For the week that’s in it.
Saturday, February 4th, 1989.
It was the year the Hurricane blew away a young Stephen Hendry to win the Irish Masters Snooker Championship and Samuel Beckett passed away.
It was also the year a resurgent Ireland team traveled to the Cardiff Arms Park determined to banish the waning Welsh to a third successive defeat.
Noel Mannion’s block, clutch and gut-bursting carry paved the way.
Eileen Battersby wrote in the following Monday’s Irish Times:
Noel Mannion, grabbed the ball inside his own half and with the grace of a stampeding dray horse, showed the Welsh backs – and the rest of Wales – exactly how serious their rugby problems are when he scored 70 yards later.
“What have things come to when they can’t catch a number eight?”, asked the shaken Welshman in the sheepskin coat.
Blue-dee Buh-real-ee-unt.
Previously: Bread Of Heaven
” Blue-dee Buh-real-ee-unt ”
Eh… wha?
Welsh for bloody brilliant.
You’re not a cunning linguist, I see.
Dunno where you plucked the snooker reference from, but you’re miles off!!! 1982 and not against Hendry?
Oh… you meant the Irish Masters. Quite an ironic mistake given the context in a way…