About a quarter of an hour ago we all indulged in the intangible concept of time travel without even realising it. Yes, it’s that time of year where we revert back to GMT – just to placate some silly farmers.
It means we rapidly hurtle towards the winter season – going to work in the dark and coming home in the dark.
As I write this I’m watching an MLS Playoff match between New York and New England – however it’s pretty difficult and confusing to follow at times.
They’re playing the game in Giants Stadium in New York – which is an NFL stadium with one of these artificial FieldTurf pitches. Which means that the pitch markings are permanent. However – the soccer pitch is larger than the NFL field – which means that the pitch markings we can see on TV bear no relation to the actual game going on at the moment – as you can see below…
Anyway – onto the more pressing matters at hand – the past few weeks have been a disastrous one for the faithful of the Bohemian Nation.
What looked like a superb position a couple of weeks ago has resulted in League Cup Final and FAI Cup Semi-Final appearances – with two defeats. And as for the league – the promise of a possible second place which was up for grabs recently now looks like being traded in for a fourth place finish – meaning that once again – we miss out on the Setanta Cup and would be possibly scraping around for an Intertoto Cup place next summer.
As one correspondent said on our club forum tonight about the defeat o Cork in the FAI Semi Final on Friday:
“I know when I stand in the Jodi, that the lads standing around me would all sweat blood to get an equaliser in a Cup semi, so its a sickener to watch some players on a couple of grand a week not break their bollox.”
That about sums up a spineless, passionless, and dare I say – useless display by the players who pull on the red and black each week – things are well and truly rotten in the Kingdom of Phibsborough – things need to change and quick – otherwise we will face a lot more seasons of disappointment – something we should not have to put up with.
Looking back to a couple of weeks ago – we reached a dark nadir up in Derry thanks to the actions of four people purporting to be “fans” of this great club – when they ventured into a Protestant area of the city and proceeded to smash up a bar whilst shouting, what was reported as, sectarian abuse. Thankfully the situation was resolved satisfactorily – prison sentences handed down (although these are under appeal by the defendants) – and a lot of PR and bridge building by the real fans of the club – around about 650 of whom supported the club so magnificently up in Derry.
The ball is now in the football club’s court – talk of a “zero tolerance” policy on these thugs and the agenda they pursue has been mooted by those in power – we now sit and wait to see if they walk the walk and actually follow through with the promises made to the decent supporters.
Away from the happenings in the land of eircom – unfortunately I haven’t been too well lately. With the stuff going on elsewhere and such – I slipped into a small bout of reassessment – resulting in myself just writing down my situation to date. It didn’t make for pleasant reading. Thankfully a few people rallied round and offered a bit of support that kind of got me back to some semblance of normality, although it still does raise it’s head above the parapets once in a while.
Related to this – I bumped into a couple of old colleagues from high school recently – I expect they’ll probably read this – so if you are Helen and Katy – it was a pleasure to catch up with yourselves – although the gap of some 10 years is probably a bit too long! So keep me updated with how things are going…
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