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Offline brian green

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Re: Conor Hourihane - SIGNED
« Reply #660 on: January 26, 2017, 08:31:33 PM »
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.

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Re: Conor Hourihane - SIGNED
« Reply #661 on: January 26, 2017, 08:35:30 PM »
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.

made me laugh thankyou

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Re: Conor Hourihane - SIGNED
« Reply #662 on: January 26, 2017, 08:46:54 PM »
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.

Stewards order...

It'd be Mustafa or Emre on the Turkish side...

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Re: Conor Hourihane - SIGNED
« Reply #663 on: January 26, 2017, 08:47:53 PM »
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 history

a random fact of no consequence whatsoever

about 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

Conor 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.

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Re: Conor Hourihane - SIGNED
« Reply #664 on: January 26, 2017, 08:53:31 PM »
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 history

a random fact of no consequence whatsoever

about 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

Conor 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.

I heard Billy Connolly say something along these lines a few years ago

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Re: Conor Hourihane - SIGNED
« Reply #665 on: January 26, 2017, 08:57:37 PM »
I bow to your first hand knowledge Mr W.  I don't go to Harringay much since they closed the dog track.  Walt Disney's family came from Harringay.  Ths notta lotta peepul know thet.  Maurice Micklewhite circa 1963.

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Re: Conor Hourihane - SIGNED
« Reply #666 on: January 26, 2017, 10:02:07 PM »
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 history

a random fact of no consequence whatsoever

about 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

Conor 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."

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Re: Conor Hourihane - SIGNED
« Reply #667 on: January 26, 2017, 10:40:39 PM »
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 history

a random fact of no consequence whatsoever

about 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

Conor 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."

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Re: Conor Hourihane - SIGNED
« Reply #668 on: January 26, 2017, 10:55:48 PM »
Great to hear that sort of attitude.  One thing we've lacked badly in recent years.  Players who are desperate to be here as opposed to a nice big pay day

https://twitter.com/thevillazone/status/824643530954051585

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Re: Conor Hourihane - SIGNED
« Reply #669 on: January 26, 2017, 11:11:39 PM »
A lovely thing to hear. Good man Conor and good luck. I've a feeling he'll be great for us.

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Re: Conor Hourihane - SIGNED
« Reply #670 on: January 27, 2017, 12:00:45 AM »
Stretching a purple shirt there. Unbelievable that kit manufacturers can't get the right colour these days.

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Re: Conor Hourihane - SIGNED
« Reply #671 on: January 27, 2017, 12:24:53 AM »
It's a bit shit, isn't it (the kit, not the signing).

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Re: Conor Hourihane - SIGNED
« Reply #672 on: January 27, 2017, 12:27:48 AM »
It's a bit shit, isn't it (the kit, not the signing).

It is. Burnley have a good shade of claret. Not sure why we can't nail it.

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Re: Conor Hourihane - SIGNED
« Reply #673 on: January 27, 2017, 12:37:46 AM »
Even West Ham kits have looked reasonable in recent years.

Traditionally they had the tat and we had something approximating a proper kit.

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Re: Conor Hourihane - SIGNED
« Reply #674 on: January 27, 2017, 01:15:10 AM »
Pop quiz, who can pronounce the irish translation of Conor? It's spelled Conchubhar, by the way.

 


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