HOW ANNOYING,BEATEN BY THE HAND OF FROG

As most of you will know by know Ireland once again were the victims of sporting injustice,we wuz robbed in Paris by the the hand of frog Terry Henry,who handled the ball not once but twice in extra time to put France on the plane to South Africa and to confine us to another four years on the campaign trail.Now this is not the first time this has happened to us and not even the first time against France.Back in my day Kevin Moran scored a brilliant headed goal,but the referee disallowed it inexplicably for hand ball,because of that we failed to qualify for the World Cup.We accepted it in good grace as we always do but it makes you sort of angry that because we are small that people push us aside,and these things constantly happen to us.One day we will have our day,though i probably wont be alive to see it.
Went to watch Brighton play Leeds on Saturday with my friend Tim Southwell and his two boys Alfie and Sonny,all of them Leeds fans.Once again Brighton lost while i watched,well thats not strictly true,i watched the first half got a bit wet and cold so decided at half time to visit my old Captain Steve Foster who lives just up the road.Really enjoyed that bit, had a coffee and a couple of glasses of Rioja and watched the results from the comfort of Fozzies home.
Had a little bit of Nostalgia last night when Martin Smith celebrated his 40th birthday here.Martin was one of my first group of young regulars 22 years ago when he was 18.He met his beautiful wife Nicki here,she was one of my Bar maids and i remember them getting together and getting married and they now have three beautiful young children.There were lots of faces i have not seen for a while and all of his friends.It was a great night for us in these lean times.