QuoteWhat about Montenegro or Serbia? There's another couple for you.
PP
Was reading Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republi..._competitively
and came across this list. None a surprise except Greece whom we have managed to avoid all these years
Armenia
Azerbaijan (Billsthoughts is an expert on them)
Belarus
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Greece
Kazakhstan
Moldova
Have we played the Ukraine ?
Forget about the performance or entertainment. It's only the result that matters.
What about Montenegro or Serbia? There's another couple for you.
Semper in faecibus sole profundum variat
Haven't played the Ukraine competitively
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We haven't really played competitively against San Marino either
What countries do we have a 100 per cent record against.
In Trap we trust
http://rsssf.com/tablesi/ier-intres.html
All the results are here I think.
We're not arrogant, we're just better.
What about Slovenia? We never played them competitively as far as I can remember. Wikipedia sucks the devil's trumpet.
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Have to agree with youngirish, Wikipedia is a load of w@nk when looking for a reliable reference.Originally Posted by youngirish
I would imagine that there are 10's of teams we haven't played competitively considering all our qualifiers are against European teams (except for Israel) and we have only qualified for 3 world cups. Apart from that we have played a few US Cups and that other cup against Nigeria and Jamaica a few years ago. Unless there was some kind of pre WWII cup I'm unaware of that included the likes of Trinidad and Tobago, New Zealand, Ivory Coast, Canada, etc.
Would be interesting to know which teams we have never played either competitively or in a friendly.
While Wikipedia is as reliable as Fook, i think its UEFA teams only he's talking about.
oops that's what I get for not reading the page properly
Anyway I'm sure it has missed a few UEFA countries too.
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
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My Guarantee
Am looking for old Irish matches on VHS, PM me if you have some and I'll upload them here
Jagshemesh!
Somebody tell Mick Byrne to pour a bottle of gypsy tears on Finnan's knee.
Anyone see the Welsh game - don't think we have played them competitively!
Ireland have never played East Germany.
[And I guess, never will].
3284 - Football Utopia.
Fu*k, I don't think we've played Middle Earth either, and, maybe, never will.
They're listed there as one of the ones we will never play along with Saarland
Forget about the performance or entertainment. It's only the result that matters.
Hmm.
Please suggest additions to this list
Will Never Play Competitively owing to "countries" vanishing:
E. Germany
Saarland
Might Yet Play Competitively owing to status:
Kosovo
Greenland
Euskadi
Northern Cyprus?
Vatican City
Gibraltar
Existant teams Yet to play Competitively (by my reckoning):
Greece!!!!
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Montenegro
Serbia on their own
Slovenia
Moldova
Belarus
Azerbijan
Armenia
Kazakhstan (recently defected from Asian Football competition)
San Marino
5 Balkan teams (6 if you count Moldova), 5 former Soviet Union (including Moldova)
Do I recall correctly when I think we played against Palestine in a World Cup qualifier once pre-Emergency (whadya mean "War"?), or did they concede the game?
We also played a tournament in Iceland in 1986 that we won under JC (first thing we ever won), and, prior to Glenn Crowe, that was the last time a LOI player togged out (Pat Byrne, AFAIK).
That question was less stupid, though you asked it in a profoundly stupid way.
Help me, Arthur Murphy, you're my only hope!
Nah, the last before Crowe played in a friendly v Uruguay. Think it was Pat Byrne though (could've been Peter Eccles)
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Blubeard is correct. Pat Byrne versus Czechslovakia was last LOI player capped before Crowe against Greece.
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
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