Quotegoood article actually, pretty much sums up how i feel too. and good to see an article praising them, rather than the usual small minded bile spouting from the likes of Roy Curtis and his Sunday World friends..
The Old Enemy
The Football By Gerard Cunningham
Its hard watching them win. Every true Irishman has something in his
genetic makeup that rebels against the thought. Anyone but them.
Anyone but those arrogant *******s.
Its not that we actively hate them. Most of us would be hard pressed to
even dislike them. Truth be told, we quite like them. They are after all
our neighbours, and in recent years, we've even seen them buying houses
in the Irish countryside, living among us.
And lets face it, even before they started moving here, most of us lived
among them. We've all worked there at some point in our lives, though of
course the entire time we dreamed of the day when we'd have enough money
saved to move back home.
Some of us returned with husbands and wives we found there, a few even
married among them and settled there. Your heart goes out to them,
knowing their kids will grow up with *that* accent.
So its not that we dislike them. Most of them are the salt of the Earth,
as decent a collection of human beings as you could hope to find
anywhere on the planet. How can you dislike an ordinary fan, whose only
sin is shouting for his team. Sure don't we do the same ourselves?
But its the arrogance that gets you. Every team goes through good
patches and bad, but the rest of us don't have that same imperial
swagger. Something about it just sticks in the craw. I mean there they
are, still three tough games away from taking the cup home, and already
they're talking like they're unstoppable, when lets face it, they're far
from the best team in the competition.........................
So yes, it was hard watching Dublin beat Laois last Sunday at Croke Park !!!!!!!!
Always look on the bright side of life
goood article actually, pretty much sums up how i feel too. and good to see an article praising them, rather than the usual small minded bile spouting from the likes of Roy Curtis and his Sunday World friends..
'Fascists dress in black and go round telling people what to do, where as priests.....'
Decent article apart from the reference to 'that accent'. I'm sure he wasn't complaining when Jack Charlton gave the national team its finest moments or little Ray Houghton looped the ball over Shilton or Aldridge keeping us in the '94 tournament or Matt Holland's screamer against Cameroon...
he is on about gaelic
I'm a bloke,I'm an ocker
And I really love your knockers,I'm a labourer by day,
I **** up all me pay,Watching footy on TV,
Just feed me more VB,Just pour my beer,And get my smokes, And go away
You just don't get it do you?Originally Posted by Declan_Michael
I don't no which is worse seeing a young fella walking around any Irish country town in a dubs jersey or an engerland one.
"If I wanted you to understand it, I would have explained it better." Johan Cruyff
Well given we don't speak our own language, we watch their TV etc., buy their newspapers, seem obsessed by everything they do over there, I'd rather see people wearing GAA than English Premiership jerseys. And I cannot stick Gaelic Football.....
In an ideal world however all the kids in Longford would wear either Longford Town or bogball shirts, in Galway it would be
GUFC or GAa Shirts and in Cork it would be City or GAA shirts. But then pigs might fly.....
Last edited by CollegeTillIDie; 02/07/2006 at 4:12 PM.
Shouldn't this be in "other sports"?
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