Last night the people of Baltinglass and Blessington bore witness to one of the greatest rags to riches stories of our time as fantasy actually became reality in Junior B Football last night as the legend known as Paul Colgan manned the middle of the park for the first time, a lifelong wet dream of his fulfilled in the blink of an eye on a warm summers evening in Blessington!
Paul Colgan had a dream and that dream became a fairytale as not only did Paul pop his midfield cherry by playing his first Junior B league game in midfield for Baltinglass against Blessington last night but he also managed to score a point to the disbelief of the watching crowd.
Twitter’s servers briefly went down last night as the volume of #COLG8 tweets were too much to handle and the shockwaves Of last nights fairytale has seen #COLG8 trending around the world with even a tweet from deepest darkest Lacken being recorded with #COLG8 proudly included.
The fairytale doesn’t end there though as Paul Colgan is in poll position for the Bill Hill Wicklow Greatest Man Award which would really cap off a magnificent spell for the Baltinglass wonder.
Words of praise have been flooding in from teammates and many others who have paid tribute to the man himself:
Scottish John Rye – “ Paul Colgan is a great wee man with a haggis of gold”
Fabian Dunne “Paul Colgan – has the heart of a Tibetan Sherpa and the body of a 14 year old Vietnamese girl”
Kev Lord – “Paul Colgan has the balls of a Bengali Tiger”
Fireman Sam – “Got a call that Paul Colgan was on fire but there was nothing I could do”
Padraig Humphries – “Paul Colgan caught more ball last night than the Hanson Brothers back in the early 00’s”
Nathan Byrne – “Kevin O Brien wears Paul Colgan pyjamas
Martin Donegan – “Paul Colgan is the best thing since sliced bread, if sliced bread had stubble, perfect teeth and could fetch ball from the top of Everest”
Shooter Nolan (team manager) – “Come on #colg8, 5ft nothin, 5 stone nothin and legs like bambi
Tommy Cullen – “I heard they have sold out of jerseys in the club shop #colg8 it was like playing beside David Beckham the other night every time he touched the ball the fan club could be heard”
John Evans (Wicklow Manager) – “Expect a call”
Walt Disney – “Who do we approach to buy the rights to this fairytale?”
Kev Wall – “all I have to say is daughters lock up your mothers”
Dave Whelan – “Paul Colgan, the only player I’ve ever seen to make an opponent sh*t and jizz his pants at the same time”