Are you Sepp Blatter?Quote:
Originally Posted by youngirish
Though I agree totally that GSTQ should be replaced at NI internationals, if not entirely for the same reason as you.
Anyhow, each of these topics has its own thread elsewhere.
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Are you Sepp Blatter?Quote:
Originally Posted by youngirish
Though I agree totally that GSTQ should be replaced at NI internationals, if not entirely for the same reason as you.
Anyhow, each of these topics has its own thread elsewhere.
maybe "burn baby burn" by Ash would do the trick.
Its not a question of anyone becoming more appealling, they are not, nor have they ever been our team.Quote:
Originally Posted by youngirish
The IFA has been running its anti-sectarian campaign for several years, yet there has been little, if any take up from the Nationalist community.
Players like Gibson representing Ireland is just a natural progression from a community who have grown up supporting & following Ireland.
Regarding the selection of Northern born players representing Ireland competitively, there has not been any competitive fixtures in the last few months. Both Gibson & Kane are named in the latest u21 squad, so few worries about continuing to pick players from all over the island, probably because, when FIFA tell you "The existing situation in Northern Ireland allows players to choose whether they wish to represent the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland." , its clear cut and no longer an issue.
Although it does get very tiresome when some are unable to accept the FIFA ruling.
anyway when was the last time a nordie played for us-i cant think of anyone except alan kernaghan and we all know his story...
As I say...Quote:
Originally Posted by EalingGreen
One of the problems is the location and history of the stadium. Well, that, allied to the political bickering going on over a new stadium at the maze, which has turned into another thinly veiled sectarian bilefest as per usual for northern politics.Quote:
Originally Posted by co. down green
The real problem is that the team is called "Northern Ireland", and represents the entity that is the "Occupied Six County Statelet";)Quote:
Originally Posted by SuperDave
i like that
Occupied six county statelet-has a nice ring to it
Bit of a b astard for terrace chants tho, don't you think?:)Quote:
Originally Posted by as_i_say
You could always ask fans of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia how they managed to fit their name into a chant.
Somehow, I think these people watch a bit of sport...Quote:
Originally Posted by youngirish
DUBLIN, IRELAND - 15 NOVEMBER 2006 - Ireland’s success in World and European competition is reflected in the ten stars chosen to receive this year's 2006 Texaco Sportstars of the Year Awards. Selected by Sports Editors representing print and broadcast media, north and south, from a shortlist of eighteen sports, the full line-up of Texaco award winners for 2006 comprises:
ATHLETICS Derval O’Rourke
BOXING Bernard Dunne
EQUESTRIAN SPORT Jessica Kuerten
GAELIC FOOTBALL Kieran Donaghy
GOLF Padraig Harrington
HORSE RACING Aidan O’Brien
HURLING Henry Shefflin
ROWING Gearoid Towey, Eugene Coakley, Richard Archibald, Paul Griffin
RUGBY Denis Leamy
SOCCER David Healy
(From http://www.texaco.ie/sportstars49/press_releases.htm )
Nobody knows, since they lynched the first guy who shouted:Quote:
Originally Posted by Jamjar
"Give us an 'F' "
;)
You do like to try to make up the rules? Pure hypocrisy from you as you were quite happy to discuss 'Scottish' players being 'poached' by the FAI on an ourweeminds thread dealing with the FAI picking players born in the 6C.Quote:
Originally Posted by EalingGreen
Fact! Scotland used the troubles to continue moving their away games with you to Glasgow long after Wales and England said it was alright to play in Belfast. Fact: You've played Scotland, how many? over 100 times? Fact! Along with the FA(E), Scotland put their own self interests and unilateraly walked out of the British Championship.Quote:
Originally Posted by EalingGreen
And I wouldn't mind betting the Scottish coastline is nearer to Windsor Park than the Irish border.
'Who us? Racial affinity? Not at all! Just our nearest rivals.' :D :D :rolleyes:
Jeezus... The amount of winking, eyerolling, and :p :eek: :D after each sentence.
Pete from Big Brother types like that you know!!
A bit early to be pis sed on a Friday afternoon, or can you spew out this sort of irrelevant, incontinent drivel even when sober?Quote:
Originally Posted by lopez
This thread is about the respective FIFA rankings of NI and ROI. Fact! :rolleyes:
For some years before the big kick off, we had been playing Scotland at home in even-numbered years, England and Wales in odd.Quote:
Scotland used the troubles to continue moving their away games with you to Glasgow long after Wales and England said it was alright to play in Belfast
So, the Scots demurred in 1972, 1974 and 1976; E&W in 1973. I suppose to be fair to our skirted chums, they might argue that they only scratched one game after things stabilised, which they'd presumably date as late as poss.
Glad ye enjoyed the jaunt around Duncairn Gardens, Lope. In the C19, it was touted as an inspiration from Versailles, believe it or not :)
Well we know who to blame for things and the problem is our own and ours to sort out, or we could do what the fans of ourfakecountry do and blame our nearest rival for everything. All this ill behove craic and while we're on about it and lecturing people on things, I think its very ill behoving to have the fan of some pub team telling us that we can't pick our own citizens like young Gibson.Quote:
Originally Posted by EalingGreen
Anyway EG go on tell us how you ended up in Ealing, an area with a fair size Irish community (feel like you've got something in common do you):D , After all wasn't the plan in yourfakecountry to have as many members from the Nationalist side of the community having too leave the place due to not meeting up to the job spec for some reason or other.;) So how come you left what sounds like a superpower to go and live beside a community you seem to get confused with the Mexicans.
Are you asking me or yourself. Because, irrelevant, incontinent drivel is what passes for almost 100% of your posts on here. Sorry, Scotland didn't duck out of playing in four times NI in the 1970s? You've only played them seven times in your history? It was the IFA that cancelled the BC so that w*nkers like you can brag about how you're reigning British champions two decades after the competition folded?Quote:
Originally Posted by EalingGreen
Some NI fan you are. And, unlike many of mis compadres, who weren't born when I made my debut, you have no excuse. The 1978 game was also played at HP. I remember the first game at WP being the opener of the 1980 BC and thinking, really, is this the first time Scotland had set foot in Belfast in a decade? So that's at least two games they passed on, needlessly. Possibly three if you include 1974.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gather round
As for DG, yeah took the 1D up to Belfast Castle. I take it the grills on the windows were not the inspiration taken from the Sun King's pad?
Maybe he got a visit about his joyriding habit. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by sylvo
Re. your first para, I for one have never "blame[d] our nearest rival for everything"; and it is FIFA who will determine who is eligible for whom.Quote:
Originally Posted by sylvo
Re. your second para, why are you so interested in my relocation from one part of the country to another?
P.S. Some more "pub football" for you, this time taken from Spanish TV:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6e2EBfsqzU
Enjoy! :cool:
Thread title: "Back above Northern Ireland"
Thread Topic: Latest FIFA Rankings
Are you on drugs? :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by lopez
I think the Republic going above Northern Ireland after their abysmal performances in the last few months( the Republic I mean) proves the rankings
are what the Sex Pistols asked us to Never Mind all those years ago.... :D
FYR Macedonia clap clap clap clap clap ; FYR Macedonia Clap Clap clap clap clap :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Jamjar
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Originally Posted by EalingGreen
First if he's Irish regardless of which one of our 32 counties he's from then he's eligible, I belive the good friday agreement covers this little matter. Maybe you can take up this up with the passport office, no need to get in touch with the main one in Dublin, theres one in Belfast which I hear is most helpful from our fellow fans from the Northern part of the country.
Second you moved to Ealing from Ireland. Not the same country. Sorry to break that news to you. Really I couldn't care where you live.:)
Find me the clause in the GFA which refers to football generally, or international eligibility specifically. I'd be most interested to read it.Quote:
Originally Posted by sylvo
Secondly, when I moved from Northern Ireland to Great Britain, I don't recall crossing any frontiers, so I am pretty sure I remained in the same country. (The name "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" in my Passport is a clue, not that I had to present it to anyone)
And forgive me for thinking you might be interested in where I live. I must have misunderstood your post from earlier today, when you asked:
"Anyway EG go on tell us how you ended up in Ealing..." :rolleyes:
P.S. Did you enjoy the "pub football" clip I posted? :cool:
The thing is Ealing, YOU don't decide what is posted in this thread. There are mods to do the job. If you don't like that, go back and play with the little boys on ourweeminds.
As Scotland's coastline is nearer to Saxe-Coburg-Gotha Park than Dundalk, you've played them perhaps fifteen more times than us, they've stitched you up more than once over 'security', and we won't even mention the BC, the reason we are your 'nearest' rivals is not geography but bigotry. In fact, I'd say the only justification for us being your nearest rivals in the empty space between your ears is the two minute drive from the Village to the Botanic Inn on the Malone Road, which the last time I was there was filled to the rafters with supporters watching the real Ireland team, while the fake one was warming up to play down the road. :D
http://www.fifa.com/documents/static...09_2005_EN.pdfQuote:
Originally Posted by EalingGreen
We've gone through this before. Article 15 of 'Eligibility to play for Association Teams.' Pretty clear cut. FIFA does the football. The GFA allows anyone in Ireland to get an Irish passport. Until the recent referendum, for some it was the only one of the two they could get (so much for more the knowledge of your own 'country's' - which one is it today? - citizenship laws.)
I'd like to say I've got a tape from SCGP 94, but a small country like us hammering someone 4-0 away really isn't something worth keeping. Especially a team that isn't a real country. Even youtube don't have it. No one can be bothered posting it. Frankly, a video of the union jack waving inbreds leaving at half time would be the only memorable moment from that game. (Boooo-hooo!). Were you one of them? I'd imagine your obsession with us would have meant that that scoreline was particularly hard to stomach.Quote:
Originally Posted by EalingGreen
I'm thinking of having that as a signature. The delicious irony of that statement is splitting my sides.Quote:
Originally Posted by EalingGreen
LOL: There's no need for Prozac when you're around.
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Originally Posted by sylvo
Passport eligibility precedes the GFA by decades.
AFAIK, FIFA's articles on eligibility have only been clarified and entered into their statutes since the early 70's (Mancini, the first ?) and furthur clarified/ ammended to cover for the likes of Troussier and Oman.
couldn't care?Quote:
Second you moved to Ealing from Ireland. Not the same country. Sorry to break that news to you. Really I couldn't care where you live.:)
His location has been questioned again and again. The obsession about this irrelevant location issue nearly equals EG's obsession with things Ireland.
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Originally Posted by geysir
Hardly call it obsession now.:)
Passing interest at most.Quote:
Originally Posted by sylvo
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Originally Posted by EalingGreen
As has been said, it respects peoples rights to be whatever nationality they want to be. Ratified by the majority of people all across Ireland. I belive there was politicans from Ireland, Britain and America involved in it;) . So the basic story is people born in the North can class themselves as Irish (Strange that hey, seeing it is Ireland after all) and hold an Irish passport. Which in turn means their able to play for Ireland. Sorted.
But if your talking about Eligibilty regarding people born in your fake country here's some things that people from the Nationalist side of your so called country weren't entitled to for so long.
Equal opportunities in jobs which resulted in no vote if you were unemployed, Less funding for schools, Respect for national identity and culture ( I belive a lot of that was a criminal offence to display forms of Irish culture), huge election boundaries so they could never get any form of power, marches by a bigotted organisation forced through their areas against their will.
Things they were eligible for was discrimination and harrassment from a police force which was like the ss, which also aided and abetted Loyalist death squads in their murder of Nationalists. ( there was some proof provided as recent as three weeks ago to back that up so no need for me to check).
So in the real context of things seeing the wonderful civil rights record that your so called country has shown to its Nationalist population, that if theres one team that Darren Gibson is not eligible to play for is ''YOUR F**CKING SHOWER OF SH1TE''.
I look forward to seeing Darren getting his first senior cap, I think you lot have a nerve to even question and interfere in the selection of one of our own countrymen for our national team.
Didn't check out the pub team clip, couldn't download it, whats it about does it show you lot in action.
Yes maybe a passing interest, seeing we live in a third world country according to him, a country which so many people have come too and make it their home, I just can't see why someone like him would then want to leave our so called land neigbour which seems like such a superpower according to his songs.:confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by Paddy Garcia
Ealing Green's non-stop postings to a forum dedicated to the Republic Of Ireland senior team are a pretty clear indication of his fear of the South and his insecurity as a Northerner. We in the South may have cast off the yoke of history but our Northerner brothers are still well and truely burdened by the past. Take it easy on him now.
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Originally Posted by Qwerty
Some of us Northerners are neither insecure nor burdened by the past, if fact many of us are perfectly comfortable following a team with supporters and players from all over the Island.
Good to see O'Connor & Kane named in the u21 squad for the Madeira cup next week
How many of the NI squad were born before the last time they were in a major competition ?
It shows the North scoring 3 goals against a currently ranked 4th seeded team at WP. I suspect that the goalkeeper in all innocence blessed himself and got distracted by the rumpus behind him.Quote:
Originally Posted by sylvo
I think the point of the clip is to demonstrate that the obsession with things Southern goes way beyond EG's sphere. Two of the goals are so Charltonesque that they could be a replica of scenes from our Charlton years.
So, to sum up:Quote:
Originally Posted by lopez
1. Scotland is nearer to NI than the Irish Republic;
2. You are the authority on FIFA's Regulations, not FIFA;
3. SFA/IFA relations from over 30 years ago, and a match which took place nearly 13 years ago, together have more bearing on the respective merits of the NI and ROI teams than matches which have taken place in the last 13 months;
4. GB and NI are not both part of the "UK of GB & NI".
I don't know whether Prozac would do you any good, but you should stay away from the LSD...:eek:
How curious that amongst those most "obsessed" with my location have been Livehead1 (living and studying in Nottingham), and Lopez (English born and bred)!Quote:
Originally Posted by geysir
As for my own "obsession" with "Ireland" (I assume you mean the Republic of Ireland football team), I would merely point out that the overwhelming majority of my posts on this Board have been in the following threads:
Dermot Aherne's call for a single Irish team, which would mean the end of the NI team I support;
The Gibson thread, which concerns the eligibility or otherwise of NI-born players for NI or the ROI;
This thread, which covers the respective merits of NI vs the ROI team.
In case you've missed it, I've highlighted the common thread to my "obsession"; as an NI fan I think I'm entitled to an opinion, whether you find it disagreeable or not.
As for the dozens of other threads on the ROI team, other than when I have a particular interest (Robbie Keane, Cian Hughton, Steve Hunt etc), I have generally avoided commenting, since I have no great desire to intrude upon private grief. :cool:
A particularly virulent mixture of Mopery, Bilious Indignation and Whataboutery which serves only to distract from the need to get back onto the subject of the thread.Quote:
Originally Posted by sylvo
(And I thought Dermot Ahern was bad, but I suppose he at least has an Election to fight...)
That's one interpretation. Another would be that it's film of NI twice coming from behind to beat a team ranked in the top 15 in the world, by virtue of a hat-trick from their No.9, in what was arguably the best individual display of finishing seen in an international match anywhere in the world in 2006.Quote:
Originally Posted by geysir
P.S. I'm surprised at your implied scorn for the methods of Jack Charlton; do you prefer the tactical sophistication of Stan, then? ;)
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Originally Posted by EalingGreen
"The buck ends with me"
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