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Old 01-04-2006, 02:56 PM   Planeticket to Western-Europe Post #41
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Thanks chesterfan2

5th of July 2006

We were hosting a small quest from Dublin on 5th. It was a club named Dublin City who was here to play againist us in a League Cup quarter final. We gave some key players rest, but that should have not done anything to the result of the match

League Cup, Quarter-Final
Cork City 3:0 Dublin City (8., 57. Neale Fenn, 9. Denis Behan)

Quick start gave us an 2:0 lead after 9 minutes which Neale Fenn added another one later. It was his 4th League Cup goal. He scored double againist Mayo in earlier rounds. We meet Bohemians in the next round.

8th of July 2006

Before our first ever Champions League game, we had an strong test as we met Shelbourne at home. They were much stronger that earlier in the season, but we still hoped to beat them again.

Irish Premier Division, Week 17
Cork City 1:1 Shelbourne (65. John O’Flynn)

I was very angry. We had like 10 chances, Shelbourne only managed to get into the game when John got an red card, just 2 minutes after his goal. Shaka Hislop made the main difference in their goal. But otherwise, it’s nice to see that they haven’t got much stronger. I go better and better againist them with every game I play.

HERE ARE THE OTHER LEAGUES AND WC RESULTS:

World Cup 2006: 1. Germany, 2. Argentina, 3. Mexico, 4. Croatia

Champions League: 1. Barcelona, 2. Inter

Uefa Cup: 1. Dortmund, 2. Roma

English Premiership: 1. Arsenal, 2. Liverpool, 3. Chelsea, 4. Manchester United

Italian Serie A: 1. Juventus, 2. Milan, 3. Inter, 4. Lazio

Spanish Primera Division: 1. Real Madrid, 2. Deportivo, 3. Atletico Madrid, 4. Valencia

France Ligue 1: 1. Lyon, 2. Monaco, 3. Auxerre, 4. Nantes

Holland’s Casino Eredivisie: 1. Feyenoord, 2. Ajax, 3. PSV, 4. Fc Utrecht

Denmark Superleague: 1. OB, 2. FC Kobenhavn, 3. Esbjerg fB, 4. Brondby

France Ligue 2: 1. Sedan, 2. Caen, 3. Gueugnon, 4. Montpellier

10th of July 2006

Our draw for Irish Senior Challenge Cup got us an team named Keadue, who we play at home.

12th of July 2006

Our first ever CL match was now here. We travelled to Bosnia 2 days before the match and had few fans with us to cheer us. I had my homework done well and before, we visited the stadion in city named Mostar. The stadium was named Bijeli brijeg, which I could not pronounce, either could my players. With us, there weren’t Danny Murphy and Alan Bennett who are both first team defenders. The training went well and we were ready for our first match in the evening. It was 22 degrees out there.

Champions Leage 1st Qualifying Round, 1st Leg
HSK Zrinjski Mostar 2:1 Cork City (13. John O’Flynn)

Despite grabbing an early lead, we got an late defeat. We managed to concede an goal on 90th minute, which made me very angry. We did fine in the evening and some periods, we were even better than them. It’s nice that John O’Flynn scored, but he should have scored at least one more. He had chances. But we’ve got nice chances for the return leg at Turners Cross next week.

15th of July 2006

Before the CL return, we had a chance to win that pointless title named Munster Senior Cup. We faced unknown Tralee Dynamos in our home stadium. As a title does well for confidence, I only rested very few players.

Munster Senior Cup, Final
Tralee Dynamos 0:2 Cork City (47., 50. Neale Fenn)

So Fenn bringed us another title. My 4th on charge here. But that wasn’t very important as we won it for the 11th time in a row. We’ve got no opponents in that local tournament. But i’m happy with that ~15k we made with the 3 matches. That will be nicely splited towards the players.
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19th of July 2006

It was a big day for Cork! Around 8000 people came to the Turners Cross. The match was shown in TV all over Ireland. The hopes were set high and everybody saw us at least in next round, if not further, because Debrecen would have not been an unbeatable opponent. Danny Murphy was back with the squad.

Champions League 1st Qualifying Round, 2nd Leg
Cork City 3:1 HSK Zrinjski Mostar (12. Denis Behan, 52., 90. John O’Flynn)

With this game – a player called John O’Flynn made sure that he’s name will remain in Cork City history forever. He’s two goals got us trough, the last goal came as a last touch off the game as an header. We can’t overlook Denis Behan, who scored the best goal of the match. He’s curling shot from the edge of the are found a hole between goalkeeper, post and crossbar. Debrecen, here we come!

22th of July 2006

We met Shamrock in next game. They were in the middle of the table and I thought beating them will be easy them, especially at home. Playing home was very good thing considering fact that we had to get on place on Monday to go to Hungary.

Irish Premier Division, Week 18
Cork City 0:1 Shamrock Rovers

WE DIDN’T WIN!? This game was absolutely amazing, one of the best we had this season, but when it came to goalscoring, they’re goalkeeper did a world-class game. They only had 1 shot on goal, but suprise suprise, it went in. I’m so angry, we had more than 5 chances on both. Even not a draw? Amazing way to end our 12 game unbeatten run in the league. We are also behind Shelbourne with 1 point, though we have played one less game.

26th of July 2006

We didn’t feel very good in Hungary. On tuesdays training, everyone was a bit tired and didn’t looked good. The climax was also 10 degrees colder, though it should be other way around. But we hoped for the best.

Champions League 2nd Qualifying Round, 1st Leg
Debrecen 1:0 Cork City

Well deserved loss, though, we should have used one of those 4-5 chances we had to get us more opportunities to progress which looks very likely. I’ve got not much comments. In few I gave to TV, I said i’m pleased with the result.

28th of July 2006

When we will get into next round, our opponent will be either Dinamo Kiev or Artmedia Bratislava. Probably the first one though, they had an good first leg.
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:thup: great story and great manager :thup:
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29th of July 2006

So we had an 2nd Round of Senior Challenge Cup. It was againist Keadue. I went to it with few key players having rest. (John O’Flynn, George O’Gallaghan, Danny Murphy, Liam Kearney...) I wanted to get a big-score victory to get confidence high.

Senior Challenge Cup, 2nd Round
Cork City 6:0 Keadue (15., 52. Willie Bruton, 31. Denis Behan, 38., 41., 88. Roy O’Donovan)

Mission accomplished. Wille Bruton did nice in his first game of the season. He’d been on bench few times. O’Donovan will be very happy with his hattrick, but that’s overshadowed by his injury. He’s out for few weeks now. But most of the players are feeling superb. We will play Kialdare County in next round.

2nd of August 2006

So it was another big match for us. Every player was feeling good, I could only find only around 10 places not filled in the stadium that has capacity of 10 000. Again it was broadcasted on TV. I decided to make some changes in the first team squad comparing to last CL game. Some players impressed me at the Keadue game. Like John McGrath and Billy Woods.

Champions League 2nd Qualifying Round, Leg 2
Cork City 0:1 Debrecen

I swear. One player just waved bye-bye to the first team football. That player is John McGrath, an moron who managed to get us with 10 men just when we were about to score an goal on 0:0. Thank you John for fulfilling my trust. For couple of hours, I wanted to freeze him out of the squad until I leave, but he came to apologise so he remains as an 2nd option for left wing, but I’ll never ever will choose him over Liam Kearney. Debrecen was just about to crack under the pressure, the magical attacking trio was making their defence headache. They could not make anything themselves. I’m absolutely mad. Doing it in front of the full house. McGrath just lost us enormous money, not to talk about atleast 4 more European games this season.

5th of August 2006

We had to win as we met Longford in 19th week of Premier Division. They were on the second half of the table and we needed to get our confidence back in league after difficult July month. We had all the best players with us, so this made mission easier.

Irish Premier Division, Week 19
Cork City 2:0 Longford (5., 64. John O’Flynn)

John O’Flynn got us the points again. He’s now back at where he belongs, in first place of the league scoringcharts with 11 goals. We we’re back in the first place, but Shelbourne hadn’t played their 19th Week match (for them it was 20th though).

In other good news – our U21 won an league already!
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Thank you Goldbroad!
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9th of August 2006

We had an though home-match to reach the finals of League Cup. The opponent was inform Bohemians. I had some key member out, but on my way to the stadium, with my brand-new Mercedes (I bought it just few days ago, my wage is huge comparing to the other club members, 7500 pounds per month, 2x more than others), I felt very comfortable. Put ofcourse that's because of music too. I played that pretty loud.

League Cup, Semi-Final
Cork City 0:0 Bohemians (3:2 on penalties)

Phil Harrington = hero. He saved 3 penalties that putted us through to the finals againist Shelbourne. Though, we could have and shoulv'e ended this match earlier.

12th of August 2006

3 points were must in travel to face Galway Utd. They were still struggeling hard and were placed at last position. The player situation gets better game by game. We hope to gain some speed now to get back on track.

Irish Premier Division, Week 20
Galway Utd 0:2 Cork City (48., 65. Denis Behan)

A nice win. I took John off after half time. We still managed to beat them. Denis again tooked himself together and gifted us 10 points. He's score-account is slowly rising. We're still first in the table.

15th of August 2006

We had an tough test before the League Cup final vs. Shelbourne on 20th. The busdriver could again start our bus as this time, he had to take us to face Drogheda Utd. They were really good lately and showing some strong results. It was set to be a no walk in park for us.

Irish Premier Division, Week 21
Drogheda Utd 2:3 Cork City (5. Roy O'Donovan, 8. John O'Flynn, 85. Colin Thomas O'Brien)

Very interesting match as you can see. Started off very well, but then then they started to put some pressure on. But they couldn't score that second goal on 2:1 and got punished. But we had our own chances too. Nice game, lads. We need to keep the results coming.

20th of August 2006

It was league cup game. In so called Neutral stadium in Dublin again. Tolka Park, which is Shelbournes home stadium, but it was drawn as ours today. :finger: Another coreography was made. This time about All-Ireland cup, with Phil Harrington saving the last penalty. The trip to Dublin went all good, until police stopped us at 10 km's away from Dublin. And busdriver was drunk! We were worried, but then we find out that a member of us, named Alan Bennett, has an bus-driver licenses, so we got there soon. The busdriver was immediatly fired ofcourse. I think the press will not get known of it though.

League Cup, Final
Cork City 3:2 Shelbourne (36. John O'Flynn, 39. George O'Gallaghan, 54. Roy O'Donovan)

We could sing again. Another title won, another one under the noses of Shelbourne. It was also our first win againist them in 90 minutes time which is great. 10k is not a big money for the cup win though. But even more pleasure came after the game. Shelbourne sold Martin Lagendijk, a jackass who injuried two of our players, both right-backs. Now they're out for 2 weeks. LAGENDIJK BASTARD!
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23th of August 2006

I had an Senior Challenge Cup third round match againist some club named Kerry. I went there with not the strongest squad, but had key players on bench just in case.

Senior Challenge Cup, 3rd Round
Kerry 0:1 Cork City (90. pen. John O'Flynn)

Still I had to bring in John to prevent the extra-time. I didn't want to play extra 30 minutes, that would hav egot us tired before 2 very important games in league. He did that in the 3rd injury-time minute. I must be called champion in those goals! I can't even count how many goals Cork has scored in injury-time. Anyway, next round, yes, againist Shelbourne.

25th of August 2006

A big rebuild of the backroom staff was going on. I sacked all my physios. They got replaced by dutchman Luc van Agt, who had 2x better stats that the previos physios. That must be really helpful.

Also, here is the list of new coaches I hired:

John Morling (England) - very good with youngesters, gonna be our U21 coach. Mental stats are awesome. Discipline is perfect for youngsters, "19".

Stephen Geoghegan (Ireland) - he's got much better stats than the coaches who were here from the start of my career.

Eoin Hand (Ireland) - same with previous.

John Damstel (Denmark) - same with previous.

Mike Stowell (England) - Better stats than the coaches from the start. Very nice with GK's.

Ivano Bordono (Italy) - Yes, former Italian NT goalkeeper. He is very good with GK's for Cork City. That should develop our GK's a bit.

28th of August 2006

Our veteran GK Phil Harrington retires at the end of the season. He is 41 at the moment. Still was my no. 1 choice. Thanks Phil! Especially for the penalities you have saved for us!

29th of August 2006

So we had an very though trip to a town which name I can't remember. Anyways, there is a club named Derry City, who isn't the easiest opponent for us usually. The form was good, so we hoped for win ofcourse. Shelbourne and Bohemians are also about to cut our head of at the table, so we need to win and win and win all the time.

Irish Premier Division, Week 22
Derry City 0:3 Cork City (31., 47. John O'Flynn, 42. George O'Gallaghan)

An awesome win. Our best attacking players saved us. John is slowly moving away from the others at the goal-scoring charts. He now has 14 goals. George is also cathing up with the leaders there. Bohemians and Shelbourne don't wanna slip up. That's gonna be an awesome fight till the end of the season I think

1st of September

I was chosen as the manager of the month for the second time in the season. We got also 2 best places in player of the month award. First was central defender Daniel Murray and second John O'Flynn, who overall has already 30 goals this season.
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1st of September 2006

Another trip was in our plans on that day. After winning MoM title, I felt good in Dublin, as we prepared for big Bohemians test. They were getting points like mad lately, so the hopes were 50/50 if you ask me. They're manager is a nice person, we had a few words before the match. We talked about Irish league and where is it going to. Also had few words about Cork. And I can tell you, he secretly told me that I will win the title again.

Irish Premier Division, Week 23
Bohemians 3:2 Cork City (5. Denis Behan, 62. George O'Gallaghan)

Despite the nice pre-match talk with their manager and he tipping us to win the title, we lost this time. That gives Shelbourne a chance to get past us, when they play they're one less match, but that's againist Bohemians though. So I can hope that they will not win this one and I remain in the top of the table.

8th of September 2006

We had unusual 7 days off after Bohemians game as we hosted Shelbourne at Turner's Cross. This team was actually slowly losing they're key players. Marc van Eijk and Martin Lagendijk already left. I was feeling well before the game and thought win is very possible in the Senior Challenge Cup quarter-final game.

Senior Challenge Cup, Quarter-Final
Cork City 0:0 Shelbourne

Impossible. Awful finishing, especially John O'Flynn. We had 19 shots, 12 of them by John. (Only half were on-target, but there was Shaka Hislop) Now we missed an perfect chance to get into the next round. Now we have to replay the match away and that's not gonna be easy.

13th of September 2006

Another away game in the league was againist St Pat's Athletic. That is completly not fair if you ask me. Our fifth away game in a row! But we should get an bunch of home games soon for that though. Saint Patrick team was having an hard time and they hadn't got an win for many games now.

Irish Premier Division, Week 24
St Pat's Athletic 0:2 Cork City (12. Denis Behan, 49. Colin Thomas O'Brien)

Nice win that keeps our pace. As said earlier, we can't slip up. Behan again rised in an goal-scoring charts and in the league, he should be our 2nd goalscorer. It was nice to see O'Brien scoring too. Still first ofcourse. Bohemians is starting to slip up. They got 2 draws.

17th of September 2006

So it was the Senior Challenge Cup replay game. I didn't hope for much againist Shelbourne away this time. I even gave some players rest. (John O'Flynn, Thomas Morgan...) They were with their best squad.

Senior Challenge Cup, Quarter-Final Replay
Shelbourne 1:1 Cork City (114. Joe Gamble) (5:4 on penalties)

So we fell out. This time it was us who didn't score that one penalty in the thrilling shoot-out. Only player to miss was suprisingly "substitution" John O'Flynn. But I'm not really devasted. I can now fully concentrate on the league, which for me is the most important thing to win before I leave. Really would love to see this team in the CL again.

18th of September 2006

Some winger named Anthony Tynan opened his mouth about me. "I'm full of it. He doesen't play me at all. I've been working hard to prove that I'm worth a place in the team, but he just overlooks me," he said to the media. Then I quickly got some "What's gonna happen..." calls. I basically answered to them like this: "This problem will be solved between me and Tynan."

Then I went to Tynan's place. After the short intro, I started to talk about the problem: "You know very well that you're not even the 2nd best left winger here at the club! With those problems you come to me, not to media. It could be solved without them, but now you are putting me into difficult situation." He replied to me: "How do you know how good am I, you don't even look at me. You are dumb manager who kisses John O'Flynn's ass!" I got angry: "You are not the one who should told me what to do! If you ever want to get into my team, then work hard, not whine! Now you are the crybaby here!" Tynan: "Don't come to my house to insult me! Get out of here you f*cker! Hope you will never get out of Ireland and your career gots ruined, just like you have done to me in last one and half year! Now, the door is there."

19th of September 2006

Tynan didn't show up for the next days training, but this time, thanks to me. The contract was cancelled and at the morning, he found 10k on his bank account. He was very ignorant player. That was not the first time he went out to whine in media and also he misses a lot of training. I'm surely not wishing him good luck on finding new club.

22th of September 2006

Tynan thing forgotten, I faced Bray Wanderers at home. They were decent tea and could do some trouble for the big teams when they're having that "day". I was without Phil Harrington who was injuried for month. Devine wasn't very good when he got his playing time, so I'm a bit afraid.

Irish Premier Division, Week 25
Cork City 3:1 Bray Wanderers (40., 46., 52. John O'Flynn)

"How to score an hattrick with 12 minutes" by John O'Flynn. Nice, his first hattrick in the league. Now he's got 17 goals and leads the goalscoring charts with 5 goals. Doubt anyones gonna catch him. Another "golden boot" is his.

26th of September

An easy match and revenge was in our plans. Dundalk managed to draw with us 2 times this season. It was payback time, as we deserved to win those earlier games. I decided even to give some players a rest.

Irish Premier Division, Week 26
Cork City 2:0 Dundalk (23. Colin O'Brien, 62. George O'Gallaghan)

So we got our revenge, Would have wanted something bigger, but thats okay. Bohemians 0:0 Shelbourne. Now if we win all the remaining games, we are the champions! O'Gallaghan has 8 goals. 5 more and he would be second in the goalscorers table, Behan would be 2nd with 4 goals.
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1st of October 2006

Denis Behan had his goal againist Bohemians, game we lost, named as goal of the september.

But this day's most interesting thing will certainly be another thing. Lennox called me into his office. He then said: "I know you want to leave, but I'm still offering you a new contract. I can supply you with 200k pounds in transfer market and offer you a 7000k wage, which is though abit smaller." I replied: "I'm sorry Brian, but I haven't changed my mind. I try to leave, but I will promise you, if I don't get a job by March, I can return to you." Brian then said: "I know, but I can't wait for that till March. We need to have a manager in pre-season." Me after that: "What about Dave?" "Dave is an assistant manager, he will never be good enough to be our manager. When we sign a new manager in march, then he has no time to learn about the players with few weeks," said Brian. I'm still very stubborn and answered: "I don't know. I really like here, but I still want to move on in my career. Anyway, that thing should be shut now. I got no hard feelings for the club and I prove that soon - just that I don't wanna stay here. You can start looking for new manager if you want. I'm not killing you when the place isn't free in March and I'm jobless."

4th of October 2006

Great achievement for us - Roy O'Donovan, 20, was called up for the Ireland U21 team. Though, he did not get an match. I still thought it would be nice to congratulate. I called him to the training camp and wished good luck.

7th of October 2006

Kind a similiar thing happened to another player of us. This time it was Gary Curran, who was called for a U19 job. He did well and even got an "cap" as coming of for bench. Curran for NT!

13th of October 2006

After a lenghty break, we returned to the pitch. St Pat's Athletic was set to be an easy task in home. We wanted to continue our league run and extend our lead as Shelbourne drew they're game.

Irish Premier Division, Week 27
Cork City 0:0 St Pat's Athletic

Damn! We didn't create much and also didn't finish what we managed to create. John was out injuried and that was hit for sure. But luckily the gap remains same.

17th of October 2006

We certainly had to win againist Finn Harps at home. They were really struggeling and couldn't win at all. I was hoping for an high-score victory.

Irish Premier Division, Week 28
Cork City 4:0 Finn Harps (13. Willie Burton, 35. George O'Gallaghan, 47. Liam Kearney, 73. Denis Behan)

An nice win. Our second and third best scorers again on score-sheet. Shelbourne and Bohemians are winning also. Though that's probably gonna be a fight between me and Shelbourne.

20th of October 2006

We had to ran the bus again. Bennett driving, we hit the road before the away game with Shamrock Rovers, who are decent team. They suprisingly managed to rob us some points, but now we intended to do the same with them

Irish Premier Division, Week 29
Shamrock 2:2 Cork City (4., 74. Denis Behan)

I'm not very mad with the draw, but it sure puts us into though situation for the away game againist Shelbourne. They can get on equal points with us if they win. Denis Behan is having an great time at the moment. One of the best scorers in the league now. Hope he helps us while John is gone for the rest of the season.
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25th of October 2006

It was a time of the match that should have decide everything, but it didn't! The match away to Shelbourne was the biggest joke I've seen in my career. Some morons on top of the Ireland leagues decided that on that Wednesday, they have to do an Irish leagues All-Star games. Ofcourse, as the best team in Ireland, I had more than half of my squad taken away. That combined to the injuries made me impossible to win againist Shelbourne. Only thing I didn't have ripped to pieces was my defence. Though, even when Shelbourne wins, it's not gonna be easy for them, they've got few hard games, I've got easy ones. I could atleast win the on goal difference I think.

Irish Premier Division, Week 30
Shelbourne 1:0 Cork City

I only had 1-2 chances. I could have probably win, or atleast draw the game when I'd had my creative minds with me and a decent striker, not a guy named Willie Burton. Anyway, in good news - our players were the decisive one in the wins. George O'Gallaghan scored the only goal in the senior's match and Roy O'Donovan was only guy on target at U21 game. (It was Ireland - Norther Ireland)

1st of November 2006

Joe Gamble was the third best player in the Premier Division last month. Denis Behan won the best goal again. He also got an 3rd place there.

3rd of November 2006

We had an though match at home vs Drogheda Utd, who we were hoping to make us a little gift in next round, though we could not give them anything back on that Friday. I sent one of the scouts to Dublin, to report me on Shelbourne game by phone. It was important for me to know the result there.

Irish Premier Division, Week 31
Cork City 1:0 Drogheda Utd (52. Denis Behan)

A win that leaves us at the same 2nd place. Shelbourne won from through 85th minute penalty. I was pretty sure they gonna draw after 80th minute, but that wasn't the game they were supposed to lose anyway in my plans. Behan is already second in scorers charts.

10th of November 2006

DROGHEDA! WE SING TO YOU TONIGHT! They won againist Shelbourne! 3:2! That leaves us the pole position as we fight againist relegated team and a team fighting againist relegation.

11th of November 2006

This was getting more than interesting. It was almost dead circle and somehow, Shelbourne was the one who was never going to win this season anymore. If I'd lost on Saturday againist Longford, then Bohemians would have been the first. They won Derry City earlier in day. I had an mission Longford. Draw would have been nice, win would have basically secured us the title.

Irish Premier Division, Week 32
Longford 1:3 Cork City (23., 62. Denis Behan, 37. Roy O'Donovan)

Now I have one hand on the title. One more game and we can lift it up. An awesome away game from us. Denis Behan may now even become the top-scorer in the charts! He's got 16, John has 17. The others are far. In that mentioned match, we conceded an hillarious call, from cross at 1:0. Though, I didn't get very angry because I know draw would be alright.

19th of November 2006

It was time to do it. Atleast drawing againist Galway Utd was an easiest task I could have for the final round. I even doubted they're gonna create any chances. We had also planned my final speech with the fans. My last game in Cork City career was set to be an title-winning game. Yes, last. 99% sure.

Irish Premier Division, Week 33
Cork City 1:0 Galway Utd (90. Denis Behan)

After that Behan goal, everyone started singing: "We are the champions!" They couldn't create absolutely anything. Behan and O'Flynn rule the goal-scoring charts with 17 goals. Top 2 scorers. Then now let's get on with a speech. Few minutes, after the big jumping was over, I got an microphone. Then, I patted on it and started talking: "Hmm, Hmm... Hello everybody. (Fans started clapping hands for few minutes) Thank you! Thank you. I've got an announcement to make that you know, but it's still not gonna make you happy. I found it right time to tell you fans, and players, that this remains as my last match. I've found a new job, which I'm gonna take on next Friday. No that's not Bohemians or Shelbourne. I'm moving away. I just wanna thank you for everything! It was absolutely 1 and half year full of fun. We won so much titles that I can't count them on one hand's fingers. We sure had some lows, but we always managed to came out on top. Those titles are my gift for you. I'm sure you understand why I want to go away. It just that I need to move on with my career, so has Cork. I feel I've achieved everything I need with this club. I will always remember this place fondly, for the nice summers and wet winters, but mostly because of the club, players, backroom staff and the best fans in Ireland. This may be hard without me in charge, but just like we managed to get over every obstacle - you can get over this one too. Thank you for helping me to start my career, thank you for supporting me!"

As I left the club, I was rised into the hall of fame in Ireland. 10th place with 20 points. That's an great honour ofcourse. The club won 2 league titles under me, 1 All-Ireland Cup, 1 league Cup and 2 Munster Senior Cup, not to talk about some more fame as playing very well in Europe. I also helped club to raise the balance to the 1 900 000 pounds. Though, actually, we know all how much of this money is really club's, the goverment knows that Cork has an balance less than 1 million.
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