We got Razor but are stuck with McGeady, I'd call it a fair trade :p
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We got Razor but are stuck with McGeady, I'd call it a fair trade :p
Have to say I never had a problem with the English. I regularly go over to Blackpool as I have family there and it's always the same "love the Irish", "love the accent", etc. and it is genuine. You do get the odd one who'll try and mickey take but its not vindictive. Only hassle I ever got was when I left college back in the '80's and went to London working on building sites as a surveyor and that was from the older Irish lads who were on the sites - basically they resented the new Irish arriving who were generally more educated than them and had better positions.
Dont know much about the Scots. I find the Welsh to be an arrongant race but never had any problems with them.
But like another poster has already said I've been on holidays both abroad and in England watching Irish matches and they have always cheered for us and they dont understand why we dont cheer them on. (havent the heart to tell them why either tho')
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Originally Posted by Nedser
Can't argue with any of that. Football, being possibly the most popular sport on earth, certainly attracts all sorts - including the bitter, twisted and bigoted in large numbers. Which is why football clubs have such a big role to play in changing society. I'd like to see more of a focus on mental and emotional development when it comes to coaching youngsters in football. Not just coaching them to be better footballers, but better people - I mean, let's face it, a lot of kids who play for underage teams probably pay a lot more attention to their coaches than their teachers at school. But that's very off-topic and an issue for another thread.
The fans on that message board will be having kittens over this!
http://sport.stv.tv/football/159585-...ne-and-on-stv/Quote:
Brazil are back in the UK to play their fifth friendly international at London’s Emirates Stadium, with Ireland providing the opposition on Tuesday March 2.
All the action, featuring Kaka, Daniel Alves and Robbie Keane among others, will be shown live on STV and online via http://live.stv.tv from 8pm on the night.
If you can’t make it in front of your television or computer that night, you can also watch the game again using the STV Player from Wednesday March 3.
...Ireland meanwhile will showcase two players who Scotland let get away, James McCarthy and Aiden McGeady, with the former in line to make his international debut.
McGeady will be joined in the team by his Celtic team-mate Keane, who is on loan at Parkhead until the end of the season from Tottenham Hostpur. Hoops’ January transfer target Sean St Ledger will also feature, in what will be Ireland’s first fixture since they were denied a place in the World Cup by France and Thierry Henry’s hand.
Nice one. I've looked on the TA site. Couple of muppets but most are just bit p*ssed off. I did like this one though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Munster Saint
Nah, he made the decision because he's, for want of a better term, a plastic paddy.
Thousands of (catholic) Scottish neds are growing up in the rotten boroughs of Lanarkshire to the sound of Irish rebel music, which is synonymous of course with their beloved Celtic FC. Btw, the name McCarthy originates from Cork, proudly known over here as 'the Rebel county'.
Some of them (like Aiden McGeady) will have spent their childhood summer holidays in Ireland, giving them a romanticised view of the country, where life is easy, the craic is mighty, and the people kill you with kindness. In stark contrast i'm sure to growing up on the mean streets of the east-end of Glasgow.
Throw in some history of the mistreatment of Irish immigrants in Scotland, the anti-catholic/Irish bigotry of the loyalists/unionists/huns, and is it any wonder they feel the way they do?
Sad but true....
Anyway, here's a wee Eric Bogle song to cheer us up: http://www.dsl.nildram.co.uk/plastic_paddy.mp
Why can't the idiots on that forum understand who they should be directing their vitriol at? Both McGeady and McCarthy were only approached after Ireland had capped them (I know McCarthy had schoolboy trials but they turned him down) The SFA is cleary even more inept than the FAI, I regularly critisise the FAI for stupid things they do as do many of us on this forum, the Scots seem to rever their FA for some reason, if we had lost Duff and Keane to the Scots we would have been smashing down the FAI's doors and burning them out. It would seem the fans on that site find it easier to throw out some ludicrously racist rants, and wish harm to a young man than actually address the problem. The NI contibutors to the Duffy threads have the right idea, no racism just resonable arguement despite how they must feel, makes me even prouder to be Irish and happier to be on this forum than one which allows such utter utter rubbish, thank you mods for moderating these threads so well. As for the Scots hating us, once again I say, F#ck 'em.
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Originally Posted by lopez
The Rebel County is an English thing really going back to Elizabethian times and nothingn at all to do with Irishness.
Hahaha, funniest thing I've read in a long time. I like the scots, but they have a terrible football team and it seems a few of their fans are quite deluded!Quote:
Him and his tattie hawking mate McGeady will both regret it when they realise that ROI are absolute pash & have less chance than us of qualifying for a Major tournie.
Is it just me or do most of the points in this article seemed to be skimmed right out of this and the "should we stop picking players born in the North" threads? Granted, they're common sense points, but it's uncanny.
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McCarthy heard the odious anthem of raw sectarianism "The Famine Song" everywhere he went but probably didn't waste any time pondering the irony of some bone-headed neanderthals tunelessly bellowing out their demand that the Irish should go back to where they came from and then crying foul when he followed their advice.
Just followed the link. Idiots. They rally against both Ireland and England, not realising that they have zero identity outside those two cultures. Does anyone know what the word 'Scotland' means? Land of the Irish. Scotti = Irish, Land = Land. The current shower are only keeping Scotland warm until our triumphant return as a Gaelic kingdom. And McGeady is a totally Gaelic name, something the anglicised and ignorant Scots would never understand. I'm going to register with that other group and post this rubbish right away.
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Originally Posted by Royal rover
ha....they may not be racist/anti Irish at all they may like myself just despise the Gaa!!