Posted by UTP on July 11, 2001 at 19:08:06:
In Reply to: Re: Association football posted by JDP on July 10, 2001 at 23:08:23:
Josie Feeney played for his country as did
Fergus McEllin in the recent past.John Gavin
from Charles st also played for Ireland youths.
Great credit to the pioneers who founded soccer
in town that it is such a huge sucess.
Hughie was no different to Scalp Quinn on the
Main st but the bud comment was very much Hughies.
In the UK they hate the word soccer.It appears
that to differentiate from rugby football the
toffs called it soccer.The retort was to call
rugby rugger!