English team arrive to greetings from Irish supporters

**The Legend** · 06/06/2012, 10:35 PM

lol skip to 2:12 for the Terry Greeting

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...v=qykUdp4qRXE#

**ArdeeBhoy** · 06/06/2012, 10:47 PM

"Terry is a racist"...too polite, if anything.

Though a pal of mine keeps telling me he was borderline eligible for us.

**tricky_colour** · 07/06/2012, 12:30 AM

Lol, how come there are hardly any English fans there and loads of Irish apparently.
At one point (about 3.22) some English fans appear to start to sing God save the Queen ( you can just about make it out)
but it is drown out by the Irish singing theirs!! Bit embarrassing for the English I thought?
Where are all their fans?

**BonnieShels** · 07/06/2012, 12:34 AM

In Ukraine I would say.

**NeverFeltBetter** · 07/06/2012, 12:38 AM

Pretty bad thing to be arriving to, though I suppose it couldn't be helped.

**ArdeeBhoy** · 07/06/2012, 12:40 AM

Originally Posted by BonnieShels

In Ukraine I would say.

Not if they've got any sense.

Though do know a good lad going out there, even been to a few Ireland away games...

**tricky_colour** · 07/06/2012, 1:28 AM

Originally Posted by BonnieShels

In Ukraine I would say.

Ah OK I think I have solved the mystery, I was struggling to understand it all and then rather 'spookilly'
the answer just came from the female bewsreader on Sky news "(England) who are based in Poland
despite having all their games in Ukraine".
However there is still the mystery as to why England are camped in Poland when the play in Ukraine?
So what is the reason? Security? OR Ukraine generally being carp?
Seems very unusual?

**DannyInvincible** · 07/06/2012, 1:55 AM

Not sure of the exact rationale behind setting up camp in Poland, but England's games will be staged in Kiev and Donetsk which would entail flying between the two venues anyway.

**tricky_colour** · 07/06/2012, 2:12 AM

According to this it was chosn because they were the best facilities available

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...is-a-DUMP.html

I would hate to see the worst!!

It looks like the ruins of a concentration camp!!

The English FA must be nuts.

The FA has already given itself a logistical headache by basing the team in Poland for Euro 2012 — when all group games will take place in co-host nation Ukraine.

It means the team faces a round trip of almost 2,000 miles for the matches against France and Ukraine.

They might as well have stayed in England!!

**osarusan** · 07/06/2012, 2:31 AM

Originally Posted by NeverFeltBetter

Pretty bad thing to be arriving to, though I suppose it couldn't be helped.

It could have been helped if the Irish fans (or at least a small number of them) hadn't decided to act like idiots.

**tricky_colour** · 07/06/2012, 2:58 AM

Originally Posted by NeverFeltBetter

Pretty bad thing to be arriving to, though I suppose it couldn't be helped.

Funniest thing I have see in a while, arriving at your own camp to have their own supporters drown out by the Irish!!
You could not make it up!!

**SkStu** · 07/06/2012, 3:28 AM

As mentioned in the other thread, it's all a bit pathetic and very hypocritical...

http://foot.ie/threads/159843-Group-...=1#post1601927

**tricky_colour** · 07/06/2012, 4:00 AM

I really do not get this, it all seemed like a bit of harmless fun to me.
Just a bit of a laugh, I don't think anyone should be taking it too seriously.
Compare to some of the stuff which goes on at football matches etc this was nothing.
Especially not when you compare it to the antic of some England fan's in the past.

Now had the Irish fan's been pelting the English with bottles bricks and broken seats
as the English fans have does to the Irish in the past (1995) then that is what I would call pathetic.

Anyway all I see is a bit of harmless fun and banter, are people seriously criticising Ireland for singing their own
national anthem for example??? "Terry is a racist"? Noting wrong with being honest!!
I mean let's face it England have left behind their best defender because he is black!!
That's what I call disgraceful!!

**osarusan** · 07/06/2012, 4:11 AM

Originally Posted by tricky_colour

I really do not get this, it all seemed like a bit of harmless fun to me.
Just a bit of a laugh, I don't think anyone should be taking it too seriously.
Compare to some of the stuff which goes on at football matches etc this was nothing.
Especially not when you compare it to the antic of some England fan's in the past.

Now had the Irish fan's been pelting the English with bottles bricks and broken seats
as the English fans have does to the Irish in the past (1995) then that is what I would call pathetic.

Anyway all I see is a bit of harmless fun and banter, are people seriously criticising Ireland for singing their own
national anthem for example??? "Terry is a racist"? Noting wrong with being honest!!
I mean let's face it England have left behind their best defender because he is black!!
That's what I call disgraceful!!

I doubt the English players will give a crap about it (if they even heard it), but the people doing it are still morons.

As said on the other thread, if a few English fans had 'welcomed' the irish team by having a 'bit of a laugh' and some 'harmless fun', I'm sure plenty of people would be unhappy about it.

**antrimgreen** · 07/06/2012, 7:55 AM

Watched the clip there is it not just a bit of banter??? Remember some lads there I am sure have scrapped up every penny to get there and with a few polish vodka's down your neck rational thinking goes out the window. Don't think it's as bad as being made out.

**Stuttgart88** · 07/06/2012, 8:04 AM

Originally Posted by tricky_colour

I really do not get this, it all seemed like a bit of harmless fun to me.
Just a bit of a laugh, I don't think anyone should be taking it too seriously.
Compare to some of the stuff which goes on at football matches etc this was nothing.
Especially not when you compare it to the antic of some England fan's in the past.

Now had the Irish fan's been pelting the English with bottles bricks and broken seats
as the English fans have does to the Irish in the past (1995) then that is what I would call pathetic.

Anyway all I see is a bit of harmless fun and banter, are people seriously criticising Ireland for singing their own
national anthem for example??? "Terry is a racist"? Noting wrong with being honest!!
I mean let's face it England have left behind their best defender because he is black!!
That's what I call disgraceful!!

I actually think using our national anthem as a football chant is mindless. I take pride in the fact that we never do it.

**jbyrne** · 07/06/2012, 8:10 AM

teams arrive in differant venues all the time to a hot reception from opposing fans. a few irish lads turn up in their Ireland shirts, sing a few Irish songs and give a bit of harmless abuse to a player who has dished out far far worse over the years and people are getting on their high horse about it? really??

**Stuttgart88** · 07/06/2012, 8:15 AM

I'm only irked by singing the anthem as a football chant. I'm similarly irked when I hear anyone sing "Irish till I die". The fans can give Terry and England a bit of guff all they want.

**antrimgreen** · 07/06/2012, 8:27 AM

Agree with that Stuttgart88 good post, only thing in their defense is that drink changes a lot of people and I'm sure a few woke up watched that with their toes curling!

All in all just a bit of banter IMO.

**ArdeeBhoy** · 07/06/2012, 9:06 AM

Originally Posted by osarusan

I doubt the English players will give a crap about it (if they even heard it), but the people doing it are still morons.

As said on the other thread, if a few English fans had 'welcomed' the irish team by having a 'bit of a laugh' and some 'harmless fun', I'm sure plenty of people would be unhappy about it.

Unless they're deaf, they heard it...

As for the English, we've never been so sanctimonious...