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Fantastic goal by Como, ref though is very suspect.
Getting in the way of Como scoring chances, handing out yellows which means he has just sent off a Como player. Ah, as I write this he’s sent off another player this time for Lazio.
A good opportunity to remember those who played their part here. I will start with my grandfather, Cole. Went to Spain in 1936, a southern Irishman with British army service, who went to fight for the govt against Franco’s fascists. International brigades. Was captured in Cordoba but escaped with several others and literally walked and swam around the Spanish coast, through Portugal to get help from the French resistance in late July 1939. WW2 was about to kick off. When he arrived back in Southampton he was mustered into the British army. Wanting to get home to Ireland he said,’ I’ve been fighting fascists for two years, I’ll give it a miss’ They arrested him and sentenced him to jail for ‘poltroon’ basically an establishment term for cowardice !
After eight months in jail in Northampton somebody with a brain approached him and asked if he would pass on his guerrilla warfare skills and train new British army recruits. He said yes, and spent the rest of the war doing just that.
The Brits at times are so far up their own backsides they can’t see the value in real people. He was awarded the defence medal at the end of the war, returned to Ireland and became the catalyst for government post I worked at or in until I retired. Why ?
He was a proud Brit from the south but believed like in life politics change. And this meant despite his British army service he found his post war beliefs more republican. My application to join the military in 1986 took a year. On my final interview I was told ‘your grandfather and your uncle Brian haven’t helped expedite matters’ 😂
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