Cream of the Irish crop heads for the desert

The Republic of Ireland will be looking towards their traditional fighting spirit and a large, colourful and vociferous support to help them in their quest for success at the FIFA World Youth Championship UAE 2003. Drawn in an open-looking Group E alongside Saudi Arabia, Côte d’Ivoire and Mexico, coach Gerry Smith is optimistic everything will be right when the new moon rises after Ramadan.

Like those sides that have done so well in recent years, Smith will once again be calling on the “Irish spirit” to give his team the edge in the even-looking group.

Read the article on the FIFA website here.

how many irish stereoptypes did they manage to get in there!

Just the one, but they used it about a hundred times. :rolleyes:

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One thing about the Irish: we have a lot of grannies and grandfathers, uncles and aunties around to lend a hand.

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Why isn't there a :shudder: smilie?

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Originally posted by John83

Why isn't there a :shudder: smilie?

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Because apparently some genius has scientifically proven that we have more grandparents per person than any other nationality. My mate has 13. Some going.