Is he the brains of the operation?

I think this sums up that particular website. Here is one of their contributors suggestions for a cover for the NI version of the FIFA '08 game.

http://ourweecountry.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=19541&st=0

Note the red hand and crown and, er, the picture of Spanish Striker. Nacho Novo wearing a Rangers top.

Next time he should the guy in the right with, perhaps, Lennie Murphy??

"Note the red hand and crown"
My God they've used the Northern Ireland flag as the background for their Northern Ireland-customised cover!!! Well fuck me!

"I think this sums up that particular website. "

OK, the Nacho Novo thing (I never even noticed it was a Rangers top, you're really good at this finding things to be offended by stuff) was a bit stupid, but are you seriously suggesting the "whole website" can be summed up by some kid showing off on Photoshop? I'm taking the liberty of amending your link to point to the thread itself rather than just the image, just to illustrate some of the follow up posts such as:

B_HNISC: "Not all Northern Ireland supporters are Gers fans"
eightball: "... why is Novo on a NI themed cover? Last time I checked he was Spanish..."

And another member's PS3 version, sans Novo, and then the revised XBox 360 one of the same design (after the designer of the original decided the one without Novo looked better).

Not that I'd think you were trying to manipulate readers into believing the worst by providing selective evidence or anything.

I didn't know Nacho Novo was a Catholic (I guess it's hardly surprising when you think about it). It's true you know, you learn something new every day.

Beano,

You have to register to view the forum, that's why I posted the picture.

"Not that I'd think you were trying to manipulate readers into believing the worst by providing selective evidence or anything."

You would have a good point there..where it not for the fact that you tried to the same by posting this youtube clip on this very forum...

http://www.everythingulster.com/blogs/index.php/everythingulster/2006/09/12/about_that_all_ireland_football_team

Nearly as hypocritical as this piece slating the BBC for calling the repubic ireland, as i you demonstrate you rather curtailed map of ulster at the top of the screen:

http://www.everythingulster.com/blogs/index.php/everythingulster/2006/09/03/open_complaint_to_the_bbc

Must try harder Beano,
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I apologise if you hadn't been able to read the forum, but you did come across as quite keen to be offended and I let my suspicions get the better of me. I'm sorry.

So assuming you could view the forum yourself (or did you get the image from another forum?) why post the one when you presumably spotted the others as well?

The YouTube clip was simply to dispel the myth that it's only NI fans have problems with sectarianism. I think it did that. You, on the other hand, used one picture by one user to try and "sum up a particular web site" which has thousands of members. Do you not agree it's a bit sweeping?

Finally, the BBC is a publicly funded organisation and in they made a mistake (this was the football team, remember? It has a name and it's the Republic of Ireland). I'm not, and you know fine rightly my position on the terminology of Ulster which is a lot less clearly defined.

quick go to slugger it seems you were a little bit premature with your celebrations

Reg and Oneill - I've moved your comments to the original thread regarding that video. Feel free to continue the discussion there.

Probably is a bit sweeping, but did you post any youtube clips of irish fans singing the fields of athenry or drinking in a bar without causing any "problems"? No. SO you were just as sweeping.

Nobody think you are british except you. I am sorry that you still do, but there you go. The people in GB don't, and neither did the fans who sang the songs. As they are clearly the people under the spotlight, it would also be unreasonable to take offence at what they said, as in their eyes you were not their target.

In relation to the BBC, it looks like they may have been right after all. Looking forward to Sean Og O'Suilleabhain playing for OWC. Ho ho!! Oh this is so funny...

Dan - I'll make this simple, I posted the one video I saw. In the single thread you highlighted there were 2 or 3 other images. Therein lies the difference. I'm not discussing the video itself any more on this thread, there's another one for that to which I've already moved some comments.

Sticking a Rangers player who happens to be Spanish on a Northern Ireland themed cover is bloody stupid, but when you think about it if FIFA rules are to be enforced fairly across every team he should then be able to play for Northern Ireland, after all he has lived in the UK for over 4 years and is eligible for a passport.

So you might say Nacho Novo has as much right to play for Northern Ireland as Darren Gibson does the Republic.

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Behave yourself Dan.

This would probably all blow over if the IFA took its FFA scheme seriously and implemented its OWN REPORT into the flags and anthems issue.

i would like to see an all ireland team the north and south playing together without bigotry or sectarianism