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The Emoji-Fuelled Stoke City Player Reaction To Ireland's Hammering Of Bosnia

Donny Mahoney
By Donny Mahoney
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Football writer and prolific tweeter Miguel Delaney made the point on BBC 5 Live last night that Ireland were essentially Europe's Stoke City. It's a philosophical point as well as a literal one. There are so many Stoke players in the Ireland team: Jon Walters, Glenn Whelan, Marc Wilson, and Shay Given all fly the flag for the Potters.

And judging by social media last night, many of the Stoke City squad sat down to watch Ireland hammer Bosnia, and they came armed with emojis.

Peter Crouch had a succinct reaction to the Walters scoring two goals, offering a Super Jon tweet, a thumbs up emoji and a light-skin card emoji

Steve Sidwell (yes Steve Sidwell still plays football) stirred the pot with a vaguely controversial tweet about knighting Sir Jon that also included a hand-clap and a light-skin card.

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It's also clear that Shay Given's nickname emoji is the horseface. After Given offered the prayer emoji following Walters's penalty, Stan Petrov was first-in with a horseface reference.

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After Ireland won the game and qualified for the Euros, Jack Butland threw some more horseface hope towards his goalkeeper teammate.

Bojan, on the other hand, offered a polite round of applause emoji after Ireland qualified, and the strange but necessary light-skin emoji card.

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Young Stoke striker Dominic Telford would not be known to many Irish fans, but he was happy to offer a hand-waving emoji after Ireland's first goal.

Charlie Adam decided to shirk emoji duty entirely in his tweet about Walters last night. Maybe he's still sore about Scotland not qualifying.

In other news, no one on Stoke tweeted about Glenn Whelan last night.

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