New thread as the last thread seems to be broken.
tis, but at least you have the option to buy one. I remember while England ladies were winning the euros it was impossible to buy the ladies gk jersey because the kit maker didn’t bother producing it for the retail market.
They usually give priority access for buying extra tickets to season ticket holders on top of their actual season tickets. That's probably what it means.
No, it's the main kit. Goalkeeper jersey not available in women's either. They are both impossible to get.
We got our hands on one about 3 years ago but not only has she grown out of that (bloody teenagers keep growing) she got it signed by Courtney Brosnan, so she won't let it leave the house anyway.
I wouldn’t agree. I think it goes beyond one team qualifying to a tournament and has a wider significance ..
Rooney probably saw the last minute celebration and thought fair enough but then saw the after match interviews and tears and thought “bit much”. I get it from his angle but he wouldn’t be aware of the fuller context.
Just use YouTube
Novelty / sports / charity songs are often missing from Spotify. They also rarely appear on comps. Must be a rights issue.
All the more reason for the FAI to sell mystery match tickets.
Misery.ie
I think some people don’t get that genuine, real improvement can be celebrated
. As other posters have said context is key. It is the same with anything in life. If a group or a person visibly progresses, and has a new positivity, it deserves to be applauded and celebrated.
Completely different if a team was expected to get to play offs etc. I don’t remember anyone here even seriously saying that Ireland would win all those last three games. I think one poster might have said it jokingly.
It is very rare in international football that a team turns it’s fortunes around. so quickly as well.
Utter nonsense. We were out of the World Cup at the END of injury time, and scored six seconds thereafter….three days after beating Portugal 2-0.
I've seen Rooney celebrate a last minute winner with the same energy with Birmingham in the Championship ffs.
The English hate to see us do well.
I went to Italy for the World Cup in 1990. I was travelling out on a Saturday evening to Sardinia for irelands opening match. On the morning of travelling i went into Dublin City centre to get a few things. I was in Clearys at one stage buying a smali knapsack and in the background the PA system in the Store was playing the CD of supporters songs. at the cash register the woman I was dealing with says to me "that f——— thing is driving me mad. i have neen here since 0800 and the thing has been playing since i got in." This was now about 1300 so i could understand her getting a bit thick. At the conclusion of the RTE coverage of Hungary match, that song "put them under pressure" was played again and the memory immediately came into my head. As Con Houlihan said after it was over "I missed the 1990 World Cup, as i was in Italy."
Rooney's has Irish blood and, in fairness to him, he did say that if he had to choose one other country in the world to play for he'd have played for Ireland. Mick McCarthy did enquire but it never went anywhere.
After 3 games and 70 minutes v Armenia we were on 2 points. We had no hope of qualifying at that point.
After 6 games we finished on 10 points and qualified for a playoff. That was after a 96 minute winner against the team we leapfrogged for the play off position.
I work in the Netherlands and I walked into work on Monday morning and saw a French guy showing a Dutch guy the video of Parrot scoring.
You would want to be absolutely miserable to not celebrate what Ireland did.
Doubt it was a CD grandpa 🤣
CDs were everywhere by 1990
Rooney's part Irish.
He's both right and wrong.
He's not considering the full context.
It's because we were dead and buried a week ago and also we've had nothing to celebrating for years, not since 2016 really.
The last few years have been particularly bad.
We're starved really.
I think a lot of people don't get the mad celebrations by the team. If we were 3-2 up in the 70th minute and played the game out the celebrations wouldn't have been anywhere near the way it was. A winning goal with the last kick of the game of such importance will always have a strong reaction. You can be sure the likes of Rooney would have behaved the same way.
Parrott's amazing performance covered up a fair few sins last Sunday. Szoboszlai was allowed run the game for most of the game. Irish players were needlessly getting into trouble by playing stupid little passes midway in their own half and ending up conceding corners. Hungary's mistake was they thought they had broken Ireland with that second goal and ended up going into that mode of just trying to see out the game. They had the quality to hold up the ball in midfield, but didn't use it, invited Ireland on and Parrott took his chances.
It's always a problem Irish players have in just trying to control the ball. It's not a management thing. They just take two or three touches to take a flighted pass, say, where these continental players seem like their feet have magnets.
If Czechia have that bit of skill and decide to really press that advantage, it's going to give Ireland considerable problems. The whole team needs to show up.
Hungary didn't manage the game well but actually created a fair bit.
Their time wasting was ridiculous also. Even the ball boys were doing it.
They'd be better off keeping the ball and going for another goal.
We weren't great either.
Count how many times Festy gave the ball away.
How many "long" throws he took that just went straight back to Hungary.
Why do some stadia have balls placed around the pitch and not others ?
Feel like it should be a rule.
Rooney said the Irish wanted to put him in the under 21's. Typical.
Ah, the old celebration police are back on the streets again.
To be fair, it was under Mick in 2001… by that stage Rooney was a 15 year old who hadn't even made his senior debut for Everton yet. He was a super highly rated kid, but you can't exactly blame them for not giving a senior call up to a lad who'd never played a minute of senior football.
Rooney is a clown - was a great player , but his post playing career is a disaster. He is coming across as a bitter old pro lately - getting digs in at people being an out of shape Roy Keane act. He crumbles under a counter point.
He doesn't know the context of our wins - clown , he won nothing with England a so call golden generation.
He's a lazy bum who's looking for attention.
Tom Brady got him ran from Birmingham because of his lack of work ethic as much ad his lack of knowledge. He's an idiot, who would probably be on the side of the road if he wasn't a naturally gifted player. He did well based on that talent, but he should not be taken seriously as an analyst, no more serious than an old geezer in the pub might be.
Anyone who considers himself even a tiny bit Irish wouldn't begrudge us the Hungary win.
A lot of English love to laugh at how bad they think we are at football.
Always found Rooney a better pundit and more honest than the rest of them. No issue with him. Legend.
I don't mind Rooney but that comment was a bit dumb from him. You'd think someone who's job is based on what's going on in football would have a bit of knowledge about the permutations from the weekend. He can think the celebrations are over the top if he likes, that's his opinion, but he should have already known what was on the line
Rooney either looks half cut or hungover these days. I wouldn't worry too much about what he has to say.
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