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AnCearrbhach
Liam Brady Joined: 26 Mar 2012 Location: Turners Cross Status: Offline Points: 2045 |
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Fair play GD, the Roddy show will keep ya entertained down there anyway
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Aithníonn ciaróg ciaróg eile.
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Green Devil
Robbie Keane Aye Kes, I've pissed me-self again Joined: 06 Oct 2010 Location: Barbados Status: Offline Points: 22173 |
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I think I'll go to Bray, Shels or Wexford Roddy Collins is a knobend
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AnCearrbhach
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A wise choice
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Aithníonn ciaróg ciaróg eile.
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roverstillidie
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Brits out, Up the Ra. Chelsea till I die.
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'The younger generation as in 17 -25 are certainly gayer than their predecessors. I think they may cause the extinction of the human race with their activities.'- Baldrick
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FrankosHereNow
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Croftman
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Feel better after that? Good man, get it off your chest. You're entitled to your view even if 99% of the country would disagree with you but somehow I get the feeling that wouldn't bother you. Say what you want, at the end of the day I've supported them since I was a child and that's not going to change. I'd take going over 2/3 times a year and watching the rest online than following a LOI just because I should. |
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Some people just deserve a slap
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heighway2heaven
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That's a great point. I'd love to know if their 'growing out' of whatever team they supported coincided with said team dropping out of the trophies? Makes ya think. Edited by heighway2heaven - 10 Oct 2015 at 1:18am |
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eire77
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Where did I mention the LOI. I referred to people calling themselves and a premier league team from a city in England as "we" being t0ssers. Point stands. |
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Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get me...
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sid waddell
Roy Keane On a dark desert highway Joined: 20 Nov 2009 Status: Offline Points: 12173 |
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Prior to around 2011 I never referred to Liverpool as "we" but around that time I noticed a proliferation of people, both in real life and in the fictional, make believe world of INTERNET discussion forums, moaning over supporters of English teams doing so. Since then I've made a conscious decision to refer to Liverpool as "we" to continue to annoy people such as yourself over a matter which any normal person would see as of no consequence whatsoever.
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eire77
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Aren't you great, you spend a large portion of your life indulging in juvenile attempts to wind people up. In between mammoth masturbation sessions no doubt.
Fwiw the subject matter doesn't actually annoy me. I just like pointing out the absurdity of it is all. Edited by eire77 - 11 Oct 2015 at 12:08am |
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Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get me...
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Blimp
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I have more respect for men who find their own passions and their own interests rather than those who think that because there born in Ireland they must follow Ireland and Irish teams. Support who you would like to support not who you are dictated to to support. The world is a big place that should be explored. We don't have to be fixated on our little Island. If you want to support Irish do. It's none of my busness. If he wants to support Real madrid do. It's none of my busness. If she wants to support Arsenal do. It's also none of my busness. Stop sticking your nose into other peoples choices. Irish people are so obssessed with themselves.
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BrendanD88
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I do find it strange how some of my mates have more passion supporting an English side over their country! Baffling.
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Het-field
Roy Keane By Appointment to His Majesty The King Joined: 08 Mar 2016 Status: Online Points: 10345 |
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It’s complicated. But it’s complicated because so many Irish players have played in the UK, Irish men have managed UK clubs, and lots of Irish people have emigrated to the UK and the local football club became something relevant to them.
Are the many more countries that have as many international players centralised in one particular country, with another group coming from one other (Scotland)? Irish and English football are inextricably linked.
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FrankosHereNow
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That's hardly new anyway. My old man traveled over to the UK frequently in the 70's & 80's to games.
I haven't been to an EPL game since 2008. I go to see a La Liga game once a season. Already been to Osasuna this season and will go to either Atletico Madrid or Getafe in February, if either are playing on the Saturday I'm in Madrid. Started going back to LOI games regularly this year for the first time since 1999. Best decision I've ever made. Can't beat going to live games.
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OnTheOneRoad
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I try to go to United once a year, as much for the pissup as for the match - i support them, i watch every week on TV, but i dont feel the same passion that i do for Bohs or Ireland. It's not "mine", has nothing to do with anything i identify with personally be it nationality, where i grew up in, i don't go every week or anywhere near it etc. I started supporting them because i was born in the early 90s and Roy Keane was the captain when i was 6 (i didn't know he was a total knob then).
It's a point that's been laboured to death but that's because there's a truth to it. I can't feel the same passion watching games on telly in a pub every saturday that i do standing in the terraces with my mates with passionate support for 90 minutes every friday. I also feel that the Premier League becomes exhausting, with it being flogged to death for over-analysis, knee jerk reactions, 'banter accounts', people passing off Pundit X's opinion as gospel/their own opinion and all the rest of it. I don't rate PL atmospheres apart from Palace and a lot of it is based on sneering at other people for doing something. English fans like to laugh at MLS fans trying to create more of an atmosphere than they ever will, seeing how many songs you can fit to the tune of Sloop John B. Id much rather go to a random derby in any city than a random Premier League game, even though the standard would likely be higher in the latter. Football to me is all about passion and i see none of it in the PL. I'm a fan of United, i'm a supporter of my local club and my country. Having said that, i know lads who go over every week, and if thats what they're into more power to them. I would have to hand it to them for being there all the time.
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nvidic
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Not that complicated, people like winners and the best players so easier to flick on the TV or go to the pub and nominally support a team from across the way. Used to use the Irish link myself when justifying going across but its nonsense, just enjoyed seeing a team win and seeing some of the world's best players.
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