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England fans riot in Portugual, sing "F the Pope and the IRA"

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  • #32
    Yer Da sells Avon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,737 ✭✭✭Yer Da sells Avon


    Tiny minority of them, in fairness.

    Go on home, English football fans, go on home.


  • #33
    Hamsterchops
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    dodderangler wrote: »
    Nothing they do surprises me anymore. Can’t let them anywhere.
    Absolute scum. No time at all for them. Booze filled, coke heads the lot of them.

    ban them from football matches for life.


  • #34
    Fan of Netflix
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    When the they sing "**** the Pope", "Fenian Scum" and "No Surrender" and "**** the IRA" in an Irish bar they mean us. They mean Irish people. It's not really a theological thing. Do you not remember when they destroyed Landsdowne Road with the National Front and Combat 18?

    Whether you're an atheist or don't like Sinn Fein is not really the point. I'm amazed people still don't grasp this.


  • #35
    Gimme A Pound
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    Detest anti Irish bigotry and hardline loyalism and the forelock tugging whatabouting apologism from some here, but yeah I don't see the issue with chanting "**** the IRA" by people in whose country the IRA committed murders. And the irony of complaining about bigotry by some English people and then calling "the English" scum.

    "**** the pope" - yeah that's coming from an anti Irish Catholic place all right, but it's still just "**** the pope". Any hooligans - English or otherwise - should get a good dose of reprisal from the police, and hopefully whatever type of banning is possible.


  • #36
    weldoninhio
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    Odhinn wrote: »
    Don't suppose there's a highlight reel of the baton charges....?

    Sean Ingle has a video on his Twitter.


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  • #37
    weldoninhio
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    biko wrote: »
    I didn't even know there was an England match on.



    Where in Dublin can I watch it?

    Anywhere, it's on Virgin Media 1.


  • #38
    Fan of Netflix
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    scoobydude wrote: »
    Sectarianism aside, it actually is a message a lot of our country could get behind though, f*ck the pope and the IRA says I
    Not really, only morons who don't know the history of the term, England fans or our country. But yes I'm sure you could curry favour with Loyalists in the North and Rangers fans in Scotland.


  • #39
    Allinall
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    weldoninhio wrote: »
    Anywhere, it's on Virgin Media 1.

    Think it's only on Sky Sports.


  • #40
    scoobydude
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    Fan of Netflix wrote: »
    Not really, only morons who don't know the history of the term, England fans or our country. But yes I'm sure you could curry favour with Loyalists in the North and Rangers fans in Scotland.

    Why would I want to curry favor with loyalists or rangers fans just because I hate the church and the ra


  • #41
    .Charlo
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    scoobydude wrote: »
    Why would I want to curry favor with loyalists or rangers fans just because I hate the church and the ra

    Pick a side pal


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  • #42
    Allinall
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    Allinall wrote: »
    Think it's only on Sky Sports.

    But then again what do I know... f all it seems.

    It's on Virgin Media 1.


  • #43
    suicide_circus
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  • #44
    Fan of Netflix
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    IAMAMORON wrote: »
    It's in their nature, they are scumbags.

    They should be removed from the tournament.

    We should not be shocked either, I remember those bastards ripping up the west stand at Lansdowne road. ****.
    Seen a few English journos saying they should be banned from playing away and forfeit games until they clean house.


    https://twitter.com/_PaulHayward/status/1136582524900192256


    https://twitter.com/_PaulHayward/status/1136357538994294785


    https://twitter.com/_PaulHayward/status/1136549476213100545


    https://twitter.com/Alecjn/status/1136552858281762816


  • #45
    Jupiter Mulligan
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    Fan of Netflix wrote: »

    Do you not remember when they destroyed Landsdowne Road with the National Front and Combat 18?

    They didn't do anything of the sort. Broke a few wooden seats and benches that should have been thrown out a decade earlier.

    A nasty bunch of sub-human vermin all the same, I really enjoyed seeing the garda riot squad getting to work on them.


  • #46
    who the fug
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    .Charlo wrote: »
    Pick a side pal

    how do you do that on a circle


  • #47
    marvin80
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    Eliana Tinkling Crab wrote: »
    but yeah I don't see the issue with chanting "**** the IRA" by people in whose country the IRA committed murders. And the irony of complaining about bigotry by some English people and then calling "the English" scum.

    Agreed and I think if Irish fans had any self-respect the next foreign match they travel to watch Ireland play in - they should be chanting "*** the UVF" in whose country the UVF committed murders
    :rolleyes:


  • #48
    Fan of Netflix
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    valoren wrote: »
    Isn't it interesting how these clowns weren't running riot in Russia last year. They know where they can get away with acting the maggot and a mere arrest for disorder is the worst they can expect. They'd have been battered with impunity by the Russian police if they tried to kick off and funnily enough they were on their best behavior there with the only flash points being scuffles and in-fighting between other English fans.
    Russians beat the ****e out em in France. They knew they would get battered so didn't want it.


  • #49
    weldoninhio
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    Allinall wrote: »
    Think it's only on Sky Sports.

    It's on Virgin Media 1


  • #50
    cruizer101
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    Wouldn't be into the rioting but could get on board with the songs.
    F**k the pope who as head of the Catholic Church is complicit if not ultimately responsible for the covering up of thousands of cases of child sexual abuse and multiple other crimes.
    **** the IRA who as a terrorist organisation is responsible for hundreds killed and thousands injured, many of those innocent bystanders.


  • #51
    Allinall
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    weldoninhio wrote: »
    It's on Virgin Media 1

    I refer the honourable member to Post #42.


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  • #52
    FTA69
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    As other people have said, these chants are ciphers for Irish people in general and a statement of British supremacy. They aren’t genuine political and theological disagreements with Pope Francis and Gerry Adams for f*ck’s sake. They’re a bunch of far right yobs doing the fool.


  • #53
    Thelonious Monk
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    Are anti-IRA songs not a bit behind the times? Should they not be saying f*ck Mohammed and f*ck ISIS, who have been behind the most recent atrocities in Britain? F*ck the Imam Abu Usamah at-Thahabi Green Lane Masjid in Birmingham? Has a nice ring to it.
    Also, I think I need a shower after looking at the comments on some of those Twitter links.


  • #54
    biko
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    FTA69 wrote: »
    They’re a bunch of far right yobs doing the fool.
    Is it far right to say **** the IRA and the pope now?


  • #55
    PinotNero
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    biko wrote: »
    Is it far right to say **** the IRA and the pope now?

    Yes, just ignore the bottle throwing and violence. Good lad.


  • #56
    Gimme A Pound
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    marvin80 wrote: »
    Agreed and I think if Irish fans had any self-respect the next foreign match they travel to watch Ireland play in - they should be chanting "*** the UVF" in whose country the UVF committed murders
    :rolleyes:
    Yeah that's totally what I said. Don't be silly.

    Only you brought self respect into it.

    My point is: why take "**** the IRA" as a slight on us normal non violent Irish people? The IRA have nothing to do with me.

    Of course all football hooligans are scum though, and will hopefully be arrested and more.


  • #57
    Fan of Netflix
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    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    Are anti-IRA songs not a bit behind the times? Should they not be saying f*ck Mohammed and f*ck ISIS, who have been behind the most recent atrocities in Britain? F*ck the Imam of Birmingham maybe?
    Also, I think I need a shower after looking at the comments on some of those Twitter links.
    They sing about ISIS as well, Muslims and "pakis" etc.


  • #58
    Thelonious Monk
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    Fan of Netflix wrote: »
    They sing about ISIS as well, Muslims and "pakis" etc.

    Oh good for them, spreading it around at least.
    Actually I remember them playing Turkey in Sunderland years ago to the chorus of "I'd rather be a Paki than a Turk".


  • #59
    PhilOssophy
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    Yes but Irish fans sing The Fields of Athenry and have a refrain about Sinn Fein and the IRA, is that any better?


  • #60
    Blinky Plebum
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    cruizer101 wrote: »
    Wouldn't be into the rioting but could get on board with the songs.
    F**k the pope who as head of the Catholic Church is complicit if not ultimately responsible for the covering up of thousands of cases of child sexual abuse and multiple other crimes.
    **** the IRA who as a terrorist organisation is responsible for hundreds killed and thousands injured, many of those innocent bystanders.


    Honest to god are people being stupid for the sake of it on this thread.

    They aren't chanting that due to any objection they have to the Pope or the IRA, it's just plain old sectarianism.The more sensible england fans don't tend to chant that sort of stuff.

    Also I think the violence added in with the chants kid of take away from whatever political point idiots like you seem to think they might be making.


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  • #61
    OldRio
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    Pity there's not a handful of Russians to sort them out.


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