Martin Samuel article

[Teknique]

In todays Mail !!!

Careful Andrew, there are skeletons in Ireland's closet , too

After a week of Irish glory and glorification at Cheltenham and two very jolly days in Dublin to follow, many Englishmen would have felt the bond between our countries had become rather civilised these days.

So it came as something of a surprise to pick up the newspapers on Monday and discover what really inspired Ireland's Six Nations victory over England at the Aviva Stadium: hatred.

Andrew Trimble, the Ireland wing, let this slip, describing a rallying call from lock and most recent Lions captain Paul O'Connell prior to the game. 'I always love listening to him during England week,' Trimble said.

'We wanted to get everything right technically, but we also wanted to use our physicality, our intensity, just a real hatred. We never get sick of beating England; that is why we enjoyed the win so much. There's a lot of history there.'

Indeed there is. Like the European Union's £73.7billion bailout for the failing Irish economy last November, that could end up costing British taxpayers in the region of £6.07bn.

Not many songs about that on Saturday, though, just the usual one about prison ships, prison walls and a terrible famine that took place 160 years ago yet is still thrown in the face of every visitor in an England shirt, as if it was cooked up in the Harlequins dressing room last Tuesday.

Maybe next time Martin Johnson visits he could give a rousing and equally relevant speech before the game based on vengeance for all the little kiddies abused by Ireland's paedophile priests.

Or is it only the English who have entries in the history books of which their modern descendants might be ashamed?


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...nce-ends-John-Terry-affair.html#ixzz1HR5I8vRp

 

[Langer Dan]

Talk about not being able to take your beating.

Still you'd expect no more from that rag.

 

[Teknique]

It's a bit of an over reaction to say the least

 

[Langer Dan]

Usual incoherent gibberish from that particular imbecile.

Belittling the importance of the famine in the context of a game of rubgy is staggeringly ignorant and all too telling of the standard of 'journalism' that passes muster at the heil.

 

[King demon]

Safe to say he is rattled.

 

[gingin]

martin samuel - daily mail.. say no more!

 

[Lapsy Pa]

I thought he was a sportswriter?

 

[Stacky]

From next weeks Daily Mail

"IRISH RUGBY PLAYERS MAKE IMMIGRANTS GIVE DRUGS TO OUR PETS TRAUMA"

 

[steve sanders]

From next weeks Daily Mail

"IRISH RUGBY PLAYERS MAKE IMMIGRANTS GIVE DRUGS TO OUR PETS TRAUMA"

to be fair, they really shouldn't be doing that.

 

[Stacky]

to be fair, they really shouldn't be doing that.

It is the only way we will win anything at the Olympics....take the drugs you animal.

Like TEAM GB getting into minority sports no one knows about to get a few medals.

Morris dancing.

Skittles.

Quoits.