QuoteOriginally Posted by BonnieShels
Id prefer to discuss packies mistake for wim jonks goal in 1994 if possible?
Nearly 2 years since the Euros and this debate came back up?
Can we start discussing Packie's mistake for Schillachis goal while we're at it.
DID YOU NOTICE A SIGN OUTSIDE MY HOUSE...?
Id prefer to discuss packies mistake for wim jonks goal in 1994 if possible?
Nah.
That mistake didn't cost us the game. As disgraceful as it was. We were all at sea that night/day.
DID YOU NOTICE A SIGN OUTSIDE MY HOUSE...?
When was this? Would anybody have a link?
Point taken - god we were a mess that day and to think that alot of us were already planning our game against Brazil in the Quarters despite not having kicked off against the dutch
We got taken to the cleaners - although Mcgrath did score a lovely goal albeit dissallowed
You may revert to discussing schillachi's goal.....ah packie!!
So his full name is Packing Bonner? That is bizarre. Or is Wiki lying to me again.
No Somos muchos pero estamos locos.
Toto Schillaci. What a pr!ck.
It might even be on this thread somewhere, but I can't find the link. It was in his Examiner column during the Euros and he was applauding the fans saying that they realised the players had just been put to the sword by the world's best team and that then was not the time to turn on them. The players appreciated the reaction but equally they understood that had they put in an abject performance against a peer then dissent would have been appropriate and accepted by the players.
Something like that anyway.
The band Toto were great though.
No Somos muchos pero estamos locos.
That McGrath goal was my first real experience of the crushing misery of being an Ireland supporter. And the paranoia that goes with it.
We were disgraceful that day. I distinctly remember someone in the house I watched it in (I was 10) that Keane was useless and never did it for Ireland...
His first name is Patrick. He's a Donegaler. They are an odd bunch.
Yeah... I remember his name being a byword for a "hatcher" or a player you hated when playing with mates on the road.
Great ad though...
DID YOU NOTICE A SIGN OUTSIDE MY HOUSE...?
My favourite Packie Bonner story is how he had to change his name when he started working for Sky Sports as they were concerned it might be construed as a racial slur.
Poor Packie. His surname, unfortunately deemed potentially-risqué, has long been sanitised and *******ised by the British media. Packie is a cousin of my uncle, also a Bonner from the Dungloe area, who pronounces his surname as "bone-er" and not as the oft-heard "bonn-er", so I can only imagine Packie pronounces it identically.
As a first name/nickname for those of the older generation called Patrick, Packie's not that unusual, is it? I remember there was a priest my father knew called Father Packie when I was growing up and then there was Packie McReary from the Grand Theft Auto series.
I dont think people hated Schillaci, in Mullingar they even opened a chippers in his name!!!
It was a common enough version of Patrick back in the day. Packie Bone-er sounds dodgy alright, but I once had a handball coach called Packie Hoare...
Hello, hello? What's going on? What's all this shouting, we'll have no trouble here!
- E Tattsyrup.
Fuggin' 'ell! P*ckie H*are is worthy of censoring.
coaching players to dive is bad enough but coaching handball now? How low is the beautiful game going to go.
(The other option was to make some crass joke about a trip to an Indian brothel...)
Just got Pirlos book - looks like you are correct on fake quote
Any other Pirls of wisdom?
comedic genius.....honest!!!!
We've loads of Packie's in Galway...
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