TEL AVIV - Don't Hold your breath

[Cowboy]

Yes,but Politics & sport will Always be intertwined alas........that's the real world ;)

true but is it necessary to discuss pure politics here

[lopez]

...As for France, I can take their unwarrented nuclear tests in a tropical paradise, their nasty colonial history, sinking Greenpeace boats...Funnily enough France used to be heavily on my 'banned' list for years until their stance against Dubya forced me into a sudden rethink. As someone pointed out to me at work, it took a lot to make the French look good but by f*ck, Dubya's managed to pull it off. :D

true but is it necessary to discuss pure politics hereThe fact that we are talking about Ireland playing some dubious countries in football, hardly detaches itself from the sport. Even the innocent Faroes will manage to p*ss someone off.

Mind you, wonder what the Israelis think of Ireland: Arthur Griffith's anti-semitism, the Limerick pogrom, the miserly intake of Jewish (as opposed to Gentile) refugees during and after the war aswell as other things like child abuse in government institutions and spawning on the World Westlife.

[green goblin]

Mind you, wonder what the Israelis think of Ireland: Arthur Griffith's anti-semitism, the Limerick pogrom, the miserly intake of Jewish (as opposed to Gentile) refugees during and after the war aswell as other things like child abuse in government institutions and spawning on the World Westlife.

The swastika fluttered merrily in the breeze outside the German embassy in Dublin during the (cough) 'Emergency', and didn't DeValera pop round there and offer his condolences when Hitler popped his clogs?
I've often wondered about these things. :confused:

[Pat O' Banton]

Mind you, wonder what the Israelis think of Ireland: Arthur Griffith's anti-semitism, the Limerick pogrom, the miserly intake of Jewish (as opposed to Gentile) refugees during and after the war aswell as other things like child abuse in government institutions and spawning on the World Westlife.

Says a man who held Sylv and me hostage and forceably played Take That :D

[lopez]

The swastika fluttered merrily in the breeze outside the German embassy in Dublin during the (cough) 'Emergency', and didn't DeValera pop round there and offer his condolences when Hitler popped his clogs?
I've often wondered about these things. :confused:To be fair to Dev, he was sticking rigidly to the neutral game. Well he wasn't actually: He sent home ejected British and American pilots (never done that to Germans who had to endure upto five years of p*ssing rain in Kildare) and showed a hell of a lot more enthusiasm (perhaps not the right word, but you get my drift) in honouring FDR who died days after/before our beloved Fuhrer.

Anyone see that picture (think it was in some Irish World Cup guide) of the Irish team giving the salute at a game with Germany in the 30s. Some of the lads looked to be taking the p*ss with their hash attempts at a 'Heil Hitler' while I thought one player was patting his invisible pet pony.

Says a man who held Sylv and me hostage and forceably played Take That :DErm... :o ...yes...that's...erm...what you get on Heart FM late on a Sunday night. Or maybe it was Conchita's tape. I'm surprised you remember the state you were in.

[sylvo]

[QUOTE=lopez] (never done that to Germans who had to endure upto five years of p*ssing rain in Kildare)

I bet those Germans thought it was like staying at club tropicarna.

[Bondvillain]

Well he wasn't actually: He sent home ejected British and American pilots (never done that to Germans who had to endure upto five years of p*ssing rain in Kildare).

I bet those Germans thought it was like staying at club tropicana.

Maybe not Club Tropicana, but it was certainly a better option than being bundled off to The Russian front on their triumphant return to the fatherland...

The Yanks, the British, the Poles & Czechs et al, all chose to do a legger when offered the option of a closed eye & an open gate, but the Germans, quite sensibly when one considers the sh*tty conditions they would have to endure should they report for duty, simply replied with an Honourable 'Nein Danke' if a similar offer arose, choosing to while away the hours in the comparativley balmy surrounds of The Curragh camp, (with the occasional day trip to Dublin provided by C.I.E. to get them away from the sheep...) over Siberia.

B.Villain,
(B.A. Hons), Professor of Sheep, Sh*te & Soldiers,
University of The Curragh.