what did he quote?!
what did he quote?!
I'm a bloke,I'm an ocker
And I really love your knockers,I'm a labourer by day,
I **** up all me pay,Watching footy on TV,
Just feed me more VB,Just pour my beer,And get my smokes, And go away
Shane Supple is not the first talented player to retire from football before fulfilling his potential.
I myself packed in the game at the fairly tender age of 13 when I discovered flagan drinking in the park on a saturday night and couldn't get out of bed for the game early sunday morning anymore.
In fairness I had fallen out of love with the game a long time beforehand when our coach had started to allocate us specific positions on the pitch at under 10 level and discarded our previous Dutch 1974 esque total football game that we used to play whereby we all interchanged positioning while chasing the ball around the pitch.
Last edited by youngirish; 25/08/2009 at 4:31 PM.
Dedication to his career to an extent that would regularly embarrass some Irish journos - it is on the second page of google if you dial in "shane supple ireland". Some Irish journos don't look appear to look beyond the top three results, judging by some reports I've read.
That question was less stupid, though you asked it in a profoundly stupid way.
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Originally Posted by Dodge
With that sort of surname its a real possibility.
But journos usually get their facts right, if ye know what I mean
I'm a bloke,I'm an ocker
And I really love your knockers,I'm a labourer by day,
I **** up all me pay,Watching footy on TV,
Just feed me more VB,Just pour my beer,And get my smokes, And go away
I think you're a bit older than BG anyway, as you said you traveled south for a game in 1977 a while back.
I'm not bothered about it, but having listened to the Podcast, I suspect the process was as follows.
Being Irish, Glendinning guessed he might be asked about Supple, who used to play for "Roy Keane's Ipswich" (c), after all.
As part of his research, he checked to see what the fans were saying, so will have checked ITFC and ROI websites (inc. this one).
Realising from my post that Supple is hardly unique, he then went on to find details of Hall and Woodhouse etc.
I'm pretty sure that he read my post, since he mentioned both players in the context of Spurs, despite their having been with Pompey and Everton upon retirement, with Baardsen actually playing more games for Watford in between than Spurs or Everton.
Also, Glendinning seemed to repeat my comment about Allen and Injuries/Barmy Army etc a little too faithfully for them to have been his invention.
Plus I doubt very much that Glendinning is a Spurs fan, otherwise he'd have mentioned that Baardsen (who was recommended as a youngster to Spurs by their Norwegian keeper, Erik Thorsvedt, btw), was brought up in California. I am pretty certain therefore that he never really bought into the "soccer culture" in Europe, hence his disillusionment with the game.
So if you're reading, Barry, have I got that right?
Glendenning is from Offaly so I'm pretty sure him & EG are not one and the same
My brother played against him today in GAA. He plays for ST Brigets. One of the Moorefield players commented to a Diblin lad that "you'd much rather be in Croker" and the Dublin lad said out loud he'd "much rather be in Portman Road". Supple had a laugh about it. Aparently he is going to be a chef or something? Anyway, he pulled off some good saves and kept a clean-sheet if Trap is still keeping tabs (you don't have to have a club to play for Ireland after all!)
Yea i heard he was only home and he was out training with St Bridgets Seniors. Dont be to surprised if you see him playing in goal for dublin next year.
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Could be becoming a guard:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...ne-Supple.html
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