Given the issue at hand you really have to wonder who leaked this.
The Scots seemed have a case based on a biased article in the Telegraph but the initial inference in all news outlets that the FAI alone owed the SFA the cash is just wrong.
Lovely picture of the Scottish celebrations after scoring against us...symbolic if you will. Wait, didnt we win that game 1-0?
I thought you were off the drink Ronnie?
"No, I drink to help me mind my own business....can I get you one? (c) Ronnie Drew
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Am looking for old Irish matches on VHS, PM me if you have some and I'll upload them here
Yes, in the case of 'The Torygraph', still probably part of 'the Empire'...
Er, wasn't that against Wales?
Indeed, Scotland wore their navy against NI and Kenny Miller scored the opening goal:
The sad life of the anorak brigade
It would be a hard job to even slightly loosen a Scot's grips from the promise of a fixed sum of money.
If Delaney pulls this one off, it will put him at the top of the class for a month.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/16460333.stm
NI pulling out of the Nations Cup.
Irish FA president Jim Shaw is now reported to have said that Northern Ireland will opt out of the tournament.
"It was a one-off to start with," Shaw told the Sunday Times.
"There was never any agreement to continue. I suppose if it had gone well there is the possibility that it could have been repeated.
"I don't envisage it happening again but circumstances can change."
Seems to me the writer had a pro NI stance, or else he got sucked into their disingenuous hijacking of a ticket/travel protest.
End Apartheid Now! One Team in Ireland!
I wouldn't even say it was hijacked. That gives what actually did occur too much credit and suggests an element of pre-organisation. The whole thing was airbrushed after a travel/expenses/booze ban boycott was already in place. Posters on OWC openly and unashamedly spoke of stage-managing how they could then present the boycott to the media ex post facto.
I actually suspect it's the former; that they're sympathetic to the NI cause at BBC Sport NI. Remember this?: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...sh/9044215.stm
Is that to be expected? I dunno. I know RTÉ would have a natural bias towards us, but the BBC has always been held aloft as a bastion of neutrality.
And they really seem keen to push the eligibility thing as a political issue of late. They dedicated three quarters of an hour to its discussion on the radio during the week and even political editor Mark Devenport's writing about it.
Last edited by DannyInvincible; 08/01/2012 at 2:08 PM.
Excellent point, well made.
Wading into conspiracy territory here (really just encouraging critical thinking) but perhaps the exposure that the settled elibility issue is receiving is a result of the ornery attitude of Gary McAllister and his cronies behind the scenes? They hope to sway hearts and minds by portraying this as being unresolved. I think they like the sound of backfire.
End Apartheid Now! One Team in Ireland!
I just want to put this on record right now.
I think I'm in love with the the IFA. I have always been an advocate for "One Association/Team/League in Ireland" but I feel the nuggets of joy that emanate from Windsor Avenue every so often are easily more valuable to me and my own personal happiness than a singular unified entity has ever been.
DID YOU NOTICE A SIGN OUTSIDE MY HOUSE...?
They are certainly an organisation that keeps on giving...
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