Tommy Booooooowwwwwwweeeee!
Ryle Nugent is and has been one the most recognisable voices when it comes to Irish rugby for years, but whether he likes it or not, he’s always going to be associated with one particular sound bite.
It is solely because of Ryle that every single Tommy Bowe try is greeted with a gleeful exclamation of ‘Tommy Booooowwwwweeeee’ in pubs up and down the country and he’s not going to live it down until the day Tommy hangs up his boots.
Not when his Wikipedia page reads like this…
That might be a little bit of harmless fun, but whoever last had access to Ryle’s page obviously isn’t a huge fan of his judging by passages like the one below.
He was a guest on The Cafe on 12 March 2010. On 8 October 2011, Nugent did the commentary for Ireland’s Rugby World Cup Quarter Final match against Wales. Nugent replaced Hugh Cahill in the Commentary Box. It was a controversial decision, not alone due to Cahill being considered by many to be a far superior Commentator, but also because Cahill had commentated on the four previous Ireland games in the Competition, which had all resulted in Irish victories.
Nugent’s commentary was considered by many to have had a negative effect on the karma of the Irish team, who disappointed in a 22–10 defeat to the Welsh. Many Irish Rugby fans publicly blamed Nugent for the defeat on social networking site such as Facebook and Twitter.
We’re a bit sceptical about the claims that he was the first Irishman under the age of 25 get to the summit of Mount Everest when he climbed it with his childhood friend William Charles Schneider and we didn’t believe the following passage until finding out that it is actually true.
His live television commentary debut was the Georgia versus Romania match at the World Cup. He later reflected upon having drunk so much coffee before the game that he vomited.
We have a feeling that Ryle’s Wikipedia page might be getting an update very soon.
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