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Originally posted by sid waddell sid waddell wrote:

Good to know who all the "West Croatians" are on here, or something.

The difference between Irish people who were supporting England and those who weren't, is that those who did support them tend to have a mind of their own, whereas those who supported ABE tend to be unthinking sheep. 




 
Sid, maybe some of us in the ABE group were attacked as a 12 year old outside Wembley in 1980, abused and intimidated on ferries travelling to away games for years, spat at by a middle aged woman after we equalized in Wembley in 1991, and maybe felt a tad upset over the events at LR in 1995.
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Originally posted by sid waddell sid waddell wrote:

Good to know who all the "West Croatians" are on here, or something.

The difference between Irish people who were supporting England and those who weren't, is that those who did support them tend to have a mind of their own, whereas those who supported ABE tend to be unthinking sheep. 




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Originally posted by sid waddell sid waddell wrote:

Good to know who all the "West Croatians" are on here, or something.

The difference between Irish people who were supporting England and those who weren't, is that those who did support them tend to have a mind of their own, whereas those who supported ABE tend to be unthinking sheep. 





Virtue signalling of the highest order. Trying to imply that you're some kind of enlightened modern man because you want one football team to beat another. 
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I know he is a nice guy and all that, he certainly spoke very well and comes across as the sort of guy you would have wanted as your stepdad, even if there would be a fear what any half-siblings would look like, but he seems to be getting a free ride in the press.
I still can't understand why he took Sterling off, although it might be why he is getting a free ride in the press, come to think of it!
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Originally posted by pre Madonna pre Madonna wrote:

I know he is a nice guy and all that, he certainly spoke very well and comes across as the sort of guy you would have wanted as your stepdad, even if there would be a fear what any half-siblings would look like, but he seems to be getting a free ride in the press.
I still can't understand why he took Sterling off, although it might be why he is getting a free ride in the press, come to think of it!

I'd say they're raging there's no way of pining this on Sterling. I'm actually shocked they haven't found a way to 
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I read a tweet last night from an Irish supporter

"I celebrated England losing to Croatia, as much as I would have celebrated Ireland winning the World Cup because they're our great rivals" or something along those lines.

Even though we're about as relevant to the English football team as Fulham are to Arsenal unfortunately. 

England vs Scotland is a proper rivalry, England vs Ireland really only works one way and it's our supporters who see it as a grudge match whereas they wouldn't.

Northern Ireland to me are our main rivals and has the makings of a proper derby, I would class playing England the same as I would with Wales or Scotland at this stage.


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He exchanged Sterling for Bitcoin you might say and lost
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Originally posted by AnCearrbhach AnCearrbhach wrote:

Originally posted by sid waddell sid waddell wrote:

Good to know who all the "West Croatians" are on here, or something.

The difference between Irish people who were supporting England and those who weren't, is that those who did support them tend to have a mind of their own, whereas those who supported ABE tend to be unthinking sheep. 





Virtue signalling of the highest order. Trying to imply that you're some kind of enlightened modern man because you want one football team to beat another. 


Really?

What's "virtue signalling"?

What if I just wanted England to win because I feel more of an affinity to them than the vast majority of other teams, which I do?
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Sheep ? On here ? Naaaa. 
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Originally posted by Green Devil Green Devil wrote:

I read a tweet last night from an Irish supporter

"I celebrated England losing to Croatia, as much as I would have celebrated Ireland winning the World Cup because they're our great rivals" or something along those lines.

Even though we're about as relevant to the English football team as Fulham are to Arsenal unfortunately. 

England vs Scotland is a proper rivalry, England vs Ireland really only works one way and it's our supporters who see it as a grudge match whereas they wouldn't.

Northern Ireland to me are our main rivals and has the makings of a proper derby, I would class playing England the same as I would with Wales or Scotland at this stage.
England don't consider Eire as rivals. They don't even think for a moment about them as rivals. Eire are completely irrelevant to England fans. 

Eire fans considering England as "our great rivals" is like Laois fans considering Dublin as "our great rivals". 

Dublin fans don't give Laois a first thought, never mind a second.
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Originally posted by Cabra Hoop Cabra Hoop wrote:

Originally posted by sid waddell sid waddell wrote:

Good to know who all the "West Croatians" are on here, or something.

The difference between Irish people who were supporting England and those who weren't, is that those who did support them tend to have a mind of their own, whereas those who supported ABE tend to be unthinking sheep. 




 
Sid, maybe some of us in the ABE group were attacked as a 12 year old outside Wembley in 1980, abused and intimidated on ferries travelling to away games for years, spat at by a middle aged woman after we equalized in Wembley in 1991, and maybe felt a tad upset over the events at LR in 1995.
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Originally posted by Green Devil Green Devil wrote:

England vs Scotland is a proper rivalry, England vs Ireland really only works one way and it's our supporters who see it as a grudge match whereas they wouldn't.
 
Northern Ireland to me are our main rivals and has the makings of a proper derby, I would class playing England the same as I would with Wales or Scotland at this stage.
Between 1988-91 we were.
 
We played each other four times.
 
But I agree apart from that England just consider us little Pixieheads.
 
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Originally posted by Gary McKay Gary McKay wrote:

Originally posted by Green Devil Green Devil wrote:

England vs Scotland is a proper rivalry, England vs Ireland really only works one way and it's our supporters who see it as a grudge match whereas they wouldn't.
 
Northern Ireland to me are our main rivals and has the makings of a proper derby, I would class playing England the same as I would with Wales or Scotland at this stage.
Between 1988-91 we were.
 
We played each other four times.
 
But I agree apart from that England just consider us little Pixieheads.
 

If we started qualifying for tournaments on a regular basis and actually ended up drawing them in the odd qualifying group than for sure a "mini rivalry" per say could start to develop again, but we simply don't play them anywhere near enough and right now we're not in a good place footballing wise so it's non existent.

Funninly enough, Wales could now be seen as a direct rival.

There is definitely a bit of tension between Coleman's leg break and then us beating them away in Cardiff, you can see from reading their message board a lot of their fans don't like us too much.
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Originally posted by sid waddell sid waddell wrote:

Originally posted by Green Devil Green Devil wrote:

I read a tweet last night from an Irish supporter

"I celebrated England losing to Croatia, as much as I would have celebrated Ireland winning the World Cup because they're our great rivals" or something along those lines.

Even though we're about as relevant to the English football team as Fulham are to Arsenal unfortunately. 

England vs Scotland is a proper rivalry, England vs Ireland really only works one way and it's our supporters who see it as a grudge match whereas they wouldn't.

Northern Ireland to me are our main rivals and has the makings of a proper derby, I would class playing England the same as I would with Wales or Scotland at this stage.
England don't consider Eire as rivals. They don't even think for a moment about them as rivals. Eire are completely irrelevant to England fans. 

Eire fans considering England as "our great rivals" is like Laois fans considering Dublin as "our great rivals". 

Dublin fans don't give Laois a first thought, never mind a second.



For sure and I agree, seeing as a I said as much Wink

If we drew England in qualifying for the Euro's and be chance met them in the tournament (if we qualified) who knows the rivalry on a lesser scale could develop again. 
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