Outside of football, what is your passion?

[DaveyCakes]

Thanks for that. You have really increased my desire to go. Now can I persuade the wife that the shopping is good there

1. Go via Moscow (It's the only practical way anyway)
2. Leave wife in GUM department store/shopping mall on Red Square
3. Sneak down to Volgograd for a few days
4. Collect wife on way back
5. Sell house to pay off credit card.

[paul_oshea]

chatting to "people" on a night out.
listening to music - love it.
travelling to places most people dont go to, but like a lot of people here, they seem to do that too

[Bluebeard]

chatting to "people" on a night out.

When you mean "People", do you mean people who no one else can see, or "people" made of a bit of a stick with a coconut for a head?

(Sorry, Mighty Boosh Marathon last night - had never seen it before then)

[Green Tribe]

I would have a particular interest in Irish history at the time of the War of Independance and the Civil war. The flying columns, Black & Tans, Tom Barry, Ernie O'Malley and the intelligence war in Dublin. Very interesting to read about the tactics and endurance of the Columns and how disciplined and organised they had to be.
The civil war turned friends into enemies and the violence towards each other was as bad as anything seen in the War of Independence. The county of Kerry is a place where it was particularly bad with some of the worst atrocities of the civil war.
There are some great biographies from the time giving you an insight into everyday life in one of the most turbulent times in our history.

I'm also a big fan of Walnut Whirls!

You're also into the old racism too reddladd

[Reddladd]

What tribe are you from???? Sure ya have red hair so ya can't be that bad!

[John83]

I tend to get into subjects by finding interesting people in the area. Erwin Rommel, Mikhail Tal and Richard Feynman are three personal heroes who make for interesting reading:

Rommel wrote about infantry tactics, had a fascinating military career including an important role in WWII, was one of the finest early exponents of blitzkreig and was involved in the Stauffenberg attempt to assassinate Hitler, for which role he was instructed to commit suicide - which he did out of fear for his family.

Tal was the youngest ever world chess champion when he won it in 1960 (Fischer and Kasparov have since beaten his record), with a spectacularly brilliant sacrificial style of play that motivated a big change in the quality of defensive technique among grandmasters, and was a fine journalist whose game annotations are fascinating.

Feynman was a brilliant American physicist who helped develop the first atomic bomb, won the Nobel prize for his contributions to physics in the field of quantum mechanics and was a remarkable science lecturer and popular science writer.

People like these guys motivate me to explore a subject.

[Raheny Red]

I'm also a big fan of Walnut Whirls!

Pfffttt, some fan you are, they're Walnut Whips

[onceahoop]

Like history myself especially ww2. Have any of you history buffs got Max Hastings new book "Nemesis" about the battle for Japan. Heard him on the radio a while back talking about it. Sounds facinating. Hope Santa brings it!!!

However, horse racing (national hunt) is my big passion outside football and my local club. Usually only bet at the big meetings. The mrs can't understand how I can watch and not have a bet. Ask her does she bet on swimmers when she's watching her favourite sport.

[Tir Oilean]

Motorbikes are top of my list. They would be on a par with GUFC.

[Lim till i die]

Guitar...PS3....Poker

You ned to get Guitar Hero, leave more time for the poker


Interests outside football would include:

Punching my punching Bag
Lifting Weights
Reading (Mainly European and Irish History)
Politics
Music (Not that I would claim to know the first thing about it.)

Sadly Fourth Year in college has curtailed all of these to such an extent that the only thing I do most days which could even be remotely classed as a pastime is smoke about 20 fags (And no I don't mean whacking homosexuals Anto and Dynamo)

[OwlsFan]

Rommel wrote about infantry tactics, had a fascinating military career including an important role in WWII, was one of the finest early exponents of blitzkreig and was involved in the Stauffenberg attempt to assassinate Hitler, for which role he was instructed to commit suicide - which he did out of fear for his family.

He wasn't actively involved in the plot as such. His name was found in documents left behind by the conspirators as being a likely leader once the Nazis had been disposed of. Aware but not actively involved

Like history myself especially ww2. Have any of you history buffs got Max Hastings new book "Nemesis" about the battle for Japan. Heard him on the radio a while back talking about it. Sounds facinating. Hope Santa brings it!.

Thanks for the heads up on this one. Looks very interesting:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/...189851,00.html

I suspect the likes of those who claimed in another thread that the USA was wrong to use the atomic bomb on Japan to end of the war would have to have a rethink after reading this book. It would have been like saying to Hitler: "Listen Adolph, we have this bomb that can blow Germany and its people apart unless you surrender" to which they would have received the reply "Nein, nein nein. Verfluchte Americanski".