B…B…Bertie’s Bowl looks like unmaterializing
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So it looks as if the chances of us hosting the Euro Soccer 2008 Champonships with Scotland is a non runner……especially now that the GAA have refused to allow field games other than gaelic to be played in Croke Park. My money is now on Bertie in the forthcoming general election with the promise of Stadium Ireland being built. The objectors can get lost.
The whole Euro 2008 bid was a bit half-assed to he honest, and while you’ll probably find that most of the rival bids are similarly half-assed, ours was particularly bad. Apart from at this end having no stadiums, the Scots are proposing to use three stadiums in Glasgow, thats like sending out a written invitation to hooligans because there’ll be several groups based around the same city.
On the issue of the National Stadium, its obvious to all that its badly needed. The Croke Park thing is a feeble cop-out used by the anti-sport lobby such as Mary Hungry and her soon to be much smaller in number shower. The only people who want to see football or Rugby at Croke Park are know-nothing politicians, the FAI and IRFU are not even interested in playing there and quite rightly so. Who wants to be the GAA’s tenant and be at the mercy of their whims?
Just look at the state of the Lansdowne pitch during the USA game, never mind the state of the rest of the stadium. A stadium on a greenfield site is preferable to rebuilding Lansdowne, because we could still play at lansdowne while its being built rather than having no option but to play our games in a different country, say Liverpool otherwise. That would be a huge embarassment to the country, even more of a national embarassment than the state of Lansdowne, or the state of Mary Harney.
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