1890 2020 Spring 2020 Special Edition Vol. 72 No. 4 Matchday Free To All Programme Bohemian FC 1890 - 2020 Celebrating 130 Years

The all-conquering Bohemian FC team of 1927/28

Winners of the Irish Free State League, Football Association of Cup, Irish Free State Shield & Leinster Cup

Standing: T. Rochford (Committee), J. Murray (Assistant Hon. Secretary), R. Parker (Coach), Charlie Harris (Trainer), T.J. Greene (Hon. Solicitor), M.J. Kenny (Committee), Dr W.F. Hooper (Committee), H.W.J. Kerr (Committee), P.F. Sheridan (Trustee), C.H. Heron (Trustee), J.J. Doyle (Hon. Treasurer)

Seated: Bob Beckett (Hon. Secretary), Paddy Whelan, Bob Thomas, Billy Dennis, Christy Robinson, Jimmy Bermingham, Captain Harry Cannon (Capt.), Sam Robinson, Johnny McIlroy, Peter Kavanagh, Johnny McMahon, Joe Wickham (Committee)

Front: Jimmy White, Jack McCarthy, with the Leinster Cup, FAI Cup, League pennant, League trophy & Shield editorial It is incredibly unusual writng this and knowing that this piece and indeed the content of our Special Editon won’t be going to print or sold at Dalymount. Instead this free match programme is in electronic format and rolled out to all during this uncertain tme that will be referred to for years to come as ‘The Lockdown’. Why bring out a programme though? Well for one, to keep the programme team in unison and the creatve juices tcking over and also to update everyone on the work being done on and of the pitch while we ride out this storm that seems to have no Premier Division end in sight. Talking to some club ofcials in the run up to producing this editon it’s fascinatng and indeed encouraging to hear that the machine 1923/24, 1927/28, 1929/30, is stll chugging away and it’s Business As Usual behind the closed doors 1933/34, 1935/36, 1974/75, of . So enjoy your special editon of the programme and 1977/78, 2000/01, 2002/03, maybe this will be a collectors item in years to come... albeit digitally. 2008, 2009 At this moment it’s hard to envisage when we’ll be back in Dalymount again. The league set a June return date initally while now an autumn date FAI Cup is being mooted, but it will take months at the very least before our daily 1927/28, 1934/35, 1969/70, lives may return to normal. The main thing though is that us and our loved 1975/76, 1991/1992, ones emerge unscathed. That certainly surpasses anything else. 2000/01, 2008 I wish to thank all the contributors to this issue; when contacted each and every one was excited at the idea of a special editon and readily League Cup forwarded copy to me. It escaped me briefy recently that this is Bohemian 1974/75, 1978/79, 2009 FC’s 130th year! Whereas celebratons, gifs and a Legends match Setanta Cup dominated recent major birthdays, this one looks like it going’s to pass us by mostly which is a huge shame. At this moment all we want is to see 2010 Bohs not only take the feld once more but line up for our much antcipated Leinster Cup and long awaited European game; but we WILL be back as soon as we can 1895/95 - 2016: be. Certainly, we’ll remember the unusual episode that encompassed our 130th year. For now, enjoy your special editon of the match programme. A record 32 ttles Probably the most unusual collectable we’ve ever produced! LoI Shield Alan Bird, Editor 1923/24, 1927/28, 1928/29, 1933/34, 1938/39, 1939/40

Contact: [email protected] Irish FA Cup Editor/Producton: Alan Bird 1907/08 Contributors: Tony Magner, Stephen Burke, Robert McDonald, Dan McSwiney, Ryan Clarke, Aidan Fitzmaurice, Jule Marks, , Keith Long, Gerard Farrell City Cup Photos: Stephen Burke, Eddie Lennon, Peter O’Doherty, Martn Doherty, Conor Ryan, 1935/36 Sportsfle Sales: Gerry Juhel, Ray Larkin, Killian Molloy, Timothy Boland, Joe Collins, Dublin & Cormac Hurrell, Oran Tully RIP Printed by: Just-Print. Tel: 01 494 0222. E: [email protected] Inter City Cup 1944/45 Views expressed in this programme are solely those of the contributors and not of Bohemian FC or the commitee unless indicated. All ideas, opinions and contributons are welcome. All contributons published at editor’s discreton. 1971/72 Acieries D’Angleur 1928/29 President’s Cup 12 ttles from the dugout The sudden cessaton of football in March was another indicaton that hammered home just how serious the Coronavirus would impact on our lives. Keith Long describes what it meant for all the players and technical staf

On Thursday 5 March I was asked a on Saturday 14 March to aid them thoughts of a few beers courtesy of queston at a media event to launch working in isolaton and individual one of our sponsors The Porterhouse Eir Sports coverage of the League of programmes were busily prepared. was becoming very appealing for Ireland. We arranged allocated tmes for the the staf as we killed the tme in The queston related to players to collect their equipment between collectons. We had the coronavirus and the possible and over a period of three hours keys, what was stopping us? Untl ramifcatons for the game here they arrived. Colly piped up ‘Mono got rid of it in Ireland. My answer at the tme Again it was a somewhat surreal yesterday’... that was that bubble was that we would be guided by experience as we advised the burst as the last player arrived and government and the HSE if and players on training programmes we said our goodbyes again with when that becomes necessary, etc. and invited them to heed the uncertainty as to what will happen which was code for ‘I don’t know government warnings and advice. next. or more to the point I don’t care as The common response from the ______we have a Dublin derby tomorrow players was ‘this is f*****’ mad night against Shels - stop asking silly isn’t it?!’ which again is not out of Over the next week the players questons...’ place for footballers who I suppose conducted their individual training Fast forward a week when we at that tme didn’t fully appreciate programmes and partcipated conducted our last team training the gravity of the situaton and in some shall I say interestng session as the government the implicatons. I can’t say it was challenges and interactons set announced signifcant measures to the players only as the staf were down to them by the coaching staf. mitgate the spread of COVID 19. It absolutely feeling the same way. Zoom video conferencing entered was expected that we would play As we stood in the small car our lives. I can’t remember a tme our game the following night in park in Dalymount on the Saturday it seems before Zoom, a platorm I but instead we played a training morning Bucko suggested it might be was completely unaware of before game that was very surreal and a good tme for the players to have the restrictons were put in place, certainly not helped by a downpour a night out as they hadn’t yet done but now all our strength, power and of biblical proportons which added so this year. I had received a phone mobility sessions in additon to staf to the message we had just received. call the day before from Mono meetngs and other sessions are In our football bubble we thought informing me that there was some conducted online. this can’t be happening. How can drink in Dalymount that would go to It is important at this tme of this be? Why didn’t we just get the waste; would the players like to have remote working that we have Cork game played and review it a few drinks in the club? Without positve interactons. The players then? We had more questons than giving it any thought I dismissed it and staf have been fantastc in this answers. Questons that in hindsight straight away and thanked him for regard and our interactons will are irrelevant but at the tme where thinking of us. I have to say it did hopefully see us return to football in very real. enter my mind that I might have a beter place, with a beter, clearer We quickly put into acton a been a bit hasty in turning down understanding of who we are as a short term plan for the players to Mono’s ofer as our minds drifed to team. collect equipment from Dalymount potental Saturday night plans. The On Sunday 22 March the club released a brilliantly worded and The same goes for Kim’s parents. and they also considered the steps positve message regarding player Our analyst Cian O’ Brien’s wife also that need to be taken for a return and staf contracts. The main focus gave birth to a baby girl so whilst we to sportng actvity. Those steps of the board is to ensure the stability feel we are on hold somewhat, life are yet to be fully feshed out and of the club but at the same tme try defnitely goes on. there are so many questons but we to do the right thing and support ______are optmistc that we can return its people as much as is possible in to some type of training before the difcult tmes. Training has contnued over the end of May. What that looks like Things may change, we do not intervening weeks and we are now is uncertain but we have plans in know what the future holds but into week six. We depend upon trust place for what we feel are the likely we do know that we are lucky to and self discipline from players but scenarios. work for a club that values people I feel they have adapted well to the ______frst. I know some of you reading challenges they face. this may have been laid of or I am very lucky to be assisted I have listened to commentators working restricted hours. We fully by a commited backroom team talk about using this tme to your understand that we are very lucky as that are working overtme to advantage. There is not doubt that a club to be in this positon and that help the players. I have always this down period gives you tme is down to the hard work that has taken a collaboratve approach to to refect, review and plan ahead been done at every level over the management and with Trevor, Chris, but it’s also a tme for some just to last number of years. Remy, Cathal, Robbie, Paul, Colly and get through. Mental health is very The following Wednesday we Aaron I believe we have a fantastc prevalent in our society partcularly arranged to meet the players in backroom team who are bustng in young men and some during the members bar at Dalymount a gut at this tme to ensure we this tme are experiencing pain in small groups, respectng social manage this unknown. and loss. The social implicatons of distancing. We had been up to Paul Kirwan our chartered physio this pandemic are yet to be fully that point meetng them at various is part of an amazing natonal efort realised and whilst sport pales into locatons around the city to return from our health care workers and insignifcance at this tme, there their GPS pods to download data. It frontline services fghtng this virus is no doubt it plays a huge role in was felt there would be another set for our country. It is people like Paul people’s lives and is a void we are of measures brought in soon that we will forever be indebted to, they struggling to fll at this tme. restricted movement to within 2km put themselves at risk everyday on Fans are resilient, I know you all so again we had to adapt a fnd a the frontline in order to protect and are desperate to see the team in diferent way of working. We felt it save lives. I would like to thank Paul acton but absence can make the was important also to speak with for the sacrifces he is making and heart grow stronger. We are missing the players in person to ensure they all those working in our essental the routne beat of a life immersed understood what the club had done services. in football. It’s stll a puzzle we are for them by securing their contracts ______all trying to fgure out and work and also to ensure they understood through but we do know that our key messages. We are stll working towards the football will return when it is safe. ______original 19 June resumpton date. Let’s all hope it will be soon. This is very speculatve as I write but On Thursday 26 March Colly it’s vital we have something to focus O’ Connor and his partner Kim on. We don’t know what football welcomed their new baby daughter will look like upon resumpton and Penny into the world. Colly is Bohs there has been much speculaton in to the core and has been a loyal the media. servant to the club for a decade and This will contnue untl we know more. His family are steeped in Bohs exactly what measures need to and now his daughter Penny will be be taken in order to get playing part of the future at the club. again. All of which will be guided by I spare a thought for Colly’s mam government and with the greater Lily who had to wait a few days good at the core of decisions made. before she could return to Ireland There are reasons for optmism, from Australia whilst at a family last week the Minister of State for wedding. She had to quarantne Tourism and Sport, Brendan Grifn, for two weeks also on her return to hosted an online meetng with Ireland and can now only see her representatves of the Irish sport new granddaughter from a distance, sector. The engagement focused on unable to hold her. the impacts for sport of Covid 19 New Bedding Showrooms Now Open

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Untitled-3 1 07/02/2020 14:18:45 president’s message

To all Bohemian members, to get through it. It shows the We stll have ambitons supporters and fans. progress the Club has made over Firstly, I hope you and your the last ten years or so thanks to to grow the Club... loved ones are all keeping safe and your eforts. I know things will be well. These are very strange tmes I must also say a huge thank you delayed by the present but it is important we keep to the to our sponsors who contnue to be government guidelines in order to very supportve and without them crisis but we can’t reduce the numbers being afected things would be even more difcult. simply do nothing and by the virus. It’s very difcult to know when I’m sure, like me, you are really we might get back playing, the FAI wait for others to come missing Friday nights. It’s just not are stll working on commencing in to our aid. We must the same sitng in watching some June but who knows under what plan for the future and programme on television when all circumstances. Personally, I can’t you can think about is when will see big crowd gatherings being ensure we are ready to I be able to walk into Dalymount allowed as early as June so perhaps take advantage of any and see the usual faces and moan they are looking at reduced crowds about the pitch, the referee, the or behind closed doors. All optons opportunites that oppositon, the players or whatever. will need to be considered. I might arise.... It really is terrible. think September might be a more However, once again, you have realistc date for things to get back shown your support by purchasing to normal but even that is probably In the last week I have been merchandise and joining the Club optmistc. We’ll just have to wait informed of the deaths of David Loto. These funds are vital as and see what the medical and Hammond’s mother Margaret and we try to ensure we honour our scientfc people say and follow Donal Byrne’s dad Daniel. On behalf contracts with the players who their advice. of everyone at the Club I would like have always worked hard and We stll have ambitons to grow to pass on our sincere condolences performed to the best of their the Club and get facilites for our to David and Donal and both their ability for the Club. They contnue teams to train together because families. RIP to train and maintain their ftness you cannot standstll and must In the last paragraph of my and, hopefully, they will be ft and always be striving to improve. I programme notes I am normally raring to go whenever things get know things will be delayed by the urging your support of the team as back to normal. Keith and Trevor present crisis but we can’t simply they play whoever it may be but are keeping busy and are in daily do nothing and wait for other today I will urge you to support the contact with all the players. people to come to our aid. We must Club’s fund raising eforts, if you are Looking at the positves, the plan for the future and ensure we in a positon to do so, in order that record number of memberships are ready to take advantage of any we are strong when all this is over. and season tckets sold have opportunites that might arise. Thank you and stay safe. brought us some stability and we Most of us have a bit more tme will be able to survive whatever on our hands so it is important we happens albeit with our reserves use it wisely. Presently, the board is diluted substantally. If this had working on a new fve year strategic happened a few years ago I’m plan as we have achieved most of Chris Brien, President not sure we would have managed the aims of our previous one. Bohemian FC business as usual!

The doors to Dalymount by Laura and Deirdre Clifford Park may be shut but Up until the end of March the online store operated as normal. I do all the DHL paperwork at home in the things are busier than evenings and Deirdre would pick and pack items and drop off to DHL for next day delivery. ever in the ofce When stricter guidelines where announced, we and club shop decided to just pick and pack orders once a week. I still do the paperwork at home and then we go to club on Sundays to pack the orders and drop them off at DHL on Monday. We remain fully operational, just slightly by Lynn O’Neill longer delivery times than normal. In March there was 417 online orders. To put that Although I am missing Dalymount Park, the staff, fgure in context, for the same period last year there volunteers, directors, fans and friends I am keeping was 179 online orders. So a lot of work to keep us very busy at home. I am lucky as I live close by going and great to see that level of support not just and have visited the offce early in the morning from our local fans but fans from all over the world. a few times over the past month to pick up post, A few guys spring to mind, a man in southern Italy fles, paper for printer and so on. bought fve items and emailed separately to say there Directors, staff and volunteers all keep in touch was no hurry to send that he would wait until Covid-19 on a regular basis via emails, phone and text, to crisis was over and that he wanted to support a deal with the ongoing daily administration issues community club like Bohs as he loves the message on which arise. We are there also to help each other our away jersey. when we can. Another German emailed me to ask how he could Regarding the additional UEFA Licence help, what can he buy. He regularly buys jerseys requirements for the clubs 2020/21 season, I am from us for himself and his children. I thanked him pleased to confrm the application which was due and advised we would have a third strip available and on 4 April was submitted on time. There are still within hours of its release he bought three, and again some ongoing items with regard to licensing which emailed me to say I should let him know if there is ever anything he can help us with! Another family in USA are being dealt with. bought fve away jerseys. Thankfully regarding the club’s medical care We can’t get anymore stock from O’Neill’s for of players it was no problem contacting the club the foreseeable future so we are running out of sizes doctor, Fiona Dennehy and physiotherapist Paul mostly on Home and third kit jersies. However, we Kirwan who found the time to submit what was still have lots of away jersies and plenty of hats, scarfs, needed promptly and have been there to answer red polo tops, still lots to sell. This month to date is any ongoing questions while their own lives are busy though we won’t top last month unless there is going above and beyond to meet the needs of the a big rush for next few weeks. An online gift card is public at this time. a new feature now available as well so maybe people Dublin City Council have today confrmed with would opt for that now and use it to buy something on the Groundsman’s request to supply six new water the future when we have more stock available. tanks to add to the existing ones which is badly Deirdre is staying home as much as possible. I can’t needed to keep the pitch up to its high standard. seem to catch a break as my job remains open as an They also agreed for work on the foodlights last essential service so I’m busier than ever. My hands are month, but have had to postpone this work until washed off me and I’m dying to hug someone, anyone the football resumes again. in fact! Looking forward to seeing everyone, hopefully Hope all the Bohs fans are keeping well and staying not too far away, back in the Home of Irish home. As a club we have survived worse and I’ve every Football! confdence we will be back in full swing soon! 10 outta 10!

with Cristian Magerusan • Favourite tv programme: Has to be Prison Break to be fair, best tv programme ever • Favourite music/musician: Chris Brown • If I wasn’t a footballer I’d be a... I don’t consider myself a footballer yet because I’ve been out injured in the last three years • Team you support: Liverpool • Favourite holiday destnaton: That would probably be the Maldives • Tayto or King? • Abbie Brophy of Bohemians pictured at the 2020 Women’s Tayto Natonal League photocall last March • Will an All Ireland league work? I think it will, bigger opportunites for players and I think playing the same teams four tmes is a bit too much. I’d rather get more teams in on hold the league and play only two games against each team. Bohs debut must wait • Will Dublin win six-in-a-row? Tough one but I think they will Following the announcement earlier this year that Bohemians • What’s your favourite Fr Ted quote? would feld a senior ladies team in the Women’s National I never watched any Irish tv programmes League, our long awaited ladies debut has been put on ice due • Most embarrassing moment to the outbreak of Covid-19. My most embarrassing moment was Due to kick off on 14 March, Bohs were due to meet probably when Liverpool were playing in the fellow débutantes Athlone Town at the Oscar Traynor Centre Champions League fnal against Real Madrid to be followed up by a trip to face last season’s champions and we just fnished training getng in the car Peamount United. However, like the men’s team, a tentative and I saw that Liverpool scored and started end of June date has been pencilled in instead but latest reports screaming to Bucko ‘1-0 LIVERPOOL’ but in and developments from the HSE and the government indicate a foreign accent and a squeaky voice! Since that this could be pushed back further. then the boys kept going in the dressing The senior team follow hot on the heels of the u17s debut room ‘BUCKO 1-0 LIVERPOOL’ in that same in last year’s u17 Women’s National League and who fnished foreign accent and squeaky voice. It was fourth, a mere ten points behind Group One winners . embarrassing but very funny to be fair! They achieved third place position in the Shield. For now all we can do is wait with anticipation for another Read Tony Magner’s interview with Cristan historical moment in the club’s 130 year history! elsewhere in this special editon! #BOHSBUS

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Untitled-3 1 10/02/2020 13:17:17 • Another great day had by all! Photos by Stephen Burke ConwayCupSuccess! by Ryan Clarke

Before social distancing measures were being enforced, the Bohemian Foundaton held the Conway Cup in Mountjoy Prison. A game between a team representng the Bohemian Foundaton and a team of inmates prisoner rehabilitaton programmes involved again in the future with who work with the Foundaton took in both Mountjoy and the Dóchas the Bohemian Foundaton because place. Centre. Meanwhile, Jimmy’s they’re doing a great service to The inmates who work with brother Ronnie presented the Man the people of Dublin central. It’s the Foundaton are all located in of the Match trophy on the day to important for people coming out the progression unit of Mountjoy, his son Graham. of Mountjoy to get their lives back not the main prison. People in Contnuing to grow its network on track and organisatons like the custody in this unit engage with of support for prisoners post- Foundaton help enormously,” he rehabilitaton and educaton release, this year’s iteraton of added. programmes regularly and are the Conway Cup was atended by Also atending the event was prepared for reintegraton to politcians who sought to see the former Dublin Lord Mayor Nial society. work of the Bohemian Foundaton Ring, who was deputsing on the The cup takes its name from the frst-hand and praise its eforts. day for current Lord Mayor Tom family of Jimmy Conway who are Social Democrats TD Gary Brabazon. closely connected with Bohemian Gannon, whose consttuency “It’s great to be involved with the FC. Jimmy sadly passed away includes Mountjoy, afer the Bohemian Foundaton again. What in February and the Man of the game praised the work that the Thomas Hynes and the Bohemian Match award was presented in his Bohemian Foundaton is doing. Foundaton are doing, in terms of memory. “I’m delighted that I was reaching out to the community is His family contnue to play a vital invited in today to see for myself fantastc,” he said. role in the Bohemian Foundaton. everything that is going on here,” “The Foundaton does stellar His nephews, Jef and Graham, are said Gannon. work in preparing prisoners to volunteers for the Foundaton’s “I would really like to be reintegrate into the community afer their release and today was him purpose. just another example of that,” Ring “Today was a great success and said. to see all the laughing and smiles Sinn Féin councillor, Larry on people’s faces makes it all worth O’Toole, who is a long tme the efort,” Hynes said. supporter and volunteer for the “I feel it is incumbent on football Bohemian Foundaton feels the clubs to try to help as many work is invaluable for Dublin people as possible and to see communites. these guys trying to turn their lives “The Conway Cup was excellent around it shows us the power of today and going forward it will be rehabilitaton. a huge beneft for the people in “I believe we should help them Mountjoy and a beneft for the to acknowledge why they’re in ‘Today was a great Foundaton,” O’Toole said. here and repent for that, but to “I think we’ve built up a great also teach them that crime isn’t success and to see thing here and you can see the the only opton available to them. all the laughing and rapport between the players and These guys can beneft society if smiles on people’s faces the lads inside is fantastc and we support them by providing the the way Deputy Governor Walsh right tools to beter themselves,” makes it all worth the welcomes us is outstanding. I really he explained. efort... it is incumbent think we’ve built up something Hynes explains that the special here,” he added. Bohemian Foundaton has been put on football clubs to try Bohemian Foundaton President on hold like the rest of life in Ireland to help as many people Thomas Hynes thanked everyone currently. They had just begun a for the support they have given programme of visits to local schools as possible and to see to the prisoner rehabilitaton which had to cease for the tme these guys trying to initatve. being, and plans for further work Seeing how the Foundaton has in the Dóchas Centre, walking turn their lives around gone from strength-to-strength football with disabled children and it shows us the power and helped to rehabilitate the the elderly and comedy shows have atmosphere of the club has given been postponed too. of rehabilitaton...’. Still Making memories The frst time I ever heard the by Ned Simpson Gary Moore classic Parisian Walkways, was on Tom Browne’s Sunday evening top twenty countdown on BBC Radio 2 in 1979. As the song faded out, the Brownester extemporised about how the music made him visualise “gas lamps going out all over Paris, I doubt we will see them lit again in our time.” I have started to feel the same way about live football. As I type these words on a Saturday evening, it’s now fve weeks without the beautiful game and counting. When will this footballing vacuum end? Or if it goes on for much longer, what will tomorrow bring? Will we all have to get into e-sports and cheer on 12-year-old millionaires as Fridays, I was happy. I got to read lucky ones. Time is a river in which they play FIFA 20? The future looks books I had bought but never we are all swept along. He is at the to be a bleak, bleak place. opened. I binge watched season beginning of his cruise, and though Initially the lockdown, and the one of Star Trek Picard. I listened he may be ‘bored out of his tree’ at subsequent cancellation of all to Rush’s entire back catalogue. I the moment, when this is all over, fxtures didn’t bother me one iota. I caught up on several programmes (hopefully) the number of summers was philosophical about it, recalling I had recorded over the crimbo. ahead of him will vastly outnumber Arrigo Sacchi’s observation about Meanwhile in the real world those behind. Not so for me and how football was only the most outside, all the supermarkets in my my ilk. important of all the least important area had ample supplies of both Truly these are strange times things in life. In fact, for the frst beer and bog roll. “This is OK”, I we are living through. Back in couple of weekends, I couldn’t thought to myself, “I could adapt the middle of March, I thought it recall the last time I felt so relaxed to this football free environment, no was weird when you saw people on a Friday evening what with not bother at all.” greeting each other by touching having to stress out on how Bohs But of course, that beatifc limbo elbows. That now seems like a were doing. didn’t last forever, and it wasn’t quaint relic from a gentler bygone Seasons are getting progressively long before the novelty wore off age. I suppose if we are to learn tougher with every passing year. and withdrawal symptoms kicked just one lesson from this strange Every single clash is a battle. I don’t in. Then I started thinking about new world we currently inhabit, it sleep well the night before a game, time’s arrow, specifcally the way it will be that when it is all over, we and frequently wake up worrying fies whilst you dream. should never again underestimate about Bohs. From the time I get up Earlier today, I spoke to a the simple pleasure of being able on Friday morning, I am thinking ‘youngster’ who complained that he to shake hands with a friend you and agonising about the Bohs. Then was “bored out of his tree” and how haven’t seen for a while, or hug during the game, I fnd I age about he was worried that he was going a loved one who is worried about nine months over the average ninety to miss out on his summer. I sighed the future, or go for a pint on your minutes. It’s not healthy, but that’s wistfully at this, not for the frst birthday. the way my relationship with the time refecting that youth really is Or indeed, just go to a game so club has gone. wasted on the young. With regards you can start fretting about your So for those frst couple of to this crisis, his generation are the club again. 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The change from have released for this interrupted our greatest ever shirt that has primarily black to red takes a bit of season. been running recently, this geansaí getng used to, but this is a classy, Thankfully, the days when is currently standing in third place. stylish and very beautful piece we used to change kits, change High praise indeed for a jersey of material. One of the biggest sponsors or even change crests that doesn’t have the nostalgia, changes, but done in a beautfully mid-way throughout a season are sentmentality, memories and subtle way, is that for the frst tme gone. Nowadays, it’s a carefully indeed trophies that others would ever, we have our crest in Irish. choreographed process between have. Last season was our frst one When all is said and done, this is the clubs marketng team and back with O’Neills and they brought a fantastc shirt and one that will the kit supplier to ensure that we us a very decent efort. Whilst be topping polls in many years to receive a shirt at a dedicated tme this year’s is miles beter, the big come. Don’t even consider yourself and most importantly one that will irony is that they’ve changed a lot a Bohsman if you don’t buy this be a hit with the fans. without actually changing a lot, shirt. This obviously has not always if that makes any sense at all. It’s The away shirt is a bit like been achieved, we have had a few efectvely the same cool template, Marmite. In case you don’t know, fashion faux pas over the years. but gold instead of white lines and Marmite is a stcky, dark brown But, I’m extremely happy to say predominantly red where it used food spread that is extremely that this season’s shirt tcks just to be black. But with the additon salty. Their marketng brains, in 1996, used the brutally honest but Others will argue that it’s a incredibly risky slogan ‘You Either This is a jersey that’s humanitarian statement and never Love It Or Hate It!’ It’s a slogan and the twain shall meet. As for the a truism so powerful that the words crying out for a town shirt… loved, hated, but certainly ‘like Marmite’ are now regularly square in a far-of not ignored. Marmite anyone? used to describe anything divisive. The fnal part of the Holy And with that in mind, I bring country with hordes of Trinity was released, with you our 2020 away shirt. Before perfect tming once again, just the shirt was even revealed, the Gypsies, satsfying as the Governments Coronavirus message boards were already in their thirst, shutdown kicked in. Sales obviously meltdown from the teasers that we have helped to plug the huge gap in were being drip-fed. as company... revenue for the club. Nothing to do with the design What of the jersey itself? Well, of the shirt, the collar or even this just oozes sunshine; this was the pinstripes, this (otherwise made for those balmy summer beautful) jersey is all about evenings. This is a jersey that’s our partnership with Amnesty crying out for a town square in Internatonal which highlights a far-of country with hordes of the plight of refugees and the Gypsies, satsfying their thirst, as stgma atached to the Direct company. Provision system in Ireland. Alas, our sunny days in With a large image of a family Kazakhstan, Amsterdam or feeing war and the message even Azerbaijan have been ‘Refugees Welcome’ emblazoned temporarily put on hold, but we on the chest, an Amnesty live in hope that we will get the Internatonal logo at the botom warm destnaton that this shirt and the ‘Love Football, Hate deserves. Afer the big changes Racism’ on the collar, this is a to the home shirt and the whole jersey that was meant to get hullabaloo around the white shirt, notced. And wow, did it get it was great to get a no-frills, notced! no-nonsense shirt. Whether we There was a media frenzy actually need a third/alternatve over it with everyone from RTE strip is possibly a discussion to Euro News wantng to know worth having another day, but it about the collaboraton. In has become more and more the an era where we consistently norm these days with clubs and hear of a growing disconnect kit suppliers. We’ve never had between English clubs and their this colourway before, so it was of communites due to foreign litle surprise that inital demand managers, foreign players and outstripped supply (see what I did foreign owners, are we as a there!). We were due to take to fan-owned club not morally the feld in wearing obliged to show how much we it but alas the game never went care about the streets around ahead. our home and those that live Hopefully, when everything on them by putng a local and setles down, O’Neills will once natonal cause literally at the again be able to supply us with a front of our shirts? ray of sunshine in the form of this This, however, has been jersey. seen as controversial and has Forget the Hawaiian shirt, divided opinion amongst our white socks and sandals, do membership. There are those yourself a big favour and get who share the Club’s stance but this summer’s ultmate fashion believe a football shirt is not the must-have. If there is such a thing right promotonal tool and that as an unofcial antbody to the we should distance ourselves Coronavirus, this is it! Stay safe from politcal statements. everyone. If he would buy 500 shirts then he would buy 500 more...

Madness, madness they call it, madness. They say there’s a fne line between loyalty and insanity. So, with a mixture of the lockdown and some decent weather, columnist Keith Murphy of The Strip Club parish recently chose to put his jersies on show and we’re not sure whether it was a sign of madness or just his way of keeping sane. Either way, we can safely say he’s Bohs-mad... A Frank Keane Company

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Has there ever been an unluckier soul to pull on the red and black shirt than Cristan Magerusan? Onward Three broken metatarsal injuries in 2017 were followed by an anterior cruciate ligament rupture in 2019 and almost a year to the day, the same ACL went again in pre-season training. In these strange tmes the lockdown has aforded him more Cristan tme in his recovery as he has elected not to go for surgery and rehabilitate with the aid of Remi Tang, Paul Kirwan and the club. Soldier His talent is undoubted but he just cannot get a free run of injuries. When Cristan did get into the team at the end of the 2018 season, he sloted in three goals in his frst four games against Wexford, Bray and Waterford which to all intents and purposes made him our most prolifc striker of the season. For all the world he looked like a real prospect that Keith Long could rely on for 2019. Injuries put paid to that, but stll only 20, Cristan is once again on the road to recovery and despite all the heartache, he is as positve now as he was when he frst broke into the team three years ago. “I’ve been very unlucky but I am working really hard to get back. It was absolutely heartbreaking for the knee to go a second tme. Football is all I’ve ever known and I had put so much into making it back again, to have it all taken away from you in an instant. “I just can’t tell you how hard that is to take. But the rehab has been going really well and I am working on strengthening my legs so the muscles can take some of the strain away from the ligaments. Remi Tang has been amazing to work with and has really helped me along. I am working in my back garden as much as I can, what else can I do in the current situaton? I use weights, dumbbells and use the rehab programme given to me by the club. “I have a park just beside the family home where I can go for the short periods of exercise we are allowed outside. I can’t work as the gym I am employed in has closed “I went back to Romania for a ‘We were doing a like most places but it is not all bad, holiday and was playing with my it has given me more tme with the friends, just keeping ft. I rolled my warm up, just jumping family and we all have to take what ankle and heard the snap.” The over cones and as I positves we can from the situaton.” metatarsal had gone again and He adds, “I really hope to be back this tme his season was over. The went over the last one, in full training when we resume. I following winter he was back in feel good and am up to 80-90% of training and feeling strong. I landed awkwardly and my speed and have started change- “We were two weeks out from the metatarsal went of-directon work which anyone the big kick of against Shamrock with a cruciate injury will tell you is Rovers,” he recalls. “I remember again. That was the a signifcant milestone. Obviously Keith pulling me aside and telling third tme. I don’t mind I have had no physical work yet as me he was very impressed with how there is nobody for me to tackle or I’d come back. Dinny was injured admitng that I cried be tackled by! I wouldn’t be quite at the tme and he told me to keep and cried with hurt and ready for that anyway! Basically, the head down, that I might be when I look back at last years considered for a start. I was thrilled. frustraton...’ recovery programme, I have entered Then we were doing a warm up, just the fnal three months. I am doing jumping over cones and as I went the lef knee went. I knew it was bad some jumps to get the knee used to over the last one, I landed awkwardly straight away. I heard the pop and I landing and stll work very closely and the metatarsal went again. That was down on the ground for about with Remi and Paul.” was the third tme. I don’t mind fve minutes with the worst pain I The squad have been keeping in admitng that I cried and cried with have ever felt in my life.” close contact using Zoom to keep hurt and frustraton.” He was to be out for nine months ft and together. Cristan speaks one afer having surgery on 15 January. to one with Remi most days doing From Bad to Worse… He was back in tme for the end of strength and mobility sessions to Cristan once more put the last season but too late to have the build the knee up but the squad have head down and was back again the sharpness to get into the team for kept their ftness up by doing Zoom following summer. That’s when the last game or two. He was content work-outs almost every day. people really started to sit up and to wait and not to rush back and “You would never have seen the take notce. When he looks back to to work through pre-season and likes of this coming, would you?” that tme in the middle of 2018 when back on Keith’s radar as a frst team he laughs. “We do various sessions his progress was so marked, it seems opton. every week on stretching, cardio, like a million years ago for the young mobility work and even tactcs and Liverpool fanatc. Winter of Discontent… drills. We all miss training and the “I was in the team and played fve “I felt really good and pre-season togetherness it brings but the Zoom games. I did really well and hit three went really well for me,” he says. sessions have been really important goals. It was such a relief to fnally “I had never felt as good actually, for ftness and morale. get there afer the three injuries. I to be so strong and so ft afer all I “Everyone is in good spirits, felt good and had a real chance of had been through. I was 100% sure enjoying family tme. As much as we establishing myself. I didn’t take it for I would play this season. Exactly one crave the physical contact of training granted afer being out for so long, year to the day afer my operaton, and matches, we know there are so I just wanted to improve myself and 15 January 15th 2020, I did the many worse of than us and we know develop as much as I could. Sadly, I cruciate again, the same one, the lef how important it is to stay at home didn’t really get the chance to enjoy ACL. We were two or three weeks and beat this virus. We all have it. I saw the following campaign as back and it happened in a training people that we love that we want to my year to kick on but in pre-season I match, the type we fnish of every protect and it is a small sacrifce to did the cruciate for the frst tme.” session with. I got a small touch make, to do the right thing to help He recalls that fateful day in on the knee, a total accident when those at the front line.” January 2019 when everything another player came in from the changed and the progress he had side and the ligaments went. I was Third Time Unlucky… made were all dashed in one terrible devastated. Cristan’s injury nightmare dates moment. “The surgeon had said that he back to 2017 when he frst broke the “I was doing the FAI-ETB course at had never seen an injury like that metatarsal, the bone on the side of the tme and we were playing against heal so well and at my six and nine the foot leading down to the toes. Dundalk. It was a non-contact injury. months scans everything looked He was out for six weeks but back The ball came into the box and I just excellent. The frst tme I had running and training in advance of planted the foot down as I went to damaged cartlage, the meniscus the summer break. touch it. I went to turn and hit it and and the medial ligament as well as the ACL, it all healed up really well and everyone was happy, most of all me. I really did feel so strong and ft and then for it to go again, I have never felt so low. I can’t tell you how normal a session it was, how normal a ball it was...” “This tme I didn’t realise how bad things were. In fact, the staf didn’t feel it was too bad either, at least initally. They sent me for a scan. It did swell up prety badly, but it was nowhere near as painful as when I did it the year before. The news we got back was just terrible and I couldn’t but cry afer all I had gone through to get back. Obviously this was all before Covid 19 and I just thought how one second can completely wreck your season.”

Natonal Service… Before his inital injury there was contact from Romania telling him he was being watched and considered for their natonal team underage set up. He has not given up on that partcular dream but realises it is a long way away yet and that he has to • Cristan with former manager Mick McCarthy during the prove his ftness all over again frst. 2019 FAI-ETB Graduaton event at the FAI Headquarters in Abbotstown ”I was thrilled. The u21s went on Photo by Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfle to fnish fourth in last year’s Euros so Ireland too. Romania is full of good stands every week knowing that I it is heartening to think I was being players but the organisaton is very could make a contributon if I was looked at as a possibility for those. poor and at that tme there was a ft. The fans are amazing, just so I must’ve been doing something bit of corrupton. There was nobody supportve. I remember the noise right!” helping young Romanian players get they made when I frst made the a good move.” bench against St. Patrick’s Athletc, I Eastern Promise… He setled well in Ireland and knew then I wanted to play in front Born in Bistrita, Romania, Cristan very quickly began to make waves in of them. I know I can do this if I can cut his teeth with his local Bistrita football circles too. At Lucan he was just get ft, that’s the frustratng Arsenal side before being spoted in the same team as the likes of Mark thing. The lads in the dressing room aged just ten by scouts from the Travers who has recently made the have been so good to me and I’ve prestgious Academia Hagi, run by breakthrough at Bournemouth and always been made to feel very much one Gheorghe Hagi. When he was Ireland u21 star Conor Masterson, part of things. I talk to Andy Lyons 13, he moved to crack frst division formerly at Liverpool, currently with who did his cruciate at just 16 and side CFR Cluj who were regular QPR He was spoted by a familiar look at him now! I have to believe in qualifers for the Champions League. Bohs scout who recommended that myself and have faith in my ability to He made swif progress through Keith Long have a look at him. recover.” the ranks and he stayed in Romania For now football takes a back seat to try and develop his football even Cristan Missions… but he has a closing message. afer his family moved to Ireland. With his FAI-ETB course “This is bigger than football However, just short of his 15th completed with qualifcatons, he is we need to look afer each other.. birthday he followed them over to steely eyed when asked about his Training, playing and being together where they had setled in Lucan future. as a squad is such a big part of our joining the local team Lucan United. “I just love football and all I want lives but if we do the right thing by “I felt I wanted to be with my to do is play for this club. It breaks everyone, we will all be together in family and also that if I was good my heart that I haven’t had the Dalymount again, and maybe we enough to make it in Romania then I chance to show people what I can will all appreciate it just that litle bit would be good enough to make it in do. 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We’re all stuck at home, talking a good game about catching up As we sit (mostly) at home and wonder when on our reading or perhaps fnally football will return to Dalymount, Gerard completng that DIY project, more likely if you’re anything like me Farrell brings us back just over a century when you’re mindlessly scrolling on your Bohemians not only had a global pandemic to phone, or binge-watching lurid TV deal with but also a global war... series on Netlix. Things are obviously a lot diferent if you are a frontline worker, in one of our hospitals, disrupton brought by the War, Bohemians (and many other clubs) a member of our emergency the Irish League split into regional was getng players released from services or working in essental compettons for the rest of the their regiments in order to play for retail businesses. The stress is War. Bohemians and Shelbourne, the team. In several games Bohs very real. But this is not unique or the two Dublin sides in an eight- were hamstrung because of missing unprecedented. This too shall pass. team league dominated by the key players due to the refusal of Just over 100 years ago Ireland main Belfast clubs, returned to the the Britsh armed forces to release faced a not dissimilar epidemic. Leinster Senior League, and this in players for matches, even afer the While the Spanish Flu was efect was our main league for the armistce. something of the misnomer, it War and its immediate afermath. Despite all this upheaval there was very real, and very deadly. The main Irish Cup competton were stll notes of optmism to be Conservatve estmates place the stll ran on an all-Ireland basis, found, Bohemians won the Leinster Irish death toll from the virus at though the early round draws were Senior League - the highest level over 20,000 from Summer 1918 regionalised, while other trophies played by clubs outside of Belfast, to Spring 1919. Consider also that such as the Leinster Senior Cup in the 1917/18 season and came this came towards the end of the were major priorites. second to Shelbourne the following First World War which claimed If anything, the years 1918 and year. It should be noted that Bohs, the lives of perhaps 50,000 Irish 1919 brought almost a return despite the loss of numbers due people and saw a country in a to normality for Bohemians, the to the War were stll felding at state of turmoil on the topics of club had lost dozens of players to least two teams at the tme, with natonhood, conscripton, poverty the War and many more in terms a Bohemian B side competng at and on the brink of a violent War of supporters. At a conservatve Leinster Senior League Division Two of Independence. We can perhaps estmate some 50,000 Dubliners against the like of St. James Gate sympathise with their plight. ended up in the batlefelds of the and Glasnevin F.C. Unlike today however, the First World War and perhaps 8,000 The infuenza epidemic frst people of Dublin in 1918 and of them never made it home. notceably hit Ireland in early 1919 had football. Despite schools This impacted not just summer of 1918 as the football closing, and many businesses Bohemians but every football club season was ending, but arguably shutng due to illness and self- in Ireland. The Leinster Football had its peak in Dublin in October quarantne measures, football Associaton (LFA) saw a reducton and November 1918, as well as contnued in something akin to its in afliated clubs which declined contnuing into the Spring of 1919, usual paterns. by 50% during wartme and by there were perhaps three diferent To set the scene; at the end of 1919 the LFA had to go cap in hand peaks of the epidemic. the 1914-15 season due to rising seeking a grant or loan from the One theory for the surge in costs, loss of players and supporters IFA to try and keep the Associaton cases in November 1918 was that to the war-efort and the general afoat. A major concern for people congregated en masse to • Bohemian FC, c. 24 April 1916, Mullingar; a photograph accompanying a postcard sent by Arthur Nolan informing those back in Dublin that the team were stranded due to the ourbreak of the Rising! Those pictured suited and booted formed the nucleus of the team that endured not only the Great War but the Spanish Flu pandemic Back: J. Byrne, Berte Kerr, Mick Hughes, Jack Kirwan (Coach), George Dagg. Middle: Paddy McDonnell, Con Drum, George Molloy, Mick Kirwan, Harry Macdona. Front: Ned Brooks, Arthur Nolan, Mick Hopper, Tommy Ryan, Tony Reddin. Missing from photo: One report in on 16 November 1918 noted J.J. Duf and Charlie that between 28 September and 9 November, some 756 Magwood. people had died of the infuenza virus in Dublin City alone. Two days later Shelbourne beat Bohs in the league in front of what was described as a record crowd of the season... celebrate the end of the War and point, they seemed to have the of a bumper crowd in Dalymount. inadvertently helped spread the upper hand over their main Dublin The Bohs would triumph 2-1 on virus. Unlike most of the Covid-19 rivals, the famous Bohemians, in the day. cases at present the Spanish Flu both 1918 and 1919 their knocked While the Dublin public were (thus described because neutral Bohs out of the frst round of the waylaid from all sides by death, Spain reported the frst cases, it Irish Cup. In February 1919 they whether from War, revoluton had been rife in the trenches of won their Cup match in Dalymount or disease, somehow football France and Belgium months earlier) (at another resurgent point for the contnued, in the case of seemed to afect younger, healthier fu epidemic) in front of a crowd of Bohemians the club saw sufering people, with many in their 20s over 8,000, which was described as in and death in the war, former and 30s dying and leaving young a record atendance in Dublin since players like Fred Morrow, Harold families without parents. the outbreak of War. Sloan, Francis Larkin and others One report in The Irish Times Indeed, not happy with just the had died in acton and many more on 16 November 1918 noted usual run of fxtures Bohs decided that between 28 September and to host an alternatve Cup Final were seriously injured. But during 9 November, some 756 people on 29 March 1919. On the same the Spanish Flu epidemic, partally had died of the infuenza virus in day that Linfeld were playing spread by the return of so many Dublin City alone. Two days later Glentoran in the frst of three fnals soldiers from the front in 1918, Shelbourne beat Bohs in the league (two drawn games followed by an while some quarantne measures in front of what was described as eventual Linfeld victory on the 7 and closures of businesses and “a record crowd of the season”. It April) Bohs agreed to host beaten schools did take place football was a good tme for Shels at this semi-fnalists Belfast Celtc in front contnued as usual. Match of the Day by Alan Bird work, acting and directing, involved dividends in what looks like a huge historical drama and he continued shock, banker, MP and Etonians I frst became aware of Julian that trend with The Young Victoria, captain Arthur Kinnaird refuses Fellowes way back 20-odd a Titanic mini-series, Belgravia, to play extra time, demanding the years ago when he portrayed an Downton Abbey and now The game be replayed, something which uncanningly-accurate Winston English Game, to name but a few. to a working class mill team isn’t Churchill during the Anglo-Irish Recently released to Netfix, this easily arranged or fnanced. Treaty negotiations in 1921 in The series charts the factual origins of The story evolves from that point Treaty. The majority of his early modern day football and the divide as Love and Sutter settle into life between the upper and lower class at Darwen and become entwined in the game. in the social aspects of the day, Concentrating principally on Old including a mill strike, pay cuts and Etonians, Lancashire mill outft civil unrest in which a court hearing Darwen FC and the personalities intervention from Old Etonian behind the teams, the series begins Arthur Kinnaird in the favour of Ted with Darwen mill and team owner Stokes (who would go on to pioneer James Walsh bringing two new the manufacture of football shirts) players, and workers, on board, begins a thaw in relations between Fergus Suter and James Love who the two footballing elements made their name with Partick FC although Kinnaird comes up against in Scotland. Both are drafted in just opposition from his peers. in time for both sides 1879 FA Cup In typical Fellowes’ fashion match. The guilty secret though accuracy to detail is tantamount and is that Sutter and Love are being great detail has gone in to reproduce secretly paid in an era when the Cup all facets of society. If you can was purely an amateur competition. sit through the obligatory love Clawing back a 5-1 half defcit to story that accompanies the plot, 5-5, with the tactical nuances of The English Game is well worth a the new Scottish imports paying watch. Our Hill is beter than yours... A gufaw or two of laughter was undoubtedly emited at this social media post by early this week that discussed how this years GAA Championship could be played. As the various comments debated the scenarios that could unfold, no-one seemed to initally notce that behind the locked gates stood Dalymount Park as opposed to Croker. Dalymount has hosted many events of varying degree through the years; school sports days, rugby league, boxing, concerts and carnivals... we even have our own Hill, located by the penalty spot at the Tramway End. However I’ve yet to see whether match would get the go ahead! I’d love to hear Pat Spillane and Joe Brolly’s take on that!

DalymountDays Taking over the reigns of a stutering Irish side won’t be an easy task for new Ireland manager Stephen Kenny. He faced a similar positon when taking the Bohs job in 2001 following a dip in form afer the momentous Double achievement. Here we reprint Stephen Burke’s artcle on Kenny which was originally published during the 2015 season in his ‘Managers & Selectors’ series

On 9 December 2001 Stephen Form and results in all a rude halt to Kenny’s and Bohs’ Kenny became Bohs’ manager. His compettons immediately picked ascent. playing career up. Afer a draw with Bray in the Kenny brought in fve new having ended with Home Farm in next round, the at the players for 2002/03: full back 1995/96 due to injury - echoes Carlisle Grounds was won 4-0. The Damian Lynch, centre backs Paul perhaps of Sean Thomas - Kenny FAI Cup semi-fnal with City McNally and Derek Coughlan, had frst come to notce as a coach at Dalymount was a meetng of the striker Paul Keegan, and goal- with St. Patrick’s Athletc’s u21 side. season’s top scorers (remarkably, keeper Ashley Bayes. All would play As a 27-year-old he took up that was now Bohemians) and the major roles. the reins at Longford in 1998/99, meanest defence (Derry’s). The Bohs led the way from day one guiding them from the botom Gypsies’ 2-1 victory with a late Glen and became league champions on rung of the First Division to a Crowe penalty sent them into a 12 January 2003 afer a showdown comfortable ffh in the Premier in third successive FAI Cup fnal. The away to Shelbourne that hinged 2000/2001, an FAI Cup fnal that oppositon would be Dundalk, who on two moments: Bayes’ stunning same year and a UEFA Cup place - had thumped Shamrock Rovers 4-0 save from an Ollie Cahill header in all on a very slim budget. in the other semi. the 61st minute, and Ryan nodding Longford’s claims for Bohs produced their best in the home the only goal in the 89th. compensaton - fgures of £90,000 fnal league game of the 2001/02 Season 2003 began with a and more were mentoned - were campaign, a 4-0 home win over brilliant 3-1 win over Totenham empty as there was no writen champions Shelbourne. With Hotspur in a friendly at Dalymount contract. An injuncton prevented Dundalk unluckily relegated the (atendance 7,300). The frst Kenny from actng as Bohs’ same day it all made Bohs even leg of the Champions League manager in their imminent FAI Cup stronger favourites for the Blue qualifer with BATE Borisov te away to, of course, Longford, so Riband. However, some real cup- was lost 1-0 in Belarus, but the Liam O’Brien took charge that day. fghtng from Dundalk saw the men return saw a fantastc 3-0 victory. Bohs avenged a recent 2-0 defeat at from edge it 2-1 in the Rosenborg were next up but their Flancare Park by winning 4-1. sunshine at Tolka Park thus calling internatonal-strewn side were too in a Champions League qualifer back in 2001. Returning with a goalless draw from the Estonian capital, prospects of advancing again were bright and in their only match before the second leg Bohs dismissed Ringmahon Rangers 8-0 from the FAI Cup, Stephen Ward with a hat-trick. On Tuesday, 27 July 2004, Levadia Tallinn stepped out at Dalymount. Home nerves were ratled as early as the ninth minute when Cepauskas easily headed in a corner, home defensive frailtes exposed. The Estonians’ goal was blessed in the 33rd minute, Dave Morrison thumping a shot of the crossbar, and a couple of minutes later the same luckless lad had a header saved by Kotenko. The ‘keeper made another save from Crowe, then one more from Morrison before the half-tme whistle. Kenny sent on Bobby Ryan for strong, winning 5-0 on aggregate. 5,014. A Bobby Ryan free kick which Stephen Cafrey, moving Fergal Bohs hauled themselves back into Damian Lynch claimed to touch Harkin inside to pair up with Hunt. contenton to retain the league ttle gave Bohs an 84th minute equaliser In the 55th minute came the and when they beat Shelbourne and a useful enough 1-1 draw. breakthrough, Webb curling over 3-1 at Tolka on 4 November 2003 Then came a serious dip in form. a free, Hunt heading it back across they went top. Ten days later and Home defeats to Drogheda and goal, Crowe with an instnctve with fve games to go Shels grabbed Cork City, a dismal 2-1 loss at Tolka volley. 1-1. At least one more goal back the initatve with a 1-0 win to newly-promoted Dublin City, was required and it almost came at Dalymount. Bohs would have to plus a series of draws. The next in the 62nd minute, Crowe fring setle for the runners-up spot. win wasn’t untl game 11, 1-0 at at Kotenko afer a goal mouth It was a disappointng end to a home to Waterford, Tony Grant scramble. The 69th minute proved promising year for an ever more with his frst goal for the club. 0-0 decisive with Levadia’s substtute ambitous club. Though he had so away to Shelbourne, then three Tshelnokov tapping home at the recently led Bohemians to glory, wins on the trot and Kenny’s men wrong end. A desperate situaton the pressure on Stephen Kenny looked to have stopped the rot, but became hopeless in the 78th, was building. For the 2004 season a 2-1 defeat ‘away’ to Shamrock Dovydenas crashing one past he worked with a new coach, Rovers (now tenants at Dalymount Kelly. It fnished 3-1 to Levadia, Gary Howlet, who replaced Liam Park) and a 4-2 demise to Dublin groans and boos ringing around O’Brien who had departed for City – afer Crowe had put Bohs the ground, Bohs’ hopes of fuelling Shamrock Rovers. 2-0 up in the 18th minute – and their way via progress in Europe A decent start was made to the all was depression. Yet, four days falling at the frst hurdle. league with wins away to Longford later with a 1-0 win away to Cork Sadly, it was Stephen Kenny’s and St. Pat’s, James Keddy with City courtesy of a Grant strike, last match in charge, his contract a goal on his début, Bohs leap-frogged the Leesiders terminated the very next day. It’s scoring in each of the frst three to go second. However, they were tough at the top, rather chillingly so games and new keeper Seamus stll nine points adrif of rivals at tmes. Kelly with a penalty save in the Shelbourne. 2-2 home draw with Waterford. The draw for the UEFA Cup • Stephen Kenny at Bohemians photo Game four brought champions paired the Gypsies against Levadia by Stephen Burke, 2002. Stephen Shelbourne to Dalymount as well as Tallinn who, as Levadia Maardu, at the Aviva, photo by Stephen a very encouraging atendance of had been memorably seen of McCarthy (Sportsfle) Dalymount Park, Sunday 18 August 1985 Bohs make Ireland work hard for draw Bohemians ...... 1 Rep. of Ireland Youths .....1 by Dan McSwiney

ven though short three of their key players, Ethe Republic of Ireland Youths squad had quite a satisfactory workout against Bohemians at Dalymount Park, but manager must have had reservavtions about their fnishing. It was not until twelve minutes from time that Liverpool’s Brain Mooney, from a pass by Martin Bayly, gave them a share of the spoils which, despite the effciency of Bohs ‘keeper Dermot O’Neill, should have been wrapped up by the Soviet-bound Youths earlier. The automatic choices missing form the Irish selection were • Liam Tuohy’s Ireland Youths wasted chances to win the game at Aaron Callaghan of Stoke City, Dalymount (Photo by Ray McManus/Sportsfle) Martin Russell form Manchester of Derek Ryan. However, he had ht), Larry Wyse, Gino Lawless, United and Eamon Dolan, with another card up his sleeve and John Reynor (John Byrne 61), West Ham United. Derek Swan, who joined Home Rocky O’Brien, Jackie Jameson, The Youths should have made Farm earlier this season from Eugene Davis (Paul Caffrey 61) better use of their possession off Belvedere Youths, has been named Ireland Youths: Kelly (Longford the ball. Instead, they fell behind in the squad. Town), O’Kelly, Bollard, in the 17th minute when Eugene McDermott (Home Farm), O’Shea Davis was left free to take a fne Bohemians: Dermot O’Neill, Alan (Spurs), Kelch (Bradford), Bayly diagonal pass from Larry Wyse Kinsella, Ronnie Murphy, Paul (Wolves), Collins (Southampton), and foat it into the middle where Power, Tom Conway (Joey Poutch Tuite (Luton), Neal (Millwall) Rocky O’Brien was waiting to head the ball home. Ireland were drawn in Group B with afer three defeats; 2-1 to Brazil, 1-0 Searching to fll the vacancies Brazil, Saudi Arabia and Spain in to Saudi Arabia and 4-2 to Spain. in his squad by the refusal of the World Youth Championship Marcus Tuite scored the consolation Arsenal to release , held in the Soviet Union. against Brazil while goals by Brian Tuohy was met with another Playing all their group games at the Mooney and Pat Kelch pulled rebuttal when Wolves turned Lenin Dinamo Stadium, Tbilisi, the Spanish game back to 2-2 for down his request for the services Ireland were on an early fight home Tuohy’s team. 1306%,*54611-*&3450

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BOhemian FC ...... 2 Dalymount Park, Friday 6 March 2020 • Photos by Stephen Burke Shelbourne ...... 0 Maybe people will get used to that generally 2km radius and start following their local football club, instead speaking... of looking to England, because it will be a long tme before by Aidan Fitzmaurice those €15 fights to Homer Simpson promised he’d Even ‘resuming’ was a loaded Manchester return... change. He’d had a near-death word as that could mean matches experience, that tme he was being played, but in very limited poisoned (or so he thought) by the conditons, behind closed doors, football club, instead of looking to fugu fsh in a sushi restaurant but only a very tny crew awarded an England, because it will be a long once he survived, he promised to entrance key. Certainly, it’s hard to tme before those €15 fights to live life to the full and never waste imagine when we’ll be back to the Manchester return. Maybe we’ll a moment again, every day a new days we knew, Dublin derbies on wonder why we send young Irish bucket list. Friday nights, a packed Luas out to talent to a club like Notngham Of course, because it’s Homer, Tallaght or the queue for the toilets Forest or Reading, whose massive within a day he doing what he in Dalymount, a pre-match lasagna pre-virus debts will only be more always did; sitng on his couch, and pint in Fagan’s in Drumcondra. painful in the afermath, and do watching a non-sport on TV I was looking forward to doing more to keep them at home. (bowling) and eatng salty treats, as that regularly in 2020. Now, it could Having managed for months fat and lazy as ever. be a while before Fagan’s opens Since the Covid-19 pandemic without the glamour of watching its door to anyone, not just hungry sent the country into lockdown, Watord and Crystal Palace bore League of Ireland fans on a Friday we’ve all heard the stories about the faces of each other, maybe evening. people who have made big changes we’ll grow up and not switch it back Football will have changed by to their lives and routnes. Old on just because it’s on. The sports the tme the pandemic has passed. shelves were painted, gardens media (and I know I work in that weeded to perfecton, people Across Europe, some clubs will feld) might fnd a “sensatonal tug began to bake and cook and learn not survive. The Championship in of war” over which English club Serbian, read those door-stoppers England, a league were one club pays €100million for Jadon Sancho which had remained unread and in 2019 paid out, in player wages something to be derided, not built alone, £2.20 for every £1 it earned, unloved on bookshelves for months up into a frenzy and fed to the will have to be transformed with (looking at you, Hilary Mantel). masses. those who do survive. Premier People also say they will be At a tme when jobs will be League clubs may realise that diferent once the shuters are very scarce, maybe we’ll value the paying Alexis Sanchez £400,000 a lifed and we can have fresh air educaton of our young footballers week, despite not being much good again beyond a 2km radius. We’ll more and expect them to only leave start with great intentons (like at football, is unsustainable. this country, if at all, once they maybe fnding clothes that ft as all In a post-Covid world, where have a Leaving Cert. Maybe the my t-shirts seem have shrunk over the jobless are lef to survive on post-virus clean-up needed across the last month, but that could be social welfare, the outrageous the naton will make the outdated down to me including both crisps tcket prices just to see a Barcelona and beer as one of my fve-a-day) home game and the combined stadiums which fans pay into, the and have dreams of living a beter, cost of all those Sky Sports, BT sub-standard dressing rooms that more worthy, life. Sport and Amazon subscriptons players are forced to change in, I wonder what sort of football will appear to be both vulgar and more acceptable. world we will have in Ireland once un-afordable. Will we change? Homer didn’t, this is over. At the tme of writng And what of Ireland? Well maybe and we won’t do everything we we had no idea when football people will get used to that 2km promised to do once this is over. would resume, if at all this year. radius and start following their local But we can start. // Appearances 2020 // Goals 2020 Goalkeepers Lge. FAI LC LSC Eur. On Of Ttl. League James Talbot 1 ------1 Daniel Mandroiu 2 Stephen McGuinness 4 ------4 Andre Wright 1 Defenders Lge. FAI LC LSC Eur. On Of Ttl. Dan Grant 1 Andy Lyons 2 ------2 Kris Twardek 1 Anto Breslin 3 ------3 Penaltes Ciaran Kelly 1 ------1 Daniel Mandroiu 1 Dan Casey 4 ------4 James Finnerty 1 ------1 Own Goals Michael Barker 4 - - - - 1 - 4 Sam Bone 1 Patrick Kirk 2 ------2 Rob Cornwall 4 ------4 Midfelders Lge. FAI LC LSC Eur. On Of Ttl. Conor Levingston 2 - - - - - 2 2 Danny Grant 4 - - - - 3 1 4 Daniel Mandroiu 4 - - - - 1 2 4 Dawson Devoy 1 - - - - 1 - 1 JJ Lunney 3 ------3 Keith Ward 4 - - - - 1 3 4 Kris Twardek 5 - - - - - 2 5 Keith Buckley (c) 5 - - - - - 1 5 • Danny Grant - scorer Luke Wade-Slater 3 - - - - 1 1 3 of Bohs last goal in Promise Omochere ------2020 BC... Before Covid Ross Tierney 4 - - - - 4 - 4 Forwards Lge. FAI LC LSC Eur. On Of Ttl. // Stats 2020 Andre Wright 4 - - - - 2 1 4 Top goalscorer Cristan Magerusan ------Patrick Hoban, Graham Burke, 5 each Dinny Corcoran ------Glen McAuley 4 - - - - - 4 4 Biggest home win Rovers 6 - 0 Cork City // League Standings Biggest away win Harps 0 - 4 Dundalk P W D L F A GD Pts Shamrock Rovers 5 5 0 0 15 4 +11 15 Highest scoring Dundalk 5 4 0 1 12 4 +8 12 Rovers 6 - 0 Cork City Bohemians 5 3 0 2 6 3 +3 9 Longest winning run St Patrick's Athletc 4 2 0 2 3 2 +1 6 Shamrock Rovers, 5 Shelbourne 4 2 0 2 3 4 −1 6 Longest unbeaten run Waterford 4 2 0 2 3 5 −2 6 Shamrock Rovers, 5 Derry City 4 1 1 2 4 4 0 4 Longest winless run Finn Harps 4 1 1 2 2 6 −4 4 Sligo Rovers, 4 Cork City 5 1 0 4 1 11 −10 3 Longest losing run Sligo Rovers 4 0 0 4 2 8 −6 0 Sligo Rovers, 4 • with thanks to Craig McMahon & Ronny Else for stats - see wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Bohemian_F.C._season OUR GAME IS ON THE BALL

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