AFTER THE REACTION to hurling was recently greeted with much amusement across the water, Gaelic Football made its keenly awaited debut on Sky Sports today.
And unsurprisingly, many British-based tweeters were similarly bemused by the sport, comparing it to everything from rugby to quidditch.
With that in mind, here are 10 of the best reactions to todayโs matchโฆ
My American sister in law asked if hurling was legalโฆ.
That is the best reaction i have heard!
Tell her ice hockey is based on it (it is)
Fake
Ice hockey played on muck instead of ice.
What? Theyโre all gay???
Hahahaha. That made me laugh alright :)
Not only that but itโs a โgay lickโ !
Not all of them.
well some of them probably are
Ok itโs about time we moved on here and just accept people who have never seen GAA before find it strange.
Already watching it for a
Minute? Give it a chance lad, took me 2 years to get the rules of cricket
After 1 minute of watching I have no idea what is happening. What a divโฆ..
cricket is just posh rounders
The brits love the physical aspect, the technical stuff like blanket defence, black cards etc will take getting used to for them. Should be a great summer wen the action heats up
Slightly surprised that they donโt try to explain the rules at all, suppose itโd bored their fire demographic, expect they arenโt too worried about converts to the sport, people might develop an interest in time. Their first broadcasts clashing with the World Cup, and their choices of matches, probably arenโt helping yet.
* it would bore their core demographic
Well dats the gaa 4 u. They dont explain the rules โ doubt if they know them themselves.
The Black /Yellow & Red Card must really make these matches look absolutely rudiculous to the Sky Customers in the UK.
Even seems abs. daft in Ireland.
Stupid Rules.
Why nit bring in a Blue card and 1 for every coliur in the Rainbow.
Um, the red and yellow card exist in soccer. The sin bin exists in rugby. Hardly a massive jump for people to understand the black card.
Nit sure wot coliur u r on abouh?
Itโs the hurling they go on about football is boring.
Approval from british people to help us with the inferiority complex, yaaay! Please like us, Pleeeasse.
Spot on so in, we are desperate for approval arenโt we.
as your reply ended in a question; I assume itโs rhetorical and youโre not actually looking for approval yourself;)
well said its totally true for you
Poms wouldnโt have a clue
Went to college there. The eejit call soccer, football. ;)
Not the spectacular game that is hurling.
An arrogance to call soccer football when ye have american austrialian and gaelic foot.
Cรบ Chulainn did not kick a ball into the wolfs mouthโฆ..
Nothing arrogant about it John. In most parts of the world the simple term โfootballโ is used to describe the most popular form of the game. You donโt hear Americans talk about โAmerican Footballโ or Aussies talk about โAustralian Rulesโ.
Theyโll be scratching their heads when the hear that Northern Ireland play in the All-Ireland!
In England? I doubt the majority of English people could name one county in Northern Ireland
They might be surprised to hear london have a team. And warickshire.
Most wouldnโt know the North is part of the UK. Its Ireland to us.
Lol bobby
Ciaran,
And what about London?
And that Antrim and Galway, who are located in Ulster and Connaught respectively, play in the Leinster championship for hurling, (but not football). But New York and London who are based in 2 different countries (one the most Easterly based team), play football in the Connaught championship (the most western province).
Oh yes we could, Orange County for one
a lot of Londoners cannot name one county in England not to talk of in another country
Well it involves far less skill than soccer anyway.
Not true my friend. I have played both. Just a different set of skills applied.
Nonsense. Youโre thinking of rugby, get your biggest lad to crash into our lads then we do the same
`When you consider the skill level that the English have been watching recently in the world cup, an under 11 Gaelic parish team would be have more skill on the sub bench.
Far more physical and technically demanding than soccer โ youโve obviously never been to a championship game.
That comment was always going to go down well
@David ThomasโฆOh well done to you, youโre surely the only person on the Journal to have played Gaelic Football AND Soccerโฆarenโt we sooooo lucky to have your expert opinion.
You ever played rugby Ed? probably notโฆ
@Jim butlerโฆ.. Have you got sand in your vagina?
No, in Gaelic Football you use your entire body, you pass by foot and by hand. You also donโt dive around the place like you have been shot, itโs a lot more admirable game, a lot more physical a lot more exciting. So is Hurling except your also an artist to boot.
Nonsense played all of them. Soccer more skill full that gaelic and hurling more skill full than soccer.
Huh?
Couldnโt be, you can use your hands and hold on to a ball while you burst through 2 or 4 players. Soccer much more skillful despite what us Irish would like to believe
Skilful โ one word
The hurling comments were much funnier I must say
I like the hotpants they wear.
Loved Greg Mossโs open minded sportsman welcome and classy comment re both teams losing 0-3 to themselves :)
wish it was on in Australia, especially since itโs part of the origin of Australian Football
7mate every Sunday night during the championship.
WTF is quiddish .
You will never know muggle! !
Lol Richard :-D
is it not some form of an ethnic dish ????
Number 3 is brilliant..
Feel the same way.
Iโm irish,And Iโve being watching it for yearsโฆ.
Why anyone would care about the opinions of random British people on twitter is beyond me.. our inferority complex knows no bounds
I always thought pointing cameras into the sun for evening matches was rte or tg4 incompetence, but sky did it as well, it was hard to make out who was who in the first half to the right of the pitch. Made it hard to see what was going on, not ideal for anyone new to the game. Not sure what choice sky had for their first few matches but should get better from here Iโd say.
Missing some of the less bemused/positives ones, @stokebhoy is probably a fairly representative opinion
@greg moss- Good man, just enjoy the game for what it is. Who cares about rules etcโฆโฆ
Only some of them are gay. But hay, enough about cork.
wrong code
To be honest Gaelic football is a one off,where else in the world could players score a goal with any part of their body without the ball toutching their foot and still call it football.
Youโve clearly never hear of rugby football or american football? At least every player in gaelic uses their foot from time to time. Well, most players anyways.
Not if you play for Monaghan
A header in soccer maybe???????
True enough Paul lol
Quality stuff! In fairness if you havnt grown up with it what would ya think of it?! Itโs funny, I canโt understand Aussie Rules when a fella is on the ground and ten fellas are trying to pull the ball out of his arms. Itโs like throwing a bone to a pack of dogs. Yet sixty thousand people pack the MCG every weekend! I love that were unique and people are interested irrespective of the bad comments! It must be some buzz seeing yourself on sky sports kicking a point!!!! The thought of some buck in wether spoons with a talking about how heโd kick a 45 has me in stitches!
Aussie rules is pretty easy to follow i would have thought. If you hadnโt seen soccer before youโd think it is bizare, for example, has anyone at the World Cup scored from a corner? Is it a totally dysfunctional set piece? Free kicks on the edge of the box always seems to end in a poor shot etc. the diving. The cheating. Etc. etc etc
Suarez had two corner attempts saved directly against England. But I never know why a corner is wasted on the โ short cornerโ
Iโm not saying thereโs anything wrong with it, just that if you had never seen soccer before, you would think it is odd as well.
Im fairness to some of those guys its the lesser skilled of the gaelic games
Blah blah blah, its also the more popular code.
Youโre both right, isnโt that just lovely?!
Yes, yes it is! Lol
Hope that they show the ladies football and camoige as well, the Brit lads will really look forward to coming to Ireland to meet โthe girlsโ โฆ personally I think the skill level is higher in the ladies versions compared to the menโs โฆ less strength more skill. Love watching all aspects of it just making a point about new comers to the sport. Enjoy your sunny Sundays.
And what jar do you keep your testicles in?
Number 9 is hilarious.
Itโs so true. It does have the similar scoring system at quiddich from Harry Potter.
Iโm loving the quidditch references
Very hard to believe that Gaelic games is so alien to so many Brits.
or whatever way you spell it??
They play it in Harry Potter
This reactions are priceless ha
Lol, best game Iโve played with my English relatives is getting them pronoun the names of Irish places. Always is great source of batter between us
No 4 spot on!!!!
Have to wonder if anyone replied to the tweets telling them that rugby has the exact same origin as Gaelic football & Aussie rules. Gaelic football is just as recently codified as the others.
Best one Iโve heard. โThe players are so skilful that when they kick the ball over the bar, itโs amazing how they get it to drop so sudden.โ I of course pointed out that it hits a net so it doesnโt go into the crowd! Fool!
Yes, all haha, but considering the many thousands of Irish who live in the UK and the many hundreds of thousands or millions with Irish ancestry Iโd be interested in the demographics of Skyโs viewers.
And this explains why the sun has set on the british empire
Mr Kelly would do well to get off his lazy arse and get out to Cรบ Chulainnโs training!
WTF does he mean by losing by 0-3 to themselves?!
Think about it
U mean rugby ?