[Sunday Independent] Showgrounds fever grips faithful non-conformists

**exiled_gufc_fan** · 29/10/2006, 7:27 AM

TODAY I will be in The Showgrounds. I will shout, I will sing and I will chew my nails down to the quick. At various points in the proceedings, I will see nothing but honest endeavour from one side and underhand villainy from the other, and I will become convinced that the referee is engaged in a conspiracy against the home team. In short, I won't be a sportswriter, I'll be a fan.

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**gustavo** · 29/10/2006, 7:39 AM

Im guessing thats by Eamonn Sweeney?
Any chance of a copy and paste for the non subscribers

**The Stars** · 29/10/2006, 7:40 AM

think you have to be logged in or something to view it all.
could you just copy and paste it up please?

**exiled_gufc_fan** · 29/10/2006, 7:56 AM

Originally Posted by The Stars

think you have to be logged in or something to view it all.
could you just copy and paste it up please?

Think that is against the rules on here. It is free to register though!

It does not give the journalist's name on the website, suppose you would have to check the paper edition for that.

**Terry** · 29/10/2006, 7:57 AM

PMed ye the article lads as I dont think Dahamsta would be happy if I posted the entire article here

**Terry** · 29/10/2006, 8:02 AM

theres also an article on Harpal Singh in the same paper, worth going out and buying the paper this morn lads !

**The Stars** · 29/10/2006, 8:03 AM

oh right,cheers.....it said my email is already in use on that site.

**sonofstan** · 29/10/2006, 8:09 AM

Got to be Sweeney ..... Good enough piece if really just a precis of his book; Bohs Partisan will like the line about the country been run by the triumvirate of the Catholic Chursh, Fianna Fail and the GAA, and being into domestic football is like being a Sikh or a member of the Socialist party

**sligoman** · 29/10/2006, 10:14 AM

Originally Posted by The Stars

oh right,cheers.....it said my email is already in use on that site.

If you're registered to read the Sligo Champion online then it's the same login details!

**gustavo** · 29/10/2006, 10:23 AM

Sweeney said its the first ever all ticket game in the Showgrounds in his article. Is that true?

**sligoman** · 29/10/2006, 10:26 AM

Originally Posted by gustavo

Sweeney said its the first ever all ticket game in the Showgrounds in his article. Is that true?

Definitely not, I can think of at least one more game in the past few years that was all ticket. Maybe he means the first all ticket one to actually sell out?

**gustavo** · 29/10/2006, 10:56 AM

Originally Posted by Terry

theres also an article on Harpal Singh in the same paper, worth going out and buying the paper this morn lads !

Whereabouts is this I dont see it

**gspain** · 29/10/2006, 10:58 AM

Originally Posted by gustavo

Sweeney said its the first ever all ticket game in the Showgrounds in his article. Is that true?

Definitely not - 94 semi v Limerick was all ticket. Got told there were no tickets left when we arrived but got in OK in the end.

**sligoman** · 29/10/2006, 11:05 AM

Originally Posted by gustavo

Whereabouts is this I dont see it

It's there(beside an article on McPhail) cos I got a new sig from a quote there

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**BohDiddley** · 29/10/2006, 11:24 AM

Good piece that. He's right about 'old-fashioned snobbery'.

**Paddyfield** · 29/10/2006, 9:32 PM

Originally Posted by gustavo

Sweeney said its the first ever all ticket game in the Showgrounds in his article. Is that true?

NOPE. FAI Cup quarter final was all-ticket three years ago for Sligo Rovers v Galway United. Tickets were on sale in Galway prior to the game. GUFC were given 1000 tickets and sold a little under 700.

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