Friendly against England in June?

**The Fly** · 19/01/2011, 10:17 AM

Originally Posted by Ozymandias

People talking about wandering into orange halls......I wandered into a football thread and now i seem to have lost it

Try the Celtic Cup thread.

**Cuyahoga** · 19/01/2011, 4:43 PM

I heard that today that the fai will announce just before the wales match in a couple of weeks time that ireland will play england in early 2012.

**ArdeeBhoy** · 20/01/2011, 1:25 AM

Originally Posted by Ozymandias

People talking about wandering into orange halls......I wandered into a football thread and now i seem to have lost it

Try reading any history of Ireland. Then your question may be answered....

**SkStu** · 20/01/2011, 4:12 AM

then you and the rest of the history teachers should head off to a history of Ireland messageboard.

**ArdeeBhoy** · 20/01/2011, 9:14 AM

Why?
To confirm lots of its current citizens live in bubble, where no-one mentions how a state under 100 yrs.old came to be founded....
Our ancestors would be so proud.

**ifk101** · 20/01/2011, 9:27 AM

Originally Posted by SkStu

then you and the rest of the history teachers should head off to a history of Ireland messageboard.

Soon to be the home of Bohemian FC.

**Ozymandias** · 20/01/2011, 1:40 PM

Originally Posted by ArdeeBhoy

Try reading any history of Ireland. Then your question may be answered....

Then I would lose out on the joyous wit, the social interaction only a pc screen can offer as well as the ramblings of the community.

wasn't it Oscar Wilde that said

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

I'm sure the historians here can confirm or negate that.
I'm off to watch a game

**ArdeeBhoy** · 20/01/2011, 2:10 PM

Huh??
People relating history are now uneducated?? Mr.Wilde would be flattered by your analogy.

**Ozymandias** · 20/01/2011, 2:26 PM

I think you need to read my post again. At no point did I say that people relating history were uneducated.
Then again "A lie told often enough becomes the truth" - (Vladimir I Lenin)

I am moving on now as this thread is about a possible Ireland England friendly Association Football match

**SkStu** · 20/01/2011, 3:26 PM

Originally Posted by ArdeeBhoy

Why?
To confirm lots of its current citizens live in bubble, where no-one mentions how a state under 100 yrs.old came to be founded....
Our ancestors would be so proud.

Our ancestors are dead.

Why come to a football website to argue history with a bunch of people that dont want to hear it (our resident nordies) and a whole bunch of people who already know it and/or dont care and/or just want to talk football. Its just tiresome that every topic that is even semi-related to Ireland/Northern Ireland/England/UK gets sidetracked by this nonsense.

**ArdeeBhoy** · 20/01/2011, 3:34 PM

So history and the struggles of our ancestors is now unimportant in every respect? It happens in lots of other places too Btw.

Surely it's more tiresome that people continually enter a bubble of denial on these issues. It's only banter after all.
The wider cultural context of many sporting fixtures is a factor in lots of instances. Get over yerself.

**SkStu** · 20/01/2011, 3:37 PM

no, its not unimportant but it has its place and a football forum isnt that place in my humble opinion.

**ArdeeBhoy** · 20/01/2011, 4:05 PM

Ok, but let's hope you'd say the same to Scotland fans with their 'Bannockburn 1314' flags??

And the Ingerlish when they start up their "No Surrender" chant.

So yes, No place at all.

**Ozymandias** · 20/01/2011, 4:08 PM

great ...consensus reached ..now move on

**paul_oshea** · 20/01/2011, 7:23 PM

Originally Posted by SkStu

no, its not unimportant but it has its place and a football forum isnt that place in my humble opinion.

except sometimes it is....

**Deckydee** · 29/04/2011, 11:16 AM

England coming to town Feb 29th 2012?

According to reports on the radio

**BonnieShels** · 29/04/2011, 11:21 AM

Super. 4days after we play Italy at Lansdowne in the Six Nations.

**ArdeeBhoy** · 29/04/2011, 8:11 PM

Originally Posted by Deckydee

England coming to town Feb 29th 2012?

According to reports on the radio

Couldn't they have announced that 28 days ago instead....

**DannyInvincible** · 29/04/2011, 9:45 PM

Originally Posted by SkStu

no, its not unimportant but it has its place and a football forum isnt that place in my humble opinion.

I think it's only inevitable that such contexts envelope the discussion in this forum at times given, whether one likes it or not, the undeniable politico-cultural nature of international football. You have to ask yourself, would we be bothering to play England at all in a football friendly in this period of national craving for a sense of "maturity" if it were not for that "dirty" word; h*story? It would be na�ve to see this as a football match solely for football's sake. The game doesn't exist in a bubble.