N.I. - DK

[Upton74]

I really dont like Norn Iron. All inclusive my arse, players wouldn't even lift their heads during gstq because of embarassment. Orange wankfest. Ulster til I die bla bla bla...

 

 

No you really aren't! That sort of language is really quite normal.

[Sangria]

Very strange. I remember you telling me that you liked the Glens too so I just assumed you would like Northern Ireland.

 

I would not class myself as a glen man either, just the team I would prefer to win but again it don't effect me one way or the other. I was born a couple of streets from the Oval and used to go when I was a kid, just could never get that excited about it.

[robslappa]

I really dont like Norn Iron. All inclusive my arse, players wouldn't even lift their heads during gstq because of embarassment. Orange wankfest. Ulster til I die bla bla bla...

 

You can't help yourself can you?

[Gods back]

You can't help yourself can you?

 

No Rob,he cant.

 

Every time theres a thread that mentions either Northern Ireland,or Glasgow Rangers,in he jumps.

 

He"s a bigot,end of.

[BENIRL]

Because I comment on Norn Iron and Rangers it makes me a bigot?

[SamiHyypia]

Because I comment on Norn Iron and Rangers it makes me a bigot?

 

Its the fact that you just can't hide your hatred. Ask John O'Neill who commentated on the match if its an orange wank fest! He is a Catholic from Derry who loves Northern Ireland. Listen to his commentary.

 

You sir are an idiot.

[BENIRL]

Its the fact that you just can't hide your hatred. Ask John O'Neill who commentated on the match if its an orange wank fest! He is a Catholic from Derry who loves Northern Ireland. Listen to his commentary.

 

You sir are an idiot.

 

So because John O Neill is a Catholic and commentated on the game it is should make it easier for nationalists to go to Windsor park. Did you watch the game?

[Gods back]

I was at the game.Tell me what was it that Catholics would have found intimidating??

[Paco]

I was at the game.Tell me what was it that Catholics would have found intimidating??

 

I went to see Liverpool play Linfield at windsor in a pre-season friendly in 97. that was scary enough.

 

I wouldn't go near a N Ireland game. The fans in Robinsons before the game watching the scotland match were annoying enough.

 

The fact is Northern Ireland are the team of the protestant north and the republic is the team for the rest. The protestants prefer it that way hence their treatment of lennon and rogan. Northern ireland national team do not accept catholics who play for celtic and a large percentage of n irish catholics support celtic so they are alienating those people with their treatment of celtic players. I'm not a celtic fan but i empathise with the way rogan and lennon were victimised, threatened and intimidated and it will take a long time before I forget that.

 

I have a mate who is a big Northern Ireland fan, he follows them everywhere. I know for a fact that he doesn't have a sectarian bone in his body and he is representative of thousands of new northern ireland fans and for him i'm happy that northern ireland are doing so well but if he invited me to windsor to watch northern ireland i wouldn't go because i'd be afraid of what i'd hear from some of the more radical elements.

 

it's not one way. there was a laughable night at landsdowne when ireland fans booed peter lovenkrands who used to play for rangers but they were booing the wrong person. Lovenkrands was announced by the PA as coming on as a sub when it was actually someone else. everytime this poor cunt got the ball he was booed in a case of mistaken identity. ridiculous.

 

it's so typical of what has happened in Ireland for many years that one group will say "well they done it first, they booed Anton Rogan and Neil Lennon" but thats the way it is and will be possibly until Northern Ireland move out of windsor. Personally, Northern Ireland will always be a protestant national team supported by a lot of decent people but also supported by a load of wankers who use it to show how british they are.

[SamiHyypia]

At least you make an attempt at even handedness. Still so many things wrong or out of date in what your saying......................

[TopMod]

The thing is though that Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Why would we not be proud of being British. Nationalism and sectarianism are not the same thing.

I was also at the game and as usual was proud to sing God Save The Queen, as it is the national anthem of my country.

It strikes me that some Liverpool fans seem to be upset that the team they follow is based in a city in England, not much they can do about that.

I think it was Kopite who once said your only a bigot if your a prod, and laughably some on here really do believe this.

I have never voted for former members of terrorist organisations,can you say the same?

[Kopite]

The thing is though that Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Why would we not be proud of being British. Nationalism and sectarianism are not the same thing.

I was also at the game and as usual was proud to sing God Save The Queen, as it is the national anthem of my country.

It strikes me that some Liverpool fans seem to be upset that the team they follow is based in a city in England, not much they can do about that.

I think it was Kopite who once said your only a bigot if your a prod, and laughably some on here really do believe this.

I have never voted for former members of terrorist organisations,can you say the same?

 

Damned right there mate. Only Prods are bigots.

 

We are also responsible for the problems in the Middle East, Global Warming, the Black Death and worst of all, James Nesbitt.

[TopMod]

Damned right there mate. Only Prods are bigots.

 

We are also responsible for the problems in the Middle East, Global Warming, the Black Death and worst of all, James Nesbitt.

 

Aye, but we're also responsible for Elisha Scott and Zoe Salmon.

[NIred1]

Damned right there mate. Only Prods are bigots.

 

We are also responsible for the problems in the Middle East, Global Warming, the Black Death and worst of all, James Nesbitt.

 

 

*hangs head in shame*

[Paco]

At least you make an attempt at even handedness. Still so many things wrong or out of date in what your saying......................

 

don't tell me there is absolutely no sectarianism at northern ireland games now.

[TopMod]

don't tell me there is absolutely no sectarianism at northern ireland games now.

 

Probably as much as any Republic or GAA game.

[Paco]

The thing is though that Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Why would we not be proud of being British. Nationalism and sectarianism are not the same thing.

I was also at the game and as usual was proud to sing God Save The Queen, as it is the national anthem of my country.

It strikes me that some Liverpool fans seem to be upset that the team they follow is based in a city in England, not much they can do about that.

I think it was Kopite who once said your only a bigot if your a prod, and laughably some on here really do believe this.

I have never voted for former members of terrorist organisations,can you say the same?

 

be proud and sing your anthem. It's not my anthem, I can be either british or irish living in this country. i choose to be irish.

 

i follow liverpool for football reasons. i also really like the place. doesn't matter a fuck if it's in england or holland. it's altogether possible that if dutch league football had've been televised when i was 4 or 5 years old I might be supporting ajax now.

 

I'm not going to tell you how I vote but an awful lot of people thought that they had no alternative but to fight in order to get civil rights and an agreement that was acceptable to everybody in the country. maybe if the stubborn protestant powers had've offered equal rights on housing, jobs etc in the first place there wouldn't have been any trouble or deaths.

[Paco]

Probably as much as any Republic or GAA game.

 

fair enough then that is probably no place for a protestant just as windsor would be no place for a catholic

[Carradona]

Comparing a Linfield game and their fans to a Northern Ireland game is just wrong.

[mcflynn]

I'm not the type of person who goes on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on about something, am I?

 

afraid so pal. Don't worry they won't qualify anyway. Suppose once its over owl windsor will go back to the usual attendances. The N.I team is made up with a bunch of scumbags anyway.

[BENIRL]

It is not only Protestants that are bigots, plenty Catholic bigots as well. The fact that bigotry was so institutionalized throughout Northern Ireland never helped matters.

 

The IFA and their supporters are insistent that no player born in Northern Ireland is able to represent the Republic even though the have a right, by the good Friday agreement, to do so. They also say that nationalist are welcome at Windsor Park and should not feel intimidated. Maybe the should remove all the trappings that associated with loyalism, a new national anthem would be a start.

 

I don't vote Sinn Fein! Dou you vote DUP TopMod?

[Gods back]

Probably as much as any Republic or GAA game.

 

Id say its nowhere near that level to be honest.

 

Times have changed at Windsor for the good.Between the fans and the IFA theyve done a very good job.The Lennon days were some of the lowest(though he didnt help himself)ever for our international side,both on and of the pitch.

 

Most of the Billy boys have pissed of,or grown up,and i can honestly say its a long time since ive heard any type of song,before during or after a game recently that would offend Catholics.

 

I can understand why the majority of them dont want to support the team,but for a lot of them they just dont want to believe that times have changed,mainly down to ignorance.

[TopMod]

Id say its nowhere near that level to be honest.

 

Times have changed at Windsor for the good.Between the fans and the IFA theyve done a very good job.The Lennon days were some of the lowest(though he didnt help himself)ever for our international side,both on and of the pitch.

 

Most of the Billy boys have pissed of,or grown up,and i can honestly say its a long time since ive heard any type of song,before during or after a game recently that would offend Catholics.

 

I can understand why the majority of them dont want to support the team,but for a lot of them they just dont want to believe that times have changed,mainly down to ignorance.

 

Totally agree really, you'd hardly now even see a Linfield top, and it really has been years since I heard anything remotely sectarian.

 

Beni,I don't vote DUP( though religious bigotry doesn't comare with religious murder). I do play in a Loyalist Flute Band though, so you'd probably consider me bigoted anyway.( I am athiest, though still a loyalist).

[Carradona]

Come on Norn Iron and Latvia!

[Bubble]

Id say its nowhere near that level to be honest.

 

Times have changed at Windsor for the good.Between the fans and the IFA theyve done a very good job.The Lennon days were some of the lowest(though he didnt help himself)ever for our international side,both on and of the pitch.

 

Most of the Billy boys have pissed of,or grown up,and i can honestly say its a long time since ive heard any type of song,before during or after a game recently that would offend Catholics.

 

I can understand why the majority of them dont want to support the team,but for a lot of them they just dont want to believe that times have changed,mainly down to ignorance.

 

I can well believe things mght have changed at Windsor but you can't seriously expect people who have supported the Republic their whole lives to suddenly switch allegiance just because the bigots have gone.