Them Rice college lads were nuts, as likely to fight with themselves or their manager as the opposition.
When I think back to some of the mad bastards that young Mark Renton was exposed to it’s a credit to my parents I just turned into a cyber freak and not a mass murder-
Eds McCarthy
Gary Campion
Zachery Coughlan
Thomas Stewart
Noel Noonan
Vincent Collopy
Football united us- Rugby divided us.
They were pretty much lads who could get in no where else.
[QUOTE=“Mark Renton, post: 924322, member: 1796”]When I think back to some of the mad bastards that young Mark Renton was exposed to it’s a credit to my parents I just turned into a cyber freak and not a mass murder-
Eds McCarthy
Gary Campion
Zachery Coughlan
Thomas Stewart
Noel Noonan
Vincent Collopy
Football united us- Rugby divided us.[/QUOTE]
That might explain Choco’s bizarre sexual history.
There’s no “pretty much” about it.
Ah, a few auld misfortunes and gaw-hel-pus’ but all in all I would have retired from teaching rather than teach there.
We played a match inside there one day, two lads sat up on the high wall around the school. One had a lump hammer, which he used to knock off bits off the wall, the other lad had a catapult which he used to fire the concrete at our subs.
You’re right mate, I don’t think you’d have been up to it either.
ffs! I probably knew the lot of the cunts you were playing against tho I had moved to plusher lands at that stage.
When we were in Corpus Christi- every student in the school had to write a letter of apology to the Gaelic Grounds after we ran amuck there one year when one of our teams got to some schools football final- We were banned from playing there for a few years.
[QUOTE=“Mark Renton, post: 924322, member: 1796”]When I think back to some of the mad bastards that young Mark Renton was exposed to it’s a credit to my parents I just turned into a cyber freak and not a mass murder-
Eds McCarthy
Gary Campion
Zachery Coughlan
Thomas Stewart
Noel Noonan
Vincent Collopy
Football united us- Rugby divided us.[/QUOTE]
A few of those lads actively campaigned against rugby football as well, ist all very well to post about it on here but the DAAR campaign in Limerick is a credit to some of these.
agreed on soccer tho, full of fucking lunatics, the great thing is everyone plays it, the mother used to be afraid of her life letting me go up to Springfield when i was younger, our u-14 team was run by a taxi driver who was a very organised criminal but he treated us all as equals , every Summer at home the cops used to organize a street league football tournament, it was unbelievable, 7 a side, u-8 to u-17, the gah couldnt field an u-16 team in championship and you’d have 10 or 12 teams with some top class players kicking the living fuck out of each playing across the road in a local football tournament and training every night… it kept fellas out of trouble is suppose and its where Stephen Ireland was spotted.
@TreatyStones , have you ever played against Temple United or any of those Junior sides from Cork city?
[QUOTE=“mickee321, post: 924345, member: 367”]A few of those lads actively campaigned against rugby football as well, ist all very well to post about it on here but the DAAR campaign in Limerick is a credit to some of these.
agreed on soccer tho, full of fucking lunatics, the great thing is everyone plays it, the mother used to be afraid of her life letting me go up to Springfield when i was younger, our u-14 team was run by a taxi driver who was a very organised criminal but he treated us all as equals , every Summer at home the cops used to organize a street league football tournament, it was unbelievable, 7 a side, u-8 to u-17, the gah couldnt field an u-16 team in championship and you’d have 10 or 12 teams with some top class players kicking the living fuck out of each playing across the road in a local football tournament and training every night… it kept fellas out of trouble is suppose and its where Stephen Ireland was spotted.[/QUOTE]
You see the same thing in Moyross these days- Arsenal are heavily involved in organizing these leagues… The hours we spent with jumpers for goal posts as kids!! Every game was a world cup final- Streets would take on other streets and all organized by oursleves and playing for pride. When we were not playing football for pride we were throwing stones at each other- I saw a number of lads split open- great days
No we played against a crowd Tramore (not Waterford) from Cork in a minor national cup. There was a tremendous brawl after it. I remember my lip being in shit that evening.
I once played a match against St Saviour’s in Ballybeg that was abandoned after the lunatics who were driving around the pitch on their motorbikes for the first 20 minutes of the match decided to drive across the pitch and start aiming their bikes at our players. We legged it for the bus which was chased out of there by a local mob and all the back windows smashed. Good times.
Tramore Athletic, full of Nemo lads
At a conservative estimate at least 50% of that is bullshit
You’ve obviously never been to Ballybeg, mate.
Galway Senior Hurling Championship, very early 90’s…
Young sub comes on late in competitive south Galway derby game… he bends to tie a lacer that has come loose on his shiny boot. He kneels briefly to make a proper jobs of tying it this time… Suddenly feels a warm dampness on his neck area… looks up to see his middle aged with his Johnson in his hand… pissing away on top of him. His opponent.
Great times indeed!
We used to play loads of matches like that in various less-than-salubrious places in Dublin. Fucking knackers.
I wasn’t long quitting and taking up the guitar.
[QUOTE=“Thrawneen, post: 924404, member: 129”]We used to play loads of matches like that in various less-than-salubrious places in Dublin. Fucking knackers.
I wasn’t long quitting and taking up the guitar.[/QUOTE]
I only made that up to fit in, bud.:oops: