QuoteIt makes me jealous.Originally Posted by Peadar
What's the story, are England playing in red as their first choice colour for the Euro 2004 championships?
Think it's a really nice shirt.
Pitty scUmbro couldn't throw together a decent shirt for Ireland.
Good to see England putting the star on their shirts now too.
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It makes me jealous.
Why, because of what could have been in Korea/Japan?It makes me jealous.
We'd never have beaten Brazil.
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Seen a lot of them being worn out and about over here while driving around, they seem to all come with a free beer gut, skinhead and tatoo's. I think the deal with the red is that it'll match their face's if uefa boot them out when their scum fan's start trying to wreck the tournament.
Its crazy to see people be what society wants them to be but not me.
Who cares........
If you ask me it looks stupid considering how great a football nation they claim to be....One world cup to their name ???
Now brasil on the other hand, theirs looks impressive.
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God Almighty boys. I'm no apologist for the English, and certainly no fan of England, but good luck to them. It's time to let some of the vitriol and hatred go. Never nimd the beer-gutted neanderthals; they embarrass and appal the decent English (of which there are many; Mrs PP being one) as much as they do the rest of us.
We are Ireland. We are defined by who we are, and not by our relationship with the English. Time to move on.
PP
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Brilliantly put PP, couldn't agree more.We are Ireland. We are defined by who we are, and not by our relationship with the English. Time to move on.
If your mantra spreads we might even stop hijacking their internet polls.
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what a pile of sh1te, i'm a skin head....am i scum ???? how did you get that time machine to live 800 years ago, move on like the rest of us or you'll just end up old bitter and twisted.
Ignore Max Power, he is no more, the future is Ron Burgundy. I'd love to be Ron Burgundy but they won't let me........
Kinda on topic but maybe not....
Did FIFA make some sort of announcement about the star thing or did Nike/adidas/umbro just decide that sticking it on the jersies might seel more?
Agree that the Brazil thing looks cool (as does Rangers' in Scotland) 3 stars is good too...
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Given that in club football terms at least, convention dictates that each star represents a victory in the respective continental football championship, Rangers have no right to one star let alone five. So, very much in their case, the shirt manufacturers have decided it would sell more tops. But I digress.
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Well no, convention dictates that, in club football, a star is achieved by the winning of 10 league titles. (convention being the Italian league as they are they only country to do so)
Celtic are the ones who ****ed convention and gave themself a star for winning the european cup (probably as a response to Rangers' five stars)
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Fair enough. The Italians also have a natty little bullseye that gets added to the shirts of the Italian Cup winners for the following season.
For once, I'll not defend them. I'd been led to understand that the norm was as I'd called it. (Which, I guess, would mean all Real Madrid shirts would need to be XL size for their nine stars, no?)
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It's hard to be a fan of a team with Sven-Goran Eriksson at the helm.
I was praying he'd go to Chelsea so that he could make them rubbish.
As for the England team, it's the only one in the finals that I could name every single squad member and probably all the coaching staff too.
Once the French game is over, I'll be cheering for England.
Can't ever see myself buying an England shirt but I doubt I'd burn in hell for liking the look of it.
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Oh dear! Obviously someone with little contact with the finer specimens of the master race...and a short memory considering the wonderful show put on in February 1995 at Lansdowne Road.
BTW, I'm a Skinhead and have a beer gut, but the point being made was that I don't walk around with a face screwed up like a dog's ar*e complaining about how 'Europe' is taking over the country, too many asylum seekers, all Paddies are in the IRA, etc, etc. As for the so-called decent fans, the bullsh*t is laughable. One, claiming to be from the FSA or whatever - usual w*nkers complaining about the foreign police at fault for everything that the rest of us have no problem with (wonder why????) - was saying last week that the Portuguese Police should realise that when the scum are making noise 'it's cos they're En-ger-lish.' What a joke! If you've ever been on a bus in this country when foreign students get on and the tut-tutting from the poor natives because the peace is broken, you'd know that this is pure sh*tting on other people's doorsteps. F*ck them and Allez la France!
This is the cooooooooooooolest footy forum I've ever seen!
Now that's a statement that I'll never understand, not that I'm slagging you for it Peadar...each to their own I say. The reason the vast majority hate the English is because of the arrogant attitude of superiority that is ingrained into the vast majority( not all ) of them. What makes me laugh is that the reason they hate the French is for the exact same reasons... they think the French are arrogant and don't like it yet don't seem to comprehend that that is the exact reason why they themselves are disliked.
I don't "hate" the English........but I could never wish them well at anything.
Shocked, PP. I'd have thought you of all people would have wanted them out as soon as possible. Ye must have to put up with some amount of ****e from their media when they do well.
As for me, hope they lose every game. England losing is the next best thing to Ireland winning.
Have you ever won the treble?
That would be my attitude too, I can't understand why people would want them to do badly (please nobody even bother to mention 800 years or something equally stupid). I wouldn't say I'd be cheering for them but I'd like to see them do well.
Of course all the ignorant barstoolers who normally love Michael Owen, Wayne Rooney, Paul Scholes et al will "hate them English cnuts" for the next month
Champions!
What's there to understand?
I'm a fan of football and can't wait for the first game to kick off on Saturday.
Some of the French players amaze me with their talent and skill.
If they play to their potential then I look forward to enjoying their sublime skill all the way to the final.
Since they're in the same group as England they can't meet again until the final. There is, therefore, no conflict of interest unless both teams make it to the final.
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Was meaning that I couldn't understand why anyone would be cheering the English other than themselves....
I don't care who wins the bloody thing once I get to see some good football along the way, particularly looking forward to
France -v- England
Spain -v- Portugal
Czechs -v- Holland
and the Swiss games to see what they're like.
The only reason I wouldn't want to see England win is because their media would hype it up so much. The thing is we'd do the same, but because we're so exposed to their newspapers and TV it'd be right in our faces. Then again, I successfully managed to avoid most of their post Rugby WC celebrations so it can be done.
Here's to a cracking tournament though, whoever wins
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