Republic of Ireland Golden Generation

[Vintage]

As an outsider, it looks like Ireland's biggest sporting achievement is abusing the English. There's no trophy for that even if it is funny to read.

And alot more sporting achievements than abusing if you look into the history. England are the ould enemy to Ireland unless you live under a rock you will know that, no more than if you look at the Merseyside derby the begrudge there. It's sport get over it. There is no place for softness lad. I'd presume you have never played sport before. England's first ever loss in international football was at goodison to Ireland by the way. Plus there has been alot of goodwill between the 2 countries especially in rugby over the years especially by Irish fans. It's good to have arch rivals and a healthy hatred..that's what makes sport. Vast majority of players, teams and countries don't win trophies.

 

[Hinchcliffe's Corner]

I will just leave this here since your an outsider and haven't got a clue about anything

Just more little brother stuff isn't it?

And alot more sporting achievements than abusing if you look into the history. England are the ould enemy to Ireland unless you live under a rock you will know that, no more than if you look at the Merseyside derby the begrudge there. It's sport get over it. There is no place for softness lad. I'd presume you have never played sport before. England's first ever loss in international football was at goodison to Ireland by the way. Plus there has been alot of goodwill between the 2 countries especially in rugby over the years especially by Irish fans. It's good to have arch rivals and a healthy hatred..that's what makes sport. Vast majority of players, teams and countries don't win trophies.

Again, more little brother stuff, you think you have a rivalry but it's not really that close in terms of sporting competition. You're just proving my point with every post. As for my sporting prowess, the internet is no place to brag to strangers.

 

[Prevenger17]

As an outsider, it looks like Ireland's biggest sporting achievement is abusing the English.

 

[Hinchcliffe's Corner]

I'm gonna get destroyed by the Irish Evertonians on here but honestly their biggest achievements of late seem to be when one of their own doesn't defect to England.

 

[MikeH72]

Will Smallbone

 

[Moomin]

I will just leave this here since your an outsider and haven't got a clue about anything

Just like the Irish Football team the Irish Police couldn't do it's job.

I will be writing to UEFA to make sure the Irish are banned from next years Euro's for this.

 

[MikeH72]

Just like the Irish Football team the Irish Police couldn't do it's job.

I will be writing to UEFA to make sure the Irish are banned from next years Euro's for this.

They’ve done the honourable thing and banned themselves already.

 

[Nymzee]

Imagine getting shown up by a team that starts Lyndon Dykes up top.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

I wonder how they'd be doing if England hadn't pinched Grealish and Rice?

They'd be qualifying at least I think

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

You could argue a better question is which home nation has underachiever historically relative to population, football development infrastructure, and league strength/ popularity?

Indeed, I will. With a poll!

 

[Prevenger17]

I'm gonna get destroyed by the Irish Evertonians on here but honestly their biggest achievements of late seem to be when one of their own doesn't defect to England.

Ah, I think it's just a European thing. We enjoy England losing, it's almost bred in us. It is an entirely seperate thing to our own crap team, which we have long acknowledged to be crap

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

You could argue a better question is which home nation has underachiever historically relative to population, football development infrastructure, and league strength/ popularity?

Indeed, I will. With a poll!

I mean, it's obviously England

Only one World Cup in 93 years despite the success of the Premier League and club sides in Europe

Scotland has one Champions League/European Cup to it's name, and that was in 1967. Nottingham Forest have won double the amount of Champs League/European Cups than the entirety of Scottish Football

Qualifying for major tournaments and just missing out on making the knockout stage is about par for Scotland

Ireland have actually managed to make the knockouts, as have Northern Ireland and Wales

From most under achieving to least underachieving you'd probably have to go

England (One World Cup and no European Championships despite having the players they've had? They massively underachieved in the 00's in particular)

Scotland (Should have really made it out of the groups at one of those tournaments in the 70's, 80's and 90's)

Republic of Ireland (Did well at times in the 90's, 00's and 10's, but look at some of the players they had to call on during those times, especially when they started recruiting English, Scottish and Irish players of Irish heritage)

Wales (probably the lowest level of club football of the five countries, but if you look at the players they had in the 80's and 90's then they should have made at least one tournament)

Northern Ireland (Small population, probably a better league than Wales ((I'd expect Linfield to beat TNS for instance)) and they did well to make the knockouts in 82. They've overachieved the most IMO)

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

I mean, it's obviously England

Only one World Cup in 93 years despite the success of the Premier League and club sides in Europe

Scotland has one Champions League/European Cup to it's name, and that was in 1967. Nottingham Forest have won double the amount of Champs League/European Cups than the entirety of Scottish Football

Qualifying for major tournaments and just missing out on making the knockout stage is about par for Scotland

Ireland have actually managed to make the knockouts, as have Northern Ireland and Wales

From most under achieving to least underachieving you'd probably have to go

England (One World Cup and no European Championships despite having the players they've had? They massively underachieved in the 00's in particular)

Scotland (Should have really made it out of the groups at one of those tournaments in the 70's, 80's and 90's)

Republic of Ireland (Did well at times in the 90's, 00's and 10's, but look at some of the players they had to call on during those times, especially when they started recruiting English, Scottish and Irish players of Irish heritage)

Wales (probably the lowest level of club football of the five countries, but if you look at the players they had in the 80's and 90's then they should have made at least one tournament)

Northern Ireland (Small population, probably a better league than Wales ((I'd expect Linfield to beat TNS for instance)) and they did well to make the knockouts in 82. They've overachieved the most IMO)

Please vote now in the associated poll thread. We must put this pressing issue to the people of GOT in a Democratic manner to ensure peace, harmony and that the correct decision is made. Just like the Brexit referendum.

 

[MikeH72]

I wonder how they'd be doing if England hadn't pinched Grealish and Rice?

They'd be qualifying at least I think

Grealish and Rice were born and brought up in England. They are playing for the national team of the country they’re from. If they played for Ireland, then they’d have been “pinched” by them.

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

Grealish and Rice were born and brought up in England. They are playing for the national team of the country they’re from. If they played for Ireland, then they’d have been “pinched” by them.

I know several proud Scots who harbour ill feeling towards McGeady and James McCarthy for 'abandoning' their country of birth. Apparently they'd have made the difference for the Scots.

A truly upsetting tale.