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Per tifosi e media è - e resterà - "FC Hollywood", per il debordante, atavico ego delle sue mille superstar. Ma senza più "Rib & Rob" nel cast, la sceneggiatura - per quanto originale - non sarà più come prima. Piaccia o no - e in Baviera è piaciuta eccome - al Fußball-Club Bayern, si chiude un'era: quella della "Robbéry". Arjen Robben & Franck Ribéry. La strana coppia che per un decennio ha saccheggiato l'argenteria domestica, europea e mondiale (tra cui l'Oscar per Das Triple  2013). Sulle loro rispettive scorribande sulle fasce, il Bayern moderno è tornato la superpotenza che era quasi sempre stato.   Ribéry c'era arrivato controvoglia, dall'amato Marsiglia per 25 milioni, nel 2007. Lui, "Scarface", La Canebière l'avrebbe lasciata solo per il Paseo de la Castellana, sponda merengue. E proprio da lì, due anni dopo, nel 2009, illustre scarto da 24 milioni del Real Madrid, sarebbe arrivato il suo gemel...

https://www.amazon.com/Sporting-Legends-Ireland-Fennell-2010-09-02/dp/B01K91UA54/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=%22Sporting+Legends+of+Ireland%22&qid=1557056237&s=books&sr=1-1-fkmrnull https://www.facebook.com/Wistorical/photos/a.501750006599065/446075035499896/?type=1&theater Merville Dairy, Finglas, County Dublin, Ireland 7 Lennox Street, Portobello, Dublin, Ireland Champs-Élysées, Paris, France Roche Marina Hotel, Antibes, Cote d'Azur, France It was way past midnight and Stephen Roche was still lying on his back, covered in grease and milk, trying to find the damned leak . Such, he philosophised, is the lot of a maintenance fitter. It was a gener al breakdown at the Merville Dairy in Finglas, Co. Dublin, where he worked. It took until 3am for someone to work it out. As the dairy creaked to life again and the employees began to file out, Stephen’s boss, Ramor Craigie approached . ‘Ahm, will we see you at 9am, Stephen?’ he asked, a little he...

http://www.thebikecomesfirst.com/the-six-day-race-stephen-roche-and-tony-doyle-lost-to-a-home-town-decision/ By Graham Healy - The Bike Comes First Nov 27, 2015 In November 1985, Stephen Roche crashed in the Paris Six-Day damaging his right knee and he would suffer from the injury for the rest of his career.  However, he did return to the track and came very close to a victory in one of the prestigious six-days when he finished second with Tony Doyle in the 1991 Grenoble Six-Day . However, it was felt by many that Doyle and Roche should have been declared the victors . It was a star-studded line-up that year. Amongst the big names from the road were Thierry Marie, Claudio Chiappucci, Laurent Fignon who was paired with Laurent Biondi and Thierry Marie. Roche’s partner Tony Doyle was an excellent six-day racer who had won numerous events including the Six Days of Munich, Ghent, Berlin and Copenhagen. He had also won in Grenoble before, back in 1986 with Fr...

https://www.podiumcafe.com/book-corner/2017/11/3/16602968/the-ascent-sean-kelly-stephen-roche-by-barry-ryan The story of Irish cycling's golden years, from the rise of the Nouvelle Éire to the fall of Pat McQuaid By Feargal McKay ,  @fmk_RoI PODIUM CAFE, Nov 3, 2017 They were of a different kind, The names that stilled your childish play ~ Yeats The year is 1987, the place Wexford town, in the south east of Ireland. It's the last Thursday of August, the golden hour of summer, the holidays drawing to a close. Tonight, though, Wexford is happy, tonight Wexford is celebrating. Tonight, the circus is visiting: Pat McQuaid has brought his Kellogg's-sponsored city centre critérium series to the fading harbour town. And the stars of the show are the four Irish riders racing on the continent: Martin Earley and Paul Kimmage , the hard working heroes pulling for others; Sean Kelly , whose palmarès includes victories in Milan-Sanremo, Paris-Roubaix , L...

https://www.podiumcafe.com/2017/11/3/16602882/interview-stephen-roche Ireland’s Tour de France, Giro d’Italia and World Champion discusses his autobiography, ‘Born to Ride’ By Feargal McKay ,  @fmk_RoI ,  PODIUM CAFE, Jun 22, 2012 It’s a sunny Monday morning in Dublin and I’m sitting in the foyer of Four Seasons Hotel in Ballsbridge . Next door is the RDS, where Lance Armstrong held his International Cancer Conference back in 2009. I’m here this morning to interview one of the men who preceded Armstrong on the Tour de France’s roll of honour: Stephen Roche. The Dubliner is back home to plug his new autobiography, Born to Ride (Yellow Jersey Press), and I’ve been squeezed in for a twenty-minute interview in between TV and radio appearances. The key to a good interview, I’ve always been told, is preparation. Know who you’re interviewing, know what you want to talk to them about and, biff bang bosh, half the job is done. I’ve spent the weekend reading Bor...