green pennies
Well-Known Member
Ireland.
Don't have any great reasons other than that footballers are supposed to be people that you can kind of look up to. They should be a bit.. I guess the best way to say it is "cool". Even when you start to get older than many of them (at 29 tomorrow I'm starting to get into that territory myself), I think even older supporters have that part of them that idolizes players in a big brother/cool older kids at school kind of way.. and Ireland was like the opposite of that for me. Total douche! Tried so hard to be cool that he surely wasn't! The kind of guy I would go out of my way to avoid. This is all based on non-football stuff though, so perhaps it's unfair.
If it's being decided based on on-the-field stuff, then for all his genius (and I am a bit Jekyll and Hyde about him.. I don't know how I feel about him from one day to the next), Mario can be supremely frustrating. One minute he is taking horrendous cards that kill the team or diving like a punk and the next he is amazing - embarassing the scum at the swamp or making a gorgeous pass to Kun to set up a title-winning goal (also his pens are bad-ass).
But it's funny.. Even though I have been all over the forums angry at Balo from time to time, when I think of life without him I actually start to get a bit sad! the parent/teacher/coach part of me hates him and the fan part of me loves him.
So yeah, I'll stay with Ireland for my answer.
Also wanted to say that I've never fully understood the AJ hate. Fun player to watch, disappearing acts and all, and he did score (and set up) some crackers this year!
Don't have any great reasons other than that footballers are supposed to be people that you can kind of look up to. They should be a bit.. I guess the best way to say it is "cool". Even when you start to get older than many of them (at 29 tomorrow I'm starting to get into that territory myself), I think even older supporters have that part of them that idolizes players in a big brother/cool older kids at school kind of way.. and Ireland was like the opposite of that for me. Total douche! Tried so hard to be cool that he surely wasn't! The kind of guy I would go out of my way to avoid. This is all based on non-football stuff though, so perhaps it's unfair.
If it's being decided based on on-the-field stuff, then for all his genius (and I am a bit Jekyll and Hyde about him.. I don't know how I feel about him from one day to the next), Mario can be supremely frustrating. One minute he is taking horrendous cards that kill the team or diving like a punk and the next he is amazing - embarassing the scum at the swamp or making a gorgeous pass to Kun to set up a title-winning goal (also his pens are bad-ass).
But it's funny.. Even though I have been all over the forums angry at Balo from time to time, when I think of life without him I actually start to get a bit sad! the parent/teacher/coach part of me hates him and the fan part of me loves him.
So yeah, I'll stay with Ireland for my answer.
Also wanted to say that I've never fully understood the AJ hate. Fun player to watch, disappearing acts and all, and he did score (and set up) some crackers this year!