Football forever

[MissWalshy]

Try playing gaelic football mate

Now theres a good sport

with the only protective equipment is a gumshield for the softies

Gumsheild for footie is a wimps game.

We'll let you have it for hurling. Thats all.

[Eric V]

Try playing gaelic football mate

Now theres a good sport

with the only protective equipment is a gumshield for the softies

Gumsheild for footie is a wimps game.

We'll let you have it for hurling. Thats all.

Well, befor you get yourselves into a "british isle" testosterone-fest you must consider..... lacrosse. A North American continuous violent game with sticks (with little nets on them), very hard balls, and near-full contact rules with little padding (a helm). A great sport.

[firehazard]

Well, befor you get yourselves into a "british isle" testosterone-fest you must consider..... lacrosse. A North American continuous violent game with sticks (with little nets on them), very hard balls, and near-full contact rules with little padding (a helm). A great sport.

And widely played in girls' schools in England in the twentieth century, I believe. (Which isn't meant to be a "we-tougher-than-you" comment. But some of those girls' schools must have been tough...)

[Niall]

Try playing gaelic football mate

Now theres a good sport

with the only protective equipment is a gumshield for the softies

Gumsheild for footie is a wimps game.

We'll let you have it for hurling. Thats all.

what about helmets?

[MissWalshy]

Um for hurling ok. (perhaps)

[Eric V]

And widely played in girls' schools in England in the twentieth century, I believe. (Which isn't meant to be a "we-tougher-than-you" comment. But some of those girls' schools must have been tough...)

Ahhh.... like field hockey here. The men play real hockey and the girls play field hockey (with little girly skirts, no helmet or anything). I hear field hockey is huge in Germany, but then found out it is played by men. I'm assuming they wear that same field hockey uniform that our girls wear, because we must have gotten from Europe. I mean a bunch of men copying a bunch of school girls is just rediculous.

[Mick Molloy]

I hear field hockey is huge in Germany, but then found out it is played by men.

Nah women too and in Holland it's quite big too. Olympic champions for a couple of times.

Our hockey girls are most famous for being slutty though

[Eric V]

Our hockey girls are most famous for being slutty though

COOL!!!!!!

[Caukill]

...but that was a great win for them against the 'Galacticos' (translation: overpaid) of Real Madrid. Get-in!

[anfield boy]

...but that was a great win for them against the 'Galacticos' (translation: overpaid) of Real Madrid. Get-in!

You're having a laugh...I'll take an Arsenal loss any day. Aren't they just an English Galacticos? Real will sort it out in the 2nd leg easy-peasy.

[anfield boy]

And so will the boys from the Mersey in a fortnight!

[Simon Maguire]

Did anyone see the Alan Smiths Horror injury against Liverpool broken Leg and Dislocated Ankle. Ouch!

Theres some natsy pictures here.

Link

[Irish Rover]

Yeah that looked really painful.

[Eric V]

Did anyone see the Alan Smiths Horror injury against Liverpool broken Leg and Dislocated Ankle. Ouch!

Theres some natsy pictures here.

Link

WOW. I've actually seen one very much like that once before and thought for sure it was broken instead of being dislocated, and now it makes sense to me that it would have been dislocated instead of a horrible compound fracture. The guy I saw, and tried to help (we were in a cave) had a foot just hanging at the end of his leg.

[Simon Maguire]

The worst I saw was Dennis Irwin on the Coventry Player David Busst I think thats his name it made Big Peter Schmeichel actually throw up on the pitch.