BOHS MAN SCORES FOR BOYS IN GREEN…
Sep 9th, 2008 by Sean Baite
I noticed this by accident while looking over a Guardian article on the biggest surprise in Saturday’s round of World Cup qualifying matches - Lithuania’s 3 nil away victory over Romania in the lovely sounding Cluj ( Jonathan Wilson on Romanian defeat ) I thought that the name of the scorer of the third goal sounded familiar and indeed, it was the same Mindaugas Kalonas that has become a firm favourite at Dalymount since his move there earlier this season (Bohs fans closer to Dalyer may want to correct me on the date of his arrival in Phibsboro). Mention of this feat - the first League of Ireland player to score in international football since probably sometime in the 70s - is in no way related to recent outbursts by not so fine gaels regarding immigrants. Well, to be honest, I think he should stuff the match ball somewhere in the FG press office, but I won’t go there… nowhere remotely near their press orifice.
Those interested in seeing very grainy footage of Kalonas’s strike with commentary in a language I can’t identify (clearly not TG4 but I can’t tell if it sounds latin enough to be Romanian) can look here : Post from Official Bohs website
Life in the Romanian camp looks a bed of roses at the moment - prostitutes at training, stoning journalists and the ‘Ceaucescu treatment’ lined up for the current coach, or so it would appear. A logical career move for Kevin Keegan now he’s washed his hands of Newcastle, eh Kev ?
Meanwhile over at Bohs - who I am glad to see appear to be strolling to their 10th title this year - I was somewhat amused by the player sponsors while looking up Kalonas’s profile in the squad section. Two players are sponsored by my favourite Phibsboro boozer, The Hut, I’m delighted to note. Mark Rossiter manages to be sponsored by Westlife (yes THAT Westlife! and not some alternative medicine place somewhere in Galway). Strangest of all is the player sponsored by a model train supplier - the lad in question doesn’t even seem to be a ‘pocket’ midfielder..
Poor Kalonas is still available for sponsorship, if anyone has the number of the local FG cumman (do they have cummans, like the other lot ??)
International! International!
Already has his own song, to the tune of Rupert Holmes 70s ‘classic’ ‘Pina Colada’
“Do you like Mina Kalonas?/ And Watching Bohs in the Rain?
He’s a full international/ He’s gonna score every game”
Can’t find it on YouTube, but the look of utter confusion on his face as he was presented with the MOTM award for the cup game against Drogheda live on TG4 was priceless; still struggling with basic footballese as Bearla, no one had warned him about this strange new tongue he was about to be congratulated in………
For those among us who don’t regularly listen to Alan Partridge’s Radio Norwich show, here’s the original (so we can hear how it scans) :
F@@@in’ hell SOS - look what you’ve made me unleash :->
Nice pants.
I presume you mean ’slacks’ - a-ha !
No.
Interesting that you read it in the Guardian. Was it reported in the Irish sporting press?
Dunno FP, I live in France and have sort of lost the habit of checking the Irish media regularly since the Irish Times started charging (I know they’ve gone back to free but I’ve kept up the habit).
Didn’t notice it on RTE but I’m sure it got a mention in the Herald - not a paper I see over here often.
In fact, I spotted that Kalonas had scored on the BBC results page.
No Dublin paper would have mentioned the match were it not for the involvement of a Bohs player, I suppose - unlike the Guardian.
Campiones!
Kalonas missed the decider in Drogheda last night, being off on international duty again ……
Yeah, well done to Phibsborough’s finest.. they even managed it without Kalonas, now for the double !
Looks like he’d have been better off in United Park as I think the Lithuanians got tonked by the Serbs on Saturday.
Will Bohs also end up as the only Eircom League side not declared bankrupt during the season ? I see even Drogheda made a grim announcement in the week before the decider. Sad situation.