If you are in Harringay and you hear somebody calling Yusuf or Abdul you are on the Turkish side of Green Lanes. If you hear somebody shout Georgio or Stefan you are on the Greek side. If you hear somebody shout "Oi Cant!" you are in the middle of the road.
Quote from: john e on January 26, 2017, 06:40:07 PMi have two sons called Albert and Connor, so this would be the first time we have the possibility of both names in the team playing at the same time in our historya random fact of no consequence whatsoeverabout the name Connor/Conor a Irish friend told me a long time ago that the name spelt with two N's was the Protestant way of spelling it and the one N was the Catholic way.apparently in Ireland there is no end of ways to decipher what side your on without having to say a word, maybe one of our Irish lads will know moreConor is an Irish Christian name and Connor is an Irish surname. I think the latter is more to do with the modern phenomena of using surnames as first names.
i have two sons called Albert and Connor, so this would be the first time we have the possibility of both names in the team playing at the same time in our historya random fact of no consequence whatsoeverabout the name Connor/Conor a Irish friend told me a long time ago that the name spelt with two N's was the Protestant way of spelling it and the one N was the Catholic way.apparently in Ireland there is no end of ways to decipher what side your on without having to say a word, maybe one of our Irish lads will know more
Quote from: saunders_heroes on January 26, 2017, 08:20:24 PMQuote from: john e on January 26, 2017, 06:40:07 PMi have two sons called Albert and Connor, so this would be the first time we have the possibility of both names in the team playing at the same time in our historya random fact of no consequence whatsoeverabout the name Connor/Conor a Irish friend told me a long time ago that the name spelt with two N's was the Protestant way of spelling it and the one N was the Catholic way.apparently in Ireland there is no end of ways to decipher what side your on without having to say a word, maybe one of our Irish lads will know moreConor is an Irish Christian name and Connor is an Irish surname. I think the latter is more to do with the modern phenomena of using surnames as first names.Is the correct answer. O Connor is the Irish surname. It is said that the Connors dropped the O when they converted to Protestantism for food during the famine. I don't know if there is any truth to this, but you will hear it termed as 'They took the soup'. As an aside, Bandon would have been predominantly Protestant when I was growing up. I'm not sure what the score is now.
Quote from: Mossie Hennebry on January 26, 2017, 08:47:53 PMQuote from: saunders_heroes on January 26, 2017, 08:20:24 PMQuote from: john e on January 26, 2017, 06:40:07 PMi have two sons called Albert and Connor, so this would be the first time we have the possibility of both names in the team playing at the same time in our historya random fact of no consequence whatsoeverabout the name Connor/Conor a Irish friend told me a long time ago that the name spelt with two N's was the Protestant way of spelling it and the one N was the Catholic way.apparently in Ireland there is no end of ways to decipher what side your on without having to say a word, maybe one of our Irish lads will know moreConor is an Irish Christian name and Connor is an Irish surname. I think the latter is more to do with the modern phenomena of using surnames as first names.Is the correct answer. O Connor is the Irish surname. It is said that the Connors dropped the O when they converted to Protestantism for food during the famine. I don't know if there is any truth to this, but you will hear it termed as 'They took the soup'. As an aside, Bandon would have been predominantly Protestant when I was growing up. I'm not sure what the score is now.Over the centuries families just drop the "O" from their names for various reasons. My own surname originally had an "O" before it but it hasn't anymore for whatever reason. Sometimes they're just dropped out of even laziness. I have a mate called Reilly who (about 20 years ago) applied for an Irish passport. He had to get his dad's birth certificate and when he got it it said his dad was born O'Reilly. When he spoke to his dad he said, "oh yeah I dropped the O when I came to England so I could get a job."
It's a bit shit, isn't it (the kit, not the signing).