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Anyone who saw the scenes between Crossmaglen and Cullyhanna recently would know that both supporter and player violence is very much going on in our game.

As someone who was involved in the whole thing don't got caught up in thinking that what went on at that game and what happened on Tuesday night are in anyway comparable. One event was a 3-4 minute burst of madness in reaction to an incident, the other was a premeditated organised group of attackers. The culture round violence at a GAA match and what happened in Liverpool can be summed up though by the fallout of our game last week. Even though there was a lot of aggression last week, on and off the field,  I took our u12s to Cullyhanna yesterday, less than a week after it, and had a vey sporting game with not a cross word between players, management and supporters, all of whom would have been at the game the previous week and some involved in what happened, myself and my brother in law being 2 and he is a coach as well as I am.

Des Cahill is an Idiot for his comment and he should actually be shown the road. There was absolutely no need for it.

Agree with all of this BC! Trying to create controversy, very poor choice of incident.

Lol!  Van Dick!!!

Wow your parents are letting you stay up late to watch the first half, enjoy!

I don't understand why supporters of other clubs have more to say about another team than their own. I suppose it is more fun than GCSE/Junior Cert revision.... Liverpool showed how to beat City today, not as good as talked up when actually pressed/attacked despite their money. 

It's not baseless.Brexit is now,like most things here a Unionist v Nationalist fight,the unionists are in the majority.

Secondly the Dublin Govt has been at pains to assure unionists in recent days that there is no threat to end the union.

Neither the UK Govt and Irish Govt will allow a referendum in the North on a)Brexit or b)A United Ireland,no matter how many polls there are

On Brexit no, but there will be a United Ireland, it is inevitable. NI is not sustainable longer term. I just hope your predictions are as bad as they were for how Brendan Rodgers would do as Celtic manager.

Looking back I don't think my family would have fared as well had we lived in Louth or Meath,with no free health service or other equivalent public services and a very much weaker economy which led to mass emigration.

Maybe not as a whole but your brother would have been quids or punts in with a private practice

I am not saying there wasn't discrimination,but it was exaggerated,as my own family experiences in Portadown.It certainly didn't impact at all on the catholic middle classes.Without access to free education,those who brought about radical change,like Hume,Devlin etc would never have emerged

I know I shouldn't as looking for attention but to generalise from your family's situation to the entire population is silly, unemployment rates for Catholics in the 1983 Household survey were 2.5 times worse than for protestants, so really exaggerated (and this 16 years after the civil rights movement started).

So one guy fantasises about a United Ireland and it's going to happen? Maybe its because I'm from Portadown that it makes it easy for me to realise the depth of Unionist feeling and determination to resist a United Ireland,and know it's never going to happen.

They see themselves as more British than the British themselves.If Brexit makes the people of Britain starve,Unionists will be happy to starve with them to prove they are equally British.

Which is also why they'll never agree to a UI. Even if they're crawling in the gutter, rather the British gutter than an Irish paradise.

It doesn't matter whether they agree to it, their day is over, enjoy the gutter.

Challenger disaster.

Ireland's greatest export :\

Armagh fans.   As you waken up to a stonking Buckfast hangovers thinking the weekend can't get much worse, remember you still have to go to work tomorrow and face your Tyrone workmates!   

Remind me when Antrim were last in the all Ireland football quarter finals?

I echo the comments on the train.I took the train today,one of the three specials.Fine on the way down,but a nightmare coming home.I was on the last train from Connolly (supposed to be departing at 9.20pm,left at 9.40pm,took a full hour to get to Drogheda.Young and not so young carrying parcels of drink (is there any other form of public transport that would allow this), and Liverpool fans on the train as well,and sadly copious amounts of sectarian songs being sung as the mainly young ones downed the alcohol.Also only for the intervention of a couple of wiser heads,there would have been fights breaking out too.Never again will I use a "GAA special", this is not the image GAA should be sending out,I was disgusted,God knows what anyone on the train of a non GAA disposition felt.

From chatting to Armagh ones from around the city there seems to be a scummer element from the Portadown/Lurgan contingent that can't go to any match without a feed of drink.

There is a sense of "I'd like to see them take the drink off us". They are probably right in that. But eventually translink/NIR might just say they won't bother with the GAA special and properly police the normal train. There is no automatic right to have a train put on for you so that you can behave like a lout.

All translink need to do is ban carry outs and restrict the bar to 1 drink per person per serve. There were ones bringing 2 crates of beer with them on board ffs.

It's only a matter of time before some YouTube footage makes us all embarrassed and translink's position difficult

Another thing that annoys me. Go to a match, have a few drinks no problem. But why get so strong that you annoy the head of everyone and not remember or care about the game. If you want to do that stay in the pub. The ticket price will buy a few more drinks.

Agreed, there is an element who use it as an excuse to emulate the behaviour of their townsfolk on the 12th. Not representative of genuine Armagh supporters (who they embarrass), hope other counties realise this. Well done Tyrone, looked like minors v seniors!

Can you write in someone else's name, maybe Paul Berry?

Or his masseuse?

I think you mean masseur?

Yes, allegedly

Can you write in someone else's name, maybe Paul Berry?

Or his masseuse?

Whey protein is expensive these days.

Peat briquettes https://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=VHMkj6KguYA

ESB https://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=r0iIoRx7QF8

Pat the baker https://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=ZIzL2ejMcYk