Shamrocks shut the Curtains!!! Kilcommins revels in victory but warns players to "Pull yerselves together" for next week against the Joes. North London Shamrocks 0-10 Thomas McCurtains 1-4 After the last 2 wins against the Harps and Joes, management could sense a little over confidence creeping into the squad. This fear was further proven when The Broom after his 10 minute cameo against the Harps started trying to put over points from the right touchline with his left foot at training (he says he averages one score a night). Management were nervous and cigarette sales in the Palmers Green/Enfield area went up 50% this week alone &.How was it to be nipped in the bud before the weekend??? We need not have feared.... In stepped Tosh "Su-boru" Kilcommins, after his Alan Sugar performance against the Taras he decided it was time to re-enact the performance of another Al - this time Al Pacino &.with a performance strongly reminiscent of Pacinos speech in "Any Given Sunday" Tosh wrote an email** so deep and powerful that this reporter had to grab a roll of Andrex. It had the desired effect as the shamrocks made it 3 wins in a row in the league with a hard-fought but deserved 3 point win over last years Intermediate Champions at Donkey Lane last Saturday. This was a performance of grit, determination and no little skill in front of Shamrocks biggest crowd of the season (17 including management and subs). Inspired by the seasoned veterans of Treanor and Madigan, shamrocks took the game to Mc Curtains and points from Whelan and Shields among others quickly put them out to a 4 point lead. Mc Curtains quickly responded with a free after Darren Scannel put in a sliding tackle that Paul McGrath would have been proud of. Scanno soon put this out of his mind (he asked at half time had Mc Curtains scored yet). Even after this slight setback Shamrocks were soon on the front foot and another quick score restored the 4 point cushion. The shamrocks were cruising - sure what could possibly go wrong? A lot as it happens. Our Captain Fantastic - after remembering he had dinner reservations that day - decided he had to get off the field quickly to get ready and after failing to get a red card for attempting to trip someone made it second time lucky when he "accidently" caught his marker who was just trying to steal his jersey. Pleas from the Captain (which ranged from "I was only trying to get the hair out of my eyes" to "I thought I saw a wasp on his head and was trying to slap it away") fell on deaf ears and it was an early shower for him &.(He made it to dinner on time though you'll be glad to hear). The Shamrocks did not let the loss affect them and continued to attack the Mc curtains, with an inspirational score from Stephen "I'm Alan Brogan this week" Lally with the outside of the left foot finishing the scoring for the half to leave it Shamrocks 0-6 McCurtains 0-1. The expected riposte in the second half from the Eastenders failed to materialise and it was Shamrocks who again were doing all the running with a lovely score from Ginger Joyce II adding to the Shamrocks lead. Eventually the McCurtains started to make a game of it and a score after a quick free left 5 again between the sides. McCurtains were starting to gain more and more possession around the middle and pinning the Shamrocks in their own half, nerves were beginning to fray, palms were getting sweaty, the Shamrocks needed a score to inspire the tiring and weary troops. The home crowd (now increased by 1) needed a hero, step up Kenny Fagan. Now Kenny is paying me £1 per word that I write about his wonder score so I hope you won't mind if I go on and on and on about it &..Not much seemed on as the sturdy corner back received the ball from the keeper and passed it on to Paddy Madigan - usually this is where Kenny stops as if he goes much further he'd need the oxygen mask - but not on Saturday &maybe it was the rub he got from the physio for the "dodgy" hamstring just before the match or maybe it was the crowd but Kenny like the bull he is just kept charging up the field and after some good inter-play between himself and the forwards Kenny found himself in front of goal with only the keeper to beat &.What a play, would this be the goal to finally finish off the tie and install Kenny as one of the legends of Shamrocks for this and many a year in the future!!!! Alas, No, he only went and put the bloody thing over the bar!! But it was still one of the best scores that this reporter has seen in many a year and in hindsight maybe it was a good thing for Kenny to put it over as Tosh revealed over the post match lucozade Sports that if Kenny had put it in the onion bag he would have "run out of the field and kissed ya!!!" The Shamrocks never do things easy though and any momentum gained was quickly lost when Scanno became the 2nd Shamrocks man to have an early bath &.Scanno - who had already showed his soccer skills with his sliding tackle in the first half decided to show his prowess in another sport - Boxing - and soon had his opponent on the ground and was firing shots that Amir Khan would have been proud of. The fight was quickly stopped by the Shamrocks management but the damage was done and off to the line both players went. With more space on the field and a spare man McCurtains started to regain the foothold lost after the Fagan Wonderscore, another point was followed by a goal from the full-forward to leave 3 points between the teams, the next score was crucial and not wanting to be outshone by his fellow Galwayman Ginger I drove forward and was about to add to the Shamrocks tally before he was cynically hacked down by his marker close to the 14 yard line &.from this angle it looked a definite penalty however the referee thought otherwise and the resultant free was put over the bar (just) by Shaun Shields, back came McCurtains and a super score by their midfielder left 3 again between the teams - however that was to be the final score and after nearly 6 minutes of injury time the referee blew the whistle to leave the final score Shamrocks 0-10 TMC 1-4. It would be hard to single out anyone as it was a great team performance but a special mention has to go to Kenny Fagan - the fact he was sent off as well in the last minute does not take the gloss off a fine performance and when asked about his early departure his response was "Well the captain was looking a bit lonely on the sideline and I thought I'd head over and cheer him up" - That's Kenny for you - a good footballer but a better person. (and you owe me £300). PS. Some of you regular readers may ask - why no mention of the broom this week?? Well the broom had to go to a wedding in Wexford in Ireland. But as usual nothing could be simple and he managed to forget his suit (he left it in the Dry Cleaners) and wore a shirt, trousers and white runners to the wedding instead - the girls were all over him we hear - they're only human as the man says. If we manage to get Exclusive photos on the event we will put them on the web &.. ** For those who wish to see this inspirational email from Tosh please send a cheque for £9.99 (incl P&P) to North London Shamrocks, Donkey Lane, Enfield Please make the cheque out to "Shamrocks Jaeger Bombs fund". Compiled by Brian Galvin Tweet

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