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Watch your house! Here’s 8 terms you won’t hear outside Irish sporting grounds

‘He’s never a minor, is he?’

13/10/12 16,692 Views 23 Comments

IT’S ANOTHER BUSY weekend of sporting action on this damp, little country of ours.

Some 50,000 of you sportomaniacs filled the Aviva Stadium last night while the GAA and rugby action up and down the land will see yet more of us click through turnstiles before work on Monday.

And as the visiting German supporters learned last night, there’s plenty can be lost in translation when in an Irish stadium.

Here’s some of our favourite stock phrases from the terraces; what have we forgotten?

Watch your house! Here’s 8 terms you won’t hear outside Irish sporting grounds
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  • 'You should see his younger brother with the U-21s'

    Translation: This is essentially equivalent of a hipster telling you that they know of a more obscure, cooler band/album than the mainstream dross to which you listen. The quicker, better younger sibling no one has seen play is The King of Limbs.

  • Watch your house

    An instruction: watch your back, housey, there's a man about to take your feet from under you and the ball away. Opposite: Time. Turn away.

  • Bring on Sexton/O'Gara for the love of God

    Delete as applicable, depending on where you're from and which one of the two out halves is currently playing.

  • Get rid of it for jaysis sake!

    No, the tiki-taka approach is not for us.

  • 'Up' [my county]

    You don't hear people shout 'Up Manchester United', 'Up Andre Agassi' or 'Up One Direction'. 'Up Down' is grand.

  • I got in with a man

    This one might be a little out-dated. But what chump ever paid to get through a turnstile when attending games as a kid? Not me, fools.

  • Plan B! Go to Plan B

    First of all, pitch invasions don't happen en masse elsewhere. When we do it here, the Croker Park stewards have a contingency. And it's very funny to say it in pubs afterwards too.

  • Hold Me Now

    No where else could you go to a football game and be treated/subjected to Johnny Logan singing one of his Eurovision hits.
  • Translation: This is essentially equivalent of a hipster telling you that they know of a more obscure, cooler band/album than the mainstream dross to which you listen. The quicker, better younger sibling no one has seen play is The King of Limbs.
  • An instruction: watch your back, housey, there's a man about to take your feet from under you and the ball away. Opposite: Time. Turn away.
  • Delete as applicable, depending on where you're from and which one of the two out halves is currently playing.
  • No, the tiki-taka approach is not for us.
  • You don't hear people shout 'Up Manchester United', 'Up Andre Agassi' or 'Up One Direction'. 'Up Down' is grand.
  • This one might be a little out-dated. But what chump ever paid to get through a turnstile when attending games as a kid? Not me, fools.
  • First of all, pitch invasions don't happen en masse elsewhere. When we do it here, the Croker Park stewards have a contingency. And it's very funny to say it in pubs afterwards too.
  • No where else could you go to a football game and be treated/subjected to Johnny Logan singing one of his Eurovision hits.

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