A new chant for Fingal ?? "There's only 735 Gerry Gannon's" :)
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The last page of this thread has had me in stitches.
Bizarre article to come out the day after Chelsea got slaughtered 3-0 at home by a mid-table team too. You'd think a sub-ed would have twigged that and changed it, but I guess you could apply that to any of their hundred-or-so poorly researched articles per day.
one of the lads facebooks today
League of Ireland soccer is so ****, no goals & they can't even take penalty's
it took every effort not to bite
I'd have had a dig about the apostrophe.
Precisely the first thing I was thinking.
Removing the apostrophe wouldn't make it right.
Going to vent here with possible accusations of being paranoid but I hate the way that the word domestic is used to describe League of Ireland - i.e a great day for domestic football in Ireland. In my mind it's used by people who don't want to use "Irish football" to describe the league. This in my opinion wouldn't happen in an other country.
I think most people just use them interchangeably. It also differentiates the league from the national side.
A little conversation I had with someone once:
Me: What GAA teams do you follow and why ?
S: O'Mahony's and Meath, cause I am from Navan in Meath
Me: What rugby teams do follow and why ?
S: Leinster and Ireland, again, cause I live in Meath which is in Leinster.
Me: What soccer teams do you follow and why ?
S: Man Utd and Ireland, cause I am Irish.
Me: but Man Utd are not Irish ???
S: Ehhh
The teuwl had another one today which ended almost the same way but as I have to run I will divulge it once I finish taxiing the better half.
Edit:
Me: Did you watch the game last night?
Teuwl: Nope didn't see it, was it any use?
M: It was an awful result overall but there were some good things to come out of it.
T: Yeah, yeah, sounded pretty awful yeah. What did you think of England getting beaten?
Me: *rolled eyes*