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i get the impression from your post that you are taking the Micky out of me i was only saying what the nations league was about and you know about it as well so what!!!
you support hungry and ireland shame they are not with the big boys-this being engljand Croatia Spain etc
Not taking the mickey out of you at all. You clearly didn't understand my self deprecating joke about my team as you explained to me it wasn't a competition that needs to be qualified for, so was just trying to explain my joke to you, sorry if you felt that was offensive, I didn't mean it to be! I've had 21 lady years of being Northern Irish surrounded by English people understandably ridiculing/making jokes/taking the mick out of my little team & I just laugh & remind them I was there for that 1-0 win at Windsor Park on 7th September 2005, the peak of our glory. I accepted many years ago that we will never be a big team, half the time we don't even qualify for the qualifiers for the big tournaments, let alone the tournaments themselves! You'd think when I moved and got an adopted country I'd chose one with a decent football team but no, Hungary it is and right now they are even worse than Northern Ireland!! I think we hold the not so proud record of being the only team to lose to luxembourg, Andorra and the Faroe Islands in the space of a year, even Kazakhstan whipped our behinds. Trust me we can't even beat the other little boys so I certainly do not want to be playing the big boys - I cry once 5 have been knocked in past us!!!
I love Michael O'Neill, love what he has done with Northern Ireland and we are probably the best we will ever be with him at the helm. Euro 16 was fantastic for both my teams, just to see us there was an amazing experience. After them though it showed Herr Storck had been purely riding on the crest of a wave started by the awesome Dardai Pal & was not that good of a manager once the Euro's were over & he had to work it alone as opposed to finishing what Dardai Pal had started. Leekens was an era that I want to forget - it lasted just 4 games but it was 4 games too long, none of us wanted him but the MLSz for some inexplicable reason did! We all wanted Rossi & now we have him so I am really excited for the Nations League - we won't be one of the big boys but we will at least have our pride restored! Hajrá Magyarok. Forza Marco!