Why don't they just have one football team? It works in rugby and never caused any major political issues. This would solve all the issues over selection and could only result in a stronger performance at international tournaments.
Why don't they just have one football team? It works in rugby and never caused any major political issues...
Jayden Cook
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Isaac Russell
Rugby fans are civilised, if you’ve ever played for a rugby club being respectful and well behaved is drilled into you, you always shake hands and have lunch with the rival team after the match, you call the referee sir and never chat back etc. Football fans would be punching eachothers lights out if you sat them together
Noah Sanchez
Northern Ireland produce the best players in the world like George Best whilst the Republic produce laughable shitters year in year out. Why would they want to merge?
Brayden Martinez
Northern Ireland have produced the best goalkeeper of all time the best outfield player of all time and George Best.
Southshits have produced grumpy beard boy.
Jason Ortiz
Who of any quality has Northern Ireland produced in the past 30 years?
Cooper Jones
This, rugby men are more mature than footballers by a mile
Oliver Rivera
What a joke. At British universities rugby players are renowned for being the most disgusting degenerate people who have initiation ceremonies involving drinking vomit or wanking each other off. Hardly "civilised" or "mature".
Zachary King
My father didn't kill Taigs just so we could share the same team as them
Kevin Lopez
Neil Lennon ofcourse
Landon Hughes
Just a bit of banter mate, there’s literally nothing gay about drinking shots off your team mates cock
Isaac Perez
Footballers are emotional children.
Josiah Walker
David Healy, Aaron Hughes, Kyle Lafferty, Jonny Evans, Steve Davis, Will Grigg.
Bentley Walker
Dont forget Roy Caroll now
Landon Lopez
>two different countries having one team
Why are Anglos so retarded?
Jackson Diaz
Who of the UK has won the British Home Championship in the last 35 years?
Noah Jones
the crowd that support soccer in the north are renowned for their sectarianism
lennon got dogs abuse for even playing for them and roy keane in his autobiography said even the stewards were hostile to the irish team whenever they played in windsor park
both sides are seen as expressions of an exclusive nationalism whereas the rugby side is an exception to that which is why a lot of people dont like them and why a combined team wouldnt work currently
the north would have lower representation that they do now so there's nothing in it for them
Austin Myers
>never caused any major political issues
Literally had to invent a new anthem because the dirty prods wouldn't stop fucking yapping
Grayson Barnes
Better than footychavs stabbing eachother and verbally abusing 8 y/o girls for wearing the wrong shirt.
Tyler James
Northern Ireland's FA is one of the founding members like England, Scotland and Wales and hold too much power in football, so they will never give that up and I seriously doubt the republic want to be ruled by the Northern Irish FA
John Gutierrez
Because of the IFAB.
Brody Gonzalez
why the fuck are you down south?
Jose Peterson
>produce best players in the world
>50 years ago
John Taylor
Better salary
Eli Reed
Rugby is followed by middle class scum who don't care about sectarianism
Football is followed by lower class scum and local clubs are backed by paramilitaries in the norf
Jordan Ramirez
You need to look at the reasons given for why the FAI was formed.
We didn't have the same issues in most of our sports, and most of our sports are on an all-Ireland organizational basis because they already were when they were started and there was no reason not to, they weren't combined because they were never split.
Justin Walker
Lel, that sounds about right.
Northern Ireland is a geographically and economically unviable creation which will soon be put out of its misery. Soon you won't have to get angry and correct people abroad who call you Irish.
Jayden Peterson
Pretty sure Nordies are Irish, mostly.
Austin Jones
Soccer is the most sectarian sport. Clubs in areas with two communities based their identity on politics. Even if the teams might "strongly disavow" it all now, the fans don't. Neil Lennon received death threats and has been sent letter bombs. Irish fans are nearly all Celtic fans and routinely sing about the IRA.
It would never work. You'd need protective fencing between the home fans.
Caleb Allen
Lol, don't tell them that
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Brandon Lee
That's not why it won't happen though. There's no way the FAI would vote to dissolve even if the IFA offered to take them in.
Brandon Gray
Cognitive dissonance innit.
Oliver Morris
this but also, why dont england and wales unite already
we all know wales is a made up country, who was always a part f england, just because they have a different language in a couple parts of the territory that barely anyone speaks shouldnt make them a different nation, cornwal isnt one ffs
cricket teams are the ideal world
ireland is united
wales is a paet of england
those micronation islands are the same country because there is nothing substantial to differentiate them
there done
Brayden Gutierrez
that's because they're English, you dont hear this shit happening in other rugby countries
Nicholas Smith
t. got cucked by a rugbychad at uni
Jordan Thompson
Is the FAI not on the brink of bankrupcy?