Euro 2012

[Peeman]

the "ox" to start tonight...........good or bad for him/us?

For me it shows Woy will pick the best player regardless of age, as opposed to the manager of the decade who consistently picked players out of form and over weight ahead of him.

For it can only be a good thing for both him and us

[gunner_ace]

Hes playing insted of Stewart Downing so can only be a good thing really. Also will be a good thing for the lad to get big game experience as he can really use it as a spring board to push on next season.

[Deise Gooner]

England has given many things to the World. What has Ireland given to the World? Serious question.

* The White House (designed by a paddy)
* Sudocrem
* The drill that saved the chilean miners
* Fig rolls
* Barack Obama
* JEdward
* Roy Keane
* Robbie Keane

yeahhhh i hate myself a bit for most of those haha

He is at best something like 1/16 or 1/32 Irish so i wish we would stop claiming him as our own especially as a reply to what the English have given the world as he is more English than Irish FACT

[storrmin571]

How did a thread bout football become an Irish/English scrap?

Can we go back to the main points.

[skizz_b]

England has given many things to the World. What has Ireland given to the World? Serious question.

* The White House (designed by a paddy)
* Sudocrem
* The drill that saved the chilean miners
* Fig rolls
* Barack Obama
* JEdward
* Roy Keane
* Robbie Keane

yeahhhh i hate myself a bit for most of those haha

10th century
Samhain - Ancient Gaelic festival, today celebrated as Halloween

14th century
Caid (precursor to modern Gaelic football)
Whiskey

17th century
1661: Modern Chemistry founded by Robert Boyle with the publication of The Sceptical Chymist
1662: Boyle's law discovered by Robert Boyle
Irish road bowling

18th century
1730: Modern Economics and the concept of an entrepreneur - Richard Cantillon
1752: National Hunt horse racing

19th century
1806: Beaufort scale created by Francis Beaufort
1813: Clanny safety lamp created by William Reid Clanny[1]
1831: Column still design enhanced and patented by Aeneas Coffey
1836: Induction coil created by Nicholas Callan
1843: Quaternion (a mathematical entity) first described by Sir William Rowan Hamilton
1844: Hollow needle in syringe created by Francis Rynd
1848: Kelvin scale created by William Thomson
1851: Seismology founded by Robert Mallet (1810 - 1881), Dublin man Robert Mallet used dynamite explosions to measure the speed of elastic waves in surface rocks - pioneering and coining the word 'seismology'.
1851: Binaural stethoscope created by Arthur Leared
1874: Electron introduced as a concept by George Johnstone Stoney
1874: Brennan torpedo created by Louis Brennan
1879: The rules of Hurling first standardized with the foundation of the Irish Hurling Union
1880: Boycott triggered by Charles Boycott over a dispute with the Irish Land League
1888: Gregg Shorthand created by John Robert Gregg
1894: Joly colour screen created by John Joly
1897: first military-commissioned submarine created by John Philip Holland

20th century
1900 Reflector sight, invented by Howard Grubb
1910s: Radiotherapy founded by John Joly
1930: Nickel-zinc battery created by Dr. James Drumm
1930s: The first disintegration of an atomic nucleus by artificially accelerated protons (splitting the atom) discovered by Ernest Walton et al.[2]
1965: Portable defribrillator created by Frank Pantridge
1967: Pulsar discovered by Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Off the top of my head

forgot louis walsh as well, far too easy that one ahhhhh

[skizz_b]

in football news, i reckon the french might bottle it tonight, dont know why just got a feeling...

I have france backed as an outside bet to win euro 2012 Blanc seems to have a united group there and if they tighten up defensively then a place in the semi's at least is theirs for the taking although that same thing applies to england cos whoever wins this group will face the runners up in Irelands group so they should be favourites to win that game (although italy are my other dark horse team)

I think they'll go one of two ways, they will either light the tournament up or they will end up going down the pan, it depends on how they react to adversity really...can't remember the last time they chased down a lead in tournament football, they seem to sulk every time they go behind - would have been Zidane's FK and pen against england in 2004 was it?

If they let in the first goal today I see problems

[skizz_b]

England has given many things to the World. What has Ireland given to the World? Serious question.

* The White House (designed by a paddy)
* Sudocrem
* The drill that saved the chilean miners
* Fig rolls
* Barack Obama
* JEdward
* Roy Keane
* Robbie Keane

yeahhhh i hate myself a bit for most of those haha

He is at best something like 1/16 or 1/32 Irish so i wish we would stop claiming him as our own especially as a reply to what the English have given the world as he is more English than Irish FACT

[Deise Gooner]

England has given many things to the World. What has Ireland given to the World? Serious question.

* The White House (designed by a paddy)
* Sudocrem
* The drill that saved the chilean miners
* Fig rolls
* Barack Obama
* JEdward
* Roy Keane
* Robbie Keane

yeahhhh i hate myself a bit for most of those haha

He is at best something like 1/16 or 1/32 Irish so i wish we would stop claiming him as our own especially as a reply to what the English have given the world as he is more English than Irish FACT

Wasnt Muhammed Ali from Clare

[Henry Norris 1913]

Oxygen-Chamber to start tonight in place of downing. reminds me of owen (scouse *word censored*!) in '98. Time to step up to the plate mate, come on INGERLUND! Spirit of 66 etc

WE ARE THE BEST AGAIN COME ON

[corkbarry]

I for one will be cheering on England for as long as they are in it , unless they meet us along the way

[N1Goon]

I will be supporting young Oxlade primarily, not too fussed about this England squad.


I am still gutted that Turkey didn't qualify

[skizz_b]

I for one will be cheering on England for as long as they are in it , unless they meet us along the way

deffo agree with that, after all no england no arsenal!

[skizz_b]

England has given many things to the World. What has Ireland given to the World? Serious question.

* The White House (designed by a paddy)
* Sudocrem
* The drill that saved the chilean miners
* Fig rolls
* Barack Obama
* JEdward
* Roy Keane
* Robbie Keane

yeahhhh i hate myself a bit for most of those haha

He is at best something like 1/16 or 1/32 Irish so i wish we would stop claiming him as our own especially as a reply to what the English have given the world as he is more English than Irish FACT

Wasnt Muhammed Ali from Clare

would have done a better job than given on that first shot yesterday if he was on the standby list

[REB]

ok guys enough, this thread is about the euros and any post that isnt wil be deleted from here on in.

[N1Goon]

The thought of ITV's coverage is making me cringe, but at least we get to see Gabby Logan.