To quote from today's foot.ie thread regarding the latest FIFA rankings. Ireland 46th - North 49th. 

 

From Wolfie

 

As Jackie Fullerton, BBC NI has often said - "The glory days are back!!".

 

Jackie Fullerton is an arse and his son Darren is a bigger prat.

 

Not sure what his day job is, but he writes an article for the Northern version of the Daily Mirror on a Tuesday. Darren thinks Darron Gibson and the other Northern lads playing for Ireland are all a version of the Anti-Christ.

 

From yesterday’s contribution “ When your holding out on Stephen Ireland, Anthony Stokes, Paul McShane, Stephen Quinn, Stephen Hunt & Shane Long as some form of golden generation, you truly are clutching at shillelaghs”

 

Personally, I think most of those named above have potentially, a great future (once Stan goes) and with most of them playing regular premiership football I would be a hell of a lot more confident than Darren’s teams future success, most of whom play in the lower divisions in England and with the few premiership players in the squad, like Davis & Hughes lucky to make the Villa Subs bench on a weekly basis, I think they will be lucky to see to many more seasons of top flight football.

 

 Leaving aside the shillelagh remark, Darren & Jackie need to be retired and a less partisan attitude adopted by (some) within the media in the north who realise that a big proportion of ‘us’ support Ireland.

 

Just to update Darren’s quote from his article yesterday “Today? Ireland are ranked 49^th – lower than Uzbekistan, Ghana, Tunisia, Mali Cuba & Iran."

 

Well, Darren O’ Fullerton, begorrah, just to update you on today’s rankings,us Belfast/Derry/Newry/Lurgan/Enniskillen/Omagh/Downpatrick/Portadown/Armagh/Coleraine boys are ranked 46^th & the North are ranked 49^th, so while we are both still ranked below, Ghana, Tunisia, Mali, Chile & Iran, at least we have both moved above Cuba & Uzbekistan.

 

What a success for football in Ireland !!!