2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA)

with their midfield they could almost certainly suffice with a lone forward in immobile or belotti but this is a manager that played 4-2-4 away vs spain haha

We've had our backs against the wall before. But we've raged... raged against the dying of the light #IRLDEN #RTEsoccer pic.twitter.com/djC9eJW2Lo

— RTÉ Sport (@RTEsport) November 14, 2017

nice understated promo from irish tv

have we run out of Irish poets or wha

if only there were some Irish poets they could draw from

lol snap

“Idle as trout in light Colonel Jones

these Irish, give them no coins at all; their bones

need toil, their characters no less.” Trevelyan’s

seal blooded the deal table. The Relief

Committee deliberated: “Might it be safe,

Colonel, to give them roads, roads to force

From nowhere, going nowhere of course?”

one out of every ten and then

another third of those again

women – in a case like yours.

Sick, directionless they worked. Fork, stick

were iron years away; after all could

they not blood their knuckles on rock, suck

April hailstones for water and for food?

Why for that, cunning as housewives, each eyed –

as if at a corner butcher – the other’s buttock.

anything may have caused it, spores

a childhood accident; one sees

day after day these mysteries.

Dusk: they will work tomorrow without him.

They know it and walk clear. He has become

a typhoid pariah, his blood tainted, although

he shares it with some there. No more than snow

attends its own flakes where they settle

and melt, will they pray by his death rattle.

You never will, never you know

but take it well woman, grow

your garden, keep house, good-bye.

“It has gone better than we expected, Lord

Trevelyan, sedition, idleness, cured

in one. From parish to parish, field to field;

the wretches work till they are quite worn,

then fester by their work. We march the corn

to the ships in peace. This Tuesday I saw bones

out of my carriage window. Your servant Jones.”

Barren, never to know the load

of his child in you, what is your body

now if not a famine road?

#COYBIG

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Digging Launch Audio in a New Window
BY SEAMUS HEANEY
Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.

Under my window, a clean rasping sound
When the spade sinks into gravelly ground:
My father, digging. I look down

Till his straining rump among the flowerbeds
Bends low, comes up twenty years away
Stooping in rhythm through potato drills
Where he was digging.

The coarse boot nestled on the lug, the shaft
Against the inside knee was levered firmly.
He rooted out tall tops, buried the bright edge deep
To scatter new potatoes that we picked,
Loving their cool hardness in our hands.

By God, the old man could handle a spade.
Just like his old man.

My grandfather cut more turf in a day
Than any other man on Toner’s bog.
Once I carried him milk in a bottle
Corked sloppily with paper. He straightened up
To drink it, then fell to right away
Nicking and slicing neatly, heaving sods
Over his shoulder, going down and down
For the good turf. Digging.

The cold smell of potato mould, the squelch and slap
Of soggy peat, the curt cuts of an edge
Through living roots awaken in my head.
But I’ve no spade to follow men like them.

Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests.
I’ll dig with it.

#COYBIG

the accidentally pasted content adds to it imo

"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better."

Romantic Ireland's dead and gone
It's with Wes Hoolahan on the bench

tread softly,
for james mcclean needlessly cunts somebody in every match

looooooool

lmao

actually shitting it about this - it's going to be horribly tense.

Be not sad because all men
Prefer a lying clamour before you:
Sweetheart, be at peace again -- -
Can they dishonour you?

They are sadder than all tears;
Their lives ascend as a continual sigh.
Proudly answer to their tears:
As they deny, deny poor Daryl Murphy yet again

I was going to attempt something with "The Second Coming" but honestly it works just as well verbatim

the centre backs cannot hold

actually shitting it about this - it's going to be horribly tense.

― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), 14. november 2017 18:00 (sixteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Nah, it's going to be an easy win for Denmark 8)

I'm in bits ye cunts

on the one hand I wish I hadn't wasted my night in the pub on last night's game but on the other hand it isn't £1.50 a pint on a Tuesday so fuck it

Nae bother for MON + the lads.

it isn't £1.50 a pint on a Tuesday so fuck it

wtf?!?!?!?

Lol you poor Londoners

I have great faith in MON. His handling of the pitch/intensity of these ordinary players is a serious asset.

I'd back us to do exactly what we want tonight, like we did the last night.

We're going through.

A terrible beauty is born

at least you get to experience what it's like to be a west brom fan

Hartson 1 0

Oh offs

ffs

Sir while I defend to the death yr right to say so etc

lads

Ah lads.

Hell yeah!

Ward. Unforgivable

Lol, I gave completely up on this game after the first goal, but my neighbor is shouting really loudly when something happens.

oof, a mountain to climb now.

this qualification campaign has a been a poor one for a scots-chilean of italian and irish descent ;_;

How can ward be let live. So stupid so slow so deliberate he had no right to do that and must pay in blood

holy shit that eriksen goal, such a sweet hit

but ward is racking up the bonus pts on fantasy football this season so fair play

Denmark, Sweden and Iceland all making it would be absolutely perfect, especially because Norway did not.

i can't recall in my lifetime norway making a major tournament

Artur imo our best chance here

1994, 98, 00. Scandinavians have grudges.

ha wow cant remember them at all
martin braithwaite is a fifa hero of mine so hope he gets some game time today :)

tbf i looked at a norway team photo from that era and recognised henning berg tore andre flo and gunnar halle by face
oyvind leonhardson or however you spell it nowhere in sight haha

I feel for you lads, Ward's made me suffer plenty thru his "career"

He's been playing above himself all season but I meant that was cancerous from him

And now mcgeady is on that'll help our composure and decisions

Ffs

Just got home from work. Still worthwhile to put this on or is it done an dusted?