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Ireland have just beaten Italy 2-0 in a friendly, with Keith Andrews and Simon Cox scoring.

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You've got my vote too Sh0n3x. You've been pretty helpful with graphics for me anyway, and do have good posts and the experience of being a mod too.

The Republic of Ireland have gone top of Group B after a 2-0 win away to Macedonia. Robbie Keane scored both of the goals, which brings his international total to 51.

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Well to be fair, I did say not to expect much from me on LOI football. But that was more based on success if anything, they used to be one of the better teams in the country and then everything went belly-up. I would've put Derry up there as well but they've had their own troubles too.

Well, I suppose I'm not the best one to describe what are the 'big clubs' in Ireland, but I'll give it a shot. 1. Success on the field 2. A large domestic fan base. 3. A world wide fan base. 4. Consistently large attendance figures. 5. Top class facilities and Academy 6. The ability to attract the World's best players. 7. The ability to attract sponsors. Based on this criteria, for a lot of those options, it's not easy to tell. Without doubt, and as zolayes said, Shamrock Rovers are the biggest club in Ireland. They've won the league the most times, have a relatively big support in the country and I would imagine would be the most well known outside of the country too. As for the fourth option, Tallaght has only got a capacity of 6,000 and before that they didn't have a ground since the 80s. I'm not entirely sure on how the youth system is here so I can't comment on the fifth point. As for sixth and seventh, as it stands the county GAA teams usually get better sponsors than League of Ireland teams and the clubs don't have the funds to attract better players. A lot of clubs have went into financial trouble because of overspending, with two in my list alone. Largely based on success mainly, these would be the best teams in the country: 1. Shamrock Rovers 2. Bohemians 3. Shelbourne It's not showing very well for teams outside of Dublin, with Cork City historically only coming close to those three for a non-Dublin team. I'll try and give Germany a go as well. I'm pretty sure that Bayern Munich would be top of that list, they've generally gotten the best out of players, but once again, I'm not sure if they produce many youth players of their own, rather than buying from other clubs. Maybe someone can correct me on this. Borussia Mönchengladbach, in terms of overall success are just behind them. With that being said though, they have some very good players of their own down through the years. Now however, they've pretty much went into decline so it's hard to say. Borussia Dortmund are another German club I'd rank in the top three. Very popular worldwide, and as we've seen this year they've won the league with some products of their academy AFAIK. On this basis I'd go with the these as the top three. 1. Bayern Munich 2. Borussia Dortmund 3. Borussia Mönchengladbach I'm probably way off with some of them, and sorry for such a long, drawn out post but that is how I'd see it at the moment.

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Welcome luke. Quite a few Northern Irish members joining lately, which is good to see.

Ireland have beaten Scotland 1-0, and are Carling Nations Cup Champions. :champions: Probably wasn't the best of tournaments and certainly wasn't marketed very well, but still, the team managed to go without conceding a single goal in any game, so hopefully this will help encourage them with the upcoming European qualifiers. Well done lads!

The final game of the Carling Nations Cup is tonight, with the Republic of Ireland against Scotland. Ireland top the table but only on a goal difference with an advantage of three. Whoever wins this, wins the competition. The teams: Republic of Ireland: Shay Given, Paul McShane, Stephen Ward, Stephen Kelly, Darren O'Dea, Keith Fahey, Liam Lawrence, Keith Andrews, Simon Cox, Robbie Keane, Stephen Hunt. Scotland: Allan McGregor, Steven Whittaker, Phil Bardsley, Christophe Berra, Grant Hanley, Barry Robson, James Forrest, Scott Brown, Kenny Miller, Charlie Adam, Steven Naismith It's just over 40 minutes in and is on Sky Sports 1 if anyone's interested. Ireland are winning 1-0 after a goal from Keane in the 23rd minute.

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As I expected, Wales beat Northern Ireland 2-0 with the goals coming from Ramsey and Earnshaw. I've also just seen on Twitter that the attendance was 529.

Since mine is private, I don't think that would make a difference, but with that being said I've seen other people mentioning the site on there. It would be amazing to see TC trending.

Only found a link for the match now. Wales are winning 1-0, Aaron Ramsey scored in the 36th minute. The Aviva looks almost empty! Half-time: Northern Ireland 0-1 Wales

Ballack - He was always one of my favourite national team players. Deco - I couldn't believe it when I saw that Chelsea signed him, mainly because I hadn't heard much about it beforehand so it was unexpected. Torres - I really didn't think we'd sign him, but it finally happened.