The Court of Arbitration in Sport finds in favour of the FAI over players born in 06

[Amach na Casca]

That'd be the mentality of some NI fans alright, embracing an act of cheating. You disgrace yourselves once again lads, well done.

[Portstewart]

Haha get over it ffs, can't take a wee ribbing that your crap team didn't make the world cup. A disgrace is needing 15 Englishman pretending to be Irish to put in a decent show at a world cup.

See Northern Ireland 58, 82 and 86 for what 1.5 million ulsterman can do, you'll never match it without English plastic help.

[Anamnua]

To be brutally honest here, a UI team has about the same chance as NI or the ROI as winning something....

Anyway when you produce a player even remotely as good as Georgie Best :

Giles, McGrath, Keane..

G. Best himself was in favour of an all-Ireland soccer team and in fact played for one in 1970 (v Brazil).

[British Citizen]

McGrath

To even try and compare these two is laughable!!

[oboe]

To even try and compare these two is laughable!!

Yeah McGrath never made a cock of himself on a national talk show.

[UlickO]

The kids mostly seem to come from Derry and some parts of Belfast, we'll be ok.

It's nothing to do with a 'little Englander identity' id suggest but an Irish republican thing in certain areas.

I hope that NI teams continue to comprise people from all over NI however, and I'm pretty sure they will.

Marc Wilson - Lurgan, Co Armagh

[UlickO]

Yes a fair number of Catholics come and watch NI.

Do they check religion at the turnstile?

[UlickO]

Young Rory McIlroy is another who loves NI and considers himself very much Northern Irish and British, top man. Check out his website and the big Red Hand of Ulster flag that st333ve tells us all Catholics cower at the site of. :mrgreen:

Young Rory as you call him (we just call him the wee cousin) also considers himself very much Irish. Thankfully he's mature enough to rise above the bigots who would like to pigeon hole his nationality.

[LDF]

That's the sad part of it, protestant kids will stay with the north, catholic kids will start to declare for the republic. Of course, the most desireable solution would be a single team, some chance

The only problem I would have with an all-Ireland team would be the possibility we would have to replace our national anthem with glorified elevator music like Ireland's Call.

[British Citizen]

The only problem I would have with an all-Ireland team would be the possibility we would have to replace our national anthem with glorified elevator music like Ireland's Call.

It aint gonna happen so don't lose any sleep over it.