This week I'll be mostly listening to...

I heard this song on Steve Lamacq and like Kylie I can't get it out of head.
Its by Metronomy and it's called The Look.



Also heard this infectious track from Cut Copy.
Its called Need You Now and is from the album Zonoscope.

André the Giant

André the Giant

Home side were toiling

Pool boldly foiling

Gunners were huffing

Black and yellas rebuffing

Carra first in

Took one on the chin

Stretchered with care

Neck brace and some air

The board it did state

Added minutes of eight

A loose leg from Spearing

Spot kick engineering

Crowd shriek “Good Gramercy!”

White vested Van Persie

Suarez free kick is cleared

Lucas still persevered

He’s barged to the ground

What comes? Goes around.

Wenger, arms spread and befuddled

Approaches Kenny for a cuddle

The wheel has come full circle since Reinas mistake gifted Arsenal a 91^st minute point last August.

Interesting Facchht : Just 4 minutes and 49 seconds of football were played between the end of the 90 and the final whistle.

This week i'll be mostly listening to...

Swedish songstress Lykke Li and a choon called Rich Kids Blues.
Taken from her excellent album Wounded Rhymes.



Also listening to the new Strokes album called Angles.
This is my favourite track, it's called Call Me Back.

Away Win

Away Win

Up in Dublin on family stuff

Football related oddly enough

A Crumlin pitch behind the school hall

A glorious day for a game of ball

An old man next to me on the line

Starts chatting in the warm sunshine

He talked of each Crumlin player by name

Guiding them through every pass of the game

He had gone to school here way back when

A pitch just for Gaelic, no grass on it then

The surface now was carpet like though

With Irelands best amateur players on show

“How are Cork FORAS doing?” he said

“Up until last night the table we led”

He loved to see local players come through

I point out the five ex City on view

I was only too happy to talk of my team

And our first division title dream

And then he mentions without a care

“My Thomas is the manager down there.”

There is nothing sweeter than an away win in Dublin.
I was in the Pale last Sunday supporting Avondale United in the semi final of the FAI Intermediate Cup away to Crumlin United. Crumlin had beaten Avondale in last years final and were going for three in a row this year but the Dale progressed by two goals to one.

During the game I got chatting to an old man on the sideline and from talking to him you could sense his passion for the game.
It was only later when he asked about Cork City that I realised I was talking to the great Theo Dunne, father of our manager Tommy.

Zorba The Greek

Zorba The Greek

We all did hail Zorba the Greek

Unaware what havoc you would wreak

Your running pace a slow andante

A Divine Comedy by Dante

Is happiness a frugal heart?

Away clean sheet be nice to start

Our one nil lead you did expunge

With your silly pointless lunge

Our defence turns to semolina

With boo boo after Bouboulina

It came to you as some surprise

Torpedo falling from the skies

Pepe dives, the lad fell over

You standing there like Super Grover

I fear you’ll never find your feet

Be gone to lignite mine in Crete

Zorba The Greek is a novel written by Nikos Kazantzakis in 1946.
It tells the tale of a young Greek intellectual who puts aside his copy of A Divine Comedy by Dante and sets off to re-open a lignite mine in Crete with the help of the boisterous and mysterious Alexis Zorba.
Bouboulina is a pet name given by Zorba to Madame Hortense the hotel owner.

Sotirios Kyrgiakos on the other hand had a nightmare last Satruday.

Roderick Returns

Rodericks Return

Was he really our gaffer

Did he manage a game?

Not quite Arthur Laffer

In a time tinged with shame.

For a quote always willin’

The king of the cheese

A pantomime villain

Amongst the Maltese

He revels on banter

And snakes in the grass

A kind of enchanter

Neck of solid brass

Ever stylish and dapper

You can’t put him down

Be a booer or clapper

Roderick’s back in town

This coming Friday sees the return of Roderick "Shoddy" Collins to Turners Cross.

He was manager of Cork City between December 2009 and February 2010, a somewhat ill fated time for our club, he never managed us in a competitive game.

Arthur Laffer was US Economist who served on Ronald  Reagans Economic Policy Advisory Board between 1981 and 1989 and is best known for the Laffer curve.
This is an illustration of tax elasticity which asserts that, in certain situations, a decrease in tax rates could result in an increase in tax revenues.

His surname also rhymes very well with gaffer.

Time For Relection

Time For Reflection

Milestone birthday this week

Not fresh faced nor meek

Not a second thought given.

Cos life is for livin’

Sunday last, time of crunch

QFT, out for lunch

I just tried to forget

For the fear of upset

I had no need to worry

Texts came in a flurry

Suarez twinkle toes

Befuddled our foes

Nanis head precision

Dirks second incision

Edwins further spillage

Completed the pillage

It doth make you reflect

 Reassess, recollect

Takes me back to the day

When my hair wasn’t grey

My earliest joy

As a six year old boy

Beat United in style

Went to bed with a smile.

My earliest memory of watching Liverpool is a 3-1 win over Manchester United on the 25^th of February 1978 when as a six year old I was allowed stay up for Match of the Day.

This weeks milestone birthday has made me reflect on lots of things and last Sunday brought me right back to that day in 1978 when Souness' first goal for the club, Ray Kennedy and Jimmy Case scored the goals that defeated the old enemy.

QFT = Quality Family Time.