Another potentially pivotal fortnight hovers into view for The Big Club and it’s ranks of Black and Red faithful.
It all kicks off tonight with a short trip down to Inchicore to face off against St Patrick’s Athletic – the game, thankfully for us who are outside the country, is being streamed live on the TG4 website. The link to view the coverage (which only works in Internet Explorer for some reason) – is http://www.tg4.tv/ . Click on that at about 7:30pm Irish time tonight and it’ll start automatically.
These kind of TV games against St Pats are normally boring, turgid 0-0 draws – although the last Cup meeting between the two on TV back in the 2003 Semi-Final ended up as a cracker of a 4-3 extra-time defeat to the Saints.
I hate making predictions – as I’m invaribly incorrect in my assumptions, but I’ll stick my neck out here and simply state that the tie tonight, if settled on the day, will be by the odd goal. I won’t commit to saying which way it’ll go though…
We then get two League games – at home to Sligo, barring the Cup game going to a replay – and then playing Pats at Richmond again a week Friday.
The fortnight then concludes on a Tuesday night – October 9th – when we make the long journey up to Derry for the League Cup Final. The club have, to their very great credit, worked with the NBB and BEST to arrange cheap coaches to get the travelling masses up to The Brandywell to get behind the team. Last count was 3 full buses of the faithful – I being among them. Can we go there and bring back our first silverware for many a long year? Again – it’s too close to call.
Finally I received an email all the way from Chiang Mai in Thailand – from the desk of Kevin O’Herlihy:
“I am living in Thailand now, but have followed Bohs since 1963. Was at Dalyer for the Presidents Cup final when we beat Rovers, coming back from 2-0 down to win 3-2. to bring home the first trophy in modern times.”
Story behind this whole thing is that a few years ago I set up a mailing list / website to keep the fans abroad informed of what was happening in the club / a point of gathering for those exiles.
The project lapsed as personal stuff took over – but on the back of this, and the fact I have a little more spare time on my hands, I’m looking to resurrect this over the next few weeks. I still have most of the contact details for the foreign based fans who got in contact before – so those guys will be getting an email over the next few days.
If there is anyone else outside of the country who are interested in coming on board – please email me at bohsabroad@gmail.com
Let’s just hope tonight is a good one.
Onwards and upwards…
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