Ireland's biggest sporting embarrassment?

Bridge93

Beaner1 wrote: »

Bernard Dunne mania despite him never really being a top boxer. The event junkies were out in force to see him ko'd in the first round which gave me great satisfaction.

You mean the guy who became a World Champion fighting under our flag? How is that our biggest embarrassment? He earned his hype unlike this McGregor fella.

Berserker

downonthefarm wrote: »

Croke park .

The whole furore over England playing there and the playing of GSTQ was toe-curling.

fryup

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

i thought so too....it happened over 80 yrs ago, i mean ffs get over it!!

....the way some people were talking you'd swear it was the england rugby team that were responsible for the massacre, the whole build up was completely OTT and borderline xenophobic

RickyOFlaherty

Has Ireland's call been mentioned yet? Not scrolling 30 odd pages on Christmas eve to find out.

washman3

RickyOFlaherty wrote: »

Has Ireland's call been mentioned yet? Not scrolling 30 odd pages on Christmas eve to find out.

Several times...:D
Even bigger embarrassment to hear clowns singing it in pubs on weekends on their way back from watching Munster/Leinster beating the might of Zebre or Treviso.

Beaner1

Bridge93 wrote: »

You mean the guy who became a World Champion fighting under our flag? How is that our biggest embarrassment? He earned his hype unlike this McGregor fella.

He did in the end but the hype was never really justified.

fryup

RickyOFlaherty wrote: »

Has Ireland's call been mentioned yet? Not scrolling 30 odd pages on Christmas eve to find out.

use the "search this thread" function at the top of the page

DEFTLEFTHAND

washman3 wrote: »

Several times...:D
Even bigger embarrassment to hear clowns singing it in pubs on weekends on their way back from watching Munster/Leinster beating the might of Zebre or Treviso.

The shushing in pubs when kicks at goal are being taken is also cringeworthy.

Keano

RickyOFlaherty wrote: »

Has Ireland's call been mentioned yet? Not scrolling 30 odd pages on Christmas eve to find out.

I'm only on page 13 40 posts per page ftw

Beaner1

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

The shushing in pubs when kicks at goal are being taken is also cringeworthy.

Even at games. It's the ridiculous bullying preciousness of it all. That fan pretend sportsmanship goes out the window for every other event in a game.

washman3

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

The shushing in pubs when kicks at goal are being taken is also cringeworthy.

A woman shushed me in a pub once as Johnny Sexton was taking a penalty kick.
Lets just say she wont be shushing anyone ever again...;)

genericguy

washman3 wrote: »

A woman shushed me in a pub once as Johnny Sexton was taking a penalty kick.
Lets just say she wont be shushing anyone ever again...;)

Did you cut her throat with a glass, yeah?

Strazdas

fryup wrote: »

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

i thought so too....it happened over 80 yrs ago, i mean ffs get over it!!

....the way some people were talking you'd swear it was the england rugby team that were responsible for the massacre, the whole build up was completely OTT and borderline xenophobic

The whole issue there though was the GAA and it's connection to Irish nationalism, not the England team. It was the GAA who had made a big song and dance for decades and who had a ban on the playing of "foreign" games. So in effect, the build up was all about the U-turn the GAA had done and wasn't really about the English at all.

JillyQ

Agree with both michelle Smith & Cian OConnor takes some doing to beat them.

_Whimsical_

The time that our national team won a game of cricket and the manager of the opposing team committed suicide in disgrace, as if the despair of having been beaten by Ireland of all places could not be born.

deadybai

The O Shea equalizer was fairly embarrassing. Did well to get a point on the night but the way people go on you swear we actually beat them convincingly rather than getting a lucky last second goal. No wonder the soccer team is sh!t with the attitude that a point is a great result. Regardless of who they are playing, every team should go out believing they can win.

Pudsy33

_Whimsical_ wrote: »

The time that our national team won a game of cricket and the manager of the opposing team committed suicide in disgrace, as if the despair of having been beaten by Ireland of all places could not be born.

Wait, so winning a game of cricket (our 5th most popular sport at best) against Pakistan (their most popular) is something to be ashamed of because their manager died? Pull the other one.

Bridge93

_Whimsical_ wrote: »

The time that our national team won a game of cricket and the manager of the opposing team committed suicide in disgrace, as if the despair of having been beaten by Ireland of all places could not be born.

First of all thats wrong. The Jamaican police never found evidence of suicide, murder or any specific form of death, although it was first thought and still widely believed he was murdered. He had underlying health problems too.

Secondly how arguably the biggest result in the history of cricket in this country can be seen as an embarrassment to Ireland I'm not quite sure. If this was a thread on the biggest sporting embarrassment ever in Pakistan then it would be a serious contender. As it is, this is one of our finest sporting achievements. Really don't know what you are arguing.

Bizarre option to pick.

Omackeral

deadybai wrote: »

The O Shea equalizer was fairly embarrassing. Did well to get a point on the night but the way people go on you swear we actually beat them convincingly rather than getting a lucky last second goal. No wonder the soccer team is sh!t with the attitude that a point is a great result. Regardless of who they are playing, every team should go out believing they can win.

The point was a great result. It was against the world champions who had just beaten Brazil 7-1 in Brazil. And it was away. In Germany. A fantastic result. We were savage the last 20 mins too btw. No qualms with the reaction to that result. I was hopping around with delight.

Berserker

Strazdas wrote: »

The whole issue there though was the GAA and it's connection to Irish nationalism, not the England team. It was the GAA who had made a big song and dance for decades and who had a ban on the playing of "foreign" games. So in effect, the build up was all about the U-turn the GAA had done and wasn't really about the English at all.

Initially, it was about the GAA being utter douches w.r.t "foreign games". After they got their twenty pieces of silver and many plaudits from the likes of Bertie, their pal, they quietened down. It then turned into an absurd national conversation regarding the playing of GSTQ there and how "the nation" would take it. Every chat show going flogged the topic to death.

Bridge93

Really feel we've run out of things to be embarrassed by. It's only going to get repetitive or involve barrel scraping of the highest order at this stage!

Berserker

Bridge93 wrote: »

Really feel we've run out of things to be embarrassed by. It's only going to get repetitive or involve barrel scraping of the highest order at this stage!

34 pages was pretty good going though.

callaway92

deadybai wrote: »

The O Shea equalizer was fairly embarrassing. Did well to get a point on the night but the way people go on you swear we actually beat them convincingly rather than getting a lucky last second goal. No wonder the soccer team is sh!t with the attitude that a point is a great result. Regardless of who they are playing, every team should go out believing they can win.

There's my signal for the time to leave the internet alone for the night. Fack this. That was an incredible draw, absolutely nothing to be embarrassed about.

The elation in college the next day was great.

Pherekydes

buck65 wrote: »

Actually they beat Romania. Winning on pens is still a win last time I looked. Regardless of what tossers say about a pen shootout is a draw, if it were a draw then both teams would have progressed.

A draw is a draw. The penalty shootout does not form part of the match. Check the goalscoring records. No penalties scored in a penalty shootout count towards any player's scoring record.

I thought any sports fan would know this.

What a sporting embarrassment!

Say Your Number

That fool from Mayo who charged on to the pitch to confront the ref at All-Ireland Semi Final Replay in Limerick this year and was pushed off by four stewards and his poor mortified daughter standing there at the side of the pitch.

Afterwards he said he wouldn't have got on to the pitch if the game was on in Croke Park, so it wasn't his fault at all :rolleyes:

YFlyer

Beaner1 wrote: »

It's not by the way.

It get you to the next round. The loser gets the plane home.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Your one coming last in the marathon at London was highly embarrassing, she was injured and came in balling crying as the British army guys were putting away the barriers and the medals had already been given out. Surely Sonia as Chief de maison should have got word out to somebody to pull her in before that.

Another one is a Tullamore woman who Cowan got in to Beijing 08, wildcard entrant, started kissing the ground in the Birds Nest Stadium after she finished, only problem was she was third last.

Molester Stallone II

Beijing was Curley I think, lets be fair here, first Olympics at 39 years old, she had done the times needed to qualify, and came 63 out of 82 starters, about 10 dropped out during the race as the RH was brutal.
No way could she be deemed as an embarrassment.

DeanAustin

deadybai wrote: »

The O Shea equalizer was fairly embarrassing. Did well to get a point on the night but the way people go on you swear we actually beat them convincingly rather than getting a lucky last second goal. No wonder the soccer team is sh!t with the attitude that a point is a great result. Regardless of who they are playing, every team should go out believing they can win.

Christ sake. The most embarrassing moment in Irish sport is the time we went away to the world champions and drew?

Get a grip. You're talking complete sh1te.

Duck's hoop

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Your one coming last in the marathon at London was highly embarrassing, she was injured and came in balling crying as the British army guys were putting away the barriers and the medals had already been given out. Surely Sonia as Chief de maison should have got word out to somebody to pull her in before that.

Jennings ran with a stress fracture and plantar fasciitis, an excruciating injury. Fair enough she maybe shouldn't have competed, but I'm sure there were assessments carried out pre-event. She probably thought she was on top of it enough to run, while still knowing she'd be down with the back markers all the way.


She finished it. Clearly in agony for much of the way.
Many people would see this as exemplary sporting character, a superb triumph of spirit, rather than an embarrassment.