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7 months ago
in Diego Maradona Returns to the International Football Scene on EPL Talk
"Hand of God"? You...you mean it was a handball? Why haven't I heard this before?
9 months ago
in I’m On Setanta Sports: September 20, 2008 Episode on EPL Talk
Unless I'm missing something, there's no Dunphy there. The voice of the beginning is meant to be Pádraig Harrington's.
10 months ago
in RTE Mocks Setanta Sports With Sellotanta Sports Video on EPL Talk
Deary me. This is part of the Apres Match strand that has been running for a decade or so. It used to be the funniest thing around, combining the uncanny impressions of Risteárd Cooper and Gary Cooke and the surrealism of Barry Murphy (who was absent in this sketch). It was at its peak at France '98 and Euro 2000, and also did a fine job with the golden material provide by the incidents in S****n in 2002, but it's long ago jumped the shark (then gone back and jumped it several more times, just to be sure). This is a prime example of how woeful it's become.
10 months ago
in FIFA Needs To Revamp International Football on EPL Talk
An important function that international football serves these days is to maintain the connection between fans in smaller or non-European countries to their players who play in the major leagues. Already, several non-European nations have been cowed by the big clubs into playing 'home' friendlies in Europe. Due to this, Brazilian fans, for example, are deprived of seeing their own stars in the flesh for extended periods of time. If the richest nations are happy to reap the benefits of being in such a privileged position in the globalised football economy, they should put up with being inconvenienced by international breaks four or five time a year, or with having to deign to play those pesky principalities every so often.
To say as Hasan does above that "The charm lies in club rivalries...So let us all enjoy international football once in every 2 years without letting its charm die" is to close of a whole swathe of what makes football football. It is more than what goes on in those parts of the world fortunate enough to see the world's best players up close every week. International football might need a nip here and a tuck there, but drastic surgery is not required.
To say as Hasan does above that "The charm lies in club rivalries...So let us all enjoy international football once in every 2 years without letting its charm die" is to close of a whole swathe of what makes football football. It is more than what goes on in those parts of the world fortunate enough to see the world's best players up close every week. International football might need a nip here and a tuck there, but drastic surgery is not required.
