Get It… Ireland?
It seems unavoidable, huh? Maybe we’ll all start doing shots of Jameson so as to really get into the spirit of things.
Anyway, the Irish FA is demanding a replay. And they have precedent on their side, citing a 2005 World Cup qualifier between Uzbekistan and Bahrain that was invalidated by FIFA because of a ‘technical error by the referee of the match.’
This could be gaining traction and legitimacy.
Oh wait, never mind. This is FIFA. There will be no replay.
They’ve gone all Rule 5 on Ireland’s ass, which is just FIFA’s technical way of saying, “Uh, France isn’t Uzbekistan.”
So, has the Irish delegation already left for the CAS, or did they stop for a few quick ones at a pub?
They’re just doing Irish Car Bombs on the flight to Lucerne.
Irish people do not do Irish Car Bombs, as they are little more the ruination of good Guinness.
This replay silliness needs to stop. It’s not going to happen. Yes, the seeded draw was BS, yes Henry handled the ball, but better finishing, both of matches (Italy and Montenegro in WCQs) and at the goalmouth (Keane & Duff before full-time), and much of this is moot. But it stung to have to play in, having gone undefeated in the group, it stung to have draw seeded as to to blatantly favor the bigger nations, and it stung to not even be given the chance for a second extra time and possibly PK’s. Nothing was a given here, but such a blatant no-call denies the chance, and that’s what really hurts.
When you wrote “shots of Jameson,” I assumed you meant Jenna.
Nothing was a given here…
Except one of the keepers. Zing!
EF, everyone knows true Irish people don’t drink Jameson’s. . . that’s just a “Boston Irish” thing. Powers or Bushmill’s or nothing at all.
And it goes alongside your stout of choice- it’s Irish Handcuffs, not an Irish Car Bomb.
@ Keith: I tolerate Powers in small doses, but I love me some Bushmill’s Black – had one last night.
//temporary threadjack
Sooo, Landycakes is on the BS report, and they’ve just spent the first 10 minutes talking about penalty kicks, corners and freekicks. Simmons is obsessed with the minutiae of taking spot kicks. He seems amazed that Landycakes aims for the same spot each time he takes a corner.
Bushmill’s? Hell no, that’s Protestant whiskey.
Jameson for me, please.
@ Steve: To be fair, Simmons is amazed by tall people jangling their car keys, so…
Does the fact that I’ve got a bottle of Powers next to a bottle of Bushmill’s Black in my whiskey cabinet make me a true Irishman? Or is it the fact that I actually have a whiskey cabinet pretty much eliminate any doubt?
The fact that you keep your uisce beatha in a cabinet and not a hip flask calls it into serious question, actually.
I stand corrected, phil.
@ phil
damn it. you beat me to the wire quote.
and Phil, I’m amazed, too, but its more along the lines of “I can’t believe our supposed ‘best set-piece taker’ doesn’t aim his corners based on what he sees from the marking, thus making it harder for opposing managers to watch video and tell his defense to simply mark one general area and jump”
/we’ll not make it out of an NZ, Algeria, Greece group
//FML
Yeah, it is Protestant whiskey, what of it? My priests can marry! And I get to wear condoms without going to hell!
Although, I would be proud of claim McNulty as one of my own.
It was just a shaggy dog for the Wire quote, EF, although I am a loyal (too much so if you ask the wife) Jameson drinker.
@ Keith: Yeah, that’s disconcerting. That would seem to be the sort of thing an intelligent coach might address…
A friend and I have a shot each of Jameson and Bushmill’s whenever we go out. We call it the Unification.
Unfortunately, the Protestants and Catholics often seem to be fighting it out in my stomach the next morning.
Hey. Our manager has a steely gaze. And a son with diminishing returns on the field. That’s all we need. . .
Well, the FAI official protest hasn’t been ruled on yet.
/don’t ruin my hope goddammit.