If you told anyone who religiously followed the Northern Ireland football team in the 1980s that we could ever go FOUR years without a home win, they’d laugh at ye…however things got rather grim once upon a time as a true Northern Ireland die hard. With 1999 being a total disaster at home, with no Read more about “Four years, it only took four years…”: Northern Ireland 2-0 Azerbaijan[…]
For a start I couldn’t find the “umlaut” or whatever button to put the two dashes above the “o” in Zoe, so Miss Salmon I am sorry…but there I was back in a beautiful 1980s Northern Ireland living in the Marlo area and I was a child attending Kilmaine Primary School. In a rare baby Read more about Just Another Kilmaine Schoolmate…Zoe Salmon[…]
Whilst working in PR in London at Bite Communications, days seemed too long, nights too short and my journey home would be different every day. On any given weeknight, the trains could be delayed, cancelled or lines off and this would affect my routes home and to work. I would never complain about it though Read more about The Night I…Got Swedish Wood with Inga in London[…]
Back in 1997 I was learning to drive in and around Newtownards. I had turned 17 and would do my driving test in my birth town of Newtownards. My driving instructor was Desi Bateson, a friend of the family, and my driving lessons were paid for as a 17th birthday present from my Granda Read more about The Time My Mate Was The Star Of Driving School – BBC1, 1997[…]
By early 2007, the South of England Northern Ireland Supporters Club decided to hit Oxford, the furthest north we had ventured for a meeting (except the mainland NISC 5 a sides). There were four Northern Ireland fans based in Oxford, none of whom had actually attended our meeting our even joined our club, and with Read more about The City of Oxford Turns Northern Irish! SOENISC at The University Derby – Oxford United v Cambridge United[…]
Crisps are the ultimate easy snack aren’t they? They cost less than 50p (usually), and you don’t ever need to cook them. You can eat them in 5 minutes and you can get a variety of flavours. Surely everyone likes crisps? More importantly is the brand of crisps you eat – you have to eat Read more about TAYTO! The Nicest Crisps In The World[…]
December 2006 came round rather quickly and suddenly the South of England Northern Ireland Supporters Club were a year old, and as with a tradition that began a year earlier, we were off to Weymouth again, for what will forever be known as our WAGM (Weymouth Annual Green Meeting). The date was set as the Read more about WAGM = Weymouth Annual Green Meeting (December 2006)[…]
Bizarre things happen every now and then. Certainly this time a few months ago, I had NEVER heard of the town of Fleetwood. Then, having started working on ferryboats recently and the fact that I often travel back to Northern Ireland, I decided to get the boat back this week for the Northern Ireland v. Read more about Backpacking in England: Passing Through Fleetwood[…]
Actually a bit of a sad story this one…I did indeed first get into football in the 1986 World Cup. Northern Ireland had qualified again, and my Dad had managed to go to a few of the matches in the previous 6 years or so, including buying me a programme for the 1-0 win over Read more about My (LOST) Mexico 86 Panini Album…and the day I fell in love with football (May 1986)[…]
I met Lock In Lee (Lee Adams) in December 2003 as we both auditioned to be in “The Lock In” (Bournemouth University’s Big Brother), where we both got voted into the house, lived with each other for 48 hours and then Lee won and I came third. Lee became one of my best mates and Read more about Nottingham Forest 1-1 AFC Bournemouth (April 2006)[…]