Eligibility Rules, Okay

**The Fly** · 09/12/2011, 2:20 PM

Originally Posted by Not Brazil

I'm suggesting that if there were any "benefits"/mileage in Northern Irish Nationalists/Republicans denouncing their British Citizenship, PSF would certainly have made their constituency aware of it.

I realise that also.

**ArdeeBhoy** · 09/12/2011, 2:33 PM

Originally Posted by Gather round

No problem, Brit Boy. Always glad to help

Please don't confuse most on here with your rank standards of geography.
And buy an atlas!

**Not Brazil** · 09/12/2011, 3:55 PM

Originally Posted by The Fly

I realise that also.

I knew you would.

I think we're on the same page.

AB's "campaign" will be fun.

**Sullivinho** · 09/12/2011, 4:02 PM

Originally Posted by joe_denilson

Yeah, reading up on it, by law I think I'm entitled to be a British Citizen also, my mother being born whilst on Holiday in England and me being born after 1/1/83. Must give Capello a call because Trapattoni hasn't answered any of my texts.

An unidentified acquaintance who met a neighbor of someone who went to school with Marco Tardelli in Careggine told a friend of mine, who relayed it via a third party to me, that Trap considers you a liability. Compared you to Tolkien whilst extolling the virtues of training manuals or something abstract like that. His words lacked clarity but his gestures were unquestionably disparaging. Wasn't too fond of your Brazilian pseudonym either apparently. I put my own lack of international recognition down to the same snafu, despite my claims of putting the dung in Dunga.

**Mr_Parker** · 09/12/2011, 6:57 PM

Originally Posted by ArdeeBhoy

Why not ask the same question for the next 10 Linfield/North games??

They only do surveys with those two sets of fans when they are seeking the views of a broad spectum of football followers.

**ArdeeBhoy** · 09/12/2011, 9:14 PM

Originally Posted by Not Brazil

Make sure they are aware of the consequences of renouncing their British Citizenship.

Like what exactly?

Originally Posted by Not Brazil

I knew you would.

I think we're on the same page.

AB's "campaign" will be fun.

You are trying to extract some kudos from The Fly agreeing with you perhaps?

And am no longer in the North, so I won't be leading any "campaign".

I will however be informing numerous people who're Brit 'citizens' by default. What they do however, is up to them.

**BonnieShels** · 09/12/2011, 11:02 PM

No matter how many times I peruse this thread the circularity of the argument and in fact the circularity of the topics always makes me rejoice in the fact that even forgiving which flavour of Irish we all may profess to enjoy I am proud that we all manage to practice the uniquely Irish trait of "talking boll0x".

Take a bow/curtsey.

**DannyInvincible** · 11/12/2011, 7:45 PM

By any chance, would anyone have a scan of Armstrong's column in today's Sunday Life?

**Mr_Parker** · 12/12/2011, 12:11 AM

Originally Posted by DannyInvincible

By any chance, would anyone have a scan of Armstrong's column in today's Sunday Life?

Remind me tomorrow. It will give you a good laugh if nothing else. Embarrassing stuff.

**bwagner** · 12/12/2011, 12:29 PM

Armstrong again name checking kids at english clubs like he is so in the know, he mentions Danny Devine and Adam Barton - both who have opted for us. Its so cringy the stuff he writes. then he mentions some london born lad thats with some non league club and that he has opted for northern ireland - big catch there Gerry

**geysir** · 12/12/2011, 5:41 PM

Originally Posted by DannyInvincible

Yeah, well, the children of those legally settled there. By law, I have a feeling I'm a British citizen myself, although I was never aware of that until relatively recently. I've yet to follow it up and claim the passport, God forbid!

If you are abroad and have need of some "consulate assistance" and the British consul is the only one around, you don't need a UK passport to avail.
It's like FIFA, you can play for the NI version of UK, just by flashing your ROI passport with NI birthplace..

Anyway, I don't see any point for an Irish national to renounce British citizenship.
Once I was a British citizen for a day, a 24 hour honoury "citizenship" that cost about £20 for the day- cheaper than renting a Fiat Cinquecento. I just needed a document to travel and they obliged.

**Mr_Parker** · 12/12/2011, 7:42 PM

Originally Posted by DannyInvincible

By any chance, would anyone have a scan of Armstrong's column in today's Sunday Life?

**BonnieShels** · 12/12/2011, 8:47 PM

That diary smacks of being "Unionistified".
Roman Catholic, THE National Anthem... oh and the whole, "I visited a Catholic School and they were glad of my presence" schtick.

The logic that those who would have supported the IFA's representative team through thick and thin would stop supporting them if a different dirge that is less offensive to the "other half" is astounding. The guy is certifiable.

**Charlie Darwin** · 12/12/2011, 9:00 PM

I don't really see much wrong with that - it's more or less what NB and GR have been saying. The article could use some proofing but that's the editor's job, not his.

**BonnieShels** · 12/12/2011, 9:09 PM

Ah Charlie. One of those Egg Council creeps got to you as well...

You better run egg!

**Charlie Darwin** · 12/12/2011, 9:16 PM

Shake harder, boy!

**ArdeeBhoy** · 12/12/2011, 10:40 PM

To be fair to Agent Gerry, it's better he wrote that article than one or two people of my acquaintance...

**geysir** · 12/12/2011, 11:38 PM

It looks to me that Gerry thinks it's not worth the hassle to alter GSTQ's supreme status as the sole pre-match anthem.
The IFA breath a sigh of relief.