an amusing moment, nonetheless

[waider]

I ended up watching the match in Messrs, as I left it a little too late to get a DART home and ran into the Lansdowne-bound crowds who had Tara Street backed up almost to the doors. A barman recognised me and asked a few polite "haven't seen you in ages" sort of questions, and then allowed as how he'd plugged the bar into Google and my name came up.

Comments

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

My condolences, dude. Going by Yahoo's Matchcast, it read like it was a hard-played match on both sides.

[waider.livejournal.com]

Weeeeell.

The Irish team played hard, yes. But they played hard in several wrong ways, and I really don't know who the fault lies with but I'm sick of seeing managers being fired when their cobbled-together teams fail to cohere. Yet I'm sure the next time I hear Brian Kerr's name it will be in the context of his ex-career as Ireland's manager.

[waidesworld.livejournal.com]

And soon after a place on the "experts" Irish panel for the World Cup reruns hosted on TnG at 4 in the morning!

[eejitalmuppet.livejournal.com]

Bummer re: the result. I was playing pool in a real Irish pub (as in with a real Irish owner, as opposed to crappy shamrock decor), where they were showing the England game in some rooms and the Ireland game on a big screen in the main bar. Looked like they gave it a decent go (from what i saw), but missed Damien Duff's creativity.

Is Messr's still a good pub, then?

[waider.livejournal.com]

Messr's is not the giant of a pub it once was. The decor's in need of work, mainly; I recognised a surprising number of the staff, and the food still looks great, and they're only charging three euro for their homebrew, but it still feels like they've not given it a (needed) cleanup since I stopped going there regularly.

[eejitalmuppet.livejournal.com]

The most important question: is their Plain still the dogs bollocks?

[waider.livejournal.com]

Well, it didn't make me yark, but frankly I've been so spoiled with the excellent Guinness at the Kings that I can't tell if anyone else's stout is any good any more.