Club or Country?

**tricky_colour** · 04/01/2005, 6:44 PM

I think you should be able to play for whatever country you like.
After all, you have people playing for Chelsea who are not Londoners.

**Clondalkin Hoop** · 04/01/2005, 7:57 PM

Originally Posted by tricky_colour

I think you should be able to play for whatever country you like.
After all, you have people playing for Chelsea who are not Londoners.

How would propose this to work? Transfer system?
Will it not just end up the same as club football?

**pete** · 05/01/2005, 1:00 PM

Always club b4 country.

**razor** · 05/01/2005, 1:53 PM

Originally Posted by Pat O' Banton

Eanna, the point is that every time you go this subject you make it seem, to me at least, that you are part of a vanguard of fans who are the only ones who are passonate about club football as you put it 'day in day out' now I am simply pointing out that because we support the national side first it does not make us any less day in day out fans of club football.

Just thinking about this and no offence but would this have anything to do with the fact that your club is not Irish therefore you do not see a conflict?
You see yourself as Irish and this is your number 1 priority but your team is not so there is a clear distinction in your eyes between the 2, where as in the EL fans eyes there is not the same differentiation.
Just a thought.

**Pablo** · 05/01/2005, 4:15 PM

Originally Posted by razor

Just thinking about this and no offence but would this have anything to do with the fact that your club is not Irish therefore you do not see a conflict?
You see yourself as Irish and this is your number 1 priority but your team is not so there is a clear distinction in your eyes between the 2, where as in the EL fans eyes there is not the same differentiation.
Just a thought.

nail on the head. its our English friends who want to be Irish that have the problem

**Pat O' Banton** · 05/01/2005, 4:18 PM

Originally Posted by razor

Just thinking about this and no offence but would this have anything to do with the fact that your club is not Irish therefore you do not see a conflict?
You see yourself as Irish and this is your number 1 priority but your team is not so there is a clear distinction in your eyes between the 2, where as in the EL fans eyes there is not the same differentiation.
Just a thought.

No offence taken.
Speaking as someone who has had difficulty remembering his name when going into a football ground this is very deep, but seeing as I follow a team based in Glasgow the whole debate is wrapped up in how, as a 2ndG, I see the identity of that club. And as this ground has been gone over numouous times, I ain't even attempting to look at this again.

**Pat O' Banton** · 05/01/2005, 4:20 PM

Originally Posted by Pablo

nail on the head. its our English friends who want to be Irish that have the problem

Oh dear

**liam88** · 05/01/2005, 5:11 PM

Love my clubs-amazingly passionate; their results can make me happy as or depressed! But Ireland takes precedance-there's something a lot different about supporting yours country! Eireann all the way!

**razor** · 06/01/2005, 8:45 AM

Originally Posted by Pat O' Banton

but seeing as I follow a team based in Glasgow

Didn't realise you supported that lot as well.
In my post I was referring to your obvious devotion to those from North London and the Potteries.
And I agree that other ground has been gone over a trillion times and thanks for not going there.

**Pat O' Banton** · 06/01/2005, 9:06 AM

Originally Posted by razor

Didn't realise you supported that lot as well.
In my post I was referring to your obvious devotion to those from North London and the Potteries.
And I agree that other ground has been gone over a trillion times and thanks for not going there.

Oh add in Donegal, Hamburg and Belfast as well!

**sylvo** · 06/01/2005, 2:02 PM

Originally Posted by Pablo

nail on the head. its our English friends who want to be Irish that have the problem

Explain please.

**Partizan** · 06/01/2005, 7:56 PM

well, it says Eire/Ireland on the cover of me passport (not the Peoples' Republic of Bulgaria

) so its plastic Paddy, gravy stains, ole, ole, all the accustomary Paddy whackery stuff, Selthick shirts and Larry Leprechaun nonsense all de way.

What is with our Munster neighbours, are they planning to do 'a Slovenia' and seceede from the Irish Republic.

I can see it now, Fat as el Presidente, the hordes of the unwashed, grovelling at his feet, the Horsehoe as the seat of government....... the Peoples' Republic of Cawwwk.

Love it, but dont start the revolution without me.

**Pablo** · 06/01/2005, 8:26 PM

Originally Posted by Partizan

well, it says Eire/Ireland on the cover of me passport (not the Peoples' Republic of Bulgaria

) so its plastic Paddy, gravy stains, ole, ole, all the accustomary Paddy whackery stuff, Selthick shirts and Larry Leprechaun nonsense all de way.

What is with our Munster neighbours, are they planning to do 'a Slovenia' and seceede from the Irish Republic.

I can see it now, Fat as el Presidente, the hordes of the unwashed, grovelling at his feet, the Horsehoe as the seat of government....... the Peoples' Republic of Cawwwk.

Love it, but dont start the revolution without me.

how inferior you must feel to bring your petty insecurities into every thread