Dave’s Football Blog

From the Who-thought-THIS-was-a-good-idea dept.: RICHMOND is poised to share the same jumper sponsor as the world’s biggest sporting club, Manchester United. The Tigers are set to announce a lucrative deal with global insurance and financial services giant AIG (American International Group). Richmond has signed a heads of agreement with the Australian arm of the American-based [...]

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The most horrid journalism cliché is the one about finding interesting stories. “Dog bites man?” Boring. “Man bites dog?” Oooh, edgy. “Kerry County relinquishes All-Ireland Football title?” Well, now you’re just talking crazy. Can’t happen, right? Wrong. Tyrone upset Kerry, 1-15 to 0-14, in the All-Ireland Final on Sunday. Down 0-8 to 0-7 at half, [...]

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Australian Football and Gaelic Football can’t seem to get away from each other. AFL clubs keep sending scouts to Ireland to swipe young talent with dreams of playing professionally. The International Rules series keeps finding new life, despite being little more than an on-field brawl most years. (Collingwood boss Mick Malthouse is in as Australia’s [...]

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The obvious trouble with attempting to follow every form of football around the world is that you’re bound to miss things — especially when the rest of your life gets in the way. I had intended to get up a little early this morning to catch the second half of the Geelong Cats v. Port [...]

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This is the day the GAA has made! Let us rejoice and be glad! Or something. Yes, just six months after I declared the International Rules Football series dead, the Gaelic Athletic Association has announced that it will resume talks with the AFL about reviving the series in 2008. This comes on the heels of [...]

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I know what you’re thinking: where’s our Carlito? Well, he’s taking the weekend off, and so am I. Tonight, I will be walking in Memphis, joining more than 100 of my closest friends (sort of) on a pub crawl down Beale Street. (Three guesses as to what football jersey I’ll be wearing tonight. First two [...]

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