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Pint of razza was free down the gaa club

Kevin Doyle x Shane Long 🇮🇪 Over 150 goals and assists combined for just £78,000 from Cork City. The best double signing of all time. #readingfc

This was an incredible, seemingly impromptu, moment on what has become the best studio show in sports. Bravo to all involved.

What a tifo 🚬🇯🇲

RTE fail to mute the deafening 'Fuck the Dubs' chant by City away fans before Daryl Horgan finds the net Cork City v Shelbourne 2011 League of Ireland title decider

Former Ireland international Colin Healy scores with the spectacular overhead kick before celebrating with the Corner Boys Cork City v St Pats 2014 League of Ireland

This used to be a proper sport 👊🏻 Away goals ITV Good commentators Top players Shithouse managers Pure hatred Iconic kits & sponsors Dodgy referees The list goes on…

Ah lads, Barry McNulty’s six two pointers in a half of football, are finally here from Leitrim’s comeback win against London. 🔥 Five off the left, one with the right. Five from play, but the final one is a free from about 60 metres out. 🎥 @LeitrimGAA

Never forgotten💚 There's only one Liam Miller🙌 #CCFC84

It was lovely to see Celtic pay tribute to Liam Miller before today’s match. Hard to believe that it is now eight years since his sad passing at the age of 36.

Below is perhaps one of the most insightful clips I’ve watched related to the psychology of adult elite sport (the professional level of sport). Tucked away…silently…in a BBC interview quite some years ago. A small section of an interview with Roy Keane, one of the Premier League’s greatest players… “It’s an act. Of course I had self-doubts, but I kept an act up. The skinhead. A few sendings off. I fear nothing. Some sort of machine. Which is nonsense. You act, don’t you!” Roy Keane was a great actor. He acted when he took to the pitch. He had, what I call a ‘Game Face’. I wrote about my mental technique of ‘Game Face’ in my first book Soccer Tough (a book that I’m proud to say Gareth Bale called life changing). And I expanded on ‘Game Face’ in Soccer Tough II. A ‘Game Face’ is a term I use to describe a player’s best ‘mental state’ and ideal ‘competitive persona’. It’s a pictorial metaphor that helps players think about, imagine, and then self-regulate around who they want to be in the heat of battle and how they want to execute their actions. “I’m my Game Face no matter what. I say it, be it, do it, act it…embody it, enact it” To bring this alive I’ll provide some examples… I spent five years working with someone considered one of the best defenders in the world. He had a ‘Game Face’ of ‘Dominant & Relentless’. These last two years working with Feyenoord as they won the Eredivisie and the Dutch Cup, one of the players had a ‘Game Face’ of ‘Positive Upbeat Benzema’ When England played in the final of the rugby World Cup in 2019, one of the players had a ‘Game Face’ of ‘Aggressive Energetic Lion’ (I was lead psych prior to the World Cup). You see, these are pictorial metaphors consisting of action-based words, often combined with a model player or concept such as an animal. Metaphors are wonderful linguistic tools for self-regulation, and can help human beings execute actions at a high intensity level, as well as engage in a competition with approach behaviour (on the front-foot, energy forward). Ultimately, sports competitors would do well to be great actors when they need to be. This doesn’t mean there’s anything inauthentic about their style of play. On the contrary, a ‘Game Face’ is robust in that it offers a description of ‘who they are’ and ‘who they need to be’ when kick-off arrives. It offers a dynamic descriptor of ‘who they are’ and ‘who they need to be’ in-game when the pressure is on. A ‘Game Face’ is a mix of authentic and inauthentic mental (and personality) states that enable players to adapt and flex when they need to. Roy Keane had a ‘Game Face’. He was an actor when he needed to be. In his words, it helped him find ‘the zone’. A ‘Game Face’ is the most powerful technique I’ve devised over the years…one that enables me to help players take charge of themselves and take control no matter what. To dominate their mindset and own their mindset no matter what… …no matter what!

One day in Budapest 💚 Better Days ahead thanks to a win for the ages. The story of a famous day from @IanByrneFilms with a little help from @DermotKennedy 😊

Life moves pretty fast

ROI v Portugal years ago 1-0 folks 😂couto spat at me 10 mins before our goal which was the winner,so this was my reaction after our goal ☘️

What a club Sunderland are btw, always had a soft spot for that lot

What a club! CCFC 🇮🇹

**Updated list** The last two years for Irish football: - Sacked Stephen Kenny (Nov '23) - CEO Jonathan Hill resigns (Apr '24) - FAI takes 7 months to find a new manager - 4 friendlies in that time for John O’Shea to audition for the job - End up hiring their 'first-choice' Heimir Hallgrímsson - €650k salary - RTÉ documentary on mistreatment of female players by coaches (Jul '24) - Colin Healy claims he was dismissed despite verbal reassurances he would be kept on WNT's coaching staff (Dec '24) - Manage to stay in Nations League B by beating Bulgaria home and away - Marc Canham resigns (Apr '25) - Championship players given break from June squad as they'll need to be fresh for next year's World Cup - 'Summer soccer' plan defeated (Aug '25) - FAI launches voluntary redundancy programme, which will move towards compulsory job losses as part of restructuring (Aug '25) - Will Clarke's Academy report reveals glaring issues with current facilities (Aug '25) - Eileen Gleeson takes legal action against FAI for 'gender discrimination' (Aug '25) - Play Doherty LB and go 2 goals down at home to Hungary inside the first 15 mins - Get absolutely battered away to Armenia - No clear structure on pitch - Can't defend anymore - Introduce ineffective long throw-ins because everyone else is doing them - Players now seem to play better for their clubs than their country, and have done so for a long time - Have conceded first in 9 of Heimir's 10 competitive games - Can only buy tickets in three-match bundles until a week or two before - FAI €43m in debt - Still only €125k for LOI champions - €32k for FAI Cup winners (+gate receipts) - Shamrock Rovers and Shelbourne's success in Europe this season is in spite of their governing body The FAI has failed Irish football. There are many good people in the organisation who are about to lose their jobs due to the incompetence of top-level management. Hopefully, last night is rock bottom, but my fear is we're still not even there yet. Something just has to change.

Wrighty is the bollocks ain’t he.

The @officialgaa all-Ireland football final, shot on 35mm film 🎞️

Yes he would He owns a sports shop

This is absolutely mind blowing 🤯 Oasis - Acquiesce last night