Fuckin kissing each others boots ffs⌠nauseating shits
Next theyâll be fist pumping
England, unlike Eire are making no excuses for their last 16 exit.
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Theyâre going to do a Michael Schumacher job on it. Or a Harald Schumacher one. Whatever.
the hungover micks banging on about England again to mask their own massive shortcomings and insecurities, you really couldnât make this shit up, and they all sitting there with Manchester united and Liverpool jerseys on watching the game 
academies, no plan, no defensive coaching, no bottle, no leadersâŚthereâs plenty of excuses pal.
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I donât need the Sunday Times vindication as the stats clearly speak for themselves.
Eire didnât run as much as every other team at the euros. Fact.
All thatâs up for debate is whether they were unfit, or not really bothered, just happy to go through the motions for their country.
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Excuses??? Right⌠Iâm worse to be engaging with you , you boring cunt.
Not me Iâm wearing my Brexit t shirt
Thats beautiful Irish whataboutery.
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OâNeill was doing some whinging yesterday. If Eire had won the group in two games like Italy did, they could have fielded a reserve team in their last match and had a 10 day rest. Portugal had three days off (one less than Eire) between their last group game against Hungary and the last 16 game against Croatia. Portugal were able to keep going for 120 minutes, keep a clean sheet and come up with a winner in the 117th minute.
Martin OâNeill has hit out at UEFA over scheduling and ticketing at Euro 2016 following Irelandâs last 16 exit to France last Sunday.
The Ireland manager believes the current format of the 24-team tournament is very unfair on third-placed teams, and that supporters had been badly treated.
Because his Ireland team finished behind Belgium and Italy, it meant they only had three days to prepare for last Sundayâs clash with France, and there was also less time for the fans to buy tickets for what ended up being a partisan home crowd in Lyon. OâNeill believes simple changes could have let his side play a day later, and said that it was âbeyond beliefâ that UEFA put tickets on sale before they know who the second team would be in a match that was guaranteed to be a sell-out anyway. He said it was âstaggeringâ that they were asked to play their knockout game so soon after their last group game.
âAnd if we got through against France we had a week to prepare rather than the three days we were given.â
Asked whether a bigger country would have been treated like that, OâNeill said: âI would have doubts about it. I would have real doubts about it.â
He added: âI think itâs something that UEFA have to look at. If you look at the distribution of the tickets . . . beyond belief. Why couldnât they leave 10 per cent out for whoever is going to qualify? And donât tell me they canât sell those in two days, in this tournament which has been great . . . itâs been a fantastic tournament in that sense, fans from all nations turning up. We talk about our own, who have been great but fans from other nations too - Turkey (would have) filled the ground.â
OâNeill also dismissed concerns about the physical conditioning of the Irish team, given that all the goals they conceded in the tournament came in the second half.
"In tournament competition, you wouldnât believe the advantage those extra days that France got to us. We played late Wednesday night, we didnât get back to our hotel until about four oâclock in the morning Thursday. In fact, had the draw worked differently, we could have ended up playing Croatia Saturday. If anybody tells me thatâs fair in a competition that is supposed to be fair. UEFA are talking about fair play.
"Our boys covered as much ground if not more than any team playing. Eventually France, who are a very fine side and will go very close to winning the competition, great players, eventually some players actually find some room. We made an error with two players going for the one ball and (Antoine) Griezmann comes in and scores a goal and he wouldnât have found the same room (in different circumstances). We had no more energy left in the game. But it was to do with the turnaround, it was nothing to do with the fitness of the side.
"Weâve come into the tournament, weâve given everything and I donât see that at all. I see that as as unfair an advantage for a side as I could possibly remember.
"You donât have time to flog players. We met up. And we have a game within seven days and whatever fitness that those players have at club level, I am not responsible for that during the course of the season.
"I am responsible, when they arrive in camp, for keeping them fresh. You ask any world-class fitness specialist and they will tell you that you are not going to get players fit in five days.
âThe thing that I am actually quite good at is freshening, keeping people fresh, as fresh as they possibly can be because at some stage you are going to run out of energy, because if you are, like us, a team without the ball, that will take a lot of energy out of you.â
martin o neil was called martin oâkneel on here before the tournament by all the
âdiehardsâ like @Rocko that tells you all you need to know about Oirish soccer supporters, once they had a sniff of success, all the drunken apes thought him and roy âqueenâ were God, the Oirish supporters are a walking, living joke and parody
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When are the semi finals ?
Facts can sometimes seem boring.
The comeback is on!
LovelyâŚsmall bit of pride restored.
Well done Iceland.
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All they need to do now is do what they did against England and follow it up with another one.
And then do it all again.
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You are unquestionably the most astute observer of football on this forum.
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Ah goalie.