1-1 draw
Spock out (of sorts). For a lad who has got an easy enough run of it this seems a bit mad.
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Do we know who the journalist in question is? Surely somebody outside the pally Irish set? Spock had a good quote not covered in that piece saying that the criticism since Friday wouldn’t have been received if we won in Athens. Well, yes Stephen.
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He is some spa
Chippys last game 
He can’t watch this shit no more.
A sad day.
He invited all the Irish press to training last week and then asked them not to report on the fact smallbone was playing in the midfield of the first 12 training game they played.
Philip Quinn
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Old dog for the hard road
Philip Quinn still fuming over his pal Mick getting the bullet. Same fella was pushing for Shane Long getting a call up for this squad a few weeks back.
I’m surprised you don’t think the decline of the Irish team is “hilarious”?
Given that you find every other thing that normal people tend to find disappointing or depressing to be “hilarious”, like?
12 defeats from 23 competitive games really is shocking.
The man is clearly on the way out of the job having giving it his best shot but there was a very uncomfortable clip of him on the radio this morning. Daz Frehill referred to it as ‘emotional’ in the intro, and I expected it to be nothing of the sort, but when the clip was played it did sound like he was on the verge of breaking down into tears.
No doubt he takes defeats worse than anyone but it could end terribly for him over the next few months. The man’s health could be affected.
The atmosphere could turn toxic tonight if it stays at 0-0 for long.
It won’t. People will vote with their feet. The attendance tonight will be poor. There might be the odd shout but people are danguine and usually react with bemusement. I’ll be there with at least 5 kids. We’ll hopefully see spock get at least a draw to make it only 12 drfeats from 24.
You’ll hardly get an extra child between now and kickoff?
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Irish team matters to Irish people. Grown Irish men gettin upset over multi millionaire footballers playing for English franchises is hillarious and frankly very strange.
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Most likely an extra adult and child. At the moment its me plus 5 kids. I’ve 2 more tickets
English, Scouse and Scottish teams mean more to Irish people than the Irish team. So what you say is anti-Irish.
In all seriousness, what most unsettles and indeed angers most reasonable, rational people - or should at any rate - is despotic petro states taking over clubs and sports and using them as reputation laundering vehicles for their rotten, human rights abusing regimes, as well as destroying the competitiveness and interest in club association football.
Rational people shouldn’t find the destruction of things of intrinsic societal value to be hilarious. But I guess that’s the way we’re increasingly going as a species.
Sure I mean we have people cheerleading the destruction of the earth’s climate and eco-systems. Isn’t it hilarious.
No they dont. I have never seen a Liverpool/Man United win creating the excitement Robbie Brady’s goal v Italy created in 2016. The country was buzzing. English football is like a soap opera. I watch it regularly but its all superfical.
You might not have seen it, but I’d say there are a hell of a lot of things you haven’t seen. Also in that case all football is superficial. All life is superficial.
There’s nothing less inherently superficial about international football than about club football.
Also you take an entirely different view of GAA which is inherently contradictory. In GAA you consider inter-county GAA superficial and club GAA non-superficial.
These are totally contradictory views.
I would take a 3-0 defeat now. An earlish goal, then 78th and 92nd minute goals.