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Brats have no place in football

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CATHAL DERVAN
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Irish Voice Newspaper Columnist
Published Wednesday, May 13, 2009, 5:53 PM
Updated Thursday, July 23, 2009, 5:44 PM
Read more: European Football, Soccer, Sports, FC Barcelona, Didier Drogba

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Chelsea’s Didier Drogba
Chelsea’s Didier Drogba

Football analyst, former player and well known manager Roddy Collins can be a very funny man, on and off the airwaves.

Throughout his career, in his playing days and in his days as manager of the likes of Shamrock Rovers, Bohs and Carlisle United, Roddy has always told it as he sees it.

Last week I had the pleasure of ghost-writing Roddy’s column for Star Sunday. And it was a pleasure to listen to him for about half an hour on the hot topics in the game we both love.

Roddy being Roddy, he had to have a go at the terrace boo boys who are trying to make life difficult for Jeff Kenna and Sean Connor, managers at St. Patrick’s Athletic and Dundalk respectively in the League of Ireland.

He also threw in the fact that the IFA in the north had invited him to their cup final on Saturday as a thank you gesture for his time as player and manager in the Irish League.

“It’s gas that because the FAI wouldn’t invite me to the opening of a crisp bag in Abbotstown,” Roddy told me ahead of his visit to Windsor Park.

Most of his vitriol, however, was reserved for the Chelsea striker Didier Drogba and his midfield colleague Michael Ballack, who dirtied football’s good name with their disgraceful antics at the end of the Champions League semifinal defeat to Barcelona.

As it happened, a last gasp goal from the great Barca midfielder Iniesta knocked the Blues out of the European Cup and did us a major favour by setting up a dream final.

Manchester United will now play Barcelona in the Rome final at the end of the month, and it promises to be a very special occasion indeed featuring two of the most attack-minded teams in the world.

Chelsea thought they were there when they led Barca by a Michael Essien goal to nil for something like 93 minutes at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday night.

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