Fans and team were magnificent Fingy...get yourself back to strength...you have another match to play.....and a major wrong to right! This is your chance to correct the hand of god
yes you lovely irish keep it going the team i always fear the most are italy i always think england can beat anybody but not italy so marvelous performance if ireland win the next game im going to ask beth to marry me
How many Irish would congratulate a equivalent England win?? But yep was a good result even if Italy were poor.
Loads. Ask the England fans travelling around France if they have received good wishes from Ireland fans there. I met loads over there and there was a mutual respect and a mutual desire to see the teams from these islands do well.
finglass the unity m,akes me so happy we are all a mixture of irish scottish and welsh why cant we bury the hatchet
Really pleased, genuinely. My eldest who is only 8 went nuts when I told him he has Irish Blood. This might be a tournament to remember for some good reasons too.
huspand you mean you let me fall hopelessly in love,hey that not fair i might be ugly fat and have no hair but im really just a teddy bear so thats it then i guess i dont know how i always get in such a terrible mess if only beths huspand wasnt a 6ft 8inches black martial artist,who can punch through solid wood i would have fought him to the death,even though im only 9stone and 5ft 2inches i would have done the best i could
Hang in there Ted. Only 7 weeks or so until the new season starts....Try and lay off the inane posts until then?
To be completely honest, I would probably have held this view, till I met so many fantastic Irish lads on here. They don't all hate us and we don't hate them. I was up off my seat when Brady scored (you should see me when England score!!).
Sometimes hooligan elements and the booing of opponents national anthems does not endear English fans to others. I saw this first hand in Stuttgart for Euro'88. However most Irish soccer supporters follow English teams so we probably have more respect for englishness than we sometime let on.
Without giving you an unnecessary history lesson it should be very obvious why relations between our two countries have been less than friendly in the past. However, several recent events have changed the feelings of the vast vast majority of Irish people. The unnecessary and completely unjustifiable bombings of innocent people in England, the growing maturity of the Irish nation and its people and the recent visit of your Queen to Ireland (she spoke a few words of our language, shook hands with our president and bowed her head at our national memorial site) have in general changed the attitudes of our people. We have way to much in common to not be getting on. To answer your question, I think the majority of Irish people would love to see England process in the tournament.
I lived in Ireland for a short time in the 70s and found the people to be the warmest, friendliest and most welcoming I've met anywhere and nothing would change that opinion of them. Their's and the Northern Irish contingent have lit up the tournament simply by being there, let's hope they make the Quarters...
