We’re not Brasil we’re Tuaisceart Éireann

Territorial wrote: thebronze14 wrote: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-43158949 Better link? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-43158949 Anyhow, I know him! Decent, likeable fella, never misses an NI game, home or away. And while I can't condone fraud - esp on the scale it seems to have been on - I think his lawyer's plea in mitigation had a degree of merit: ... the complainant, having bought the top for £27, "must have known it wasn't going to be the genuine article". I mean, if he really wasn't happy, why not just ask for his money back ("or I'll go to the papers etc")?

A far bigger robbery is the price of the legitimate gear and nobody is doing anything about that!

I don't actually have a problem with the price of replica kits. The manufacturers pay huge amounts to clubs or Associations, so have to get their money back somehow. 

Edited by Territorial - 23 Feb 2018 at 12:52pm

SuperDave84 wrote: Money that goes to clubs doesn't subsidise ticket prices, so don't kid yourself.

So if a club's income was reduced by, say, 10%, you don't think they wouldn't raise admission prices accordingly? (What I meant by 'indirectly').

Edited by Territorial - 23 Feb 2018 at 5:57pm

I can imagine not too many protestants from the north would want to play for EIRE.  That's why they aren't asked.   Hardly sectarian. Catholics are more likely to nationalist and have aspirations of playing for their country. It's political not sectarian.   Does he want the FAI to ask protestants now?    I think Alan Kernaghan was protestant.  I have no idea how he ended up playing for us.  Probably ambitions of playing the in the world cup.


EDIT:  Kernaghan was born in England but the North wouldn't select him.

Brought up in Bangor, Northern Ireland, he played for Northern Ireland Schoolboys six times. However, as the Irish Football Association policy at the time did not select players who were not or whose parents were not born in Northern Ireland, he wasn't selected for the senior team.^[4][5] Due to his grandmother being an Irish citizen he was entitled to Irish citizenship, and he was selected by Jack Charlton to play for the Republic of Ireland. Kernaghan earned 22 caps,^[2] scored one goal and was selected for the 1994 FIFA World Cup.


Edited by Trap junior - 04 Mar 2018 at 12:47pm

That article is 2 years old.

It's a fairly embarrassing article. Sounds like O'Neill is sulking. He's quick enough to pick our players too.

Edited by horsebox - 04 Mar 2018 at 12:59pm

horsebox wrote: That article is 2 years old. It's a fairly embarrassing article. Sounds like O'Neill is sulking. He's quick enough to pick our players too.

Young NI underage player Sammy Clive Watt from the Short Strand to be asked to declare for Republic.  His father was in the ORange Order and his uncle was in the UVF but John Delaney remains hopeful he can be persuaded to play for EIRE