EURO 2012

"they're happy drunks, the Irish"

"theyre happy drunks, the irish".

haha

they're happy drunks, the irish.

they are though.

hp lovecraft 'the great green fantasy'.

"The Spanish, are they really contenders?"

yeah, any questions raised by the draw with Italy have been totally quashed by this game

Céad slán

Bless them, such heart, such happy drunks, out there, spending the Euro they don't have.

hoping England can sneak 2nd place in the group now so i can enjoy the full blown masochism of Spain sticking 6 past them

Half of them have gone dressed as leprechauns, they're kinda asking for it tbh

t/s: leprechauns vs knights with historically inaccurate flags

:(

don't ever change roy.

knights with historically inaccurate flags

Che dice?

roy keane hilarious there

roy keane otm there

He was!

btw are keane and vieira friends now?

Missed all of today's matched due to work, but want to share a staggering stat from yesterday: Mario Gomez, in the first half against Holland, was in possession of the ball exactly for 22.3 seconds. That's all. Two goals in 22.3 seconds. o_O

Sheva did better with 2 in 15

Roy Keane - "the irish players think theyre top class, well theyre not top class"

thats bullshit, like they didnt know it wasnt a david v goliath battle. keane is just a GOWL

I don't think Keane's the kind of guy who 'has friends' xp

obv. but thats some straight trolling, guy has no class

and giving out about the fans? guh

What'd he say about the fans? I switched off after the 'not top class' bit, I didn't know there was gold to come.

said they shouldnt be signing when they got beat so bad

his shtick has always been that the 'great bunch of lads' 'best fans in the world' stuff was a load of shit

which it kind of is

i wonder about given

unlike a lot of the others, he is an established & talented player and he has been fucking crap in two games

I was having conflicting thoughts while watching the singing. But that was more because it encouraged Drury's bullshit to ease the pain of making up the numbers etc. And you know that Spain are in the same fucking boat re: economy right?

whats so bad about the irish fans? i dont think theres anything horrible about them

i think keane is arguing they aren't horrible enough

They were great, but tbh it's not much of an achievement really. You'd rather have no fans but be able to close down around the box.

i would be happy if they fucked over this crappy italy team (pirlo and buffon excepted)

i will obviously be watching HRVATKA tho

/hrvatska

i dont know how you expect fan to react though. theyre a sad cunt if they cry about it and theyre a feeb if they act like its only a game.

i am not a happy drunk

neither am i

whats so bad about the irish fans? i dont think theres anything horrible about them

― Michael B Higgins (Michael B)

i find international football fans - the face-painting, wig-wearing, "just here for a laugh" mob - fairly cringeworthy, and ireland are pretty much the apotheosis of that. oh here's a drunk guy dressed up as a leprechaun who hasn't been to a football game since the last time he went to old trafford, what a guy. bleh.

(n.b. i know im a hateful individual).

a broad generalisation. a lot of irish fans get the boat over for matches in england.

oh huge generalisation, assumptions, prejudices etc. don't even get me started on the tartan army!

there is that element of Irish fandom, but there's also a big core of people who've gone to many many shit games and still turn up. It's unfair to tar them all with the same brush

yeah i don't fully share keane's predictable hatred here

yeah i know that, and to be honest in the greater scheme of things even my strawman irish supporter is hardly doing anything particularly wrong.

or even "wrong" at all.

football fans in general are idiots but rather the irish fans doing drunken singsongs with the spanish than a load of polish & russian reets kicking each others heads in

the latter is more interesting to watch imo, ha. nihilist jim.

xp keanes just butthurt after saipan...would have happened whether mcccarthy was there or not tbh...remember when he said he'd never be a pundit?