Curse of Duncan looms large over Leinster

For Barcelona , read Alfredo di Stefano; For Europe, read Jimmy Demaret; For England, read Australia ; For the Boston Red Sox, read Babe Ruth; and for Leinster , read……… eh……… Duncan Hodge?

Okubo on song as Kobe thrash the hapless Sanga

Vissel Kobe 4

Kyoto Sanga 1

 

On a warm Saturday evening in Kobe, about 20,000 Vissel fans descended on Home Stadium for a game which could make their season. A win could move Vissel Kobe as high as second place, and recent suspensions and injuries had finished. The opposition was Kyoto Purple Sanga another team with high aspirations this season. Kobe are the ultimate underachievers in the J-League, a team with huge financial backing and a large fan base in a city with no baseball team, Kobe were made for big things.