Comments on The Pensive Quill: This & That: Take 20

Fella's a bit of solidarity. Whats wrong with ...

2013-06-28T13:09:07.820+01:00

Fella's a bit of solidarity. Whats wrong with putting George Best up there? Can you imagine Ronaldo or Messi, ankle deep in mud, kicking around a rain soaked leather ball with Chopper Harris looming? They'd be running scared or dive..

If you ask me Pele was the business but Maradona i...

2013-06-02T13:35:13.972+01:00

If you ask me Pele was the business but Maradona is the greatest player the game has seen. That's terrible about your brother IJM, just shows how the Troubles impacted on ordinary people. Your story made me think of Sean Loughran, who's 40th anniversary is later this month. Sean returned to his native Dungannon when the Troubles broke out, having emigrated to England during the 60's. He died on active service with his comrades Paddy Carty and Dermot Crowley outside Omagh town on 25th June 1973 after a bomb exploded prematurely in the car they were travelling in. Were it not for the Troubles he could well have settled in England like so many Irishmen of his generation and went on to do God knows what with his life - and that's the real tragedy of what happened in our country because behind it all are human beings with human stories. Sean Loughran had a wife and two children who never got to see him grow old and that to me is just so sad. I fondly recall as I write this singing a song in his memory at a get-together one evening in Derrytresk round the time of the 25th anniversary in the company of his brother Gerry who also has sadly passed. Great men the both of them and great servants of their country, may they rest in peace

I'm back unto the football. To me the greates...

2013-06-02T00:31:28.787+01:00

I'm back unto the football.

To me the greatest player in modern times was ,Edison Arantes do Nascimento, better known as Pele. I was fascinated by his skills , football on the streets with a tennis ball in Northwick drive, Ardoyne, everyone wanted to be pele.
Memories are forever, but I never made it , but my youngest brother Martin could have made it, Played for Cliftonvile,Ballymena Utd, taken on by Man city , scored two goals on his debut in the second team, Colin Bell used to pick him up every morning for training from my late sisters house in Bury in England , he got home sick, The troubles brought him home , the feud cost him a lot through disability, refused to surrender. he was a stickie to the end,Dumped across the border! .He should have kept playing football, at least he is still alive, he still abhors Adams and his Cronies , just like the rest of my family.

Anthony: With reference to Paul Brew (Baron Brew)...

2013-06-01T02:29:01.234+01:00

Anthony:

With reference to Paul Brew (Baron Brew), I knew The name right away and went through my little archive's and came up with this one.

Terrorism is back in Northern Ireland

Paul Bew says that the young police recruits in the province now find themselves facing the sort of armed confrontations they assumed were a thing of the past. makes you think?.

Saurez , must have been born of a Vampire, It'...

2013-06-01T00:38:24.412+01:00

Saurez , must have been born of a Vampire, It's not the first time he has gotten his teeth embedded in the veins!. He is a fantastic footballer, but he is also a brawler

Anthony, I am really shocked, "YOU DON'T SUPPORT UNITED"!!!. I wonder why?.

Yet we agree to everything, it's one thing aft...

2013-05-31T23:50:01.975+01:00

Yet we agree to everything, it's one thing after another. On all the issues that really matter we've come out with a poor deal. But to make up for this what we have is a leadership skilled at dressing such failure up as victory. As you say an agreed Ireland is a unionist position, that's unionist with a small 'u'. Hardly what the Hungerstrikers gave their lives for.

As for Cantona he was something else, like Suarez you just know they're not fully 'wise in the head' so to speak. I'd say that's probably what makes them so special

I could put up with Cantona because I don't su...

2013-05-31T23:13:38.639+01:00

I could put up with Cantona because I don't suppport Utd! Suarez is brilliant but ruins it with this behaviour

As Paul Bew said many years ago an agreed Ireland ...

2013-05-31T23:11:54.122+01:00

As Paul Bew said many years ago an agreed Ireland by definition can not be a united Ireland because the unionists would never agree to it.

On another unrelated note I suppose we shouldn'...

2013-05-31T23:08:58.725+01:00

On another unrelated note I suppose we shouldn't be shocked by anything at this stage but I was amazed to hear Seanna Walsh come out with some tripe last night along the lines of "the Hungerstrikers died for a new agreed Ireland..." I was ready to throw the remote. Sinn Fein's revisionism seems to have no bounds

Well I can certainly agree on Messi, everything a ...

2013-05-31T23:02:48.692+01:00

Well I can certainly agree on Messi, everything a footballer should be! He shoots he scores! The same as for the comment on pampered millionaires. But when it comes to Suarez we'll agree to disagree. I love a man who plays with that type of passion, there hasn't been a player of that ability in the Premier League since Eric Cantona - also a similarly flawed genius! If he goes he'll be missed, players of that class are few and far between

Sean, people doing things in the heat of battle s...

2013-05-31T22:42:22.143+01:00

Sean,

people doing things in the heat of battle sometimes get charged with war crimes!

Anybody biting another person is a thug. These are pampered millionaires setting a terrible example for children to follow. Messi is a true genius.

Have to say I was surprised to see Luis Suarez mak...

2013-05-31T22:19:41.075+01:00

Have to say I was surprised to see Luis Suarez make the Quill but since you brought it up Anthony I think I'll throw in my tuppence worth! To call the man a thug is a gross overreaction if you ask me, people do things in the heat of battle and unfortunately for Luis Suarez such is his commitment when he takes the field he plays on the edge and is liable to do anything as a result. But when the games over it's over, what happens on the pitch stays there. Take that out of his game and what are you left with? A crowd of lady-boys. Give me Suarez any day, a flawed genius he may well be but a genius none the less