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Northern Ireland; We're Not Brazil We're Northern Ireland!
Topic Started: Mar 27 2008, 12:53 AM (346 Views)
Jenna
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So yeah 4-1 win tonight wohoo

healy is god B)

healy scored again tonight, with lafferty getting two & thompson getting one :D

Healy scored an o.g. too haha

Anyway. WC2010 here we come :lol:
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Anna
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Hey, good luck :D

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Aww thanks Anna, we'll need it :lol:

During half time the camera zoomed in to my mate & her friend, hahaha :lol: feel wick :lol:
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Poor Healy, he did the right and the wrong at the same night :unsure:

Oh... this is weird... from all the people! :D
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Healy got an award from platini before the match...

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I think it was because he was top scorer in qualifying, 13 goals i think :D

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jonny :wub:

The og was so weird, only a forward could score it :rolleyes:
I heard platini on the news earlier, he was fully mocking our accents, he was going ahh the accents. Then he randomly was blurting out, scottish, welsh -_- :lol: It was quite funny though
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Jenna
Mar 27 2008, 04:13 PM

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The og was so weird, only a forward could score it :rolleyes:
I heard platini on the news earlier, he was fully mocking our accents, he was going ahh the accents. Then he randomly was blurting out, scottish, welsh -_-  :lol: It was quite funny though

Awh Jonny!! :wub:
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A united Ireland team??

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By Liam Mackey
MARTIN O’NEILL believes that a united Ireland football team would be “a phenomenal step” for the game on the island.


The Aston Villa manager and former Northern Ireland international was speaking before a lunch in Dublin yesterday to honour the All-Ireland Shamrock Rovers XI which played the then world champions Brazil in a famous exhibition game at Lansdowne Road in October 1973.

Although the starting 11 that day included the likes of Pat Jennings, Bryan Hamilton and O’Neill himself from the north and John Giles, Don Givens and Paddy Mulligan from the south, the fixture was cold-shouldered by the IFA in Belfast. And the late Derek Dougan, the legendary Wolves striker whose brainchild the game was, paid for his bold initiative by never again being picked to play for the North.

Derek sacrificed a lot,” Martin O’Neill recalled yesterday. “He knew what he was taking on, with the game being played against the particular political/ religious backdrop of the time, and his own Northern Ireland career suffered as a consequence. Even then we realised that it was very historic but you would never have known at that stage what the future held.”

Thirty five years on, O’Neill isn’t convinced that an All-Ireland team is necessarily imminent, despite the extraordinary political changes on the island in recent years. But it’s a development he would dearly love to see.

“The political climate has changed a great deal since then and you might think that in this particular climate it is a possibility,” he mused. “But I really don’t know. I don’t know even at this stage if everyone would want it to happen.

“From the playing viewpoint, you can imagine the possibilities. For instance, Northern Ireland went on to the 1982 World Cup and we actually played in the quarter-finals. And can you imagine what our side would have been like then if it had included Frank Stapleton and Liam Brady? We would have been phenomenal. We had a great old spirit among ourselves at that time but you can imagine what it would have like to add one or two of those players. And I’m sure there was a stage in later years when the Republic might have thought they could have done with one or two extra players — like, if Pat Jennings had been around.”

Jennings, by common consent one of the world’s greatest ever goalkeepers, also recalled that officialdom north of the border was also out of step with the players back in 1973.

“The Doog has gone into print as saying that he didn’t get a great hearing when he went with the idea to the Irish FA and the fact that none of them turned up on the night, and we had to go under the banner of Shamrock Rovers, it’s obvious that everybody wasn’t giving it their backing. But from the players’ point of view it was just a great occasion to play football against Brazil. We all understood what the occasion was and what the possibilities were — but then it’s never been a players’ problem, has it?”

Jennings too, while paying tribute to the successes on the pitch of both Northern Ireland and the Republic in the years since, believes that a combined team could only do even better, especially at a time when, as he notes, the influx of foreign players in English football means that young players from Ireland “aren’t getting blooded any more at the top level.”

The Newry man also gave his backing to the topical concept of an All-Ireland League.

“It has to improve players to play against better individuals week in and week out and it would create more interest as well. Supporters aren’t frightened of travelling any more and I think it would be great for the game to have a united Ireland situation where they’re playing each other North and South. The Setanta Cup has been good for the game and I’m sure the players would look forward to a full-time league.”

Martin O’Neill recalled with wonder some of the memories he had of playing against Brazil as a 21-year-old midfielder with Nottingham Forest.

“There was the thrill of playing with Johnny Giles, a wonder player, in midfield. And I remember lining up for the game and looking at some of the Brazilian players who played in the 1970 World Cup — which might still be considered the finest international side that ever played. To be playing against some of them — Clodoaldo, whose shirt I got, Rivelino, Jairzinho — made it a phenomenal day.”

Yesterday’s event was organised by Lucozade Sport and the Association of Sports Journalists in Ireland as part of their ongoing series of Sport Legends lunches.


So wouldn't this just be Eire + Healy? I don't see the point... :unsure:
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