QuoteNO as you wont see fai officials or IFA officials voting for same and losing their postitions etc, bit like turkeys voting for xmas and without FAI and IFA approval Euefa won't sanction it.Originally Posted by 5ForKeeps
With the success of the Setanta Cup on both sides of the border, is an all-ireland league a real possibility in the not too distant future?
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NO as you wont see fai officials or IFA officials voting for same and losing their postitions etc, bit like turkeys voting for xmas and without FAI and IFA approval Euefa won't sanction it.
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what an original and thought provoking thread , moved
This is where its at !!
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The SFAI are the governing body for grassroots football in Ireland, not the FAI. Its success or the lack of is all down to them.
Crowds are pretty low this season in the Setanta cup so I wouldn't class it as a massive success.
But as said above, these threads are covered fairly regular on here.
It's called Christmas not Xmas.
Yanky!
Sorry, call me Mr Picky, but it's a pet hate of mine:
[/pedant]The word "Christ" and its compounds, including "Christmas", have been abbreviated for at least the past 1,000 years, long before the modern "Xmas" was commonly used. "Christ" was often written as "XP" or "Xt"; there are references in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as far back as 1021 AD. This X and P arose as the uppercase forms of the Greek letters χ and ρ), used in ancient abbreviations for Χριστος (Greek for "Christ"), and are still widely seen in many Eastern Orthodox icons depicting Jesus Christ. The labarum, an amalgamation of the two Greek letters rendered as ☧, is a symbol often used to represent Christ in Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox Christian Churches.[2]
Source: Wikipedia (Also: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4097755.stm )
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The expression is a pet hate of mine.
PC gone mad in America should not have follow suit here.
Do you like your city being called Londonderry?
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i dont see the need for an All-Ireland league. how would it enhance our teams ? plus how would it actually work ? would you say oh galway, bray, sligo or whoever, sorry you have to go into some crappy second division so we can accomodate the northern teams ?? anyway apart from Linfield there all ****.
In fairness Duggie what do "Galway/Bray/Sligo" bring to the table??....
The likes of Linfield, Glentoran, Cliftonville, Portadown, and even Glenavon have more to offer than the teams above you mentioned.....
In fairness Duggie what do "Galway/Bray/Sligo" bring to the table??....
The likes of Linfield, Glentoran, Cliftonville, Portadown, and even Glenavon have more to offer than the teams above you mentioned.....
how do u make that out ? i just used those teams as an example by the way, it could be any team. My own team is sligo rovers i should state. i just dont see any benefit in the two league's merging, what does it offer ?
But hackneyed tabloidese is fine. In any case, I believe a Yanky [sic], as you put it, would refer to Xmas as 'the Holiday Season', no?
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But it isn't. People that think that don't assume it's a shortened version to make it more inclusive when in fact it's been around for centuries and centuries. It's like people thinking the swastika is an evil invention of the Nazis.
Last edited by thischarmingman; 09/05/2008 at 11:37 AM.
I think the good ship AIL was torpedoed of the coast of abbotstown a few weeks ago by the pocket battleship delaney supported by that frigate the L.A. gavin, all souls were lost ..thank Fcuk
Althought they say if you listen real hard on a stormy night of the coast of derry or cork you can here the sound of a ship plowing through heavy waters and the sound of jim roddy shouting "thar she blows" but nobody,s listening.
Last edited by passerrby; 11/05/2008 at 2:54 AM.
I wish i did not know then what I dont know now
Having seen Portadown and Glenavon in action I seriously doubt that. I even reckon Galway/Bray/Sligo would seriously put it up to Glentoran and Cliftonville.In fairness Duggie what do "Galway/Bray/Sligo" bring to the table??....
The likes of Linfield, Glentoran, Cliftonville, Portadown, and even Glenavon have more to offer than the teams above you mentioned.....
Last edited by Maroon 7; 11/05/2008 at 3:08 AM.
Yes, yes .... of course they would
The only Irish club to win a European trophy.
Yes, yes...they actually would
Cliftonville were the worst team to come to the cross in a long long time(I realise they had played a lot of games) but I would have bet on any EL team to have beaten them
Bray and Sligo would definitely beat you more times than you beat them.
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