Well done Irish fans

At least they know how to enjoy themselves, unlike u who sound very misrible.

Jun 14, 2012 -- 9:39PM, ahmadyar wrote:

At least they know how to enjoy themselves, unlike u who sound very misrible.

You need some English lessons mate , spelling to start with , could not have a bigger smile on my face after that result

I think you are very jealous of us since our population is much smaller, soccer is out 3rd most played sport and we are still going to exit at the same stage as your pathetic team, poor soul

probably BNP & National Front supporter would sum up the english supporter

PHILthePOWER • June 14, 2012 11:31 PM BST
I think you are very jealous of us since our population is much smaller, soccer is out 3rd most played sport and we are still going to exit at the same stage as your pathetic team, poor soul

Well Said Phil

Jun 14, 2012 -- 11:31PM, PHILthePOWER wrote:

I think you are very jealous of us since our population is much smaller, soccer is out 3rd most played sport and we are still going to exit at the same stage as your pathetic team, poor soul

you're all very confident that england are going out in the group stage
why is that?

they drew 1-1 with strongly fancied france and can put themselves in great position by beating a poor swedish side tomorrow

Jun 14, 2012 -- 11:47PM, hejik wrote:

Jun 14, 2012 -- 11:31PM, PHILthePOWER wrote:
I think you are very jealous of us since our population is much smaller, soccer is out 3rd most played sport and we are still going to exit at the same stage as your pathetic team, poor soul
you're all very confident that england are going out in the group stagewhy is that?they drew 1-1 with strongly fancied france and can put themselves in great position by beating a poor swedish side tomorrow

and getting to the 1/4's is an acheivement?? ha

they drew 1-1 with strongly fancied france and can put themselves in great position by beating a poor swedish side tomorrow

You mean like the poor algeria and usa side they beat at the World Cup 2 years ago??
That comment just sums up the English,and why everybody hates them.

well i'd say it was much more impressive than getting absolutely tonked and embarrassed in every single group game?

fuhrer- not talking about 2 years ago (are you a liverpool fan?)
we're talking about now
and i'm not english

its IRELAND u mug, they played croatia and spain, possibly the greatest side to ever play the game. england wouldnt have gotten out of irelands group ffs.

i'm aware it's ireland but let's not try and kid each other that ireland are on a par with englands side
even this weakened english side

please dont refer to england as a standard to set for any nation, is just stupid

whats with the expectation?

half the irish team are fcuking wolves and west brom part timers and yet they geat beat 4-0 by the arguably the greatest team the world has ever seen and people expected ireland to have much of a chance?

does anyone watch football anymore.

I've written a play about the Irish potato famine....

Murphy: "Have you got any potatoes, Paddy?"

Paddy: "No."

The end.

Jun 14, 2012 -- 11:56PM, PHILthePOWER wrote:

please dont refer to england as a standard to set for any nation, is just stupid

i wasn't, the poster above me did

Jun 14, 2012 -- 11:57PM, alwayswinning2000 wrote:

I've written a play about the Irish potato famine....Murphy: "Have you got any potatoes, Paddy?"Paddy: "No."The end.

You already posted that a couple of times pal...And Guess what nobody laughed

If you are offended by any of the Potato famine jokes i have said, feel free to call the complaints line on 0800 1-potato 2-potato 3-potato 4

And again nobody is laughing

Jun 14, 2012 -- 11:56PM, ilikewavingatbuses wrote:

whats with the expectation?half the irish team are fcuking wolves and west brom part timers and yet they geat beat 4-0 by the arguably the greatest team the world has ever seen and people expected ireland to have much of a chance? does anyone watch football anymore.

i don't think there should be any they are a hopeless side
but they're not alone in that

everything has to be "yeah we got smashed but england will too"
2 sides do not compare no matter how deluded you are
england are far superior in every aspect to ireland as a footballing side

despite defeat, as usual the Irish fans were a credit to their country

im laughing at the fact ireland are first out with after 2 games conceding 7 goals

alwayswinning is so desperate for someone to laugh at his jokes ....Bless him

but i accept that they had easily the worst draw it was possible to get
accept that, you were hoping for a point at best as half the competition would be
no shame in that

Jun 15, 2012 -- 12:00AM, Burton-Brewers wrote:

despite defeat, as usual the Irish fans were a credit to their country

unlike the brits who would rather riot and kill *cough*heysel*cough*

Jun 15, 2012 -- 12:03AM, PHILthePOWER wrote:

Jun 15, 2012 -- 12:00AM, Burton-Brewers wrote:despite defeat, as usual the Irish fans were a credit to their countryunlike the brits who would rather riot and kill *cough*heysel*cough*

just a sad pathetic post
irish lads on this forum a disgrace to their nation

...and it's posts like these by morons like PTP that make this place worse than a school playground.

ireland ARENT on a par with england but nobody says they are, excapt the nonsense spouted in thes forum which is just a vehicle to wind everyone up anyway

funny enough ireland have gotten the better of england a fair few times recently. your comment would actually suggest u think england are good? they arent, as a football team, they are awful and this is a very large nation with a lot of money who apparently have many world class players? like roy keane once said, who are they ? gerard, henderson, carroll, lord almighty, bar rooney and cole the team are distinctly average. the whole nation thinks theyre gonna win the euros and wc every 4 years, its laughable.

the irish nation are just delighted to go to a tournament, of course there is disappointment after a match like tonight but they were 10/1 for a start, feckin 10/1. the players we have are poor at best, bar shea and dunne and they are ancient at this stage.

heijk were you from ?

a turk in derry bergkamp at the moment

ilikewavingatbuses
15 Jun 12 00:06 Joined: 06 Jun 09 | Topic/replies: 25,632 | Blogger: ilikewavingatbuses's blog
ireland ARENT on a par with england but nobody says they are, excapt the nonsense spouted in thes forum which is just a vehicle to wind everyone up anyway

funny enough ireland have gotten the better of england a fair few times recently. your comment would actually suggest u think england are good? they arent, as a football team, they are awful and this is a very large nation with a lot of money who apparently have many world class players? like roy keane once said, who are they ? gerard, henderson, carroll, lord almighty, bar rooney and cole the team are distinctly average. the whole nation thinks theyre gonna win the euros and wc every 4 years, its laughable.

the irish nation are just delighted to go to a tournament, of course there is disappointment after a match like tonight but they were 10/1 for a start, feckin 10/1. the players we have are poor at best, bar shea and dunne and they are ancient at this stage.

why do you keep thinking england fans think we can win it, we don't i will be happy if we get out the group stage, as im sure ireland fans would be happy if they get a point.

Jun 15, 2012 -- 12:08AM, hejik wrote:

a turk in derry bergkamp at the moment

You are living in Derry ...Work ??

buses, this idea that every Englishman thinks we are going to win every tournament and have a wealth of world class players is simply a nonsense - mainly invented by jealous home nations supporters.

Of course we enjoy competing in the tournaments and get swept up in the excitement - that's part of being a football supporter! However, you'd be very hard pushed to find someone here that thinks that a) we are a particularly good team and b) have a reasonable chance of winning this, or any other tournament.

no ilwab

i don't know, have never spoken to, or never seen an english person who thinks they have any chance of winning it.
at full strength they're maybe 6th,7th best side in europe so 1/4's is their level at best

1/4's at a world cup is a massive over achievement for england

yes bergkamp - work
i didn't realise exactly where i was staying until the latest new-starts came and wouldn't dig with us

Jun 15, 2012 -- 12:11AM, hejik wrote:

yes bergkamp - worki didn't realise exactly where i was staying until the latest new-starts came and wouldn't dig with us

I live in Derry pal ...Although I Was born up South in Sligo

i didn't realise exactly where i was staying until the latest new-starts came and wouldn't dig with us

Feck there ain't much work here pal you must be doing something right

well i dont mean EVERY englishman obviously.

gerards comments after the match were laughable 'with all due respect sweden arent france', good lord. england have never, NEVER gotten the better of sweden in a competitive match, ever and yet he comes out with this rubbish and disrespect.

itv were the same trying the blame the ref.

sweden are sh1t tho and it's not being cocky in there opening game i thought they were dreadful. I think anything other than a win would be a bad result, not that england are a great side because we are not, i just think sweden are that poor

I have never got carried away with our chances in any tournament after Italia 90. Most of the hype comes from our stupid press who think we can win everything, this time it seems our fans have wised up to it. Say things enough and people will believe it, Scotland were going to win the world cup in '78.

Jun 15, 2012 -- 12:14AM, Bergkamp93 wrote:

Jun 15, 2012 -- 12:11AM, hejik wrote:yes bergkamp - worki didn't realise exactly where i was staying until the latest new-starts came and wouldn't dig with usI live in Derry pal ...Although I Was born up South in Sligo i didn't realise exactly where i was staying until the latest new-starts came and wouldn't dig with usFeck there ain't much work here pal you must be doing something right

i meant exactly whereabouts in derry not the fact i was staying in derry.
staying above dominos. stayed in the inoa last year but a bit loud for me

we have regular work at the power station but means travelling about a lot

*iona

I think you are reading too much into it buses and allowing your anti-England bias to muddy the waters of what was actually said. Gerrard was quite right; Sweden aren't anywhere near as good a side as France - surely you don't dispute that? If you think that was disrespectful, then I presume you deplore the quotes attributed to Jonas Thern.

Most people would simply come to the conclusion that Gerrard felt that England were quite justified in being happy with a draw against a side like France but if we are to have any hope of progressing beyond the group stage, probably will need to beat either Sweden or Ukraine. Don't see much controversial about that.

sweden arent sh!t ffs. had any ofthose frankly sitters fallen to ibra the other night he'd have buried them.

england might break their duck against sweden tomo but to come out with 'they arent france' comments is quite unbelieveable.

im not anti england, i like england, i have the banter on here when they lose like the op of this thread and i dont take it personally but this is me making a serious point now. if u dont win tomo they will be excuses, wait and see.

It was a fair comment by Gerrard buses - France are one of the fancied sides,Sweden are not.

Was Keane wrong to say that Ireland had a hope against Spain?

i don't know anyone that makes excuse's when england lose i do the opposite, and slag them off, like at the world cup it was a disgrace. Rooney should not have started one game he was playing worse than robbie keane normally does

its a fair comment in relation to france elviss but the way he said it he assumed they should win even tho theyve never beaten sweden  ever. i didnt hear keane but its a football match, anything is possible as seen with 10 man chelsea v barca but but he was wrong to say ''lets face it theyre not france'' as if to say if we put in a similar performance we'll beat them. either way its not important now. gl tomorrow, should be a good match.

alwaysswiming2000,

probably over-reacting,  but jokes about the famine in Ireland are not funny. They were real people who starved to death; and the truth of the matter (as Tony Blair acknowledged and apoligised for) was that there was NO endemic shortage of food in Ireland. ENGLAND was more dependent on the potato than Ireland. But thousands of soldiers were barracked in Ireland to guard food supplies of meat, fruit, wheat, dairy products etc which were to be taken out of the country to feed the British population and British armies in the field.

It does explain residual Irish dislike or distrust of the English, but in general most try not to dwell on it and have a deep-rooted desire to have good relations with our neighbours (who sometimes have a slight resentment for us not wanting to be British - but why, we just aren't).

Gerrard not the best with the media - wary/shy whatever - don't think the English are assuming anything tbf - been bitten 2 many times for that.

Tabloids and media in England are to blame for all the hype in previous tourneys - then when things go tits up all hell breaks loose.

Realistic expectations this time around and Sweden game is 50/50ish imo but no bet for me.

Good tournament so far - apart from the Russian hooligans!

Jun 15, 2012 -- 12:00AM, Burton-Brewers wrote:

despite defeat, as usual the Irish fans were a credit to their country

Well said

The Irish when they're drunk are as bad as any and if you're english the ignorance abounds, the tribalism is everywhere, Celtic jerseys?

Once were Man U or Liverpool fans growing up?, suddenly realised the political divisions between Celtic and Rangers because one of their neandarthal pals told them all about effing history, remember that word "HISTORY" because thats what it is "history", forget about it ffs, its history!!, yet their ignorance drove them to buy a tribalistic Celtic jersey, Man U and Liverpool now secondary to their tribalism?.

Grow the **** up!

Except the Irish are welcome in nearly every country in the world while the brits are hated by everyone and rightly so.

@ HIGGY  Your xenophobic comment regarding England reeks of ignorance and hate, Im guessing you have an almighty  chip on your shoulder

I have lived in Ireland for most of my life and the tribalism associated with GAA in Ireland is unlike anywhere else! 

And lets be honest, Ireland played crap (even the RTE pundits were embarrassed).

Except the Irish are welcome in nearly every country in the world while the brits are hated by everyone and rightly so.
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You say the Irish are welcome in "nearly" every country. What are the exceptions, and why?

As for "Brits" being hated by everyone, try asking any of the populations liberated by British forces in 1944-45, in particular the poor wretches incarcerated in places like Belsen-Belsen.

As it happens, I'm a Scot who favours separation, but comments like the above, born of ignorance and prejudice, do no justice to the truth.

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v poor ireland team,move on get over it

ilikewavingatbuses 15 Jun 12 00:21 
sweden arent sh!t ffs. had any ofthose frankly sitters fallen to ibra the other night he'd have buried them.

england might break their duck against sweden tomo but to come out with 'they arent france' comments is quite unbelieveable.





One of those sitters did fall to ibra and he headed it against the post and wide, the sort of chance he scores every week in Italy.

We broke our duck against Sweden 6 months ago, beat them 1-0. Only a friendly but that has far more relevance than any of the competitive games, when the most recent was 6 years ago and most of the others were back in the 80s-90s.

And why is saying they're not as good as France so "unbelievable". If you asked 100 people who was the better footballing nation, i'm pretty sure most (if not all) would say France

HIGGYSmith
15 Jun 12 03:35 Joined: 14 Jun 12 | Topic/replies: 14 | Blogger: HIGGYSmith's blog
Except the Irish are welcome in nearly every country in the world while the brits are hated by everyone and rightly so.

pathetic boy you are the sole reason for making it more than football banter. So much hate there

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HIGGYSmith
15 Jun 12 03:35 Joined: 14 Jun 12 | Topic/replies: 14 | Blogger: HIGGYSmith's blog
Except the Irish are welcome in nearly every country in the world while the brits are hated by everyone and rightly so.

pathetic boy you are the sole reason for making it more than football banter. So much hate there

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He is one of the reasons alright though not the "sole reason"......and you in fact are one of the contributory reasons for this trail of ignorant and witless rubbish; unrepresentative of 90% plus of English and Irish folk. (Look at your own contributions, not much to be proud of there)

im looking into getting spanish passport. have to give nadal his watch back

I have apologised for my famine jokes they were uncalled for, all my thread's are banter nothing about history or anything, just pure football.
An i still only make the silly Irish thread because of the all lets back who england are playing every time they play.

I don,t think that many Irish fans travelled across to Poland.

Most of them were Poles going home for their holidays.