Alex Bruce must be angling for a threesome.Originally Posted by gastric
My Guarantee
Am looking for old Irish matches on VHS, PM me if you have some and I'll upload them here
Someone had to do it.
I'd say so, there are many such people who post here.
I just received a suspension from one of the moderators (lets just call him Tweedledum) in order to 'cool off'.
I'm sure that Predator, Danny and others can guess who Tweedledee is.
Last edited by The Fly; 18/11/2011 at 8:14 PM.
He's probably sad that his team faces the axe
Here, you got off easy Fly, they burst my ball and told me to feck off home forever.
End Apartheid Now! One Team in Ireland!
can someone take a look at that Rory Donnelly - worth a call up to the U21s perhaps.
It's a crime there to express the wrong belief.I just received a suspension from one of the moderators (lets just call him Tweedledum) in order to 'cool off'.
I'm sure that Predator, Danny and others can guess who Tweedledee is.
Are you aprisonerexiled poster of conscience?
I didn't know religion was considered a blood tie. My pal Musarraf Ali down in South Circular Road will be snapping. He had big plans to play for Ireland one day...
Folding my way into the big money!!!
'Blood ties' is not considered a religion, probably some vampire cult or other.
hmmm very convenient that this is coming up the same time the new Twilight movie is released....
Folding my way into the big money!!!
IFA secured quite the PR coup by organising a tie-in with the Twilight movies, with the intention of portraying the FAI as blood-sucking inhumans. But they typically misjudged the popular mood and now Merrion Square gets inundated with fan mail from teenage girls.
Ou-est le Centre George Pompidou?
Another poor enough Derry Journal piece that happens to miss the point written by Andrew Quinn: http://www.derryjournal.com/communit...ttle_1_3267289
To be fair, there's no need to bring into the eligibility debate what I'm led to believe was the isolated treatment of Neil Lennon by a section of fans in Windsor Park nearly a decade ago. It's irrelevant really insofar as the majority of those attending Windsor Park these days (and even ten years ago) don't (or didn't) have a problem with Celtic/Catholic players from a nationalist background representing the IFA and have actually welcomed the likes of Paddy McCourt into their team with open arms, albeit there was a bit of a stir when Niall McGinn announced his support for us after he played against us in the Carling Nations Cup, thereby pretty much confirming his status as a mercenary. I think the majority of their fans came out in support of Lennon after that night. Nor is there any fairness in mentioning bullets posted to the other two in recent times given the fact the source of these bullets was never proven. They may well have come from Scotland. (As an aside, have Rangers players not been booed at Lansdowne Road in recent years?)Gerry Armstrong’s mission is to try and convince the local talent of tomorrow to declare for Northern Ireland. It’s admirable, but I think that the IFA are in danger skirting away from the elephant in the room.
Northern Ireland captain and current Celtic manager Neil Lennon was forced to retire from international football in 2002 because of death threats made against him.
Why was Lennon threatened, I hear you ask? Well, the answer is quite ridiculous; Lennon was targeted because he was a Catholic and played his football at the time for Celtic.
More recently, former Derry City players and current Northern Ireland internationals Paddy McCourt and Niall McGinn were sent bullets in the post. Why?
Well, I can only surmise that it was because they play their club football for a team associated with Irish nationalism and play international football for a team associated with Northern Irish loyalism.
There’s no getting away from the fact that there’s an element of people who do not want Catholics playing for Northern Ireland.
The IFA are by no means a bigoted organisation but they have to realise, and realise quickly, that one of the main reasons that so many young footballers are opting to declare for the Republic of Ireland is because sectarianism still exists in Irish football.
I have been to countless Republic of Ireland matches over the years and not once have a I heard a sectarian song or chant at the game.
Rather, the "elephant in the room" that must be acknowledged by those in the IFA and those who support NI is simply the fact that a significant population of people born north of the border simply don't identify with, what are to them, the alien labels of "Northern Irish" and/or "British". At least Gerry Armstrong in his role as "Elite Player Mentor" seems to be paying some degree of lip service to, what seems for many, a very difficult notion to grasp. They are simply Irish and it so happens that some would rather express this national identity by declaring for the Irish FAI rather than sweeping it under the carpet and settling to play for the Northern Irish/British IFA in the interests of career progression.
What were you accused of? Anyway, take heart and never fear; tough going, it may well be, but I'm still ploughing on with just a remaining six and a half years of my suspension still to serve now. You will learn eventually that it is not a forum for free expression, opinion or debate and, in years, be able to re-integrate there upon acceptance having won the victory over yourself. Just give it time.I'd say so, there are many such people who post here.
I just received a suspension from one of the moderators (lets just call him Tweedledum) in order to 'cool off'.
I'm sure that Predator, Danny and others can guess who Tweedledee is.
(Any similarities with Orwell's '1984' expressed above were entirely coincidental. Amazing, that...)
Sarcasm is worth looking up in the dictionary!
Challenging the assertion that Northern Ireland's media is dominated by those with Nationalist/Republican leanings can lead to these sorts of things Danny.......you know that.
I would never claim such exalted status.
Last edited by The Fly; 23/11/2011 at 8:36 PM.
Dammit Fly. You've been told about that truth stuff before. It's dangerous and like kryptonite to the deluded.
DID YOU NOTICE A SIGN OUTSIDE MY HOUSE...?
Is there another forum where the normal NI fans are or is that it?
It must be otherwise we would all would be communal members of it. Still waiting on my confirmation email from OWC. Any day soon.
DID YOU NOTICE A SIGN OUTSIDE MY HOUSE...?
I think the sanest fans post here. And they're nuts.
Ou-est le Centre George Pompidou?
I suppose it comes with the territory.
DID YOU NOTICE A SIGN OUTSIDE MY HOUSE...?
Same boat as me. Is it common for these things to take upwards of a year? Anyway when we finally get the green light, and I have no doubt we will, keep an eye out for me.
I'll be 'Gibbofan81'.
I've got 2 I think I think.
Absolutely no idea what my usernames were at this stage.
Tried again...
DID YOU NOTICE A SIGN OUTSIDE MY HOUSE...?
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