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― ooooiiiioooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaoooooh un - bi - leevable! (LocalGarda), Thursday, 14 June 2012 20:47 (eleven years ago) link
don't ever change roy.
― second only to popcorn (or something), Thursday, 14 June 2012 20:53 (eleven years ago) link
knights with historically inaccurate flags
Che dice?
― Love Max Ophüls of us all (Michael White), Thursday, 14 June 2012 20:55 (eleven years ago) link
roy keane hilarious there
― Chris, Thursday, 14 June 2012 20:58 (eleven years ago) link
roy keane otm there
― too cool graham rix listening to neu (nakhchivan), Thursday, 14 June 2012 21:21 (eleven years ago) link
He was!
― gyac, Thursday, 14 June 2012 21:23 (eleven years ago) link
btw are keane and vieira friends now?
― Chris, Thursday, 14 June 2012 21:25 (eleven years ago) link
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
― HO WBEAUTIFUL IS THE GENTLYFALLINGBLOOD? (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 14 June 2012 21:25 (eleven years ago) link
Sheva did better with 2 in 15
― gyac, Thursday, 14 June 2012 21:26 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Michael B Higgins (Michael B), Thursday, 14 June 2012 21:32 (eleven years ago) link
I don't think Keane's the kind of guy who 'has friends' xp
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 14 June 2012 21:36 (eleven years ago) link
obv. but thats some straight trolling, guy has no class
― Michael B Higgins (Michael B), Thursday, 14 June 2012 21:37 (eleven years ago) link
and giving out about the fans? guh
― Michael B Higgins (Michael B), Thursday, 14 June 2012 21:38 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 14 June 2012 21:40 (eleven years ago) link
said they shouldnt be signing when they got beat so bad
― Michael B Higgins (Michael B), Thursday, 14 June 2012 21:41 (eleven years ago) link
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
― too cool graham rix listening to neu (nakhchivan), Thursday, 14 June 2012 21:43 (eleven years ago) link
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
― too cool graham rix listening to neu (nakhchivan), Thursday, 14 June 2012 21:44 (eleven years ago) link
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?
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 14 June 2012 21:50 (eleven years ago) link
whats so bad about the irish fans? i dont think theres anything horrible about them
― Michael B Higgins (Michael B), Thursday, 14 June 2012 21:55 (eleven years ago) link
i think keane is arguing they aren't horrible enough
― too cool graham rix listening to neu (nakhchivan), Thursday, 14 June 2012 21:58 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 14 June 2012 21:59 (eleven years ago) link
i would be happy if they fucked over this crappy italy team (pirlo and buffon excepted)
― too cool graham rix listening to neu (nakhchivan), Thursday, 14 June 2012 22:02 (eleven years ago) link
i will obviously be watching HRVATKA tho
― too cool graham rix listening to neu (nakhchivan), Thursday, 14 June 2012 22:04 (eleven years ago) link
/hrvatska
― too cool graham rix listening to neu (nakhchivan), Thursday, 14 June 2012 22:05 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Michael B Higgins (Michael B), Thursday, 14 June 2012 22:14 (eleven years ago) link
i am not a happy drunk
― Number None, Thursday, 14 June 2012 22:14 (eleven years ago) link
neither am i
― Michael B Higgins (Michael B), Thursday, 14 June 2012 22:16 (eleven years ago) link
― 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).
― tell it to my arse (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 14 June 2012 22:18 (eleven years ago) link
a broad generalisation. a lot of irish fans get the boat over for matches in england.
― Michael B Higgins (Michael B), Thursday, 14 June 2012 22:20 (eleven years ago) link
oh huge generalisation, assumptions, prejudices etc. don't even get me started on the tartan army!
― tell it to my arse (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 14 June 2012 22:23 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Number None, Thursday, 14 June 2012 22:23 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i don't fully share keane's predictable hatred here
― too cool graham rix listening to neu (nakhchivan), Thursday, 14 June 2012 22:25 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― tell it to my arse (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 14 June 2012 22:25 (eleven years ago) link
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
― too cool graham rix listening to neu (nakhchivan), Thursday, 14 June 2012 22:26 (eleven years ago) link
the latter is more interesting to watch imo, ha. nihilist jim.
― tell it to my arse (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 14 June 2012 22:26 (eleven years ago) link
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?
― Michael B Higgins (Michael B), Thursday, 14 June 2012 22:27 (eleven years ago) link
tell you what though lads, we may be out but we'll have a drink and a sing song at the next game and show everyone we're the best fans in the world...YOU'LL NEVER BEAT THE IRISH (repeat to fade)
― Number None, Thursday, 14 June 2012 22:29 (eleven years ago) link
ha yeah i had forgotten that xp
he is just too deranged to be a manager
recent teams who most desparately needed a tv crew in their midst = 2009 era sunderland with keane kicking over tactics boards, dioufy threatening to stab anton ferdinand, millions of random irish dudes hanging around to no purpose
― too cool graham rix listening to neu (nakhchivan), Thursday, 14 June 2012 22:30 (eleven years ago) link
Keane's not hating on the fans, he's hating on the bullshit "oh shure isn't it lovely to be here, never mind the sloppy passing and Paul Green in the side, shure maybe next time lads?" glossing over that inevitably goes on. (I haven't seen RTE's coverage yet but I imagine they'll be suitably brutal).
― gyac, Thursday, 14 June 2012 22:30 (eleven years ago) link
will ye have a big leprechaun hat
― too cool graham rix listening to neu (nakhchivan), Thursday, 14 June 2012 22:33 (eleven years ago) link
Roy Keane is a failed manager with a lot of grudges
― Number None, Thursday, 14 June 2012 22:35 (eleven years ago) link
a lot of grudges and no leprechaun hat
― too cool graham rix listening to neu (nakhchivan), Thursday, 14 June 2012 22:36 (eleven years ago) link
i'm wearing mine right now
― Number None, Thursday, 14 June 2012 22:37 (eleven years ago) link
He is, but he's right to say we should expect better...than Keith fucking Andrews and Paul fucking Green. He's 40 and of dubious fitness and he could probably still easily outclass our midfield.
― gyac, Thursday, 14 June 2012 22:38 (eleven years ago) link
i did find the shots of the irish and spanish fans together all singing with their arms round each other genuinely heartwarming.
― Chris, Thursday, 14 June 2012 22:38 (eleven years ago) link
what happened to james mcarthy? did he really have to miss the whole tournament
― too cool graham rix listening to neu (nakhchivan), Thursday, 14 June 2012 22:39 (eleven years ago) link
dad has cancer. Trap doesn't like him
― Number None, Thursday, 14 June 2012 22:40 (eleven years ago) link
his father has cancer iirc
― gyac, Thursday, 14 June 2012 22:40 (eleven years ago) link
longmcclean mcgeady coleman mccarthy gibson
mcclean mcgeady coleman
mccarthy gibson
― too cool graham rix listening to neu (nakhchivan), Thursday, 14 June 2012 22:43 (eleven years ago) link