Good morning. So tell me, is the blood that courses through your veins as all fired up and zingy as mine? I knew it I knew I just knew it.
The very first of our intrepid fans will have landed in the Emerald Isle after successfully negotiating the smiling eastern European assassins determined to prove that their hand luggage won’t fit in the frame.
Slowly but unbeaten they emerge from the psychological warfare of Ryan Air’s in-flight shouty sales blitz.
You won’t need to be a modern day Henry Higgins to know you’re in Tallaght. Jump on the old Daniel Day and as soon as you hear, ‘Uuuwrioote bud wahs tha’ stooorie?’ ‘Soreree bud ken oi get a yoyo farder trollee?’ you’ve arrived.
May your god be with you and keep your note money in your sock.
The players have already landed. Let’s hope the list includes at least one of your favourites. Cudicini, Gomes, Rose, Assou-Ekotto, Kaboul, Townsend, Livermore, Sandro, Carroll, Pienaar, Kranjcar, Dos Santos, Falque, Kane and Defoe.
Who knows what we’ll get. The last time I saw Spurs play over there was a pre-season friendly which had folk cooing over Adel Taarabt’s step over frenzy.
I bumped into a duty manager from the hotel that Team Tottingham were staying in…a few months afterwards.
He told me that The Raddisson the night before the game was like a Tom & Jerry cartoon with Martin Jol belting around the corridors trying make sure everyone was in bed while a number of players including Dances With Scones were desperately trying to procure wine on the sly from staff.
Prediction? The true impact of €5+ per pint will only be felt in the morning.
This evenings match is the last game for rovers with Michael O`Neill as manager, he`s been with them for 3 years and brought much success but was unable to agree a contract extension. Hard to know what we will face tonight, their season finished a couple of weeks ago, would expect us to win by 2 or 3 at least, do we go for it or play exhibition football ?
I only drink in Irish theme pubs, are there any of them over there?
Plenty, the theme is Drink,Get Drunk,Fall Over.
In an English theme pub as we speak. Overpriced Belgian lager,surly Australian bar staff and I’ve just missed the hot food menu so it’s crisps and peanuts for lunch, home from home-bliss
Sorry love, everyfinks orf :-|
;-) hic
Dick van Dyke? ;-)
You`ve started early Ian of Essex, think of the waistline, do love those Bacon Fries though. Got plenty of Magners in for the match to add an Irish flavour, 3×8 bottle 568ml cases for £20 great value, offers off now but have got xmas stockpile.
Gaw’d blimey Guv’na, it’s a fair pea-soopah, an dat’s nah mistakin’… Poxy Belgian lagers ‘as buggered up me eyesight, so it ‘as
If your coming over forget about Dublin,come down to Kerry or Cork,watch it in a pub,have a great time,you won’t get stabbed or be referred to as a Brit bastard all night and its cheaper
Started off from Blackrock,Cork City meself, ah, families wonderful ain’t it, especially when you’re on a budget
If it’s a quiet drink close by you’re after try the Maldron hotel, almost opposite the staduim, but careful now, wee bit pricey, but only a walk across the road from the stadium..Ssssh!
You headin` for the stadium yet make or have you got a spot near the fire.
I take it you’re over there my friend, you enjoying the crack?
I sure is,so-and it’s craik, so it is, so ;-)
I always thought it was ‘craic’.
I wasn’t talking about the atmosphere over there…… :shifty: What happens on tour, stays on tour and all that, no I definitely meant crack… ;-)
I was up at the crack of Dawn, never woke her though. @tmwnn I don’t think there’s a proper spelling Creagh, Craich are other ways, but I was merely pointing out it’s not crack.
Dublin, where you get the bus to Ireland. Dublin is full of scum bags
Are you sure about that? :blink: