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They were better than Holland were then ffs they had Hasselbaink on the wing, especially Spain. I'd guess Northern Ireland are the last European team to put 3 past Spain.

A country of 1.5m people, of which half of the population want them to lose? The shame. My point was that one-off results mean fuck all in the grand scheme. I'd much rather have memories of being at four major tournaments in the past 25 years than fondly remembering the night Healy 'slayed' England. Well you're too young to remember Euro 88, and possibly even Italia 90. I didn't say I remembered it myself, I was speaking generally. Anyway, the success of both countries isn't mutually exclusive. As I said before, I'd like to see Northern Ireland do well but to try and say their recent history has been greater than the Republic's is laughable. All I said was tell me a better result Ireland have had in the last 10 years than those two, neither you nor Ant could do it. What do you want? Off the top of my head, beating Holland and qualifying ahead of them for 2002 WC. Holland were shite then, and that's over 10 years ago

A country of 1.5m people, of which half of the population want them to lose? The shame. My point was that one-off results mean fuck all in the grand scheme. I'd much rather have memories of being at four major tournaments in the past 25 years than fondly remembering the night Healy 'slayed' England. Well you're too young to remember Euro 88, and possibly even Italia 90. I didn't say I remembered it myself, I was speaking generally. Anyway, the success of both countries isn't mutually exclusive. As I said before, I'd like to see Northern Ireland do well but to try and say their recent history has been greater than the Republic's is laughable. All I said was tell me a better result Ireland have had in the last 10 years than those two, neither you nor Ant could do it.

I'm the complete opposite. Curvy blondes = sold. Each to their own, I mean some people worship womens feet. I bet there's some right fetishists on here. Never quite understood the feet thing. If I was going to get all fetishy about bits of bints, it'd be neck and shoulders. Dusky dames ftw. Tits and nose bizarrely for me.

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A country of 1.5m people, of which half of the population want them to lose? The shame. My point was that one-off results mean fuck all in the grand scheme. I'd much rather have memories of being at four major tournaments in the past 25 years than fondly remembering the night Healy 'slayed' England. Well you're too young to remember Euro 88, and possibly even Italia 90.

Scariest thing for me looking at this is that me and him are almost the same age to the day

He's had me blocked months because I asked him why he had difficulty spelling, given his profession. His crack as well yesterday "Tiote's goal was viewed by more than 300,000 people on youtube!" So fuck! I've seen youtubes with cats tumbling down stairs with more than that. A genuine idiot.

lol have they fuck Stevie, as ewerk said qualified for nothing, and no harm those two results meant/mean nothing when you've also had piss poor results against barely top 100 international teams, including drawing with the faroe islands not so long ago and defeats against albania and wales (who republic tanked 3-0) England in the qualifiers, you were utterly piss poor throughout that entire qualification, struggling to get 1 against Azerbaijan and drawing with the likes of austria, even only managed to get 1 past wales in cardiff sure. Ya mentioned Spain, that'd be the team that just about knocked ireland out of the last 16 in the 2002 world cup, only managing to do it in penos, a world cup we qualified for beating Holland and drawing with Portugal twice in the group stages, nevermind featuring in 3 of the last 6 world cups, which was almost 4...stupid handballing cnt henry. Those two wins against England/Spain took N.Ireland from like 105th in the world rankings to 30th or something...from which point they've slowly slowly started to ebb back up to upper echelons (back upto top 80 i think)...Republic are still in around top30 iirc I'd take ireland last 10 years any day of the week over N.irelands... let alone going back to 1990+ with McGrath and co. The fact is those two results were better in one off results than anything ROI have produced in the last ten years. When Ireland drew with Spain in 2002, we're not talking about today's Spain, they were wank Ireland should have won even with ten men. As for mentioning Albania, they have beaten far bigger countries than Northern Ireland.

A country of 1.5m people, of which half of the population want them to lose? The shame.

you're embarrassing yourself with drivel like that post, suggest you don't bother commenting on what you clearly don't understand To be fair I think he has a point about Scottish Ireland fans supporting them purely because of Celtic, the vast majority of them are 4th, 5th and 6th generation immigrants. I'd be embarrassed.

Jonathan Pearce seemed to buck the trend when he came on Channel 5 years ago, but he had reverted to the boring Peter Drury book of how to be a commentator since he joined the BBC.

I'm the complete opposite. Curvy blondes = sold. Each to their own, I mean some people worship womens feet. I bet there's some right fetishists on here.

People who say basically at the start of every sentence.

"He might be a wee taigy bashturt but he can play sho he can" "aye" "aye".

Lennon was in favour of an "All Ireland" team like they do for the rugby, which makes sense. That and football fans are fickle, if mccourt was/played shite he'd get it in the neck business as usual I think Lennon was a cunt as a person as a player, where as McCourt seems a nice kid. That helps. If Northern Ireland played in the World Cup Final would you want them to get beat? George Best was the biggest advocate of an all Ireland team no one said owt to him. I'd be neutral really, in general 80% of the fans are still knobs still bitter and chanting the same old shite which is more what I dislike (along with some of the players like David Healy and such, you know they're just bigoted scumbags) and when they lose i do get a little bit of a "aye slap it up ya" feeling for the likes of those people but not for genuine fans like some of the lads i know from work But as far as the team goes I take as much affiliation to them as I do Italy or something, i'd want whoever was playing the most entertaining football to win, with possibly the opposition simply for the fact i wouldn't wanna hear about it from the 80% lot non stop for the remainder of my life. eg when they beat england a few years back, you'd have thought David Healy was pele and they'd won the tournament with all the "Our Wee Country" shite and the murals getting painted (in areas you can guess), where as they didn't even fecking qualify. @the bit in bold, like i said with mccourt, people will put up with a lot more when you're not shite (probably helped that best was from east belfast and not catholic as well but mostly because he was a superstar for them tbh) With Lennon, he was no best, catholic, playing for celtic and said he would play for an all ireland team, basically ticked every box for them to kick yp a fuss with the last bit when it came out. Atm they're just awful to watch all that stuff aside i'd rather watch people at work playing than northern ireland vs the usual suspects, people from the irish league and english 2nd divisions etc lining up against part-timers, hard pressed to get a worse game. To be fair like Ant they've had two results in the last 10 years better than Ireland have produced, beating England 1-0 and beating Spain 3-2.

Why do you feel the need to continually make things up, lie or just adjust the facts to suit your own agenda? I must be about 15 years older than you and meff was around when I was a kid to describe meths drinkers. Why anyone would want to take pride of origin in some silly word is beyond me. I imagine all cities have their own words, phrases etc.. completely unique to that city, some travel well, some don't. There are many Scouse words that I see repeated on tele from people in other areas, sometimes it sounds a bit odd but there you go, it's the way of things. Innit and thang, horrible words. Final result - even used by the BBC. A result is final ffs. You're such a mug, meff has nothing to do with meths drinkers you absolute tool. Unbelievable. What you on about final result, have you never heard Ray Winston "the arf taa-aam resawwwt"

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Lennon was in favour of an "All Ireland" team like they do for the rugby, which makes sense. That and football fans are fickle, if mccourt was/played shite he'd get it in the neck business as usual I think Lennon was a cunt as a person as a player, where as McCourt seems a nice kid. That helps. If Northern Ireland played in the World Cup Final would you want them to get beat? George Best was the biggest advocate of an all Ireland team no one said owt to him.

Loyalist fans singing the name of Paddy McCourt. A catholic from Derry who plays for Celtic. So why was Neil Lennon so hated, but no one cares about McCourt?

See McCourt's goals he was like fucking Beardsley.

That to me is a team that can win home games. I think Denmark are shite at the minute when we beat them 3-1 the other month it could've been 8-1, and the price 2/1 is class. As is 7/5 for the Germans to beat Brazil (they're fuckin pish), and I don't normally back anything under 1/3 but Northern Ireland could have Ewerk, Adams and Paisley up front and they'd still win tonight. Pays 7/1, and William Hill offer the best odds on each of them three games. Was actually 8/1 - happy days stopped the rot.

There's not an accent in Britain which has been more influenced by ethnic minorities than Mancunian. Mancs didn't speak like they do now 50 years ago, it is entrenched in black culture, and it's not called Gunchester as a result for nothing, same as Nottingham which has very similar demographics. You talk shite man. Half my family are from working class inner city Manchester and and my cousin's kids talk with the same Lancastrian accent as their grandparents do. Your trouible is you speak in sweeping generalisations in a "well a bloke down the pub told me...." way and dress it up as fact. Where the fuck did you get this pile of bollocks from? It's even on the Manchester wiki page you cheeky fucking divvy. People don't talk like Jack Duckworth anymore in inner Manchester, people didn't talk like they do in Burnage and Gorton now, fifty years ago. Listen to older Mancunians. "I know someone in Manchester they don't talk like Liam Gallagher", ah well it mustn't have ever changed then. Nobhead. you know wikipedia can be edited by anyone right? theres a reason its not allowed as a source in academics Is that your contribution to this debate or are you going to say something interesting that nobody knows or contradict my point? I had just assumed you were the aking the piss in your first post like. From my experience, mancs either speak with a manc accent, or a nasal guttural charver-like accent, if they're from some shit hole in Salford. Mind, Mancmag does have a touch of the West Indies about him tbf. No I wasn't taking the piss it's documented many places about the ethnic effect on their accent over or should that owvoh taaam. So I'll accept your apology too.

You heard the one with the two pissed lasses 930am talking to a BBC reporter pissed out their skulls drinking "rose" wine that they'd stolen. "Why are you doing this?" "Its the guvumunt innit" "Yeah its the guvmunt, and rich peapuww, we av ta show da rich peapuw we can do what we want innit"

There's not an accent in Britain which has been more influenced by ethnic minorities than Mancunian. Mancs didn't speak like they do now 50 years ago, it is entrenched in black culture, and it's not called Gunchester as a result for nothing, same as Nottingham which has very similar demographics. You talk shite man. Half my family are from working class inner city Manchester and and my cousin's kids talk with the same Lancastrian accent as their grandparents do. Your trouible is you speak in sweeping generalisations in a "well a bloke down the pub told me...." way and dress it up as fact. Where the fuck did you get this pile of bollocks from? It's even on the Manchester wiki page you cheeky fucking divvy. People don't talk like Jack Duckworth anymore in inner Manchester, people didn't talk like they do in Burnage and Gorton now, fifty years ago. Listen to older Mancunians. "I know someone in Manchester they don't talk like Liam Gallagher", ah well it mustn't have ever changed then. Nobhead. you know wikipedia can be edited by anyone right? theres a reason its not allowed as a source in academics Is that your contribution to this debate or are you going to say something interesting that nobody knows or contradict my point?