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November 3, 2003

IRISH DRUNKARD

So there I was, standing in front of the quiz machine with Alex M in O'Neill's last night, sipping on a Guinness and answering random music quesions on a game we'd never played before, when all of a sudden a small Irish man in an Ireland rugby top appeared in front of me, waggling his finger.

"If we were on the pitch together, we'd f*cking do you" he exclaimed, forcefully and frantically waving his digit by my chest. He was clearly expecting a reaction and probably hoping for some sort of aggressive retort.

"Yes, you probably would" I agreed, and threw the proverbial spanner in the works. Not knowing what to make of me, he didn't quite know what to say and asked whether I thought England would win the World Cup. When I told him that I hadn't watched any of the rugby that day and that I had been playing football instead, he got all aggressive again.

"I'm from Limerick and if you said that where I'm from you'd get the shite kicked outta yer." He stumbled forward, said that he would 'do us' if it was us on the pitch, admitted to being a bit pissed and kindly allowed us to continue with our game.

You see? It's not always football fans that give following sport a bad name, just most of the time.

Posted by jonola14 at November 3, 2003 10:40 PM