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Are we over the annual poppy thread?

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  • #902
    A Dub in Glasgo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,712 ✭✭✭✭A Dub in Glasgo


    Aegir wrote: »
    he also took the piss out of Rangers when they went bust.

    Fans of all Scottish clubs done this and continue to do this


  • #903
    Berserker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,043 ✭✭✭Berserker


    NIMAN wrote: »
    I'd say most don't want the grief that James McClean receives every year, so they put up with it. Most also wouldn't have the reasons for not wearing one that James has.

    Didn't receive any grief for not wearing one this year.


  • #904
    cameramonkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,220 ✭✭✭cameramonkey


    Berserker wrote: »
    Didn't receive any grief for not wearing one this year.

    That's right son, keep the head in the sand.

    https://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/premier-league/james-mcclean-hits-out-at-match-of-the-day-coverage-and-blasts-cowards-in-crowd-at-west-brom-game-36290844.html

    http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/fa-probe-alleged-attack-west-13870769


  • #905
    maryishere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,549 ✭✭✭maryishere


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Being a bit hasty there Francie. She only wants to talk about 1939/1940 in relation to ww2......

    Naw, there were brave Irish people involved in all years of the war in all theatres.


  • #906
    not yet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,008 ✭✭✭not yet


    Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »
    Of course you won't

    You will instead be on here telling everyone how the Warrington bombers were great "freedom fighters" and the victims were the price you pay for "war".

    You know me so well..

    See ya know.


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  • #907
    Berserker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,043 ✭✭✭Berserker


    cameramonkey wrote: »
    That's right son, keep the head in the sand.

    https://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/premier-league/james-mcclean-hits-out-at-match-of-the-day-coverage-and-blasts-cowards-in-crowd-at-west-brom-game-36290844.html

    I'm aware of his MOTD tweet. Dreadful tackle on Ince and the home crowd took issue with it. They gave him dogs abuse as a result. Not sure what that has to do with him not wearing the poppy. I've been to a fair few PL games in my time and seen similar abuse dished out to countless players including John Terry, Robbie Savage, Steve Gerrard and David Beckham to name but a few. Any player who commits a foul like that in an away game, is going to get similar treatment. No mention of the foul, another very poor tackle, that he committed against Man City the week before. MOTD and Sky like to paint a happy clappy picture of the PL, so they rarely show incidents like that.


  • #908
    not yet
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    maryishere wrote: »
    Naw, there were brave Irish people involved in all years of the war in all theatres.

    I never knew there was a war in The Abbey or The Gate...

    Jaysus you learn something new every day.

    Who won by the way ??


  • #909
    maryishere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,549 ✭✭✭maryishere


    not yet wrote: »
    I never knew there was a war in The Abbey or The Gate...

    In warfare, a theater is an area or place in which important military events occur or are progressing. A theater can include the entirety of the air space, land and sea area that is or that may potentially become involved in war operations.

    Irish people were involved in them, from North Africa to the Arctic convoys, from the battle of the Atlantic to the Far East and everywhere inbetween.


  • #910
    not yet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,008 ✭✭✭not yet


    maryishere wrote: »
    In warfare, a theater is an area or place in which important military events occur or are progressing. A theater can include the entirety of the air space, land and sea area that is or that may potentially become involved in war operations.

    Irish people were involved in them all.

    Fascinating, tell me more..


  • #911
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,692 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    Berserker wrote: »
    I'm aware of his MOTD tweet. Dreadful tackle on Ince and the home crowd took issue with it. They gave him dogs abuse as a result. Not sure what that has to do with him not wearing the poppy. I've been to a fair few PL games in my time and seen similar abuse dished out to countless players including John Terry, Robbie Savage, Steve Gerrard and David Beckham to name but a few. Any player who commits a foul like that in an away game, is going to get similar treatment. No mention of the foul, another very poor tackle, that he committed against Man City the week before. MOTD and Sky like to paint a happy clappy picture of the PL, so they rarely show incidents like that.

    According to West Brom fan site, the abuse and noise started as soon as he came on (linked earlier)


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  • #912
    not yet
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    FrancieBrady wrote: »
    According to West Brom fan site, the abuse and noise started as soon as he came on (linked earlier)

    No, No No...you have it wrong, sure didn't an earlier poster swear it was after the nasty tackle.


  • #913
    maryishere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,549 ✭✭✭maryishere


    He is a dirty tackler is he not, and deeply unpopular with fans. He is always getting yellow cards.


  • #914
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,692 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    maryishere wrote: »
    He is a dirty tackler is he not, and deeply unpopular with fans. He is always getting yellow cards.
    Gosh, not another round of dilution and dismissal.
    He has been abused for this decision since 2012.

    Plenty of hard tacklers in football and yellow cards.


  • #915
    not yet
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    maryishere wrote: »
    He is a dirty tackler is he not, and deeply unpopular with fans. He is always getting yellow cards.

    Yeah he's a bollox, not only is he a bollox but to make things worse he's a fenian bollox...

    That sound about right.


  • #916
    maryishere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,549 ✭✭✭maryishere


    FrancieBrady wrote: »
    Plenty of hard tacklers in football and yellow cards.

    And McLean has that dirty style of tackling which gets more yellow cards and more trouble than most.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3372518/West-Brom-boss-Tony-Pulis-tells-James-McClean-clean-act.html


  • #917
    A Little Pony
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,875 ✭✭✭A Little Pony


    FrancieBrady wrote: »
    A Little Pony wrote: »
    I am sure if I go looking into football and the Poppy from the 90s I could find remembrance ceremonies before the game kicks off. All I see is pretty normal in the build up to Remembrance Sunday.

    Go ahead.
    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258158852_A_Golden_Silence_Acts_of_Remembrance_and_Commemoration_at_UK_Football_Games


  • #918
    A Little Pony
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,875 ✭✭✭A Little Pony


    Berserker wrote: »
    cameramonkey wrote: »
    That's right son, keep the head in the sand.

    https://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/premier-league/james-mcclean-hits-out-at-match-of-the-day-coverage-and-blasts-cowards-in-crowd-at-west-brom-game-36290844.html

    I'm aware of his MOTD tweet. Dreadful tackle on Ince and the home crowd took issue with it. They gave him dogs abuse as a result. Not sure what that has to do with him not wearing the poppy. I've been to a fair few PL games in my time and seen similar abuse dished out to countless players including John Terry, Robbie Savage, Steve Gerrard and David Beckham to name but a few. Any player who commits a foul like that in an away game, is going to get similar treatment. No mention of the foul, another very poor tackle, that he committed against Man City the week before. MOTD and Sky like to paint a happy clappy picture of the PL, so they rarely show incidents like that.
    He did the same to an Arsenal player as I watched it, he's a thug.


  • #919
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,692 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    maryishere wrote: »
    And McLean has that dirty style of tackling which gets more yellow cards and more trouble than most.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3372518/West-Brom-boss-Tony-Pulis-tells-James-McClean-clean-act.html

    There has been hundreds of players like him.

    What is point?


  • #920
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,692 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    A Little Pony wrote: »
    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258158852_A_Golden_Silence_Acts_of_Remembrance_and_Commemoration_at_UK_Football_Games

    What is that about?


  • #921
    maryishere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,549 ✭✭✭maryishere


    FrancieBrady wrote: »
    There has been hundreds of players like him.

    What is point?

    There are dozens of players like him in the league in England, that still does not make him great.
    maryishere wrote: »
    And McLean has that dirty style of tackling which gets more yellow cards and more trouble than most.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3372518/West-Brom-boss-Tony-Pulis-tells-James-McClean-clean-act.html

    Not a great role model for kids. If I owned a club, I would not want him, or other dirty tacklers, around.


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  • #922
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,692 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    maryishere wrote: »
    There are dozens of players like him in the league in England, that still does not make him great.



    Not a great role model for kids. If I owned a club, I would not want him, or other dirty tacklers, around.

    Well he clearly has a lot of value to his club, who keep him even though he doesn't wear a poppy. And to the West Brom fans who have gotten over his not wearing of the poppy.

    Shouldn't you?


  • #923
    not yet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,008 ✭✭✭not yet


    https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/927991262174515200

    Wear your poppy with pride..


  • #924
    citytillidie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,020 ✭✭✭✭citytillidie


    Elmer Blooker wrote: »
    So tell me when did this tacky circus begin? I've been a football fan all my life and this is a recent development.
    Who's decision was it to make the wearing of the poppy on shirts compulsory I wonder?
    Only a few years ago the lead up to Remembrance Sunday was rather low key and dignified, you would see poppies on TV presenters and all it meant was "its that time of year again" but now its become an aggressive celebration of British militarism which personally I find a bit worrying for what lies ahead.

    1415469051111_wps_68_Two_men_dressed_in_vintag.jpg

    It is a recent thing to drum up support for the war on Oil in the middle east.

    Same as NFL in America it is only a recent thing to have the players out for every game when the national anthem is being played just happened to around the same time as the US military pumped some money into the NFL

    ******



  • #925
    A Dub in Glasgo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,712 ✭✭✭✭A Dub in Glasgo


    A Little Pony wrote: »
    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258158852_A_Golden_Silence_Acts_of_Remembrance_and_Commemoration_at_UK_Football_Games


    Did you read that essay?

    There are 6,715 words in that essay and there is not one mention of poppy amongst those 6,715 words

    poppy.png

    However, the authors did say this which proves the point

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  • #926
    not yet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,008 ✭✭✭not yet


    The only people a flower should be worn for in the UK are the firemen who gave it their all at Grenfell a while back..


  • #927
    cameramonkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,220 ✭✭✭cameramonkey


    Berserker wrote: »
    I'm aware of his MOTD tweet. Dreadful tackle on Ince and the home crowd took issue with it. They gave him dogs abuse as a result. Not sure what that has to do with him not wearing the poppy. I've been to a fair few PL games in my time and seen similar abuse dished out to countless players including John Terry, Robbie Savage, Steve Gerrard and David Beckham to name but a few. Any player who commits a foul like that in an away game, is going to get similar treatment. No mention of the foul, another very poor tackle, that he committed against Man City the week before. MOTD and Sky like to paint a happy clappy picture of the PL, so they rarely show incidents like that.

    Read the other attached article, he was abused well before that tackle. He gets abuse every time he steps on the pitch for his anti-poppy stance.


  • #928
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,692 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    cameramonkey wrote: »
    Read the other attached article, he was abused well before that tackle. He gets abuse every time he steps on the pitch for his anti-poppy stance.

    The denial and dilution didn't work the first time around, don't know it would the second time around.


  • #929
    Timberrrrrrrr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,032 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    not yet wrote: »
    You know me so well..

    See ya know.

    I do indeed

    Barstool republican 101


  • #930
    maryishere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,549 ✭✭✭maryishere


    cameramonkey wrote: »
    He gets abuse every time he steps on the pitch for his anti-poppy stance.

    The reason he is so unpopular with the fans is nothing to do with other things?

    The former vice-president of Fifa warned controversial footballer James McClean that the time has come to stop mixing sport and politics. Why?

    McLean for example has posed for a picture alongside former IRA commander Martin McGuinness, and McClean often whinges that Northern Ireland and the Republic should come together.

    https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/jim-boyce-tells-james-mcclean-keep-your-political-views-out-of-football-31445363.html

    And then McClean whinges that he is unpopular in England. If he goes there, and gets paid big money in front of English fans, he should remember many of them lost loved ones in the 2 world wars.


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  • #931
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,896 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    maryishere wrote: »
    And McLean has that dirty style of tackling which gets more yellow cards and more trouble than most.

    You won't be cheering then if he scores the goal that sends us to the world cup next year?


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