alpine_saint

This has Britsol Rovers written all over it.

You are a sad obsessed little pigmy. Norwich have scored a second, btw.

This game sounds far from sewn up.

Either truly inspired or jammy fluke.

Pardew is going for the draw by taking him off and putting Murty on, isnt he ? FFS. That never works. We are going to lose, and I am really wondering about AP now. Burley Mark 2...

Agree with the team and your head - a score draw beckons.

He objected to me calling the collection of islands the British Isles. He was WRONG.

I think there are a few cracks in the edifice that is SFC. Everything is not as hunky-dory as we would like to think it is. Todays performance and result will be very telling...

Are you a raving nationalist republican extremist who throws a fit if one uses the term "British" in any sort of context in relation to Eire ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_isles Ho hum.....

Christ, you are such a brown-nose sometimes.

Yes it is. Deal with it. I bet you dont object to the "Irish Sea"...

He got the formation completely wrong for Brighton, in some peoples opinion, failed to get the team up before the game or at half-time, and made poor substitutions. Even giving him the benefit-of-the-doubt and calling it an off-day, it is still evidence that he isnt worthy of wearing his underpants outside his tights yet... Ergo, I think you are being a touch sycophantic...

Exactly. If he'd been manager the other night, he would have tw*tted the ref.

You dont expect SOGGY to pay any attention to any facts other than the ones he's cherry-picked, do you ???

Is he f**k. He's just using the situation to get one up in his feud with the FAI.

Yes we were. However, times have really changed at SMS the last couple of years. Good luck to him wherever he ends up. Shame it didnt work out.

Indeed. FIFA has its Rankings already, why not just invite the top 31 teams plus host nation and sod the qualifying ? The whole idea (romantic, outdated, quaint even) is to allow even the sh*ttiest little nation with dreams, ambition and hard work to play on the greatest stage there is. But thanks to greed, and tw*ts like Mr. Va-Va-Voom they dont have a f**king chance....

Eire obviously didnt have the record to make it as a seeded team in the draw. Pretty difficult to influence the draw any further than that, wasnt it ?

I really think you need some help. As John B has written, your posts are all directed at me. Not a single other poster who has celebrated the car-crash of Burley's managerial career has been addressed by you. Your obsession is really not at all healthy. And its not as if you have anything new to say, is it ? Same old half-dozen points regurgitated ad nauseam...

I think you have painted to black-white a picture of what I wrote. FIFA would like to see the biggest teams possible progress in their competition, and my understanding is that they have made it clear to their refereeing body. Their rational is perfectly understandable - maximise merchandising, sponsorship and TV revenue by reaching the biggest audience. I never said matches are fixed. But surely the late announcement of seedings for the play-offs is all the evidence that is needed ? So what it it only worked in 50% of cases ? FIFA were maximising the probability of big teams getting through. Could you really imagine them allowing France v Portugal in the play-offs ??? IT. IS. NOT. SPORT. I would repsect them more if they re-named it "Sports Entertainment" like the WWF, go the whole hog on fixing the results where everyone knows the results are scripted and live with it.

Are you a priest or a vicar ?

Keep venting your spleen, SOGGY. Your Messiah is washed up.

Of course, after all, the Irish were sooo sympathetic to us in 1986, werent they ?? Btw, FIFA have dismissed the FAIs request for a replay, with not an iota of sympathy or hints of changing things in the future. After, they've got what they wanted, havent they ?

How utterly superb would it be if Burley really were to end up down the other end of the M27 ???

I object to the way the game is being run by FIFA/UEFA/English FA, where money and "big team" mentailty rules all. I find the continual shoulder-shrug and back-turning of the authorities to the conduct of the players and officials of the "big teams" in the name of attendance and TV revenue to be utterly abhorrent. But that is the way sport is going; there are very few true "sports" left. For another example, look at the way Ferrari invariably get their way in Formula 1. Since I am English, Ireland deserve no special sympathy in my heart for this case more than if it were, say Liechtenstein or the Faroe Islands. The emotional relationship between England and the rest of the British Isles is truly f**king bizarre. The rest of the Isles f**king HATE the English, but expect and demand some sort of special empathy from the English when they suffer....