Month: December 2008

The Windsor, Bangor, Northern Ireland (1997)

Posted on by Jonny Blair

This is to date on my blog, the most nostalgic, inspiring and melancholic post yet and it warps your poisoned mind back to 1997 – when life was good, when “the smiles were genuine.” I’m not being deeply ironic, cynical, acting like an old man, I’m just appreciating that period of my life when everything Read more about The Windsor, Bangor, Northern Ireland (1997)[…]

“You’ll never get Gibraltar!” – Northern Ireland 0-0 Spain (June 2003)

Posted on by Jonny Blair

In my life I’ve been to four Northern Ireland v. Spain matches. It seems we are two teams that are nearly always drawn against each other. For example in every World Cup between 1982 and 1994 we were either in the same group in the actual tournament or in qualifying. We even had Spain in Read more about “You’ll never get Gibraltar!” – Northern Ireland 0-0 Spain (June 2003)[…]