Result : 4-2 Win Shamrocks 1st team returned to winning ways after a pretty dismal start to the spring season with a good win in the Bronx last night. Goals from Shawn Barron after their keeper dropped the ball at his feet and a peno from Dave “Gareth Bale” Harvey saw us take a well [...]
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Back to Winning Ways
Posted in Match Reports on April 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
1st Team Return to Winning Ways
Posted in Match Reports on April 2, 2010 | 2 Comments »
After a poor result against the league leaders last weekend, the 1st team bounced back with a good win against another top 4 team in CPR. It was a typical March day out on Randall’s Island, windy, cold with the constant threat of rain. In the absence of Robbie (who claims he was working but [...]
1st loses its first game of season
Posted in Match Reports on December 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Shamrocks 1st 4-3 NY Fury Not much to say here. It was pissing rain at the shitty Verrazano field on Sunday when we took the field. Maybe it twas the Christmas season or maybe it was just some dodgy defending but some whatever reason we decided to give away goals like Kevin McP dressed in [...]
O T’irties Post First Report of Season (about time)
Posted in Match Reports on December 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Shamrock Rovers Over 30′s Vs Albion SC Over 30′s Well, 6.45am at the Courtyard was a little hardcore for a cold Sunday morning, but the Over T’irties all turned up for our last run out before the winter break. Albion came into the game just a point behind us but we were desperate to redeem [...]
Shamrocks Travel to Canada for Snowball Fight
Posted in Match Reports on December 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Shamrocks 1st v Clarkstown – STATE CUP Sunday’s Arctic expedition to league rivals Clarkstown for a State Cup clash ended up looking more like a Dublin City Corporation job site than a football game, where one or two guys with shovels broke their bollocks working while the rest of us stood watching & telling them how [...]
1st Team Drop Points with Disappointing Tie
Posted in Match Reports on December 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
November 22nd, 2009 Shamrock 1st 1-1 FC Bulgaria Shamrocks 1st team dropped points for only the second time so far this season with a surprising tie against FC Bulgaria. Since I was not playing due to my old age and a nagging back injury I showed up a few minutes late. The game had already [...]
Reserves spank Bulgarians
Posted in Match Reports on November 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
11/22/09 Shamrock Res 4 – 0 Bulgaria Res As someone who has been with the Shamrocks for a long time, I have seen some massive shifts in the culture of the club. The first thing I noticed when I joined was that we had one “foreign” player on the team. His name was Mike Bishop [...]
1st Team Roll On In State Cup
Posted in Match Reports on November 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
November 15th, 2009 Shamrocks 4-2 Portchester I know it’s a little late but I’ve been out injured!! McCarron Park was the venue for the Shamrocks 2nd round State Cup game against Portchester. They seemed up for it even before the kickoff, paying for linesman for the game. Unfortunately as we all know the addition of [...]
Reserves back to winning ways 11/8/09
Posted in Match Reports on November 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Shamrock Res 6-0 Ridgewood Romac Res After the events of last week, the Rocks reserves were happy to get back to playing a league game. Ridgewood Romac was the opposition on the carpet-like surface of the Verazzano complex. As we met at the courtyard there was a rumor going around that Cair Ferguson and Johnny [...]
1st Team Clear State Cup First Round Hurdle
Posted in Match Reports on November 3, 2009 | 4 Comments »
November 1st, 2009 Shamrock 1st 3-1 SSCD NYC Marathon Sunday posed some travel issues for players trying to get to this game up in the Bronx. Since the Reserves were playing at the Verrazano Complex, Johnnies Luxury Coach service was not supposed to be available for the 1st team players. We would have to schlep it [...]
