m a DJ in (the same) local bar - (YES, my Outlook calendar is gone into overdrive) … may be spreading myself a little thin (hah!)… but hey, at the weekend (well, Friday excluded), I’m free!
So… all that, combined with my recent conversion to “single” status means that after over 5 years of absence from “Boards Beers” (pissups organised by the ‘citizens’ of Boards.ie), this Saturday, I’m going to Boards Beer 19 in Dublin (and I’m dragging my brother along too)…
I’m totally assuming, of course, that it’ll look just like this picture (- that’d be me in the middle)…
Should be fun
“Tonight beats the shit out of last week”, I said to our goalie during our football match tonight. And I was right… because last week I generally played shite, … giving the ball away a lot and even going as far as to score an own-goal.
God, I was terrible.
Tonight though, I netted myself 4 great goals. That’s four. Yes, FOUR. It’s a hat-trick PLUS ONE. And it made me feel DAMN good
| In fact, I was looking for the right word for it,- if there is one. I know two is a brace and obviously three is a hat-trick… but is there a word for four? A double brace? A topped-hat-trick?
I’m putting it all down to one thing - EVERY week so far I’ve worn an Ireland shirt (the one with the silver lining that I won in a Carlsberg competition), but this week, due to a laundry mishap (or, I guess you could call it a “wardrobe malfunction”) - i.e.: my Ireland shirt wasn’t washed… I had to wear this: (see picture). |
 The sweat-soaked 1978 Argentina football shirt sitting on the floor next to a mic stand and a litre bottle of Bulmers. (Click photo to enlarge) |
On the day that Trappatoni gave his first press conference as Ireland manager, the brother found this on YouTube…
Carlsberg’s new TV ad. Good stuff!
Posted on the official FAI web site today :
The Football Association of Ireland has appointed Giovanni Trapattoni as manager of the Republic of Ireland senior international team after successfully concluding negotiations with his lawyer in Milan yesterday. The 68-year-old Italian will take up his post on May 1, 2008, when he has finished his commitments with the Austrian club, Red Bull Salzburg. His first game in charge of Ireland will be the eircom international against Serbia on May 24 at Croke Park.
The President of the Football Association of Ireland, David Blood, said:
“The Board of Management agreed unanimously with the recommendation of the Selection Panel and have appointed Giovanni Trapattoni as the next manager of the Republic of Ireland senior international team. His track record is among the most successful in Europe and he is widely acknowledged as one of the most outstanding and successful coaches in the modern game. He has managed at club and international level and has won 10 league titles in four different countries. In addition he has won the European Cup, Cup Winners Cup, UEFA Cup and Super Cup as well as the Intercontinental Cup. The Board of Management would like to express their gratitude to the members of our Selection Panel – Don Givens, Ray Houghton and Don Howe – on a job well done. We thank all those who expressed an interest in the position and attended interviews with the Panel. We would also like to everybody for their patience during the process and now look forward to the upcoming World Cup qualifying campaign.”
Goody
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