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Irish Times
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Times
Duffer lurking in the long grass while Bohemians hit the right note
The lengths to which Damien Duff went to watch his Shelbourne side take on Bohemians at Dalymount Park on Friday produced, without doubt, the football gaffer photo of the week. Suspended for the game after picking up his fifth caution of the season against St Patrick's Athletic the previous Friday, Duff was spotted lurking on the bank behind one of the goals keeping an eye on proceedings. Shels fans, of course, can oft be heard singing, to the tune of Zombie, 'in your head, in your head, Duffer, Duffer...' in a salute to their manager's ability to, well, outfox rivals, so, naturally enough, Bohs fans adapted the ditty on Friday. 'In your hedge, in your hedge, Duffer, Duffer...' Quality. Pondering the big questions You know this thing that's doing the rounds this weather, people being asked who would win a fight between 100 men and one gorilla? Well, most respondents just give it a second's thought, pick their an answer and they're done with it. Not Jack Grealish, though. READ MORE 'One hundred men for sure. It's been a big debate, hasn't it? People speak about it at training and stuff. I think 100 men, easy. I typed it in, they only weigh like 250kg, that's like two Tyson Furys. So it's not even that much.' 'I ain't being one of the first 10, they just take a hit for the team. But then after that I actually reckon 50 men will beat a gorilla. Obviously you've got to have decent sized lads to go in there. I'd take Erling [Haaland], Scott Carson, Ruben Dias. If we all went in then I reckon even 50 men will beat the gorilla – 25 of us, I reckon.' 'You put one gorilla in a changing room, I reckon we'd do him. I swear. I'm not even bantering. You just throw the younger lads in first, Phil [Foden] and Rico [Lewis], and then all the big dogs going in later. Yeah.' This might be why he didn't come off the bench for Saturday's FA Cup final. He was exhausted from all the thinking. Facts and figures Quiz question, what's this: 'WLLWDLDWLDWDWLLWLLLDWLWLLDWDWLDLLDLLL'? With thanks to the Squawka people, that's Manchester United's sequence of Premier League results this season. A history-making one too. 'For the first time, the club will end a season without stringing two wins in a row together in the Premier League.' And from the OptaJoe folk: 'Ruben Amorim has won 24 points in 26 Premier League games, a points per game ratio of 0.92. This is lower than Paul Jewell's Premier League points per game (0.94), who managed 24 winless games at Derby when they finished on 11 points in 2007-08.' The Sunday Times Rich List showed that United's co-owner Jim Ratcliffe is worth £17.046 billion (down £6.473bn – but he won't starve). You sense he'll need to invest the entire amount in new players this summer to turn things around. QUOTE 'I will go to Cork and stay three days there, looking at training and learning a bit about the people – who they say are a little bit different.' – Whether the rebels take this as a compliment or not from Heimir Hallgrímsson , who knows – but they probably do. NUMBER: 17 If he signs the new contract David Moyes said he would be offered, that's how many seasons Séamus Coleman will have been with Everton. That works out as just over £3,500 a year, based on what Sligo Rovers were paid for him. Some bargain. WORD OF MOUTH 'Sportsmanship is dead and gone, it's with O'Leary in the grave.' – St Pat's manager Stephen Kenny going all Yeats on us when talking about his annoyance with Bohs and Shels for not putting the ball out of play when he had players down injured. 'If Ferguson was coaching right now he would probably end up in jail. Do you know how many players I saw cry because he gave them the hairdryer, throwing boots? He was evil.' – Apart from that, Patrice Evra enjoyed his time playing for Alex. 'I come from clubs where I'm not used to losing.' – Noussair Mazraoui , ex Ajax and Bayern Munich player, having a whole new experience at Manchester United this season. 'You didn't deserve that. Disgrace.' – Pep Guardiola taking that FA Cup defeat well when he had words with Crystal Palace goalkeeper Dean Henderson at full-time on Saturday. With thanks to the Daily Mail's lip-reader.
BBC News
01-05-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Carson 'one of the people you need around'
Everyone needs a Scott Carson in their might not have been a sentence you expected to read today but it is the opinion of Kyle Walker, who has shared the Manchester City changing room with the 39-year-old goalkeeper since has quite the reputation for being one of football's good guys and has also acquired an incredible CV since his senior career started way back in 2003 at despite filling his trophy cabinet, he has only played twice in six years for City and has not kept a Premier League clean sheet since 14 May told The Kyle Walker Podcast: "For someone of his age to have played the amount of games he's played. To come in every day knowing you're the third-choice keeper... mentally, I have to take my hat off to him. "Scott Carson could retire, he's had a fantastic career but to still have the love for football and do what he does, these are the people you need around the place." Who is Scott Carson? If you haven't been watching the Premier League for long then you could be forgiven for not knowing who Carson is. After all, he has only played twice in all competitions since joining City in 2019 - the last appearance coming in May put it simply, Carson is a four-time Premier League winner with two Champions League titles, an FA Cup, two League Cups, two Super Cups and a Club World first of his major trophies came back in 2005 when he was an unused substitute for Liverpool during their Champions League win in Istanbul and then followed it up with the Super Cup. The following year, he was part of the Reds squad who lifted the FA Carson's last clean sheet in England's top flight came 14 years ago - in a 1-0 win over Everton while playing for West that last shut out, he picked up his fourth and final England cap and also added nine of the 12 major trophies he has won to his spending eight years at Bursaspor, Wigan and Derby, the Premier League champions came calling and two years on loan at the Etihad Stadium resulted in being signed permanently by Pep may well be City's third-choice stopper behind Ederson and Stefan Ortega but he has earned himself three new one-year deals. Is a fourth on the cards soon? 'I was fortunate in Manchester to know this guy' David Silva, Sergio Aguero and Vincent Kompany are just three names who are etched into City history if we are talking trophies and influence on the team-mates around them, then Carson is right up there alongside these City legends. Just ask Pep Guardiola. The Catalan has managed the best City have had to offer in modern times, but he encourages young players to learn from the veteran goalkeeper."I was fortunate in Manchester to know this guy," said Guardiola. "Sometimes as a manager you get the opportunity to know people like him – he's like a captain, built incredible love for the team. I'm pretty sure when we need him, he'll respond!"The best advice I could give to the young players is to stay around Scott Carson as much as possible in the locker room and on the pitch."It would be better than being with me. If they spend a lot of time, listen to him and pay attention, that is the best advice and learning they can get about their future careers."Every second he is training and every minute you get on the pitch and in the changing room [with Carson], you value."It's like the young actors have to be with the old actors on the set. They are wiser and have the values of the profession."
