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The DA brings the Football cities united tour to Dublin , in association with Roganstown Golf and Country Club
We’re delighted to announce that following our season long tour of footballing cities in England, the DA is paying a one off visit to the city of Dublin to sample the Irish delights surrounding the beautiful game. Thanks to Roganstown Golf and Country Club the tour will stretch it’s oversea’s legs and take in three games in three days at the following venues:
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The DA concludes the Mitre Football cities united tour
Ever since the 1966 World Cup final, commentators have longed to find an iconic expression they can call their own. You hear it at every major final; the guy in charge of the microphone slowly breaking up their sentences, for sound bite purposes of course, on the off chance England won’t get knocked out on penalties again or just plain suck in the last 16. No one, other than possibly very, very recently with Ray Wilkin’s hapless ‘Stay on your feet’ has managed to conclude a classic footballing moment with such precision as ‘they think it’s all over, it is now.’ Coming up with a summary for this tour I can now realise just why. It’s sodding difficult.
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The DA continues the Mitre Football cities united tour
I can only apologise to Wolverhampton for the terrible first impression created in my head before I’d even stepped out of the door. A severe case of man flu does not make anyone long to trek out into the rain at 7.30 in the morning knowing full well they have to stop off at Cheltenham due to the Rail Network’s traditional ‘let’s dig stuff up’ Saturdays. To put it bluntly, I would rather have spent the day with El Hadji Diouf.
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The DA continues the Mitre Football cities united tour
For anyone who’s witnessed the cinematic magic that is When Saturday Comes, it’s very hard to enter the city of Sheffield without getting just a little bit excited. My first mixture of film and football saw Sean Bean don the Sheffield United shirt and effortlessly glide past 8 Manchester United defenders three times in 20 second half minutes to give the Blades a glorious cup victory, before snogging a hot Irish woman and ultimately curing his drinking problem. To put it bluntly, the fact that no Oscar followed is quite simply disgusting.
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The DA continues the Mitre Football cities united tour
It’s hard to believe that we’re already half way through the tour to find the best footballing city in the country and it was with no real hardship that I ended the first 14 weeks with a five and a half hour trip up to the North of the North, Newcastle United. As one of only three trips I physically can not make in a day (Sunderland and Carlisle being the other selfishly located cities) it did dawn upon me on the way up to ‘the Toon’ just how close together everything is in this country. You’ve basically got a choice of supporting 92 teams, especially if you live in the Midlands. Imagine trying to do this tour in America, or Australia…Even Spain, which as Barcelona recently found out during the snow blizzards, can be a damn big country when it wants to be.
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