TV View: Of course this roller coaster of a League of Ireland season would come down to the final round
Shamrock Rovers' Dylan Watts celebrates after scoring what proved to be the winner against Dundalk at Oriel Park. Photograph: Tom Maher/Inpho’s livingroom and giving us live coverage, in a little box in the corner of the screen, of him watchingsnuggled up on his couch in his slippers with springer spaniel Bella resting on his lap. Then again, there’s a chance he opted to stick on a re-run of Only Fools and Horses instead due to the increasingly intolerable tension of this title race.
And Rodney might have been happier being good at snooker, as might Duffer and Rovers manager Stephen Bradley, instead of being engulfed in this Crucible of League of Ireland war. Eoin Doyle and Ian Morris, Bernard’s pundits, were confident Rovers could see off the challenge of already-relegated Dundalk, thereby sending the title race down to an excruciating final day. As was Keith Treacy, Dave McIntyre’s guest in the commentary box on a decidedly grim Oriel Park evening.
For all those who were title contenders at one stage or another but will, ultimately, miss out on the big prize, there’ll be a whole pile of what-ifs. Guillem Balagué engaged in a mountain of them after“This game could have gone a completely different way if two or three of those chances were two centimetres the other way – we’d have been talking about a different story.”
But Barca were, frankly, glorious. Bold prediction: Lamine Yamal has a future in the game. “Seven players,” including Yamal, “arriving in the counter-attack for Barcelona in the 90th minute – my God,” as our co-commentator Chapi Ferrer put it. “Unbeleebable.”and he lyrically waxed about Palmer’s habit of “already looking to do what is next” when he receives the ball.
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