@woofwooflad89@Ben_Scallan You should be delighted Christianity is dying out in the country anyway. If you read what Jesus was teaching you'd think he was a woke lefty liberal 😂
@woofwooflad89@Ben_Scallan I feel sorry for you too. It must be exhausting seething with hate 24/7. Boiling with anger every time you see a brown person. What an awful life 😂😂😂
@woofwooflad89@Ben_Scallan You've come on here to piss and moan that the countrys going to hell under a post about fewer people raising their children Catholic so I assumed you were religious. Nobody in this country is permitted by law to marry a child so your argument is mute.
@woofwooflad89@Ben_Scallan Ah yes blame everyone else but the church. Anyone who harms children should be punished by the letter of the law no matter who they are. Blaming all migrants for what a tiny minority do is like me blame religious morons like you for what the church has done.
@woofwooflad89@Ben_Scallan Ye! Bring back the good old days when priests could fiddle as many kids as they wanted and nuns could run sweat shops for young single mothers!
@hfgt2xwf8j@sinnfeinireland And if an Israeli showed up on your doorstep and said your home and land were promised to them 3000 years ago I presume as a fellow parasitic planter you would just step aside?
Did you know a Dubliner saved Spanish football. According to his fans, at least. "Don Patricio" was born Patrick O’Connell in 1887. O’Connell’s football career took off in England, where he captained a fledgling Manchester United. But to see how he is viewed as a legend, we need to travel to Seville, and visit a soccer club called Real Betis Balompié.
In 1922, Patrick O’Connell arrived in Spain, a country whose footballing identity then was still in its adolescence. Despite being barely able to speak a handful of words in Spanish by 1931, O'Connell had taken charge of Real Betis, a club with passion but little pedigree.
Contemporary accounts celebrated him for bringing discipline, speed, and a philosophy to the club. He banned smoking among his players, which was considered revolutionary at the time, and preached things like conditioning and drilled things like the offside trap.
And then the fruits of his "unorthodox" training paid off in the season of 1934–1935 when from nowhere, Betis rose to the summit of Spanish football and captured their only La Liga title. By modern comparisons it was a Leicester City moment. That triumph is still sung in Seville. He began to be reverently known as "Don Patricio".
In 1935, Don Patricio accepted the job of managing FC Barcelona, a club already entangled in the political storms gathering over Spain. When the Spanish Civil War erupted in 1936, football stopped. Barcelona was nearly destroyed, not just financially but physically. The club’s president, Josep Sunyol, a nationalist politician, was executed by pro-Franco forces.
To keep the club alive, Don Patricio led Barcelona on a tour of Mexico and the United States in 1937. It was a bizarre odyssey in the middle of a collapsing world. The tour earned enough money to save the club from bankruptcy.
He arranged for the funds to be kept safe in a French bank, away from seizure. This act alone, many argue, made him the Saviour of Barcelona. Many of the Barcelona players stayed abroad, choosing exile over violence. Don Patricio however returned to Spain.
After the war, he rejoined Real Betis and helped lift them back into the top division. Now unfortunatley Betis would eventually become associated with Franco`s fascist regime. Later, Don Patricio even crossed the great divide and managed Sevilla FC, Betis’ fiercest rival.
In Seville, that alone should be enough to make a man infamous. Instead, they remember him with fondness. There is a bronze bust of him in the museum of Real Betis in Seville and he has a plaque in Dublin. He died in London in 1959, sadly poor and largely forgotten.
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@JimFras79544562@georgegalloway Wow Irish people are being exterminated!? And here I am living in Ireland my whole life and I didn't even realize. Oh wait, this is right wing garbage. My mistake.