• I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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    7 hours ago

    I really wish people would see past the nanometer thick veneer of shiny that FIFA and every big team puts on, hiding their extreme corruption and bad habit coverups.

    Football (suck it, USA) has so much money being thrown at it from all sides that it’s no wonder it has some of the worst institutions running the show. Yet a LOT of people will still go out of their way to “support” the team, despite being too fucking poor for said team’s own tastes.

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        4 hours ago

        Ireland has Gaelic football too so you have to figure out from context which football is being referred to.

        We even play against the Aussies at a mix of the two football types occasionally which is called international rules.

        Their lads are fucking massive as they play it professionally while Gaelic football is strictly amateur (all the money gets pumped back into local clubs which generally end up being very nice as a result).