John Stevenson

fat and lazy but fun! try almost anything once or twice!

[Daniel Hussey @DanielHussey2]

World Cup Fixtures & Irish Kick-Off Times:

Thursday 11th June:

20:00 - Mexico vs South Africa

Friday 12th June:

03:00 - South Korea vs Czechia
20:00 - Canada vs Bosnia & Herzegovina

Saturday 13th June:

02:00 - USA vs Paraguay
20:00 - Qatar vs Switzerland
23:00 - Brazil vs Morocco

Sunday 14th June:

02:00 - Haiti vs Scotland
05:00 - Australia vs Turkey
18:00 - Germany vs Curaçao
21:00 - Netherlands vs Japan

Monday 15th June:

00:00 - Ivory Coast vs Ecuador
03:00 - Sweden vs Tunisia
17:00 - Spain vs Cape Verde
20:00 - Belgium vs Egypt
23:00 - Saudi Arabia vs Uruguay

Tuesday 16th June:

02:00 - Iran vs New Zealand
20:00 - France vs Senegal
23:00 - Iraq vs Norway

Wednesday 17th June:

02:00 - Argentina vs Algeria
05:00 - Austria vs Jordan
18:00 - Portugal vs DR Congo
21:00 - England vs Croatia

Thursday 18th June:

00:00 - Ghana vs Panama
03:00 - Uzbekistan vs Colombia
17:00 - Czechia vs South Africa
20:00 - Switzerland vs Bosnia & Herzegovina
23:00 - Canada vs Qatar

Friday 19th June:

02:00 - Mexico vs South Korea
20:00 - USA vs Australia
23:00 - Scotland vs Morocco

Saturday 20th June:

01:30 - Brazil vs Haiti
04:00 - Turkey vs Paraguay
18:00 - Netherlands vs Sweden
21:00 - Germany vs Ivory Coast

Sunday 21st June:

01:00 - Ecuador vs Curaçao
05:00 - Tunisia vs Japan
17:00 - Spain vs Saudi Arabia
20:00 - Belgium vs Iran
23:00 - Uruguay vs Cape Verde

Monday 22nd June:

02:00 - New Zealand vs Egypt
18:00 - Argentina vs Austria
22:00 - France vs Iraq

Tuesday 23rd June:

01:00 - Norway vs Senegal
04:00 - Jordan vs Algeria
18:00 - Portugal vs Uzbekistan
21:00 - England vs Ghana

Wednesday 24th June:

00:00 - Panama vs Croatia
03:00 - Colombia vs DR Congo
20:00 - Bosnia & Herzegovina vs Qatar
20:00 - Switzerland vs Canada
23:00 - Morocco vs Haiti
23:00 - Scotland vs Brazil

Thursday 25th June:

02:00 - Czechia vs Mexico
02:00 - South Africa vs South Korea
21:00 - Curaçao vs Ivory Coast
21:00 - Ecuador vs Germany

Friday 26th June:

00:00 - Japan vs Sweden
00:00 - Tunisia vs Netherlands
03:00 - Paraguay vs Australia
03:00 - Turkey vs USA
20:00 - Norway vs France
20:00 - Senegal vs Iraq

Saturday 27th June:

01:00 - Cape Verde vs Saudi Arabia
01:00 - Uruguay vs Spain
04:00 - Egypt vs Iran
04:00 - New Zealand vs Belgium
22:00 - Croatia vs Ghana
22:00 - Panama vs England

Sunday 28th June:

00:30 - Colombia vs Portugal
00:30 - DR Congo vs Uzbekistan
03:00 - Algeria vs Austria
03:00 - Jordan vs Argentina
20:00 - Round of 32

Monday 29th June:

18:00 - Round of 32
21:30 - Round of 32

Tuesday 30th June:

02:00 - Round of 32
18:00 - Round of 32
22:00 - Round of 32

Wednesday 1st July:

02:00 - Round of 32
17:00 - Round of 32
21:00 - Round of 32

Thursday 2nd July:

01:00 - Round of 32
20:00 - Round of 32

Friday 3rd July:

00:00 - Round of 32
04:00 - Round of 32
19:00 - Round of 32
23:00 - Round of 32

Saturday 4th July:

02:30 - Round of 32
18:00 - Round of 16
22:00 - Round of 16

Sunday 5th July:

21:00 - Round of 16

Monday 6th July:

01:00 - Round of 16
20:00 - Round of 16

Tuesday 7th July:

01:00 - Round of 16
17:00 - Round of 16
21:00 - Round of 16

Thursday 9th July:

21:00 - Quarter Final

Friday 10th July:

20:00 - Quarter Final

Saturday 11th July:

22:00 - Quarter Final

Sunday 12th July:

02:00 - Quarter Final

Tuesday 14th July:

20:00 - Semi Final

Wednesday 15th July:

20:00 - Semi Final

Saturday 18th July:

22:00 - Third Place Play Off

Sunday 19th July:

20:00 - Final

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[John Stevenson @herostevo]

How did he see that

[CorkCity1185 @1185City]

Moss Finn try Ireland v Wales 1982. Moss made the move from the Highfield rugby ha'penny place to Cork Con inspiring Ronan O'Gara to later make a similar daunting traverse from Bishopstown to Ballintemple, a coup de grâce for 'la gente comune'. Cork rugby

[John Stevenson @herostevo]

@Jennnyyyyyy 13

[Balls.ie @ballsdotie]

How Barry Walsh's goal for the Cork U20s last night looked from the stands.

Our sympathies with whoever is tasked with marking him. 😳

(Via Littlest Liz on tiktok)

[John Stevenson @herostevo]

@damzychillin Nicolas Anelka

[John Stevenson @herostevo]

@damzychillin Bruno Cheryou

[John Stevenson @herostevo]

@AbuZeenah_ Raheem

[John Stevenson @herostevo]

Like my own routine in Trabolgan preparing for the community games in Mosney #couldveplayedcounty

[Football Tweet ⚽ @Footballtweet]

🚨 Incredible scenario unfolding in the English fifth tier this season! 😱🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

York City and Rochdale are on 101 points and 99 points after 43 games, with just 4 matches left—and only ONE automatic promotion spot up for grabs. 🤯

The craziest part? The two sides will face each other on the final day of the season in what could be an absolute title-deciding showdown if things stay this tight. 😍

Just imagine… one of them could miss out on promotion despite surpassing 100 points. 😳

[Fintan O'Toole @fotoole13]

Live hurling coverage on TV this week:

Saturday
5.15pm: Galway v Kilkenny - RTÉ 2
7pm: Limerick v Cork - TG4

Sunday
1.15pm: Clare v Wexford - TG4
2pm: Kildare v Carlow - TG4 app and player
3.15pm: Waterford v Tipperary - TG4

[WST @WeAreWST]

AN ALL-TIME GREAT PERFORMANCE!

Chang Bingyu has completed a masterpiece vs. Shaun Murphy

FOUR CENTURIES, THREE TOTAL CLEARANCES

4-0

ZERO POTS MISSED!

524 points scored
1 point conceded

#WelshOpen

[Ray Boyne @AnalysisGaa]

If you’re watching for attitude and effort, this is the clip.

The outcome is largely secure.
And still, Robert Baloucoune covers the width of the pitch to make a try-saving tackle.

That tells you something.

Scoreboard comfort doesn’t change standards.
Effort doesn’t fluctuate with circumstance.
Habits don’t relax because pressure has eased.

This wasn’t about the moment.
It was about identity.

That’s a team that goes after effort.

Effort is a choice.
And Ireland chose it.

Standards are most visible when they’re no longer required.

… and then reach down and pick your teammate up

[John Stevenson @herostevo]

@theracehorseguy Open

[John Stevenson @herostevo]

@WifeFinance Where the fuck gives 15% interest

[BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine @RobLooseCannon]

Today in 1995 Ireland played a friendly match against England it Lansdowne Road. Some level of mindless violence was predicted. The FAI struck a deal with the FA to reduce English fan tickets to 4,000 out of 40,000. Gardaí drilled for a few minor scenarios, however, their main presence was outside the stadium.

Before the game, in a prelude to violence, nearby pubs were vandalised with Loyalist paramilitary and British National Party graffiti. It seemed the dangerous element landed in Dun Laoghaire on the ferry that day. President Mary Robinson was loudly booed from the English stands as she met the players.

Kickoff was 6:15pm. The toxic, intimidating atmosphere grew by the second. There was the usual reprehensible behaviour of spitting and throwing missiles, which gradually ramped up. The tone of the verbal intimidation spoke volumes about the xenophobia and sectarianism endemic in the English hooligan's psyche.

Chants of "F#ck the Pope" and "No surrender to the IRA" may seem childish taunts, but they were joined by provocative hate speech such as "Clegg is innocent", referring to British soldier Lee Clegg who murdered two Belfast teenagers, then was controversially cleared years later.

22 minutes in and David Kelly scored, 1 - Nil for Ireland. This was soon followed by a disallowed offside goal by England's David Platt, and then the thuggery stepped up a notch. Approximately 26 minutes in, and from the old West Stand, rubbish and torn up seating were infamously hurled down by the English hooligans on to the Irish fans in the lower stands.

In an idiotic oversight, some Irish fans had been ticketed areas in the English zones, after the FA returned tickets to the FAI. This left them isolated and vulnerable, surrounded by their attackers. In fairness to the dismayed referee, he stopped the match at this point and pulled both teams off the pitch, littered with torn and thrown seats.

No doubt the English team and their genuine fans were as disgusted by the behaviour of the "casual" gurriers as everyone else. As Jack Charlton left the pitch, vile verbal abuse from his fellow English countryman was hurled at him. "Judas" is the least obscene word.

The Irish fans in the lower stands were essentially sitting ducks at the mercy of the English rioter's missiles. They eventually were forced to spill out on to the pitch to avoid worse injury. 12 more minutes and the match was called off.

The PA system, and the presumably terrified match stewards, began to evacuate the crowd as the missiles and threats rained down. Mercifully the majority of the shocked fans and their families made their way safely and peacefully out of Lansdowne. But the not insignificant force of 4,500 English "fans" needed to be detained by Gardaí.

The reason for this was twofold. Firstly for their own safety, to keep them segregated from the home supporters who they had cowardly assaulted (and who dramatically outnumbered them). Secondly to search and arrest the guilty parties, some of who British forces had identified as organised criminal and paramilitary elements.

Predictably, this detention caused the violence and thuggery to escalate. The Garda response was hampered by access to the seating areas occupied by the rioters. One particularly nasty group of bigots essentially orchestrated the chaos, lead by an English fascist called Charlie Sargent, who notorious founded Combat 18 in 1992.

For those blissfully unaware of these neo-nazi thugs, all you need to know is the "18" in their name is alphabet code for AH, Adolf Hitler. They were the muscle for the unabashedly racist right-wing British National Party (BNP).

It will be surprising to no one that these English thugs had a close relationship with the loyalist paramilitary group, the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) and many were members of the National Front-> concludes in comments

[Ben Steiner @BenSteiner00]

Some frightening scenes out of yesterday’s four-man bobsled race in St. Moritz.

USA’s Kris Horn had to navigate the big sled on his own after three teammates failed to board.

It all starts when Hunter Powell slips and goes from there.

[george @StokeyyG2]

Roy Keane: ‘You’ve still got Alex Ferguson hanging around like a bad smell’

Sturridge’s face after he said that 🤣🤣 https://t.co/J3NNMDIwZS

[John Stevenson @herostevo]

@LaLaaaX89X Congratulations and it keeps getting better, I found it hard to believe but it’s magical. Keep coming back