Yes stu top marks I'm sure it was the slapping on the back.i didn't realise ye know yer self the backslapping at away matches....seriously though the backslapping was probably it ye don't realise how hard or often yer doing it when ye score!!!
I would have apologised after only he got thick!!
Maybe hijinks at the time, but with the benefit of hindsight, it's a bit much to call them idiots for getting annoyed at you going up to them, hitting them and shouting at them when their team's conceded a goal.
Not surprised in the least that he got thick with you. What on earth did you expect?
In fairness to paul .....the game was very tense.....which can cause fans to temporarily lose to logic due to the high emotions in the stands....myself included
Equally if some Italian fan started slapping me in the back when gilardino scored that injury time equalizer...im not sure I would have reacted very positively towards him
Agree on your comments about at the time.
But it's a bit much, three years later, to be calling them idiots because of their reaction.
It's not like Paul to temporarily lose logic.
'My Little Pony' ?Originally Posted by TheOneWhoKnocks
http://www.rte.ie/archives/2014/0617...ng-yugoslavia/
Having been following Ireland home and away since the 1970s, this is a tough one and I don't think there's any one which can stand above the rest.
Greatest moment: Final whistle Bulgaria 0 Scotland 1. Watched it alone at home and agonised for the remaining minutes after Mackay scored pacing up and down the room and screaming at George Hamilton to stop talking about cracking open Champagne bottles as the Bulgars launched one attack after another on Leighton's goal. The Scots wore those shorts with a tartan ring around them. Phoned all my friends who like me had endured numerous campaigns of near misses, offside goals etc etc.
Longest time: the rest of the game after Houghton scored in Stuttgart in 1988. The locals were needless to say delighted we had put one over on England. Not a huge Irish contingent there like for example travelled to Poland in 2012 as the team hadn't
taken hold of the public's imagination.
Greatest home moment: Undoubtedly McAteer against Holland. I had seen us lose to the Dutch in crucial games and revenge was so so so so so so so sweet. The picture says it all.
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Best Irish moment when not there: McLoughlin against Northern Ireland for a host of reasons.
Greatest damage to the house: Robbie's equaliser against Germany. Wife had just got a new carpet and my friend's pint when flying all over it and the furniture as well. Unbelievable moment (the goal - not the pint). Flew over to see the Spanish game which also had a late goal but tarnished by the peno shoot out defeat.
Most prestigious event: Beating Italy in New Jersey but it was slightly deflating the lack of interest of the locals. Image if that happened in a football loving country.
Italia 90 ? Was there for the first three games but came home to hear my dad was very unwell so the rest of the games were played under a cloud. He died a month later. Strangely though I also feel that this tournament took the team away from the supporters who had followed the side through thick and thin and it was now suddenly national property. I suppose that interest was always there - I almost got crushed to death in Dalymount at internationals and indeed FAI Cup Finals involving Rovers - but I do recall only about 14k turning up for Charlton's first game against Wales.
Hopefully we have a few more great memories ahead of us (if a memory can be ahead).
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Forget about the performance or entertainment. It's only the result that matters.
Don't worry, they gave it back to us as soon as we grew old and ugly. A football team is for life, not just for Christmas as they kind of say.
I'm convinced my post in another thread on BIRGing and CORFing encapsulates the whole phenomenon, combined with that weird Irish trait of needing external validation.
More a case of Danny Invisible?
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
I had a better mental reaction to meeting a Polish bird shortly after leaving the Aviva after the Poland friendly. Got the shift.
The result wasn't that bad either.
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