C'Mon Brazil

darthmise

Wouldn't it make you laugh...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,739849,00.html


no, it'd make your blood boil.

Rabies

they will occupy themselves by cheering for whomever England are playing, even if it's an al-Qaida Select XI, or maybe Germany

your damn right.
after reading that article i hope brazil kick them up and down the pitch.

Ruaidhri

well you have to remember this is the view of ONE muppet.
what would happen if all the boards.ie posters were evaluated on one of my posts?

it's annoying though

Mossy Monk

But who will the world cheer for now that the lovable leprechauns have been returned to their misty hills and treacherous bogs?

who the hell does this pompous little prick think he is.

DapperGent

I think I'll save that link somewhere. Next time I try to explain to an English person that our antipathy towards them is not towards all of them but sections (Goverment, most of the media and what they seen to turn into when they hit Spanish beaches), it should come in handy.

The Gopher

This is exactly why foreign fans always support the team going against England.Theyre cocky when they win and theyre moaning tossers when they lose.Goals scored by Ireland in first round-5.Goals scored by England-2,of which one was a penalty.

Shiminay

Well, it's currently 1 - 0 England - make's me sick cause I know they'll never shut up about it!

Don't you think it's a little silly of us - most of us follow an English soccer team during the year and then we boo the same players when they put on that white jersey.....

[EDIT]
Well, we know what happened

Sorry - I accidently closed the thread - sorry about that.

Vikktakkht

and this should be on the humour board why???

It's not funny......

daveJAM

I'm so pissed off!

There is no emoticon for what i am feeling!

pauldeehan

I'm against England winning, not because of some rivalry but because they're such terrible winners. If they had won they would NEVER have shut up EVER

sceptre

"Awarded them seven penalties"

I guess that means he awarded Spain five.

They'd have received more if we'd been chivalrous and tripped the Spanish in the box twice.

Corega

me thinks of e-mailing the editor of the guardian and telling him his paper sucks along with his wife

Andor

I dont take offence to what he wrote, he's a journalist. If he was to write about how great Ireland were in our match, this post wouldn't exist, and we wouldn't be reading what he has to say.

What he said about Robbie Keane made no sense whatsoever though, all players seem to have their little celebration 'thingum' after they score a goal. Maybe if his 'arrow' was directed at the Spanish players, or a photo of a starving child, i would have wanted to climb inside the tv also:rolleyes:


But anyways, Rod Liddle is obviously an England supporter, and in that spirit, likes to downplay and belittle all the rival teams who win and smear his dirty grin into the ones who are beaten.

Chowmein

Yes your right andor, but you forgot one thing, hes an utter muppet

byte

Originally posted by Chowmein
hes an utter muppet

...and that's being nice about it!

goose

He has a point, it was a stupid celebration.

queue robbie fowler sniffing the white lines on the pitch

rymus

Indeed this person appears to be a complete tool. In fact he appears to be the tool factory.

Its just like some of the comments that were made about refugee's over here. Some English/British people will agree with him but the majority will think hes a complete tosser, which he is... arent you?

Tellox

looks like Eamon dunphy's evil twin is writing for the gaurdian

l3rian

this might help to direct your anger


and now you know what a true 100% muppet looks like

joey D

robbie keane's celebrations were sad and embarrassing, the guy is right on that count.

darthmise

Afaik, the following is the published response the guardian put in their paper to the article.

Not the most articulate guy on the planet but still good all the same.








IN RESPONSE TO ROD LIDDLE ---"see below"---, 19TH OF JUNE.

With regard to your comments on Robbie Keane's celebration & numerous
little digs at Irish-ness in general, I feel you need a little reminding of
some
facts that British people tend to forget for some strange reason.

Firstly the Robbie Keane thing. Scoring a goal in the world cup is
something a lot of us dream of, for Robbie Keane it must have been a dream
for him
too. I can understand his celebration, it was a sort of follow on from the
goal against Germany when he drew two guns & start firing away
only this time it's a different weapon. How this annoys you is confusing.
What's the story with Beckham scoring & opening out his arms as if he's an
aeroplane about to take off?? Maybe he's trying to tell us he's from cloud
cuckoo land or something; he'd be right.

Saudi Arabia may not be any great sheiks "get it?" But what do you call
Greece when you struggled to beat them & to be fair you mention the
referee giving us a lot of dodgy decisions. If it weren't for a terrible
decision
to give you a free kick in the last minute against Greece you wouldn't have
qualified. Short memories.

I have to agree with you in regard to the strange phenomenon that most
people throughout the world seem to take to Irish people & admire a whole
host of different things about us. Now let's ask our selves why this is?

-Is it anything to do with our culture of Music, Dance & the ability to
have a decent conversation with a complete stranger?
-Is it anything to do with the fact that after about seven pints we tend
to be a little happier & start singing?
-Is it anything to do with the age-old reputation of us being a friendly
race?
-Is it anything to do with the fact that where-ever Irish people turned up
in the world, we have blended in and had a lot to offer? For example in
America it's generally known that we built the entire infrastructure form
the ground up. The influence of the Irish in Argentina, Australia,
Britain & Canada for example is shocking.

The fact that your people & country are hated, & I don't mean this to be
offensive but this is fact. This hatred is simply because all of the above
I have mentioned in favor of my people is exactly the same reasons as to why

your not liked, but in reverse. I mean your people are so diverse due to
the colonization of vast amounts of lands & cultures that you lack your own
cultural identity. The fact that after seven pints, there is a tendency to
smash some bodies face in. The Fact that you have an age-old reputation
that you are an oppressive race that took rather than contribute to any
other
nation in the past. So you wonder why we support anybody but
England?

Not Wales or Scotland, only England.

Were not perfect by any means and were not all friendly, but I can tell
you that the old laugh about the leprechauns and misty hills and the bogs
are
starting to disappear. For a country like Ireland with a population of
about four million & our own identity, add the fact that our people are
loved
everywhere & that our economy is the fastest growing in Europe, is it any
surprise why were admired?

Go on, have a dig at us ? sure we've taken a lot worse than that from you
lot before & came out stronger for it. At this stage it's like water off a
Duck's back.

The worst bit about it is that it's eating you up in side & there's
nothing you lot can do about it anymore!!!

Mind yourself & answer me this simple question. You own the English
language, but why do the London folk pronounce such words like THINK as
FINK? Where on Earth did you get the F? Like all things that originate
from England, English people are crap at them.

Is mise le meas "Irish"



John McGuinness

ps: in your bit below about the referee been mugged in Marbella, well
what's the chances that an English lout might have done it?

darthmise

Originally posted by Kharn


Don't you think it's a little silly of us - most of us follow an English soccer team during the year and then we boo the same players when they put on that white jersey.....

Don't get me wrong, i didn't post it to incite a hatred of the british.
I actively support England when they play. And I really wanted to see them do well in this tournament, but to just stop short of winning it out.., we would never have heard the end of it. (If there is one nation that becomes full of its own importance when they're winning, it's the english.)

But that article got to me. It re-inforced stereotypes of Irish people i took offence to.