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13th Nov 2015

The 15 stages every WhatsApp group will go through during Bosnia v Ireland

How many of these characters do you recognise?

Conan Doherty

We love them, we hate them.

The beauty of the advancement in technology is that we can force-feed our football opinions to those who don’t even want to listen.

And, where better than a WhatsApp group to debate the most divisive topic of them all: Ireland.

Whatever happens in Zenica on Friday night, there’s no doubt at least one WhatsApp group will be buzzing. And chances are it will go a little something like this.

1. Early interest is tentative at best

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2. Other plans are being proposed

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3. People are reluctantly starting to turn their attention

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4. The buzz starts to catch on though

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5. Team selections start

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6. The Aiden McGeady question

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7. Something we can all agree on

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8. Eamon Dunphy is ruining the vibe

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9. The team is named

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10. The game starts

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11. The game pans out as you’d expect the game to pan out

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12. Eamon Dunphy’s half time rant divides opinion

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13. The second half pans out as you’d expect the second half to pan out

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14. The James McClean question

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15 (a). Ireland lose, Dunphy has an almighty rant

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15 (b). Ireland get a result, Dunphy has an almighty rant

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