Welcome to the forums! Glad to see a football fan who (presumably) likes Mourinho here , hope you guys win the Scudetto this year.
I love Mou. I'd have him back in a heartbeat. Sadly I can't see us winning anything with Conte. I'm in two minds whether to even watch the game this evening as I'm expecting it to be far too painful. Do you support a "Mourinho team"?
I think you lot have a really good squad that'll win silverware even if Conte isn't the best manager out there, Lukaku and Martinez are such a dangerous duo up front. And I'm more of a "Mourinho disciple" who follows him wherever he goes - I'm not from Europe or the Americas so I'm not connected to a football club the way that most posters on this forum are.
I'm not sure. Tonight was great but there have been some really ropey performances and Lautaro isn't as good as last season. Lukaku has improved a lot though on an already good performance last season.
Where are you from if you don't mind me asking?
Hello and Welcome! Here's another TP to you
Thanks!
Welcome mate, hope you like it here! Glad to always have more Irish people around here. My dads family are from Cork & Tipperary, and my girlfriends dad was born and raised in Charleville, so I’m pretty surrounded by Irish culture as far as Australians go.
Hopefully you can give me a few pointers about hurling. Love the highlights, but not sure I quite get it yet...
Tipp is Kilkenny's other big rival! Certainly I'd be more than happy to talk about hurling with you. There is nothing going on at the moment (January is pretty much a dead month GAA wise anyway though there should have been some games this year because of a reconstructed calendar but they're off because of covid) but when it's back on I'll let you know and help you with finding links to watch it on etc. In my opinion, someone who likes basketball should be predisposed to enjoying hurling and vice versa as they're very much end-to-end matches and the fact teams can come back (and quite quickly) from improbable scorelines is common to both. We often say in hurling, "a ten point lead is nothing" (because of the fact it can be erased in a few minutes).
Hey umm, just to let you know. The Celtics aren't always THIS bad. Today was just a bad game and they were due for a letdown I guess lol
I am aware of that haha! In my opinion, the Celtics players knew I needed a reason to change channel before Inter - Juventus started so they gave me one lol! All teams have an off day, let's hope this was simply that (for Celtics).
Welcome to the greatest Celtics forums on the internet! My Mom's side of our family is of Welsh decent—her maiden name was Brann, which is probably a variant of Brown/Braun.
If your mother's maiden name was of Welsh heritage, it's probable that it is actually an Anglicisation of brân. It would make sense as the double n would point to the fact that the ending is longer than in the word "bran". The accent over the a in brân serves the purpose of elongating the sound in the Welsh language (a completely different language to English - as different as say Russian to English). From Welsh mythology there is Brân the Blessed, a giant and a king. The word brân is usually translated to mean crow or raven and the feminine version of Brân, Brânwen, would be common enough in Wales particularly among first language Welsh (Cymraeg) families.
Very cool info. Thanks!
No worries
I will also bid you welcome to the forum.
I'm from Denmark and it is very pleasing to have other Europeans in here and especially from a nice country with some of the nicest and most welcoming people.
By the way I have read several posts debatting if the US should be like the Scandinavian countries and in that perspective I will answer any questions about living here, especially because the reality is both far from how Bernie Sanders describes it but also far away from what Trish Adams describes. It's a great country to live in but not everything is perfect!
Even here in Ireland there is talk about whether the Scandinavian models should be adopted. In my opinion, there is a bit of "the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence". I don't mean any disrespect to any Scandinavian countries but I don't believe there is a "perfect country". Here people talk about Scandinavia as a socialist paradise. They almost always forget however that the "socialist paradise" they're talking about is still rigidly capitalist. I'm not trying to open a debate about left and right, just trying to give a pragmatic view. Also, and you'd be able to confirm this, Sanders in Europe would be seen as centre-left at most. That isn't intended as praise nor as criticism, just again a pragmatic and realistic view. However, I'm certainly not trying to provoke anyone nor to open a debate (certainly not with what is my fifteenth or sixteenth post lol) so I hope I haven't.
I'd love to visit Scandinavia but the difficulty is it is very expensive even by European standards.