Well done mate , you worked out the Peter Osgood connection .
Kicked his way to an FA Cup medal ? Yeah , he just gave as good as he got from players like Billy Bremmner , John Giles , Norman Hunter etc etc The same players whom also kicked their way to a league title , a European Cup final and managed by a corrupt and disloyal Don Revie who moaned his way to becoming the most hated figure within the game .
As for Osgood , he was a superb center forward just as Alan Clarke , and could drink Stan Bowles , Frank Worthington and Rodney marsh under the table .
Sad but true.I would gladly watch EL but it is so boring and the facilities leave a lot to be desired.Originally posted by osgood was good
The reason irish league grounds are half empty is because the standard is awful , and it has no appeal to anybody who loves to watch good football.
Ossie
Lets face it,if there is a game on Sky/BBC and a EL game on TV, the majority of football fans will watch what is on the UK stations.
compared to your barstool or to your couch while you watch the premiership?Originally posted by Mondo
I would gladly watch EL but it is so boring and the facilities leave a lot to be desired.
you find it boring because you have no interest or stake in the outcome and also you probably believe the Sky Hypeafter the 0-0 Monday night football between Spurs and Leicester was a classic.
if more people got off their backsides and supported the league, there would be more money to improve facilities (you only have to look at the better supported sides to see this is true).
that's down to production and presentation as much as content, the dim lights in the bar work better with the bells and whistles that sky throw about.Originally posted by Mondo
Lets face it,if there is a game on Sky/BBC and a EL game on TV, the majority of football fans will watch what is on the UK stations.
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you're right Silvio, I'm a closet Andy Gray fanOriginally posted by Silvio Dante
How do you know so much about Sky's presentation? Is there something you want to share with us ....
as i've said many times, i watch football from all over, i love the game. be it the EL, Premiership, la Liga or Copa America i'm liable to have a look, and if i like what i see i'll keep watching.
what i dislike is when people put down the EL without trying to understand anything about it, because the other leagues come in brighter wrapping paper on the tv.
Originally posted by Conor74
Mondo, Osgood was good, two "new" posters with so much to say about the eL. Hmmmmm. Just popped out of the woodwork at the same time. How easy, Silvio, is it to register with different names?
huh,whats this all about,then? This Silvio and Osgood chaps have nothing to do with me.....who are they anyway???
And as for Silvio:what is it with everyone on about him all the time? I thought this was a football forum not a Silvio forum?
Another interesting fact about Johnny Adair is that he is a fanatic Liverpool fan as well as a Rangers fan. Liverpool FC have more Orangemen as supporters than any side in England. The Reds were formed by an Orangeman John Houlding and their first manager was a Belfast Orangeman John McKenna. Even the Rangers player Sam English who accidentally killed Celtic keeper John Thomson in 1931 played for Liverpool.Originally posted by Conor74
Silvio, do you realise how little interest I have in Adair's musical influences? I don't mind talking at length about politics and NI, but Tina Bloody Turner? Only Yanks in Noraid and Plastic Paddys could care about that rubbish and think it "research".
Liverpool's supposed strong Irish Catholic connections only really date back to the 1979 when Ronnie Whelan signed for them. Whelan was the first Irish Catholic to play for Liverpool since Billy Lacey in the 1920's. Steve Heighway, a Protestant (probably, he was educated in a non-Catholic school) was the first Republic of Ireland international at Liverpool in 1970.
What does Celt Silvio think about Liverpool's strong Loyalist connections. Should all Irish people cease to support them as well as not sing "Simply the Best". Also Liverpool's supposed affinity with Celtic only dates back to the Hillsborough disaster in 1989 when Celtic donated all the proceeds of a gate of theirs to the berieved families.
i heard adair is fond of breathin too, maybe silvio could stop that aswell
Followin Our Own Teams In Eire
theres no cure for the League of Ireland bug. spread it :)
I have to say I didn't know about that although it has bearing on me as a person.
Bigotry has no place in society and no place in football but unfortunatley it will always remain I fear.
What do you guys think of Celtic's chances in the CL?
Think this is an area needing clarification!Originally posted by Paddy Ramone
As I said before Hibs are the best Scottish side for the Irish to support. They were the first ever side to be founded by Irish people in 1875 and wore the green even before Ireland did. Also they have roughly 50/50 Catholic-Protestant support and are non-sectarian with less of the old firm bigotry. I think Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland fans should wear Hibs tops instead of old firm tops. I'd also like to add that the greatest Irish player ever, a certain George Best (a Protestant) wore the green of the Hibees.
Hibs have actively tried to play down the Irish link and Im not just talking since 1969 when the troubles erupted in the six counties.
It was felt many years before that that the Irish population on the east coast of Scotland was to small to sustain a large club so the board actively moved away from the Irish links to try and encourage a broader support!
BTW this was not done out of any great ideals or principles but simply on a financial basis to get more people through the turnstiles
That's not true about Everton being founded by a Catholic school. They were founded by the schoolteachers of St Domingos Methodist school. But traditionally the Catholic population of Merseyside tend to support Everton.Originally posted by Conor74
Hey, what about Kenny Dalglish? If I remember right, wasn't a friendly between Lpool and Selltic a tangent to the deal?
Know a Liverpudlian who despises Lpool FC because of the 12th July marches in that city which were full of Lpool FC fans.
Everton's foundations had some connection with a Catholic school.
Of course, none of it is relevant to football today, and I couldn't really care if they were Johnny Adair's subbuteo team, but it does amaze me how few people in Ireland know Liverpool's orange connection.
Liverpool's Orange connections are obvious from the amount of Northern Ireland flags you see at Anfield in the kop on match days.
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