The Irish Football Team Thread

Good

 

What challenge, the shoulder barge on by the halfway line?

Seeing the disgust in the aftermath from Huns and *'s down here, makes it even better in my book..

Giut Jamesy bhoy..

 

Just watched Coleman's post match press conference. He's gone up in my estimations, showed a bit of class in how he spoke about the game.

 

No. The playoff draw next week is rigged to make sure the stronger countries get as easy a path as possible to the finals despite the fact that all the countries in the playoffs were of course seeded at the start of qualifying when the original groups were drawn.
As such we will play one of either Italy, Switzerland, Croatia or Denmark.

 

Can't be bothered with Italy purely for the reason that I would have to try and keep my temper for a month listening to Brits telling us we have no chance.

 

Got the distinct impression on the build up to the Wales Ireland match that the republic were to be written off , it was a reliable source too , the bbc

 

You don't have any chance.

 

I'm sure he would've taken a moment looking up at his da getting one over on him..

You've got to fancy your chances against the Swiss in my opinion..

 

Order of preference (imo)
Denmark
Switzerland
Italy
Croatia

 

We will be underdogs no matter who we play. But I think the best shot we have is against Switzerland or Denmark.

 

bring on Switzerland. love sitting in a swiss crowd against ireland in a celtic shirt

 

[39771"]Behave and wash your mouth as that is a pure sevco comment you just made there.​

Apart from the very strong likelihood you likely have no idea of the hundreds of Irish accents, many of which evolved from outside the island of Ireland.
From the around 80 plus million around the world who claim Irish heritage, 40 plus million in the States and 7 million plus in Australia for examples.
To the millions across the island of Britain, some of who like the Irish tribes who have been there before since the fall of the Roman empire. The Romans referred to these tribes from IRELAND or Hiberia as the Scotia. How ironic for the simple minds huh? Scot means Irish, No that Jim Kerr was simple mind ye.
North Wales was effectively once and for centuries Irish.
More recent, these past century the Irish have emigrated and where ever they went, they brought their accents and forms of Irish language with them, changing utterly the new places previous accent.
Irish Accents they brought with them to evolved new ones, often in effective communal isolation, so these accents today such as in parts of Nova Scotia Canada or in Boston in the States are obviously Irish by main influence.

Cockney not so well known, but the very name Cockney was originally a demeaning term to describe the mainly Irish and Jewish immigrants of the slum of slums of 19th Century London.
Sad and perversely ironic to think the likes of the london members of the edl and before them the nf and bnp who now a few generations on 'imagine' themselves as 'real anglo saxon and prods' are actually by and large descended from the poorest and most discriminated of foreign emigrants themselves.

So I do hope that you as a Celtic supporter of a club founded by Irish people, who's descendants still live in the area and evolved unique accents every bit as much Irish as Scottish or supposed british accent!! made your most ignorant supposed 'point' from frustration, a error from your apparent pain of the thought and later reality of Ireland winning.

And not some actual 20th century and older typical brit anti Irish undercurrent racism.

If you want me to expand and explain more do try and justify the comment!


Tom Clarke * Hero of Ireland, he who never surrendered to the brit crown bully.
Never had one of these 'imagined' Irish accents for at least his early childhood.
Not did Connolly or Larkin, they had Irish accents alright, but ones that evolved in Edinburgh and Liverpool.


Erskine Childers had no Irish accent of the imagination, just a pure Irish heart.
Neither did Wolfe Tone, or the son of a Scottish Presbyterian and French Huguenot, the Legendary Irish Hero and true Irishman and patriot Henry Joy McCracken.



They all were Irish and all had Irish accents, just not ones that fitted into the most simplistic of imaginations.[/QUOTE]
Going to try and keep this reply in my head for the the next * ( Irish ) also, that says " how can you be Irish with an accent like that?!"
Had it all my life, and it really irritates more when it comes from the Irish ignorant.
A far more considered reply like this than the * off you * I'm Irish and that's that which is what I would normally throw back.
Many thanks for this.

 

It's time folks... Good luck today!

 

* up.

 

Great draw.

 

Denmark I'll take it

 

Mon the Danes!! We'll slaughter ye

 

What dates?

 

The illegitimate northern state got Switzerland...hope they get stuffed.