The Sigla Blog

Courtesy of Ernie Whalley (scribbled over lunch hour he tells me).

Farewell, Bestie, if not quite the best
You far outdribbled almost all the rest.
A salivatory genius in your youth,
Who could have far outgobbed El Hadji Djouf.
In midst of fulsome eulogies we beg
Time to consider poor Glyn Pardoe’s leg
And all the red and yellow cards and fines
For […]

Further to all the where-will-Keane-go speculation, my (other) brother has just informed me that Portsmouth have just sacked Alain Perrin as Manager and that he reckons Keane might be offered a player manager deal…

Did anyone watch RTE’s Champions League coverage last night? In my doped-up teeth haze I wasn’t in the humour for watching Liverpool (I’d had enough teeth pulled for one day) so I missed Dunphy’s outburst. My brother tells me that Newstalk presenter responded to a remark in an article by “some journalist” (anyone know who?) […]

Apologies for the lack of posting, I’ve been in mourning for Roy Keane and extremely busy.

There has been enough commentary and op-ed stuff about Keane doing the rounds over the weekend, but all I can say is that it proves what an arrogant fool Alex Ferguson is and I for one have increasingly fallen out […]

Watching the United V Blackburn match on Saturday was as much fun as it is generally watching Blackburn most of the time. Rovers haven’t beaten United at Old Trafford in over 40 years - until United’s sorry display on Saturday. The defeat probably stung a little more knowing that Mark Hughes must have learnt a […]

1. Find a new striker NOW. Clinton Morrison is not World class and was incompetent and useless last night. He never looked like scoring. He never looks like doing anything. One of his two ‘attempts’ on goal was actually a total miskick when shown in the replay.
2. Clone Roy Keane - it looked […]

Someone passed on the current issue of Village to me this morning and I spotted something which looks like a glaring omission (well, to me and anyone who likes football that is). On page 44 of the magazine, at the end of the Sports section, there is a digest/table of sporting events for the […]

As a lifelong Manchester United fan, I feel pretty much the way most Man U fans feel tonight upon hearing that Malcolm Glazer has substantially strengthened his sweaty grip on United. He has bought the 28.7% chunk of shares formerly owned by JP McManus and John Magnier and now holds about 63% of the club’s […]

Seeing as it’s Grand National day and I’ve always had a flutter, I thought I’d jump
online and have a flutter. Managed to back Forest Gunner to win (It’d be great to see a female jockey win for the first time) and stick an each way bet on Colonel Rayburn. Then I remembered that over the […]

As the Republic of Ireland football team face Israel tonight, I have a ticket to see them play China this Tuesday in a friendly at Landsdowne Road. Now, it wasn’t the lure of China as opposition that made me buy a ticket. It’s two things. One - you had to buy the ticket as part […]

What makes anyone want to box, and why would a woman want to get into the ring? The reasons according to Kate Sekules - journalist, travel writer, food critic and boxer - are similar but varied. Sekules’ adolescence was where she discovered the driving forces behind her pugilistic urges. Just before her eighteenth birthday, her […]