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Great discussion on there. Very bitter Scot's!!!
Certainly blows the "special relationship" out of the water!!!!!!
Bitter is right. Im sure the views are of a minority, I would always have wished Wales, Scots and to a slightly lesser extent NI well in their games. Hey lets just give them SI to keep them happy!
Anyone have the energy to register over there and set them straight on a few things?
I don't mind the baiting of McCarthy, that's to be expected, but referring to Kevin Kilbane as "English" is a step too far.
Terrible things being said there!
- hope he breaks a leg on his debut.
- He may pretend to be Irish, but he will NEVER be Irish, just like his Soul mate McGeady.
I cant wait for the day Scotland play them and hopefully hump them of the park.
Beating Ireland is now just as big a deal as beating England for me. Make no apologies for wanting them to lose every game they play
- I think I get more pleasure from Rep of Ireland losing than I do England losing! I still smile at the hand of frog!!
EDIT: Oh by the way - What is a wee warmer????????????
Arent we playing them next year?????????????!!!!!!!!
One Daniel Fox, there's only one Daniel Fox .... bla, bla, bla.
One Andy Goram, .... oops sorry start again. Two Andy Gorams, there's only two Andy Gorams ... blah, blah, blah
Plenty of Daniel Fox and Andy Goram examples here;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...tside_Scotland
Check out some of these comments on a Celtic forum.........not as bad but the bitterness is still there with some of the comments...........
http://kerrydalestreet.co.uk/topic/8240208/4/
Looks like adding a bit of spice to next year's Four Associations Tournament if nothing else! :)
bitterness is all that shower are good for, why would they want to play for scotland when they get booed by there own fans for being catholic,irish ancestry etc, also scotland are an awful team iv seen them in the qualifiers and recently agaisnt a very young wales team and they were played off the park lsoing 3-0 i think, fair play to mccarthy for showing some ambition to play with a team thats going places.
Reminds me of that scene in trainspotting when he talks about being colonized by *******...
Wouldn't even read into this too much. It's more than likely only a minority.
Don't have access to the link but I presume their bitterness on elligibility issues are being used as an excuse for some barely concealed racism.
We'll have Norn Iron and Scotland gunning for us next year. All we have to do is **** off the Welsh and we've the full set.
One of the quite ironic things to come out of this hatred for all things Irish in recents years is the singing of the the song 'The Famine Is Over' http://www.loyalistlyrics.com/lyrics-F/index.html
This song is clearly an 'attack' on the ancestors of Irish immigrants to Scotland. Yet these are the same people that hate Aidan McGeady and James McCarthy for choosing to play for the the country they are telling them to go home to!
On the one hand they think these players are traitors yet they want them to leave 'their' country. Please make up ye're minds!!!!
It says everything about what kind of people we are dealing with and its with this kind of attitude it is not wonder that kids from Scotland and the North are choosing to play for a country that they feel more a part of.
No more than ourselves the Scots have had many players who were born in England and spoke with English accents but they had Scottish ancestry and I'm sure gave 100% to the Scottish cause. The cases of McGeady and McCarthy are no different to any of those. You can't have it one way and not the other. At the end of the day these lads are not being held hostage and forced to play for Ireland against their will. They were eligible for both countries and they made their own decisions as adults. The only reason Ireland benefit more than most is because there is such a huge Irish diaspora around the globe. But that's another story.
It's certainly possible in years to come that we will have a talented young lad born in Ireland of say Nigerian or Polish descent who may opt to play for one of those countries ahead of Ireland and even though we won't like it we'll probably have to suck it up.
have to laugh at some of the moron's on that site - as another poster on foot said - its only a minority of scottish fans.Quote:
Originally Posted by an_ceannaire
This comment on the above link
"I think I get more pleasure from Rep of Ireland losing than I do England losing! I still smile at the hand of frog!! "
makes me think will he be smiling when mcgeady , mccarthy and the rest of the B.I.G are playing in poland and ukraine in 2 years time while scottish football is at home again and their national team continues it rapid rate of decline.
Did Kris Commons not recently start playing for them. Also they were trying to get Driver on board. The only difference between them and McCarthy is that McCarthy has the potential to be a very good player.
I almost feel sorry for them on there because they are pretty pathetic. They seem to have to define themselves by what theyre not (English) rather than what they are.
More than likely the Rangers influence, and as a poster said above, contradicts the message of the Famine Song.
I wouldn't read too much into this
Fairly bitter alright. What were the FAI to do? Tell McCarthy and McGeady to **** off? Anyway they are not even an independent country so they should not have an international football team. Never understand why they can and the likes of catalunia can not.