I have to admit it, I took great pleasure in seeing your man with the silly ponytail conceding another stupid lob (Nayim was pretty funny too). In fact I thoroughly enjoy it whenever the English national side loses or any of their club sides for that matter.
This is not due to blatant anti-Brit xenophobia but because I am a proud League of Ireland supporter who wants to stand up to the thousands on this island who dismiss their own in favour of that over paid, over hyped and sensationalised league across the water. The more often sides from Britain are shown up for not being the best the better.
It really irritates me that I and the others who feel like me can suddenly be described as some sort of fascists. Take when we talked up a protest against the opening of that Merchandise United shop in town, and that aul dinosaur from that rag the Hot Press described us as loony nationalists. When in actual fact we were talking about taking a principled stance against a global product which threatens even further the existence of our beloved league
Then to make matters worse we’re coupled with the barstool brigade. We all know the types, they’ll be in the pub happily roaring on Leeds, Chelsea etc yet when it comes to the English national side all they do is roar abuse at them. Maybe I’m a fool but I as far as I know Leeds are from Yorkshire and it doesn’t take an honour in geography to figure out that that’s in England. So while happily supporting one team from England they cant support the main one, once again maybe its just me but I sense some serious hypocrisy. To make matters worse these are the ones who never cease to grasp opportunities to slag us for supporting our league (that is, the one that goes on in the country they come from).
Yet I proudly support the league that is here and the main obstacle in the way of its development is the Irish peoples devotion to a foreign league, so bollocks to all the supposed liberals if they cant understand why I take delight in seeing English sides lose!