FOR THE LOVE OF THE GAME I have to confess that I’ve never really understood schoolboy football in Ireland. I played a bit in the Drogheda schoolboy league and it was a good place to toughen you up and get the odd moment of glory (I remember a...
We are all human, we all make mistakes I don’t envy referees. They go out there every week at all levels of the game and do their best. And what do they get in return? A small fee, some expenses, often nothing. But actually, the main thing they get...
Back in the 1970s and early 80s, there were only two football results that mattered to me, those of Drogheda United and Drogheda United B. Each week, we would see the B division’s results and table listed in the paper and you would wonder how...