Irish Lad Who Call Soccer...Football - It's Sould Destroying And Galling To Hear It:

Soccer 4 me machine, but no less a game for it, always played both codes and still do, though with decreased mobility ue to years of alcohol abuse in aforementioned University, also college is the place where ya really start punting, 6th year is tough when yar principal has kicked ya out of the bookies at 1:15 during the first day of the Christmas exams cos he fancied an early price on Kicking King for the King george, who says Taafe is a bad lad, he obvious;ly said enough that my Principal who fancied Juventus[smiley:crazy] for the CL knew to back KK, I don't think ye were eading him right

i feel the same way

i wud have been guilty of that meself in my youth but for me "football" is the big ball code of the GAA and "soccer" is the west-brit game for the League of Ireland

not meant in a bad way, i support a LOI team, just that if it came to a choice between the 2 codes i wud pick gaelic everytime

i would make allowanances for people who never followed gaelic though and call soccer "football". they can say what they like imo as i don't like people being too doctrinaire or fa$cist-like when it comes to sport

One is football and the other is bogball. Simple!

sorry if i offended u with the west-brit reference ericthered, but that slur term on gaelic football is unacceptable

I know some intercounty superstars that call it bogball as well, one even one an all star. Call them what you want!!

It's an urban term and not taken as an offence.......People who use the term usually think most people outside a city or town have a farm.

Football is football. Everyone knows what it means. It's not even a debate, unless you have a farm

Gant is 100% correct imo. There is no need for people to take offence to it ffs. MJK if you asked someone from each county in Ireland what they thought of "the football yesterday" i would say more than half would talk about Dublin and not United.

Your being specific there. In general though the vast majority of people in this Country (those without eyelashes on their cheekbones anyway) imop would acknowledge the term football as eleven v eleven.

Good man MJK, you have obviously spent very little or any time living outside of Dublin. In or around 50 miles of Dublin i would agree with you but after that a high percentage of people would call it soccer. And i thought my analogy was spot on!

I stand corrected if that's the case so. I would still call Gaelic football Gaelic of bogball to be honest. And don't get me started on the stickfighting

I remember when i first moved to Dublin and i saw 4 young lads walking through the estate carrying hurls, the first thing i thought to myself was someones in for an awful hiding

The season the Dubs are having in senior and underage in both football and hurling is unreal........The hype in the capital must be huge and I can understand why MJK feels like he does........A few weeks and it will be all over.

Glad to see Costello getting a breather yesterday he looked tired.

Up the Dubs.