Sunday, February 7, 2010

Foul Play


Just like Bulgarian soccer flew onto our radar a few months ago, Northern Ireland is trying to establish itself as a UF favorite destination. Once again, it’s for all of the wrong reasons. For those who do not remember, or are Redditors looking at Dani’s fail vid and sticking around for a bit, last week saw one Norn Iron team rat out another as too bankrupt to compete in a bankrupt TV network’s invitational competition. Today we see another cup failure, and a punch up on par with the best that South America has to offer.
In the misleadingly-named-to-me-because-I-am-American Irish Cup, the top-flight side Newry City hosted second-tier Larne in the fifth round. Match details are harder to come by than police reports on this match, but the best I can piece together is that Newry took the lead, Larne equalized and the Newry scored again somewhere around the 75th minute. Then, as we’ll see below in the pictures, it kicked off with a red card to Larne’s captain Liam Hogan in the 80th minute. Larne’s manager was sent off a couple of minutes later, and the brawl was on.

I’ve put these in the order I think they happened, which is little tough since the various news sites have them jumbled. Enjoy!

Original Story:
http://unprofessionalfoul.com/2010/01/18/south-america-you-are-on-the-clock/
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These Damn Soccer players are always trying to kill each other. Well actually it's mostly the fans but the players have been known to do some off the wall ish.