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Sick to the back teeth of Soccer

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  • #102
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    I'm with Degsy on this one.

    Over paid prima-donnas.


  • #103
    DaBreno
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,156 ✭✭✭DaBreno


    Im with you too Degsy. Soccer players are not real men. Not like weight-lifters who rub baby oil on themselves and pose.
    Steroid bods Ftw!


  • #104
    _blank_
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    Soccer isn't an American word.

    In fact it has it's origins back in the day when it and Rugby were the same sport.

    They diverged, and the sport that was played under the rules in the schools that wasn't Rugby was called Association Football, or Soccer, for short. The game that was played in the Rugby School was called Rugby Football, or Rugger for short.

    Meh, people don't like it, so bleedin' what.

    I live it. And I love it.

    I support my local team, Shelbourne, I go to matches week-in week-out, home and away when I can get the time off work (about a third of the away games), I work for the club, I own part of my club (see the link in my sig with the three castles in it).

    I also manage Boardeaux, boards.ie's very own Soccer team, I'm one of the founder members of that.

    I'm a qualified referee and have been in charge of games involving players as young as 11, up to 16, with screaming mental parents on the sidelines.

    I don't understand people who don't like football, or Soccer, but each to their own.

    In other news, the Irish Special Olympic Soccer team won gold at the Olympics.

     (if you can't read that link log out, it's a link into the soccer forum):)

    eta: I call Gaelic Football, simply Gaelic. fwiw


  • #105
    Slutmonkey57b
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,574 ✭✭✭Slutmonkey57b


    Gaelic football should clearly be called Gaelic, GAA, or Bogball. Just like Hurling is Fighting Sticks.

    Please don't link to a video of the Special Olympics. I may collapse.

    Back on topic:
    Where's the coverage of female masturbation I mentioned earlier?
    Enough with this discussion of neanderthal homosexual running-round-after-the-spheroid. What about the important topic at hand? Do we want to see separate events for fingers only and object-assisted? Should object assisted be broken down into disciplines according to size or exotic nature?


  • #106
    tech77
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,736 ✭✭✭tech77


    RobAMerc wrote:
    hi,

    I am in the humor for a bit of a rant so so here goes.

    Is anyone else sick to death of hearing about, and seeing soccer all over the place ?
    I mean - I am happy to have the channels broadcast results but soccer seems to be taking over all media.
    I am particularly sick to death of hearing about English club soccer.
    It absolutely galls me that the first thing out of the sports news reporters mouth every day is always something about English club soccer - even if an IRISH sports person in some other sport is doing well in a world event, soccer is even first when the "news" might be something as mundane as a 3rd rate managers name has been linked to a 4th rate team.They barely mention our own soccer league at all either.

    I know I can turn it off but am I being unreasonable in asking that I am not barraged with soccer every time I turn the TV or radio on ?

    I totally agree with you about the annoying saturation-level coverage of English soccer here.

    I just can't get my head around the fanaticism/odd sense of loyalty Irish lads have with English (premiership etc) clubs.
    WTF is that all about- Fair enough if they have some real affiliation with the club through family etc in England but any professed loyalty surely is spurious at best.

    If asked i suspect most started following a particular English club when they were in primary school because they liked the strip or something.

    Also the juxtaposing of such fanaticism with a revulsion of English national football makes the mind boggle TBH.

    The only possible conclusion i can draw from it is that the Eircom league/Irish soccer must be really sh1t.


  • #107
    SimpleSam06
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,048 ✭✭✭SimpleSam06


    dmigsy wrote:
    **** the haters! :p
    And vaseline for all!


  • #108
    Degsy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    DesF wrote:
    Soccer isn't an American word.

    In fact it has it's origins back in the day when it and Rugby were the same sport.

    They diverged, and the sport that was played under the rules in the schools that wasn't Rugby was called Association Football, or Soccer, for short. The game that was played in the Rugby School was called Rugby Football, or Rugger for short.

    Meh, people don't like it, so bleedin' what.

    I live it. And I love it.

    I support my local team, Shelbourne, I go to matches week-in week-out, home and away when I can get the time off work (about a third of the away games), I work for the club, I own part of my club (see the link in my sig with the three castles in it).

    I also manage Boardeaux, boards.ie's very own Soccer team, I'm one of the founder members of that.

    I'm a qualified referee and have been in charge of games involving players as young as 11, up to 16, with screaming mental parents on the sidelines.

    I don't understand people who don't like football, or Soccer, but each to their own.

    In other news, the Irish Special Olympic Soccer team won gold at the Olympics.

    (if you can't read that link log out, it's a link into the soccer forum):)

    eta: I call Gaelic Football, simply Gaelic. fwiw

    Jeesus..reading that nearly had me asleep..till i got to the bit about the special olympics lol!


  • #109
    Hellm0
    Registered Users Posts: 1,028 ✭✭✭Hellm0


    Degsy wrote:
    Jeesus..reading that nearly had me asleep..till i got to the bit about the special olympics lol!
    Another vicious hook! I applaud you sir!


  • #110
    BaZmO*
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,625 ✭✭✭✭BaZmO*


    daveirl wrote:
    This post has been deleted.
    Since I was a kid Gaelic Football was always called GAA (ga) and Hurling was just Hurling and Soccer was called Football.


  • #111
    daveirl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,483 ✭✭✭✭daveirl


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  • #112
    MOH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,465 ✭✭✭MOH


    Nightwish wrote:
    Of course I've hobbies and interests, but they don't take over tv and radio coverage 3-4 days a week for 9 months of the year.

    I find two hours of poorly acted "soaps" on TV 6 days a week 12 months a year incredibly irritating, but I don't go on boards giving out about it.

    Oh, apart from just now.


  • #113
    BaZmO*
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,625 ✭✭✭✭BaZmO*


    daveirl wrote:
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    And you're from that county where everybody has a chip on their shoulder?


  • #114
    daveirl
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    This post has been deleted.


  • #115
    BaZmO*
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    daveirl wrote:
    This post has been deleted.
    It's because it's the Capital


  • #116
    event
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,064 ✭✭✭✭event


    daveirl wrote:
    This post has been deleted.

    eh no.

    ive always called it football, and id say most of its supporters do too. Its people that dont follow it that call it soccer
    daveirl wrote:
    This post has been deleted.

    just call it gaelic


  • #117
    daveirl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,483 ✭✭✭✭daveirl


    This post has been deleted.


  • #118
    PHB
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    Degsy wrote:
    Soccer is complete idiocy.Imbeciles sitting in pubs,grossly oeverweight bullshiiting on about "we beat you" or "you beat us".If most of these halfwits were to take a running kick at a ball they'd collapse with instant heart failure.Then there's the idiots who have nothing better to talk about amongst each other than to crap on about "the match" last night.People who cant string two words together become verbose pundits on the subject of football.I hate it and everything to do with it.

    Typical attitude of people who think people who support soccer are lower class and therefore stupid. I'm a massive football fan, currently doing a masters in the London School of Economics. There were football tryouts here a while ago, just tryouts, not people who support it. About 400 people showed up in a college with about 4000 guys. Cambridge and Oxford have more people playing.

    As mike says,
    Labelling the masses who can as morons makes one feel less insecure I suppose.

    Wow, some fans are unfit. That's pretty much every sport ever. When people talk about politics, it's not the same? Some idiots sitting in a pub talking about stuff that in reality they know every little about, talking about how they would have done things differently to Bertie, when in reality, if they tried to do anything they did they would probably die of a heartattack from stress.

    Soccer is the biggest sport in the world, hence it's coverage.
    715 million people watched the world cup final. In case you don't know, that's 10% of the world.
    Maybe all of them are stupid? Maybe all of them are poor? Or maybe, just maybe, there's something about the game that's appealing.


  • #119
    BaZmO*
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    daveirl wrote:
    This post has been deleted.
    Huh? I don't even know what your point is any more. But anyway, isn't "mate" an English word? You know English, the language that we speak here?


  • #120
    layke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,956 ✭✭✭layke


    I don't mind Soccer being all over the TV as I don't watch it very often. However I will say this, it's a game of pansies who have surpassed Olympic high divers at their tecnique. Honestly, it's not even real game with people purposely tripping up when they get a ball taken from them so they can cheat by getting a free kick. No rules or regulations are brought in to combat that behaviour just shows further weakness for the organisation.


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  • #121
    Dyr
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    I heard it was all fixed in annyways :)


  • #122
    daveirl
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    This post has been deleted.


  • #123
    BaZmO*
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    daveirl wrote:
    This post has been deleted.
    Nonsense. How do you know it wasn't used? Do you know everybody in Ireland?
    And sure, how is it loosing one's dialect, it's merely adding to it.


  • #124
    connundrum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,563 ✭✭✭connundrum


    I like playing soccerball, not watching it. Unless Ireland are playing, then I like to watch whilst hurling stones at my TV.


  • #125
    hopalong85
    Registered Users Posts: 541 ✭✭✭hopalong85


    Degsy wrote:
    So does Playboy of the western world and i dont hear people discussing THAT in pubs.I submit that maybe som epeople need to get out more or at least find something more intersting to do with t hier time than watch men with mullets gesticulating in short trousers.

    Wow, i am sensing serious bitterness here, and it isn't exact;y well disguised.
    Would you care to share with us what horrible past experience you have had with regard to football? Surelay that can be the only explanation for such ridiculous statements?!:confused:


  • #126
    hopalong85
    Registered Users Posts: 541 ✭✭✭hopalong85


    Hellm0 wrote:
    Shot at dawn.

    Can't you just be shot now instead?please?


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  • #127
    RuggieBear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,958 ✭✭✭✭RuggieBear


    daveirl wrote:
    This post has been deleted.
    tbh, i thought the use of English language at all in Ireland is the perfect example of the Anglicisation of Ireland...

    Perhaps it is because the rest of the country has been years behind Dublin in terms of access to more than just RTE television. Give it time and i'm sure the rest of the country will probably just bypass the "english" words and start using "american" like, you know.....


  • #128
    thelordofcheese
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,368 ✭✭✭thelordofcheese


    daveirl wrote:
    This post has been deleted.

    OH NOES!
    the british are comming, the BRITISH ARE COMMING!

    amazingly, languages change all the time, and seeing as english is a language that is built on not only borrowing phrases from other languages, but on occasion it has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
    It only stands to reason that various dialects (like the bastardisation of english we are all so proud of) would do the same thing.


  • #129
    hopalong85
    Registered Users Posts: 541 ✭✭✭hopalong85


    daveirl wrote:
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    Yeah because nobody outside of Dublin says mate. Unbelievable.


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