Songs By Oz Fans Back IRA

by gaillimhed Fri Jan 10, 2003 13:02

whats the barmy army?

by Ray Fri Jan 10, 2003 13:20

Hence the 'barmy' bit

by iosaf jedi who started the ionad cumarsaid eirinn cricketers Fri Jan 10, 2003 13:53

it´s a great game.
only in the last forty wight hours have I seen references to Cricket here on indymedia ireland.
I have reffered to my boyhood ability to bowl a googly and the excellent fastline bowling techniques of the Jamaican side back in the Fritz Fanon days.
Bit of an odd one that, for the benefit of some Fritz Fanon was not a cricketer but rather a marxist philospher and political writer who concerned himself with questions of Race and western imperialism. It seems to me that some in this forum should read some Fanon.
Today I made reference to Samuel Beckett´s cricketing career, Sam of course represented not only his university (Dublin) but also Ireland as a an all round fine cricketer.
Cricket has offered the English language many interesting expressions, shortleg, square leg, and so on, if I were to use these expressions in my writing though I´m sure I´d lose reader´s fragile understanding of the points I do so ofen try and make.

There was a popular expression in the nineteenth century that the British Empire had been won on the cricket fields of Eton. I have once before on indymedia ireland made reference to Eton College for boys which is located in Berkshire, England, I directed readers to the vacancies that existed last year for Chemistry, Biology and History teaching posts. I also reminded readers that class war means a lot more than many ignorant of both history, cricket and Fanon might mean.

My friends in Berkshire have since told me that the vacancies are filled, though there will soon be one in the excellent Eton Chinese department.

Followers of Reclaim the Streets! over the years will remember that a scholarship Eton boy was charged with attacking the Whitehall Mc Donalds on May 1st 2000.

He I might now tell you is a fine cricketer.

Baseball and Rounders are popular global variations on Cricket, there are hard and softball options.

I very much enjoy playing games and always have though thanks to a sick note was able to excuse myself from games satisfying my gamesmaster Mr Jennings that I was in truth a "weedy bookworm type".

The Irish national cricket side is very weak, I often have thought what terrible wankers the great Mr Beckett must have found himself in the company of, but I suppose in his later years working as an underground reconaisance agent for the French Resistance he must have met a better type of chap.

I support my accusations of poor play by reference to the terrible trouncing suffered by the Irish side at the hands of Somerset a few years ago, really the idea that a small English county side could humiliate the Irish so really saddened me.

Australian cricket has benefited over the last few years from increased imigration from South East Asia, the Indians and Pakistanis being most excellent cricketers and most happy to beat the English at their own game.

by Mags Fri Jan 10, 2003 15:19

According to reports English fans touring Australia (where the team is being roundly thrashed in games) have been making boorish ignorant comments about the Aussies and holding up banners referring to the opposition as 'convicts', etc. Anyhow someone has a go back with the above songs, etc. and the English fans started moaning to the media.
And I thought cricket was boring...

by Justin Moran - Sinn Fein Fri Jan 10, 2003 15:26 maigh_nuad at yahoo dot com

Mags, as a former cricketer of no mean skill I can tell you it's not a boring sport. In fact, as events in Australia prove it's on the front line of the dialectic and the international struggle against imperialism being waged by progressive forces around the world.

by ? Fri Jan 10, 2003 17:20

Carefull Justin you'll get yourself expelled, provies don't play cricket, now stop that nonsense and get out your hurl (or baseball bat)

by Justin Moran - Ye Olde Crick Club Fri Jan 10, 2003 17:20

If the ball hits the batter's pads and the umpire deems that the path of the ball would have seen it knock the wicket if the pad had not interfered he's LBW. Enough of this.

by Mags Fri Jan 10, 2003 17:30

My Dad used to play cricket in London, but it was with teams of West Indian lads and he was shite. Brought me along to one of these games when I was about six and I was never as bored for a whole afternoon in my entire life. Since then have seen it on telly of course and it is still boring - except for the bits at the end when the inferior colonials go mental due to having hammered the English, yet again.

However historically cricket was played a lot in Ireland. In Westmeath there were about 25 cricket clubs up to about 1910 or so. They initially started off for the staff of big estates, but developed and had leagues of their own and it was Irish working class people playing in rural areas, not the chinless wonders. There was one up until the late 80s that I recall and many of it's members were lads working with Bord Na Mona or the Board of Works. I think they have all died out in that area now. There is Ladies Cricket Club around Greystones somewhere, I knew a girl who was in it - dreadfully middle class though.

by ???? Fri Jan 10, 2003 17:32

Fritz or Franz Fanon, you ignorant pseudo satirical twat, I see Indymedia has evolved into a fine hack pit, what a shame so much potential gone down the drain, enjoy your cricket..

by ¿¿¿¿¿ Fri Jan 10, 2003 18:40

I type very quickly.
and often make mistakes.
as for being ignorant would tht be a manichean accusation?
do you resent how the material dialectic of cricket being discussed here?
or do you resent who is discussing it?
and "ignorant pseudo satirical twat",
what pray is that?
does that mean I am not really a satirical twat?
what is a satirical twat?
what is an ignorant one?
is that to mean that before you told me I had didn´´t know?
does that mean I can now be a
former ignorant but now advised pseudo satirical twat?
and have you read Fanon?
don´t you think there are many in this forum who should read him? to perhaps better understand the world beyond them and the migrants arriving and MR KEnny´s use of the "N" word?

do you play cricket?
do you know who played cricket with Beckett?
do you know any etonians?
there are several in Ireland.

or do you just have gripes?
you silly billy.
I was being quite serious.
when I do satire it´s different
beckett played cricket in TCD with wankers.
total bastards.
and he thought so too.
And if you check the tabloids for May 2nd 2000 you will find reports of the eton svcholarship boy who attacked MC Donalds, then in you read the report you will find that his father too a university lecturer in sociology who said in court he supported the aims of RTS that day but not the actions of his son, (nor did I for that matter).
Now next time I´ll be careful will the spelling my names properly and remembering accurately everything shall I?
would you like that?

by googly? Fri Jan 10, 2003 20:15

Here in Zimbabwe there is much talk about britain Aus and NZ boycotting the world cricket cup that is supposed to be being held here. Not being from Zimbabwe - i'm not sure what to make of all the fuss. I'd be interested in hearing your views...

by iosaf Sat Jan 11, 2003 16:43

they are no longer very sporting are they?
who made Rinaldo play back in the 90s NIKE or manager?
if boycotting the world cup helps imporvoe the living conditions of Zimbabwe (Spelling) people then cool.
if not then just more political sport shite.

we saw this in Soth AFrica with rugby.
and Connaught with the IRFU.
sport is a option to avoid political conflict.cliché.
it just a game no?
Fanon didn´t directly write about Z. nor di he play cricket, but his thoughts on manipulation are well known.

i tell you more next week.

by cricket fans Fri Apr 02, 2004 17:04

even in my most petulant days
when I would argue, insult and be realy irked and irksome
the response to stimuli of those who used this resource.

I never understimated cricket.
& it says much that those who understood the game were those who wrote about it and those who now are seen throughout the land, on both sides of the "border" as liars, drug addicts, hypocrites, polishing their little buttons did not even offer a word on that wonderful game.

Minister & Minister wanna be,
do you know what square leg means?
no. you don't.

= coz you were black balled.

by drains gutter stars and sewerage Fri Apr 02, 2004 17:08

¿is it not?
psuedo-Minister.
psuedo-Democrat
psuedo-Progressive
psuedo-Republican

did I mis-spell that?

I look forward to the maturing of my talent, so practised in pseudo-amateur gentleman cricketeer days on "you".