The PC and Perpetually Offended Brigade

[astfgyl]

I'm still struggling with the notion that any manager would be such a cunt as to pick a lad to take the potentially losing penalty for any sort of political reason.

[Blackout]

The reason he missed was because of toxic masculinity.

[Caomhaoin]

Ah jaysus. Can't even have a laugh these days without having to apologise for it.

https://www.the42.ie/bernard-obyrne-apology-raheem-sterling-penalty-euro-2020-5490284-Jul2021/

I suppose his white privilege ran out 

https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/othersport/arid-40336421.html

What a fanny! Apologises and then resigns because of Black Dives Matter?!

Declan Rice once tweeted 'Up the Ra' and started a European final for England on Sunday evening. Yeah but that's different though.

I fail to see the point of tweeting anything anymore.

[astfgyl]

Yeah the Rice one is funny. Wife couldn't believe it when I told her that one.

[Emphyrio]

Ah jaysus. Can't even have a laugh these days without having to apologise for it.

https://www.the42.ie/bernard-obyrne-apology-raheem-sterling-penalty-euro-2020-5490284-Jul2021/

I suppose his white privilege ran out 

https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/othersport/arid-40336421.html

What a fanny! Apologises and then resigns because of Black Dives Matter?!

Declan Rice once tweeted 'Up the Ra' and started a European final for England on Sunday evening. Yeah but that's different though.

I fail to see the point of tweeting anything anymore.

Luckily I'm not on twitter and I've chosen to ignore as much of the outrage that appears on it. The worst part of this case above is your man apologising. Fuckin ape. Sign of the times sadly, with the bleeding heart mammy's boys with fragile dispositions. Fortunately the only time I encounter that is on here.

[Trev]

I'm still struggling with the notion that any manager would be such a cunt as to pick a lad to take the potentially losing penalty for any sort of political reason.

Same, I just can't see that as a reason, but I also can't fathom why he would have picked Saka. The lads never kicked a penalty in a competitive match.

If (and its a massive if) it was for some sort of political/inclusion/whatever reason, surely it should have been Sterling? He's also black, takes penalties at City, and would give a giant redemption arc after all the bollocks he's been subjected to from the English tabloids

I'm guessing maybe Southgate thought Saka would just be a bit of a wildcard and Italy wouldn't have prepped for him being a taker

[Mower Liberation Front]

Maguires was a proper penalty. Picked his spot and whacked it home. Keeper ain't ever saving that.

Hate the miserable, ugly head on that cunt (imagine I said that about a black player?) but it was a screamer alright.

If he had missed, it would be interesting to see how much of the racist abuse would be happening today, I think it would have been virtually all anti-United abuse (Saka wouldn't have had to take a penalty as a result).

[Caomhaoin]

Ah jaysus. Can't even have a laugh these days without having to apologise for it.

https://www.the42.ie/bernard-obyrne-apology-raheem-sterling-penalty-euro-2020-5490284-Jul2021/

I suppose his white privilege ran out 

https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/othersport/arid-40336421.html

What a fanny! Apologises and then resigns because of Black Dives Matter?!

Declan Rice once tweeted 'Up the Ra' and started a European final for England on Sunday evening. Yeah but that's different though.

I fail to see the point of tweeting anything anymore.

Luckily I'm not on twitter and I've chosen to ignore as much of the outrage that appears on it. The worst part of this case above is your man apologising. Fuckin ape. Sign of the times sadly, with the bleeding heart mammy's boys with fragile dispositions. Fortunately the only time I encounter that is on here.

'Fuckin Ape' Old school, one of the auld lads favourites. One of the neighbours used to call me a 'fuckin' Arab' when I was a young fella because of sliotars and tennis balls hopping off his roof and walls.

[Emphyrio]

I'll probably get called out for being a racist now.

[Ollkiller]

Lads if the best penalty takers in training were those 5 lads that's why they took the penalties. Yer reading wayyyyy too much into this. When I played soccer and we had a cup game you practiced penalties to see whom was the best. It's not rocket science.

[Caomhaoin]

Eh, Junior B and this are slightly different.

When I played hurling, a lad climbed over a small wall for a piss in the middle of the match. In school challenge matches against the Gael Scoil we'd laugh in their faces for having two or three girls on the team and scored 'own points' because they were so shite.

And there wasn't a culture war raging either, unless you count the diversity of the GS and them losing 9-46 to 0-3 (all scored by Declan Brennan who was from my school).

[astfgyl]

I'm still struggling with the notion that any manager would be such a cunt as to pick a lad to take the potentially losing penalty for any sort of political reason.

Same, I just can't see that as a reason, but I also can't fathom why he would have picked Saka. The lads never kicked a penalty in a competitive match.

If (and its a massive if) it was for some sort of political/inclusion/whatever reason, surely it should have been Sterling? He's also black, takes penalties at City, and would give a giant redemption arc after all the bollocks he's been subjected to from the English tabloids

I'm guessing maybe Southgate thought Saka would just be a bit of a wildcard and Italy wouldn't have prepped for him being a taker

Yeah I reckon it was something like that. Trying to be too clever and outfoxing himself. I don't really have that pure hatred for the England team (not including the fans, they are obnoxious for the most part) that some seem to have so I felt bad for the young Icarus. Thought Italy were far better on the night though and deserved it.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Declan Rice once tweeted 'Up the Ra' and started a European final for England on Sunday evening. Yeah but that's different though.

Rice was 16 at the time he made those tweets, so yeah, a bit different alright.

[Caomhaoin]

Shouldn't you be off spray painting NAZI on the Sean Russell statue or O'Duffy's headstone, in solidarity with those infantile zombies in Virginia who got the Lewis and Clark (FFS!) statue torn down?

Edit - Fuck this, life is too short to be arguing with Maoists on the internet.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

It's Bastille Day man, I'm supposed to be celebrating the destruction of several monuments a couple of hundred years ago. Except of course, as Brel correctly pointed out, "ça n'a rien changé !" Which is just another way of saying life is too short to be worrying about any external trappings!