Bored? Nowt to do? Fancy laughing at an old footah warhorse fumbling catastrophically with modern technology? Check out my occasional football vlogs featuring the mighty Boro and my Bito'red travels. Enjoy. Or not.
Finally got my career break solo football jaunt sorted so I'm off in April. Thought about Athens, Germany and France but plumped for the Emerald Isle and a bit o' red
@sligorovers
proper stuff 😊⚽️☘️🇨🇮
Despite a brutally tedious & uncomfortable night spent in Dublin airport last September, I'm doing it again. 😵💫😴Cheeky flight from EMA this afto for evening at Tolka Park praying mighty Rovers turn up against top of table Shels. Up our side!
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UTBOR. ✈️ 🇮🇪 ⚽️❤️🤍
Home at last. I'm a Boro lifer and always will be, but I think I've stirred that bit of Irish blood I've got down my Mam's side and reckon I'm now also "Rovers til I die". What a club, fantastic band of fans. You're now stuck with this mad English fella. UTBOR.
#TheEnglishRover
An absolute pleasure and honour to spend time over coffee with two bonafide
@sligorovers
legends
@jimnotleo
and
@TommySligo
. Great chat, stories and anecdotes.
Thanks for the kind gifts, chaps. I know I keep saying it but what a club. 👍🏻
As dust settles, big up for player of the season Niall Morahan. Always gives 💯, been asked to play in numerous positions and kept hands firmly folded behind his back during "guard of honour". Top lad.
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@BitORedTrust
Ticket purchased for Friday.
Flight from East Mids 8.55am
Land in Dublin 10am
Roam around city
Head to Phibs for match 7.45pm
Head back to airport and find comfy chair to sleep
Fly back to East Mids on first flight on Saturday 6.50am
Come on
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#NoSleepRoversReturn
50something, redundant, bit of cash and on career break. I could have flown out to see Barca, Inter, Bayern or PSG but no, I went west to see the mighty
@sligorovers
and I'm glad I did. Streaming LOITV tonight, let's beat the Shams.
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Managed to find some time in my unnecessarily busy diary (how did I end up with 3 f*cking jobs!!?) for my final jaunt to the promised land this season for the Bohs game on 19th October. Can't wait. Up our side.
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Just watched "Shine"
@sligorovers
documentary. Very interesting and gives a great feel for the special sense of community of the club. I hope no one minds an old English interloper as a newbie
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. UTBoR! I'll be back sometime this season.
Sligo Rovers. What a superb club and tremendous people. I'm a lucky man to have discovered them and be accepted into the fold. Up the Bito'red!
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(ps. That's a Thatchers Zero from Xmas I'm supping there 😉🚱). Cheers
@TommySligo
you're a top fella.
Full-time result | Dundalk 0-5 Rovers 🔴⚪️
Thank you to all supporters who traveled tonight and seen Russell's men put on a show ⚡️
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#Since1928
I watched Chesterfield get beaten on pens at Wembley on Saturday and Boro beaten over 2 legs in Championship play-offs. Not a great week. Let's hope the mighty
@sligorovers
can brighten things up. Come on the
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Back home and 10 degrees cooler 🥶. Who'd have thought I'd have gone to lovely Sligo for a suntan! 🌞 See you again. Up the Rovers! Onto the next..
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On bus back to airport. Great atmosphere in the away end despite the result which flattered Bohs. Well done
@FR08_Official
Great to see
@PedroMartelo9
on the scoresheet. 🇵🇹👍🏻
Big thanks to the top man Donal
@bingoballss
. Good to watch game together. Keep up the ace pod.
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@KieranMaguire
Steve has remained at the helm for the 10-15 years since the golden era. He's stabilised the club (a few wrongs turns can be forgiven) and now rebuilding. Anyone who criticises him in an age of asset stripping tycoons and culture blind sovereign investors needs a head wobble.
First anniversary of my inaugural visit to
@sligorovers
and a wonderful part of the world. So pleased to be a Rovers fan now. UTBOR.
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#TheEnglishRover
Check out couple of videos on my YouTube. "Cakewalk in Dundalk" in the making.
Just wondering how many
@sligorovers
fans live outside ROI and around the world? Either diaspora exiles or blokes like me who've found and follow the
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. Drop a reply with your location and I'll give you a follow (if I don't already). 👍🏻⚽️ 🌍 🔴⚪️
Looked at a late flyer to get to game but couldn't make it work with work/life commitments. 😔 Wish I was there. UTBOR!
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Ps. Hope to see some of you lads at Tolka on 31st May. 👍🏻
Some had
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odds on to go down at start of season. Nonsense I say! Inconsistent at times but, with rest and bodies back, we can compete with any team. On to Europe (I voted Remain btw 😉 🇪🇺)! I might even write that book.
@Chappy151174
is in. 😁 UTBOR!
@StokeyyG2
Because some of us don't drink anymore for a myriad of personal reasons but still enjoy a beer. Just dont use alcohol. Its good and not doing any harm. You don't like it then don't drink it.
Over 4 years free and grateful for it.
A short vid of my first two jaunts to wonderful Sligo in 2023. More a travelogue than footah film as the idea came later. My Bohs and Dundalk vids will have more footage.
What a club
@sligorovers
and an amazing corner of the world.
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Love it.
Looking at a return to
@sligorovers
in July for Cork game all being well. Depends on job and money 🤞🏻🤞🏻. I should be a grandad twice over by then too! 👶👶😊
This time I'll give Dublin a miss and visit the Sligo beaches instead.
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#frankiegoestosligo
THE ROVERS 💪
More changes from Friday as Greg Bolger missed out through injury and Eanna Clancy can’t start
Lukas Browning and John Mahon start in their place
Hartmann, Finnerty, Vastsuk, Boylan, Buckley, O’ Sullivan, Byrne and Walsh all out
Nando leads us (C)👊
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It's a absolute belter. Received this morning. Thanks to
@goconnor1
for sorting out posting and the friendly note. I'll defo be over next season and look forward to meeting you,
@bingoballss
and more of the lads. What a club.
@BitORedTrust
@sligorovers
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🎶 Niall Morahan is magic
He wears a magic hat
And when he saw the Showgrounds
He said "I fancy that"
He could have gone to Dublin or Galway but they're shite
Instead he signed for Rovers cos they're fucking dynamite. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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Walking back from the beach, I thought I'd take a butcher's at
@StrandCelticFC
. A grand set up indeed. Clearly a proud little club with a long and distinguished history. Excellent.
TABLE | SSE Airtricity Men's Premier Division
👉 Derry City move to within two points of the leaders
👉 Sligo Rovers climb two spots
👉 Dundalk are off the bottom
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#LOITV
Cheers
@jimnotleo
for the wonderful piece in the programme (I'll even let him off calling me a geordie! 😉😁). The pleasure is all to mine to be an adopted
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. Now let's take down the Shams. UTBOR!
Just noticed the kind inscription
@jimnotleo
. Not sure about being "unique". Just a slightly eccentric but friendly fella trying to find peace and meaning to life through the medium of footah. I'm so proud to be connected with the mighty
@sligorovers
& amazing folk. Up our side.
94’ FULL TIME
A spirited Rovers display ends with the points being shared
Niall Morahan with his first goal of the season for Rovers
Thanks to the travelling Rovers supporters once again 👏
🟥 1-1 ⬜️
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Bohemians 0-2 Rovers 🔴⚪️
Full-time | WHAT A WIN 🤩
2 amazing goals from Waweru and Chapman to win all 3 points for the 10 men Rovers, McGinty confirms that he is the best keeper in the league 🙌
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#Since1928
Most goals in England
Most points per game in England
Won 17 out of the last 19 matches
Only team with over 50 points in England
Averaging 59.8% possession
12 different goalscorers
Beat 2 league one sides
Paul Cooks Chesterfield 👏👏👏
The thing that gets me about this brilliant pod is how much the lads care.
@sligorovers
is a unique club. So glad I found
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, best thing I did on my career break despite this seasons woes. You're stuck with this old English fella now. UTBOR! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻