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Pilko

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Stephen Ireland quit international football because the other players on the team made fun of his hair.

 

They had every frigging right to, before he shaved his head he looked like Baldrick.

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Stephen Ireland quit international football because the other players on the team made fun of his hair.

 

That's 100% true.

 

If there's a more laughable "man" in football, I've yet to hear of him.

 

Great player though.

 

what was it with his hair? did he have a hair transplant or something?

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Mr. Snrub

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Steven Ireland would be worth a lot more than Kaka in my eyes.

 

younger, proven in the Premiership and scores more goals. Being a Brazilian rather than a pikey costs I suppose.

 

Checked wiki to find out just how ridiculous this statement was.

 

Kaka averages a goal every 2.7 league games since he joined Milan. 

 

Ireland averages one every 8.2 league games since he started playin for Man City.

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Shak

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Stephen Ireland quit international football because the other players on the team made fun of his hair.

 

That's 100% true.

 

If there's a more laughable "man" in football, I've yet to hear of him.

 

Great player though.

 

what was it with his hair? did he have a hair transplant or something?

 

From

 

http://www.uit.no/mancity/pictures/ireland2B.jpg

 

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http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/10_02/StephenIreland_468x570.jpg

 

:lol:

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Didnt he say he wants to play for Ireland again? If he thinks he can just pop off if we qualify then hes mistaken, surely Trap wont just say "oh well you didnt want to help us get to South Africa, but pop along anyway, sure why not"

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Didnt he say he wants to play for Ireland again? If he thinks he can just pop off if we qualify then hes mistaken, surely Trap wont just say "oh well you didnt want to help us get to South Africa, but pop along anyway, sure why not"

 

To be fair, if Glenn Whelan and Keith Andrews are the alternatives then let him at it I say. :lol:

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Didnt he say he wants to play for Ireland again? If he thinks he can just pop off if we qualify then hes mistaken, surely Trap wont just say "oh well you didnt want to help us get to South Africa, but pop along anyway, sure why not"

 

All depends on how many granny's he can adopt to kill off again.

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Decky

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Didnt he say he wants to play for Ireland again? If he thinks he can just pop off if we qualify then hes mistaken, surely Trap wont just say "oh well you didnt want to help us get to South Africa, but pop along anyway, sure why not"

 

To be fair, if Glenn Whelan and Keith Andrews are the alternatives then let him at it I say. :lol:

 

The little gimp should come back for a few qualifying games, must love the breaks at international weeks or something.

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Didnt he say he wants to play for Ireland again? If he thinks he can just pop off if we qualify then hes mistaken, surely Trap wont just say "oh well you didnt want to help us get to South Africa, but pop along anyway, sure why not"

 

To be fair, if Glenn Whelan and Keith Andrews are the alternatives then let him at it I say. :lol:

 

The little gimp should come back for a few qualifying games, must love the breaks at international weeks or something.

 

Aye hate it when the 'best' players get away with such disrespectful shite.

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brummie

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Stephen Ireland quit international football because the other players on the team made fun of his hair.

 

That's 100% true.

 

If there's a more laughable "man" in football, I've yet to hear of him.

 

Great player though.

 

I heard it was a lot more than "making fun" and more like holding his head down the bog and flushing it.

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Stephen Ireland quit international football because the other players on the team made fun of his hair.

 

That's 100% true.

 

If there's a more laughable "man" in football, I've yet to hear of him.

 

Great player though.

 

I heard it was a lot more than "making fun" and more like holding his head down the bog and flushing it.

 

Yup, heard it was more along those lines too, which is just way over the top, especially as he was only young then.

 

Kind of admire the guy for sticking to his guns and not putting up with it tbh.

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brummie

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Stephen Ireland quit international football because the other players on the team made fun of his hair.

 

That's 100% true.

 

If there's a more laughable "man" in football, I've yet to hear of him.

 

Great player though.

 

I heard it was a lot more than "making fun" and more like holding his head down the bog and flushing it.

 

Yup, heard it was more along those lines too, which is just way over the top, especially as he was only young then.

 

Kind of admire the guy for sticking to his guns and not putting up with it tbh.

 

So do I. And i say that as a man of a particularly low follicle count.

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I honestly don't buy the "Barry is the anti christ" crap that seems to be going on here. He cost Villa nothing, he gave them 12 years service, they just made 12 million off his sale.

 

I don't care what he said last year about CL football, at the end of the day he's got the chance to secure his financial future, one last big pay day and join a club that has the financial muscle to compete with the big four. TBH I don't think he needs to apologies to anyone.

 

I hope you didn't give Given any stick then.

 

I didn't give a s*** about Given going TBH, I was never a huge fan and still think although he's an excellent shot stopper he's far from the complete GK. Find a post from me saying I was desperate for Given to stay.

 

If he had left at the end of the season and not in the middle of a relegation battle, then I think the vast majority of people on here would have wished him well.

 

So your lame attempt at catching me out is just a little bit crap tbh.

 

Jesus wept, read my post again buddy.  I said 'I hope you didn't', as i know a huge number of people turned on him despite his 10 plus years here.

 

Did I actually say you did that?  Your reading and understanding skills on that post were just a bit crap tbh.

 

You tried lamely to catch me out you sad little weasel and failed, honestly don't try stuff you are in capable of.

 

You really don't have a clue.  When people say 'I hope' it's not an accusation, i thought even idiots can tell the difference.

 

And a response to your previous question, a fair number of similiar kind of posts in the style of this

Thoughts on the deal itself:

 

Fine, he's gone. A player swap would have been ideal but we all know that those kinds of deals are notoriously hard to work out so as long as we got an acceptable sum (which I trust we have,) it's not a big deal. The only thing now is that money MUST be reinvested into the squad immediately. If not, the pitchforks come out tomorrow evening.

 

Thoughts on Shay Given:

 

Emotionally, I feel devastated. I think we've all been taking Shay for granted for a long time now. Despite the fact that he's been blatantly too good for us for several years now, we'd come to think that he'd never leave. For that reason I feel like he never really got the appreciation he deserved. A lot of people got on his back whenever he had a rare downturn in form, and the "is Given world class or not?" Debate is surely one of the most idiotic conversations that's ever gone on in this board. I feel like I would if my lass left me for some blinged out kid with a Porsche.

 

Rationally? He can go f*** himself. I refuse to cave into the "he's done enough for us, good luck to him" attitude. Fact of the matter is he knows as well as anyone that we're well in the s*** and that the very survival of this club rests on the next few months. Is it really that hard for him to put his move off till the summer? What the f*** is he going to do by moving to Man City 6 months early, help them finish the season at tenth? He's ditched us in our hour of greatest need for a club that won't get UEFA football this season and might not even get it next season, never mind the Champions league. The truth is that he's just no longer bothered with us anymore, he's nothing more than a rat abandoning a sinking ship and pocketing a bit of cash on the way. He cares absolutely nothing for this club or its fans and I refuse to care about him.

 

I hope he breaks his leg or gets replaced with Buffon in the summer. Preferably both.

 

f***ing asshole.

 

I know you seem to have trouble reading and understanding so i will give you the brief - oldtype doesn't like him all that much O0

 

So you've got one person writing that he thinks Shay's a arsehole, tbh a lot think he's an arsehole for engineering a move in the middle of our darkest hour. This has little to do with the fact that most still however appreciate his contribution to the black and white cause and do not begrudge him his move. Barry on the other hand is being cast in the light of an evil mercenary when he's moving for the first time in his career, after 12 years of loyal service to a team that clearly have the financial clout to challenge the top 4 and his old club are being hansomly rewarded for it.

 

Like someone else said you're comparing apples to oranges here, and digging yourself a bigger hole each time you write.

 

Wow, you really can't read and understand simple stuff. 

 

I told you that Given isn't liked on this board - when he concedes a dodgy goal playing for City 'the Shay Given beaten by a long shot' thread gets bumped without fail - with posts like ':lol:' and all sorts.

 

Now you seem to think he will get a good reception from us fans when he arrives - i beg to differ.  I hope he does but i have a feeling his reception is going to be very mixed.  I stand by my point that no-one thought we was seriously going to get relegated, or was in a battle.  So i don't buy into the feeling that he could of waited until summer, when we have a keeper in-waiting like Harper - who i did rate.

 

Oo and you say Barry is being cast as an evil mercenary?  Some of this board tends to agree with you:

 

I honestly don't buy the "Barry is the anti christ" crap that seems to be going on here. He cost Villa nothing, he gave them 12 years service, they just made 12 million off his sale.

 

I don't care what he said last year about CL football, at the end of the day he's got the chance to secure his financial future, one last big pay day and join a club that has the financial muscle to compete with the big four. TBH I don't think he needs to apologies to anyone.

 

Financial muscle is all well and good, but they aren't even close to breaking the top 4 atm.  Barry is 28 (?) in 2 years they will most probably have replaced him, i have a feeling they wouldn't of done that achievement by then. 

 

Also, Alonso is being linked everywhere and Benitez is fan of Barry yet he didn't seem to even want to wait to see if Liverpool would revive their interest, just last year it was his 'dream move'. 

 

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Financial muscle is all well and good, but they aren't even close to breaking the top 4 atm.  Barry is 28 (?) in 2 years they will most probably have replaced him, i have a feeling they wouldn't of done that achievement by then. 

 

Also, Alonso is being linked everywhere and Benitez is fan of Barry yet he didn't seem to even want to wait to see if Liverpool would revive their interest, just last year it was his 'dream move'. 

 

 

Villa fans had pretty much resigned ourselves to losing Barry to Liverpool this summer. However, to see him jump ship to Man City at the earliest opportunity just makes me angry.

 

He's clearly gone for the money - 25m over 5 years for someone who will be 33/34 at the end of it - and if that's the case, then fine, but it is the bullshit he came out with last season that annoys me, the "dream move for CL football" etc etc and the utter shit he published yesterday. Footballers must think we're absolutely stupid.

 

Incidentally, all this "12 years service" stuff. That's 12 years for many of which he couldn't get a start in our team. 3 years ago the only people interested in buying him were Portsmouth. In that time, MON has turned him into one of the first names on the sheet for England. Two years into that 3 year period, he was blabbing about going to Liverpool.

 

Incidentally, for a reminder, check this:

 

http://blogs.notw.co.uk/sport/2008/06/gareth-barry-bl.html

 

For an example of this paragon of loyalty.

 

I'd have preferred him to stay, he's a good player, but anyone who thinks he is crucial to us in anyway didn't watch much of us the last season, Laursen (till injured), Luke Young, Ashley Young, Petrov, Carew - all made bigger contributions than Barry did.

 

We've lost better players than Gareth Barry and gone on to do well before, so I'm not too worried about that, but this "loyal servant" stuff and the "footbal challenge" nonsense makes me want to vomit. Oh, and in his letter to Villa fans yesterday, he actually used the line "this is a world cup year, I need to be playing in my strongest position regularly" as a reason to go there. What utter, utter shite, bar being moved to LB when injury forces a change mid match (which I can remember happening once this season), he always plays in his best position, and it was the fact that MON started playing him there in the first place which got him in the England side.

 

Footballers. Not just Barry but pretty much all of them. They think we're fucking stupid, and do you know what? To keep on swallowing this nonsense, they've probably got a point

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