Spring 2020 Vol. 72 No. 4 Free to All Special Edition
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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 Ireland 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 Dalymount Park. 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, Paul Walsh, Keith Long, Gerard Farrell Dublin 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 & Belfast 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 Top Four Cup 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 Cork 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.