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Yeah Gavin Cooney saying about them being filmed and the likes.

The spitting incident is being looked at by UEFA.

Thank Christ that is over and done with.

Terrible game tonight but travelling to those games and all the baggage doesn't help.

UEFA washed their hands of it all.

Norton relies on his contacts and the bigger market to get in celebs.
The Late Late just doesn't have that pull.
Even U2 on their 50th didn't come on when you'd expect a full show.

Barca did plenty of tricky things and Pep didn't get any stink on him.
I don't think he can escape this time.

I honestly think they will beat us at this stage...

Funny how the Israel FA wasn't too active on X during the match. A post about the goal and FT result. No mention of the red.

As everyone can clearly see it was a pool cue. You always kneel down playing pool and there's a hell of a kick off the cue as well...

Christ that was a shocking game though.

Christy O'Connor talking about players being put over a barrell to breack county training bans...

"They have the players over a barrel. As one of the players said to me 'you don't have to do it but you do really'"

Counties are flaunting the November 21 back to training rule. Everyone knows it but no one is doing anything about it."

Is this not something for the GPA to be up in arms over?!

The FAI must surely have sounded out the scenario of not playing with UEFA and got it laid out about the consequences. I lay this on UEFA more than anyone.
They were well able to play the white knights with the Somalian ref at the World Cup - boo FIFA and big baddy Trump! - but what about their own house...

If there was any inkling that the tide is turning the FAI should back out.

Literally every foul by an Irish player will be an antisemitic attack! There will be some serious claim of things said too...

UEFA will hammer the FAI if they don't play.

It's grand to preach but how many here paying mortgages would give up their livelihoods to make a stand?

I am against playing the game but the FAI have a duty to their staff who will be gone if funds are gone.

Reports on Siptu members at rte wanted a boycott. Rte are obliged to show it, but are scaling back. So will staff resign over it?

The latest Israel FA outburst should help us. But it's going ahead.

Expect some flash points...

The clip of Schade launching Barco is funny, but sure he flung himself backwards.
But I could not believe how slow/ lazy he was with runners off him.
Henderson was quicker tracking back FFS.

Fair play to Brentford, plan on making a trip at some stage. Was at a gane in the old grounds and they are a lovely bunch of fans.

There are men in the 20s who still get to use the 'badly advised' thing, but a 15-year-old being used by his family is not that.

That stuff has been fed to him for years. All the best to him, but he needs to get a proper agent and give the aul pair the boot.

Jaysus that young lad needs to do a parental divorce. Really shite that people are having a go at a child and talking about his attitude when it's how he was raised and brought up.

But in terms of football he obviosuly has the ability to play and be a team player so all is not lost.

All of this will die down, and all summer you will see stoires about fixture clashes between LGFA and Camogie.

But the famous faces and talking heads won't bite on those small time stories as there are no headline-grabbing mysogony angles there... 

As pointed out United and Spurs this year throw money around it's stagnation.

Lads who go to Brentford sign up for OK wages and hard work.

United seem to be in a cycle of the same type of middlin players on mad money or lads who can't be moved on.

Edit: to second that...how did Anderson get MOTM?!

Mid 20s to 30s have often left rural Ireland or Ireland full stop.

The local close to me in Drumcondra gets a great mix of ages as they aren't arsed going into city centre with no taxis, coked up rows and crazy prices, on top of having to come back around 1am at the latest.

And all the younger ones do festivals so they save for that.