UEFA Countries which we have never played competitively

**lopez** · 05/09/2007, 11:33 AM

Originally Posted by theworm2345

We played T&T in T&T in '81 or '82, and lost 2-1 I believe. Liam Brady scored the goal, but I have never been able to find T&T's scorers or the minutes, referees, etc. We also played in the Kirin Cup sometime in the 80s, though we played 2 club teams and Japan

We didn't play Japan - odd as it seems. We played China. 1-0 Eamon O'Keefe scorer. Funny how I can remember that but not what I had to eat yesterday.

Slightly different, but we never played the GDR (East Germany) at full level either.

**pateen** · 05/09/2007, 11:59 AM

Originally Posted by NY Hoop

That would cut down on the leprechaun brigade.

KOH

Feic that bring on the leprechaun brigade I say. Marchin down the streets on Almaty (Kazakhstan)

**Bottle of Tonic** · 05/09/2007, 3:26 PM

Originally Posted by NY Hoop

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Very disappointed with the last draw for these qualifiers. Too many normal countries!

Draw for the WC qualifiers in January will hopefully give us away trips to any or all of these:

Bosnia & Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia, Moldova, Belarus, Azerbailjan, Armenia and Kazakhstan! That would cut down on the leprechaun brigade.

KOH

Jesus i was delighted with the draw for the very reasons you weren't!
Forget about the fans but would the squad want to be traveling out to many of these new/unstable/recently war-torn etc countries for vital away points?
Dodgy infastrucure, unfamiliar stadia, questionable hotels and travel arrangments(FAI most def included), partisan crowds and so on and so on. All the ingredients which make eastern european away trips notoriously difficult for both club and international football!
But feck it! You'd rather being going out there so you could feel elitest, with no drunken paddy leprachauns signing, dancing and laughing around beautiful city centre squares, enjoying themselves. Jesus.
Hope I run into you in Czech/Slovak, it'll be some laugh. Actually no, you probably don't like that sort of thing.

**ger121** · 05/09/2007, 4:07 PM

Originally Posted by Dodge

Nah, the last before Crowe played in a friendly v Uruguay. Think it was Pat Byrne though (could've been Peter Eccles)

Speaking of Glen Crowe didn't Ireland play away to Greece in the game after Mick McCarthy was sacked/quit. Finished 0-0 with Crowe on from the start.

**tetsujin1979** · 05/09/2007, 4:26 PM

Originally Posted by ger121

Speaking of Glen Crowe didn't Ireland play away to Greece in the game after Mick McCarthy was sacked/quit. Finished 0-0 with Crowe on from the start.

Yeah, that was Don Givens' game in charge.
Notable for a few things

as you say, the first eL player in over a decade to turn out for the Republic
The closest Richie Partridge came to the Irish team, unused substitute after some fine performances for Coventry
Ditto Wes Hoolahan, although he has a better chance of making a second appearance in an Ireland squad
Richard Dunne winning MOTM despite playing left full
lastly, being possibly the most dire game of football I've ever sat through in my life.

**eirebhoy** · 05/09/2007, 7:49 PM

Dunne, Finnan, Doherty, McPhail, Crowe and possibly more made their debuts in that game.

**Paddy Garcia** · 05/09/2007, 7:55 PM

Originally Posted by lopez

Slightly different, but we never played the GDR (East Germany) at full level either.

Well thank God we have played NI.

**tetsujin1979** · 05/09/2007, 8:29 PM

Originally Posted by eirebhoy

Dunne, Finnan, Doherty, McPhail, Crowe and possibly more made their debuts in that game.

Wrong Greece game, Dunne and Finnan made their debuts in a game against Greece in 2000, a 1-0 loss.
Doc made his debut in a US Cup game against the States in 2000, a 1-1 draw
McPhail made his debut against Scotland in 2000, a 2-1 loss.
Surprised at you EB!

**gypsydownunder** · 05/09/2007, 10:58 PM

new/unstable/recently war-torn etc countries

Dodgy infastrucure, unfamiliar stadia, questionable hotels, partisan crowds and so on and so on.

There's an old expression about People in Glasshouses...

**NY Hoop** · 06/09/2007, 12:00 PM

Originally Posted by Bottle of Tonic

Jesus i was delighted with the draw for the very reasons you weren't!
Forget about the fans but would the squad want to be traveling out to many of these new/unstable/recently war-torn etc countries for vital away points?
Dodgy infastrucure, unfamiliar stadia, questionable hotels and travel arrangments(FAI most def included), partisan crowds and so on and so on. All the ingredients which make eastern european away trips notoriously difficult for both club and international football!
But feck it! You'd rather being going out there so you could feel elitest, with no drunken paddy leprachauns signing, dancing and laughing around beautiful city centre squares, enjoying themselves. Jesus.
Hope I run into you in Czech/Slovak, it'll be some laugh. Actually no, you probably don't like that sort of thing.

You got that right. Wont be there.

Fcuk the squad. I'm sure they can manage getting flown there and fawned on after picking up their weekly 10/20 grand cheque from their club.

Nothing to do with elitism pal. Just more craic behind the old iron curtain with out the leprechaun muppetry. Best fans in the world my arse.

KOH

**WembleyGreen** · 06/09/2007, 1:15 PM

Miserable sod NY Hoop, what's wrong with a couple of tanked up leprechauns jiggy jiggn in the fine squares of Bratislava or Praque? As for the big cheques our players get, don't they deserve to be paid the same as the rest of the EPL stars or would you prefer they all stayed in the Eircom league and wasted their talents playing at best League 1 equivilent football and pre qualifying games for Europe. Any player with ambition and talent is going to want more from his career and that means playing in England or Scotland to an extent. Good point gypsydownunder I've just come back from Ireland and if the road from Rosslare through Ferns is anything to go by a trip to some of these eastern countries might be an eye opener for the Irish government and road planners.

**youngirish** · 06/09/2007, 1:29 PM

We have never played the Austro-Hungarian Empire competitively as far as I recollect.

**NY Hoop** · 06/09/2007, 2:06 PM

Originally Posted by WembleyGreen

Miserable sod NY Hoop, what's wrong with a couple of tanked up leprechauns jiggy jiggn in the fine squares of Bratislava or Praque? As for the big cheques our players get, don't they deserve to be paid the same as the rest of the EPL stars or would you prefer they all stayed in the Eircom league and wasted their talents playing at best League 1 equivilent football and pre qualifying games for Europe. Any player with ambition and talent is going to want more from his career and that means playing in England or Scotland to an extent. Good point gypsydownunder I've just come back from Ireland and if the road from Rosslare through Ferns is anything to go by a trip to some of these eastern countries might be an eye opener for the Irish government and road planners.

Where did I say anything about players not deserving their wages? I hope they all make millions. Point is the players are insulated from the real world so I have zero sympathy for them if they have to go to a poor country.

But bravo for the dig at our league.

Leprechauns dancing anywhere is an embarrassment. What has that got to do with supporting the team?

KOH

**OwlsFan** · 06/09/2007, 5:03 PM

Originally Posted by NY Hoop

Leprechauns dancing anywhere is an embarrassment. What has that got to do with supporting the team?

KOH

......because we've a team of midgets??

**OwlsFan** · 05/08/2011, 11:08 AM

An old thread but Kazakhstan will shortly leave that list. Amazing that we have never drawn Greece in a competitive game. The rest are all relatively "new" States.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republi..._competitively

**AlaskaFox** · 05/08/2011, 11:26 AM

Great top.

**Crosby87** · 05/08/2011, 11:28 AM

You responded to yourself 4 years later. Its like you traveled in time.
If you know who wins Yanks Sox tonight you are obliged to tell me so i can bet on it.

**Gather round** · 05/08/2011, 12:52 PM

NI have never played the following European teams in qualifiers: Andorra, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Bosnia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan. We haven't been drawn with Switzerland since 1966.