Nice place, innit?
Tomorrow afternoon Ireland play England at Rugby.
Rumours abound that a hard core mob of morons are ready to go ballistic when the English team sing their National anthem before the game.
Many years ago, the Black and Tans drove into a match here and opened fire on the crowd, the original Bloody Sunday. A tragic chapter, among many, of Irish history.
Two weeks ago the Irish team gave the game away to Italy in a way that was shameful at best, and utterly stupid at worse. Many of my English buddies were watching the game and they all had one thing to say, and that was not about the game but about the size and quality of the stadium. Many of the English boys had been to Dublin for games, which were played in the now redundant home of Irish Rugby.. Landsdown Road.
Landsdown is on the south side and Croke Park is on the Northside so the visitors would have been nowhere near the place to begin with.
One of our best kept secrets - well us Northsiders anyway.
I hope and pray - to a God that I don't believe in anyway - that the singing of Anthems goes off without any hassle.
Then let the battle commence...
and may the best team win.
Slan,
D.
edited to correct a shameful grammatical error
- and a typo.
