Alan Cawley
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• Analyst @RTESoccer • Cawley’s Call LIVE Season 3 launches Tuesday 15th February ⚽️ #CawleysCall
Dublin, Ireland
Joined January 2011
So grateful to @benettimenswear for their fantastic support. Loved our night in @sugarclubdublin Already looking forward to next year especially after the madness of the last few days. Happy Xmas 🎅 #CawleysCall
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Channel 4 @ 9pm! . Should be compulsory viewing for every single one of us tonight. It’s incredible! ⚽️
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Messi. Tiger. Roger. Rocket. All in our era. We’re spoilt rotten and some don’t even realise it! 🙌.
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These interviews are a disgrace. Serrano warrior yes but no class and as for her trainer. A disgrace!! . Zero class. Katie Taylor should never ever entertain these people again.
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Northern Ireland’s front three were lads that play with Leeds United Burton Albion & Oxford United. The “We don’t have the players” argument is such bullshit. Work with what you have and coach them and put a shape on them to get the best out of them. So pissed off!.
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We’re no world beaters but players playing in preferred positions with a structure and no shortage of encouragement we can achieve a lot. Left the ground very heartened and encouraged by that performance and it was also Harry’s first Ireland game. All round a good night ⚽️🇮🇪
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Really disappointed they’ve chosen to go back to McCarthy. Seemingly very likable bloke but he’s had his go. Appointing another manager with just a campaign in mind. It’s change Irish football needs, new voices new ideas not more of what we’ve seen the last 10 years!!.
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To see a lad as sound as Shane Lowry win the Open in the manner in which he did and then see a group of committed and honest bunch of U19 footballers qualify for a European Championships semi final wouldn’t half fill you with pride for your country. When it comes to sporting.
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This is one of the worst I’ve seen. Absolutely shocking. 🤷♂️.
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For the 2nd day in a row I’ll say it. The GAA should be marketing everything on Hurling. The golden jewel & they don’t even know it!.
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The Irish U21’s job must be the best job in management. Eight years in achieving little or nothing & never a question asked 🤷♂️. We might be putting pathways in place for developing players at underage level but a scenario like this is hardly progressive or forward thinking. ⚽️🇮🇪.
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Considering his stardom & fame what a great lad that Niall Horan sounds chatting to @eoghanmcdermo on @RTE2fm 👍🏻.
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Valencia sitting 15th in La Liga have played 15 league games this year & only won 3. Lowest scorers in league too with just 12 goals yet Man United making them look like the brilliant Valencia teams of 2000 and 2001 who were beaten in Champs Lge finals. What a shambles!!.
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The rule that no referee ever implements only some eejit officiating in an under 17’s game & sends the kid off!!
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UCD with a young manager & a bunch of kids have showed more balls bravery & courage than majority of teams that visit Oriel Park on a regular basis in staying through to their beliefs & philosophy in passing the ball & putting up a great showing. A credit to themselves ⚽️🇮🇪.
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No defending result it was shocking. Point Stephen makes about players not playing regularly at clubs though is a huge issue and not many focusing on it at all. Coming into camp with little or no game time at all. It was broken long before Stephen Kenny took over. ⚽️🇮🇪.
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Martin O’Neill had to go. What him and his staff were serving up was totally unacceptable. From his approach towards games to his defensive attitude both on & off the pitch it just couldn’t continue. The shake up shouldn’t stop there either whole set up needs changing.
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#TheBoysInGreen The memories I have growing up at this time and the country going bananas. Half days, games at 3 o clock, Pub with my auld fella, people dancing on the streets. Ohh Ahh Paul McGrath. Ronnie Whelan. Simpler times the best of times!! ⚽️🇮🇪.
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May be biased because he’s a friend but not only is he one of our greatest sports people he’s also one of our country’s greatest ambassadors because of the person he is. National treasure. Love Ken 🙌🇮🇪.
"They used to give me a biscuit tin to stand on!". Snooker legend Ken Doherty recalls how it all began in Jason's snooker club in Ranelagh. #TommyTiernanShow | @tommedian | @kendoherty1997
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Harry’s weekly apology 🤦♂️ Pathetic at this stage. Who does this stuff actually serve or help 🤷♂️.
As a group of players we are going through a tough period. We know and accept this is nowhere near good enough. We feel your frustration and disappointment, we are doing everything we can to put things right and we will put things right. Thanks for your support ❤️🔴 UNITED
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So many say we don’t have the players. Do Northern Ireland have the players? Absolutely not but the management team more than make up for it with proper organization, being tactically clued in & most importantly a game plan for every match. Can we swap the O’Neills please?.
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Serious appreciation for this 👌.
You thought the best free-kick you saw this week was Lionel Messi. Step forward @jackkeaney1 #bitored #Rovers
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Keith Long loses his best players every year but still produces a team to not only emulate the previous one but make them look like they’re even better than the previous one. Amazing job ⚽️🇮🇪.
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A title decider should never ever be played on a rubber carpet. It’s absolutely horrific and does nothing for the spectacle or the game!! ⚽️🇮🇪.
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Football. 🥲. Gutted for the players & more so Stephen. Ronaldo. Greatness . Get behind these boys & Stephen ⚽️🇮🇪.
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Love Roy. Very humble about himself being in that team saying he was average, far from it. He was absolutely sensational. Love how he talks about Irwin, Beckham, Yorke & Cole. Particularly Beckham, if Roy Keane respects you as a player that’s enough. Loved that chat! #MNF.
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A needless two week break & back to the madness of cramming games in left right & centre doing absolutely nothing for the product. Flogging the players & only killing the spectacle 🤷♂️⚽️🇮🇪.
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Absolute disgrace this!.
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Biggest compliment I can give Rhasidat Adeleke is that she’s as good a speaker as she is a sprinter & that’s saying something. Her composure & assuredness for one so young is unreal. Absolute superstar. Love her ☘️💚🚀.
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Caoimhin Kelleher obviously has all the goalkeeping attributes to succeed at the highest level hence the club he’s playing for & the level he is at but I think his best attribute is his temperament. For one so young he looks the coolest dude on every football pitch I’ve seen him!.
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An embarrassment!.
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All these statements I’m reading last couple of days are indicative of exactly why Irish football is in its current state. Small narrow minded individuals who can’t see past their noses or would never even consider the bigger picture or the greater good of the game here! 🇮🇪⚽️.
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Damien Duff is the best thing to happen our league in around 15/20 years!! ⚽️🇮🇪.
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Gaelic Football is a tough tough watch. Like watching paint dry. When’s the hurling on again!!.
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Watched Lee O’Connor play for U19’s U21’s and now Senior team all in space of 6 months. He’ll be around the Senior team for some time to come too. Very impressive tonight 🇮🇪⚽️.
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Absolute non story and ridiculous he even feels the need to apologise when he should be enjoying the celebrations with his mates.
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Shamrock Rovers players & staff deserve so much credit for what they’re doing & picking up another fantastic European result. At a time when we’ve never had so much eyes & interest on our league & as we plead for proper investment to grow an industry for our league this is huge.
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Holy shit!.
OH MY WORD! That is special from Patrick McEleney! 😲. @DundalkFC have come from behind to lead against Vitesse, and what a goal it was from McEleney!. Unbelievable skill, composure, and audacity to pull off the finish. WOW. 🤯. Sign up 📺 | #LOITV | #LOI
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The beautiful game I grew up loving will never ever be the beautiful game again. It’s dead & buried as I once knew it. Anyone who thinks the game has been enhanced by the nit picking & constant checking of every single bit of contact on the pitch needs their heads checked!!.
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Love this pic. Greatest supporter of our league I know. Not a ground he hasn't set foot in!! #Tom #GreatestLeagueInTheWorld @RichieSadlier
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As good a performance from an Irish team in Europe as you’ll see. All brilliant. Ciaran Kelly superb!! . Inspiring the next generation 🇮🇪⚽️
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This isn’t a real conversation is it? I’m speechless. 🤦♂️.
"I used to think he was bang average in training. I didn't quite get it.". How Roy Keane convinced @MCATEER4 that he was world-class.
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Martin O’Neill bullish about how the squad will be ready for the campaign after Xmas. The pattern of the games and the stats from 2018 paints a very different picture I’m afraid Martin. Not sure what games you’re watching but the ones I’m watching are absolutely horrific.
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Every single Friday night I love. Tonight though was a little extra special. The very best of our league 🙌🇮🇪⚽️.
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Our league has received an absolute bashing this past week because of the situations at Bray & Limerick. Rightly so too in a lot of cases but fair play to Derry City & Shamrock Rovers winning away from home in Europe & restoring some sort of credibility 👍⚽️🇮🇪.
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The achievement was qualification. Elite level football is a very punishing place. We’re still a bit off that. The girls can be so proud of both performances against top ranked opposition. Let this become the norm now rather than the exception 🇮🇪⚽️🇮🇪.
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7 wins out of 7. Scored the most goals. Created the most chances. Best team won. England shambles the whole way through. Footballing justice!.
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Strong end to the campaign & improvements clear for all to see. I think it’s time certain quarters started giving Stephen the respect he deserves and not the constant debate around his credibility after every match. He must be allowed continue to build 🇮🇪⚽️.
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Watching him all season and he did tonight what he’s been doing all year just at a completely different level. No surprise to me. He passes with a purpose and always looks to penetrate. Nobody else in the squad does that. Be on the bench in October, absolutely. #JackByrne ⚽️🇮🇪.
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Not sure what to say but absolutely heartbreaking the news of Liam Millers passing. Life can be so so cruel 🙏.
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I absolutely loved that. The enthusiasm, effort, energy and adventure was absolutely fantastic right to the last kick. Collins O Shea Molumby Cullen Knight all incredible. Appreciation from fans to the players summed up just how positive & promising that was. Loved it 🇮🇪⚽️
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Not a big fan of the familiarity of teams playing each other regularly within the 10 team league structure but I’d gladly watch Bohemians v Shamrock Rovers every week. These fixtures have been first class all year. ⚽️🇮🇪.
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Best player we’ve ever produced and the most compelling character of them all 🙌.
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This guy gets it. Superb stuff 🙌.
Bainisteoir Peile fé 20 @OfficialCorkGAA Keith Ricken ag caint le #GAABEO tar-éis an cluiche iontach vs Ciarraí - Passionate words from Keith Ricken after their dramatic win over @Kerry_Official this evening in Páirc Uí Chaoimh #GAA
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Never as deflated and as disheartened as I am tonight after that farce which took place today. Only positive to take though is surely this is the beginning of the end. The damage the FAI board did to themselves with their performance should mean that’s it. Change has to happen!.
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The more I see of Matt Doherty it’s actually unreal how he hasn’t been given an opportunity at international level. Fine player in a fine team. Is Martin O’Neill in Molineux today?? Doubt it.
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That interview with the Longstaffs. The sheer joy on the kids face & big brother chuffed for him. The beautiful game still has fantastic moments despite money doing its level best to destroy it. What it’s all about! ⚽️👌.
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Mick McCarthy just walked by me leaving 3 mins ago and then Jack Byrne scores a worldie 🇮🇪⚽️ . What a player!.
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Watching 2006 all Ireland semi final here, Dublin v Mayo. How good was Kieran McDonald at Gaelic football. Sensational!!.
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This guys after match interviews are off the charts. Brutal honesty and total accountability. Brilliant.
"Losers make excuses. We needed to be better and we weren't good enough.". Typically honest from Ronan O'Gara, but he insists there are plenty of positives to take from La Rochelle's defeat to Toulouse. #HeinekenChampionsCup
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Our league offers so much to so many. It shouldn’t take a couple of magical European nights to realise this either (we’ve been here before) these magical nights need to be capitalised upon not left hanging out in the ether as just beautiful memories. Infrastructure the key ⚽️🇮🇪.
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Manchester United’s worst points tally after 23 league games since 1990. Yet they still find themselves in 5th position. That’s more of a reflection of how average the PL is this season rather than OGS trying to tell everyone they’re making strides. They’re horrific.
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Another horrendous decision from an official in FAI Cup semi final this weekend. Never a penalty!!.
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This Dundalk side have given the people of Dundalk some amount of highs over the past few years. Brilliant group!!.
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Enjoyable evening in Dalymount. Bohemians have a team that the fans will fully appreciate going to watch again this season all because of the managers excellent recruitment. Remarkable job he has done again on & off the pitch. ⚽️🇮🇪.
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Leave the football before the football leaves you. Casemiro! . Taking off a kid Zirkzee 23 and humiliating him is disgraceful when there are senior players playing far worse & who can’t move. Manchester United. Lowest I’ve ever seen!.
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Maradona: Utter carnage off the pitch. Pure genius & joy on it. He’s the greatest! ⚽️.
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Loved the Aviva tonight. Delighted for Stephen and the players. Played to their limits & never stopped & against top quality opposition. Everyone needs a slice of luck in life. ⚽️🇮🇪.
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This is so petty & childish & absolutely no need for it. Reflects terribly on Martin O’Neill.
Martin O'Neill gives his reaction to the Republic of Ireland's Nations League draw and addresses recent speculation about his future #RTEsoccer
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I know very little about Rugby but it’s a holy disgrace that this game and what I watched last night are Quarter Finals. The best two games of rugby I’ve ever seen. Absolutely exhilarating stuff!.
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Desperately sad news the passing of Alan McLoughlin. Life is so precious 🇮🇪⚽️.
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Watching “99” on Prime. The love, respect & adoration some of the greatest players to ever play for Manchester United have for Roy Keane speaks volumes about his greatness. It’s eye watering. The greatest sports person we’ve ever produced. No debate whatsoever in my mind! ⚽️🇮🇪.
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In the Aviva. I thought Thursday was bad. Rugby is very very tough to watch.
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Never ceases to amaze me how people make judgements on managers at all levels game to game at all levels. Any chance of letting a pattern develop and then maybe come to a fair justifiable judgement ⚽️🇮🇪.
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Recovery period such a huge factor here. How can anyone criticise these lads. They have given absolutely everything. Unreal effort 🇮🇪☘💚.
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Surge very much on in UK. Talking about keeping deaths below 20,000 and they’ll have done well, wow. They’re approach has been nothing short of shambolic and so ignorant from day one.No coincidence when you see who’s running the place. Our decision makers have been great so far!.
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As good a goal & performance & atmosphere as I’ve seen in the Showgrounds in years. Convincing & comfortable victory. Delighted for all involved on & off the pitch! . 🇮🇪⚽️.
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Matt Doherty another two tonight & an assist for the winner. Lot of talk at weekend about Son Heung-min for POTY & rightly so but Doherty must be in the top 6 also considering the season he’s having. Week in week out superb ⚽️👍.
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Watching Andy Murray sobbing at the realization he will have to retire is very very sad. What an unbelievable career he has had. To not only compete against but topple the greatest players to have ever played the game is quite something. Sensational player!!.
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