Posts Tagged ‘boys in green’

Class, and not religion, as Kieren Westwood would have it, has won through in the end for Bohs keeper Brian Murphy.

Sacre bleu! Raymond Domenech is posing some serious challenges for boys-in-greenism and Irish national identity.
After calling the Ireland squad ‘England B’ (see previous post), he now offers the opinion that it’s the British who will be snapping up tickets for the crunch tie in Paris.

Oh la la! Raymond Domenech has put Irish media noses out of joint with his comment that the boys in green are little more than an England B.

As they say in all the best tabloids… it’s official. There is ‘no league in Ireland’.

RTÉ punditry for Irish international games has long been an insult to the intelligence, and this week has been no exception.

Irish football fans’ exclusive taste for the big time is causing problems for them and the game. The FAI stands accused in The Irish Times today of fleecing the event junkies by requiring them to buy tickets to the Montenegro match if they want to watch the Azzurri in Croker today.

Speaking of boys-in-greenism, here’s someone with a chronic case of the affliction. Eoin McDevitt, anchor of Newstalk’s Off the Ball natter-fest, tells Danger Here that the team that he ’supports’ is ‘Trap’s Boys in Green’.