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Like my own routine in Trabolgan preparing for the community games in Mosney #couldveplayedcounty
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🚨 Incredible scenario unfolding in the English fifth tier this season! 😱🏴
York City and Rochdale are on 101 points and 99 points after 43 games, with just 4 matches left—and only ONE automatic promotion spot up for grabs. 🤯
The craziest part? The two sides will face each other on the final day of the season in what could be an absolute title-deciding showdown if things stay this tight. 😍
Just imagine… one of them could miss out on promotion despite surpassing 100 points. 😳

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AN ALL-TIME GREAT PERFORMANCE!
Chang Bingyu has completed a masterpiece vs. Shaun Murphy
FOUR CENTURIES, THREE TOTAL CLEARANCES
4-0
ZERO POTS MISSED!
524 points scored
1 point conceded
#WelshOpen
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If you’re watching for attitude and effort, this is the clip.
The outcome is largely secure.
And still, Robert Baloucoune covers the width of the pitch to make a try-saving tackle.
That tells you something.
Scoreboard comfort doesn’t change standards.
Effort doesn’t fluctuate with circumstance.
Habits don’t relax because pressure has eased.
This wasn’t about the moment.
It was about identity.
That’s a team that goes after effort.
Effort is a choice.
And Ireland chose it.
Standards are most visible when they’re no longer required.
… and then reach down and pick your teammate up
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Today in 1995 Ireland played a friendly match against England it Lansdowne Road. Some level of mindless violence was predicted. The FAI struck a deal with the FA to reduce English fan tickets to 4,000 out of 40,000. Gardaí drilled for a few minor scenarios, however, their main presence was outside the stadium.
Before the game, in a prelude to violence, nearby pubs were vandalised with Loyalist paramilitary and British National Party graffiti. It seemed the dangerous element landed in Dun Laoghaire on the ferry that day. President Mary Robinson was loudly booed from the English stands as she met the players.
Kickoff was 6:15pm. The toxic, intimidating atmosphere grew by the second. There was the usual reprehensible behaviour of spitting and throwing missiles, which gradually ramped up. The tone of the verbal intimidation spoke volumes about the xenophobia and sectarianism endemic in the English hooligan's psyche.
Chants of "F#ck the Pope" and "No surrender to the IRA" may seem childish taunts, but they were joined by provocative hate speech such as "Clegg is innocent", referring to British soldier Lee Clegg who murdered two Belfast teenagers, then was controversially cleared years later.
22 minutes in and David Kelly scored, 1 - Nil for Ireland. This was soon followed by a disallowed offside goal by England's David Platt, and then the thuggery stepped up a notch. Approximately 26 minutes in, and from the old West Stand, rubbish and torn up seating were infamously hurled down by the English hooligans on to the Irish fans in the lower stands.
In an idiotic oversight, some Irish fans had been ticketed areas in the English zones, after the FA returned tickets to the FAI. This left them isolated and vulnerable, surrounded by their attackers. In fairness to the dismayed referee, he stopped the match at this point and pulled both teams off the pitch, littered with torn and thrown seats.
No doubt the English team and their genuine fans were as disgusted by the behaviour of the "casual" gurriers as everyone else. As Jack Charlton left the pitch, vile verbal abuse from his fellow English countryman was hurled at him. "Judas" is the least obscene word.
The Irish fans in the lower stands were essentially sitting ducks at the mercy of the English rioter's missiles. They eventually were forced to spill out on to the pitch to avoid worse injury. 12 more minutes and the match was called off.
The PA system, and the presumably terrified match stewards, began to evacuate the crowd as the missiles and threats rained down. Mercifully the majority of the shocked fans and their families made their way safely and peacefully out of Lansdowne. But the not insignificant force of 4,500 English "fans" needed to be detained by Gardaí.
The reason for this was twofold. Firstly for their own safety, to keep them segregated from the home supporters who they had cowardly assaulted (and who dramatically outnumbered them). Secondly to search and arrest the guilty parties, some of who British forces had identified as organised criminal and paramilitary elements.
Predictably, this detention caused the violence and thuggery to escalate. The Garda response was hampered by access to the seating areas occupied by the rioters. One particularly nasty group of bigots essentially orchestrated the chaos, lead by an English fascist called Charlie Sargent, who notorious founded Combat 18 in 1992.
For those blissfully unaware of these neo-nazi thugs, all you need to know is the "18" in their name is alphabet code for AH, Adolf Hitler. They were the muscle for the unabashedly racist right-wing British National Party (BNP).
It will be surprising to no one that these English thugs had a close relationship with the loyalist paramilitary group, the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) and many were members of the National Front-> concludes in comments




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@LaLaaaX89X Congratulations and it keeps getting better, I found it hard to believe but it’s magical. Keep coming back
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