Barstool facepalm [Archive] - Page 21

nigel-harps1954

26/12/2014, 4:24 PM

I'm more intrigued as to why you didn't link the two.

Maybe they're all linked. Maybe there's something big going down in Termonbarry. Maybe there's some sort of monkey named Xano being trained for monkey knife fights in the Purple Onion Art Gallery.
Everyone knows, after all, there's not a huge amount of money to be made in running an art gallery.

Charlie Darwin

26/12/2014, 4:25 PM

Maybe they're all linked. Maybe there's something big going down in Termonbarry. Maybe there's some sort of monkey named Xano being trained for monkey knife fights in the Purple Onion Art Gallery.
Everyone knows, after all, there's not a huge amount of money to be made in running an art gallery.
The normal rules of economics don't apply in Termonbarry - you know that.

nigel-harps1954

26/12/2014, 4:29 PM

The normal rules of economics don't apply in Termonbarry - you know that.

Economics? What's that?

Charlie Darwin

26/12/2014, 4:46 PM

Economics? What's that?
Don't worry, it's never been used in the League of Ireland.

NeverFeltBetter

22/01/2015, 12:04 AM

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B76k-9fIIAAZqpi.jpg

Greater percentage of Manchester United shirts are sold in Dublin than in Manchester.

ger121

22/01/2015, 12:41 AM

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B76k-9fIIAAZqpi.jpg

Greater percentage of Manchester United shirts are sold in Dublin than in Manchester.
I found the 4.55% in Liverpool more disturbing!!:D

Bosco

22/01/2015, 11:30 AM

Seems it's not just Manchester United where this applies..

http://balls.ie/football/several-premier-league-clubs-sell-replica-shirts-ireland-home-cities/

Jofspring

22/01/2015, 12:37 PM

Seems it's not just Manchester United where this applies..

http://balls.ie/football/several-premier-league-clubs-sell-replica-shirts-ireland-home-cities/

That seems to just be sports direct sales. It's not taking into account amount of Clubs shirts bought in the clubs own shops. I'm sure if they were added it it would make a huge difference.

For example the Man U Meagastore at the stadium I would image sells hundreds of jerseys at nearly every match.

Bosco

22/01/2015, 1:00 PM

Yeah I only copped that after I posted it. Would make sense given the general availability of Villa shirts. Another fascinating bit of journalism from Balls.

bennocelt

22/01/2015, 2:34 PM

TBH those stats look well silly, wouldnt trust them. Fijnaart in holland, a town of 5,500 people , 3rd for Man city jerseys?? yeah right

gufcfan

22/01/2015, 3:12 PM

TBH those stats look well silly, wouldnt trust them. Fijnaart in holland, a town of 5,500 people , 3rd for Man city jerseys?? yeah right

I the warehouse where gear for that region is shipped from is in Fijnaart.

Kiki Balboa

11/02/2015, 12:36 PM

DannyInvincible

11/02/2015, 12:52 PM

just like the rule that the english F.A have on La liga Football, when its not allowed to be shown between 2.15 and 5.15 on a Saturday

Have you got more info on this English "rule"? Is it in law or what?

Anyway, banning certain content from being beemed onto people's televisions isn't the solution. Depriving people of choice would only breed discontent. It's about convincing them; not coercing them.

Dodge

11/02/2015, 12:56 PM

With the premiership coming to Friday nights, is it possible for the FAI to ban the showing of football from another association on Irish T.V, just like the rule that the english F.A have on La liga Football, when its not allowed to be shown between 2.15 and 5.15 on a Saturday
Its do-able, but not actually workable. The games would still be shown on Sky Sports in the UK and the workaround would be so easy that it'd be pointless.

Not to mention the bad PR the FAI would get for denying Irish fans choice (and they would get bad PR). Best the LOI could hope for is a bit of compensation like the Original early 90s sky deal. Even that is unlikely seeing as Sky has shown plenty of live games on Friday nights in the past

pineapple stu

11/02/2015, 1:00 PM

Have you got more info on this English "rule"? Is it in law or what?
Bit of info here (http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/real-madrid-vs-barcelona-why-will-the-first-15-minutes-of-el-clasico-not-be-shown-on-british-tv-9813800.html) in an article last October about why coverage of Real v Barca on Sky Sports started at 5:15 - 15 minutes after kick off (by which time the score was already 1-0)

DannyInvincible

11/02/2015, 1:06 PM

Bit of info here (http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/real-madrid-vs-barcelona-why-will-the-first-15-minutes-of-el-clasico-not-be-shown-on-british-tv-9813800.html) in an article last October about why coverage of Real v Barca on Sky Sports started at 5:15 - 15 minutes after kick off (by which time the score was already 1-0)

Ah, yes, that one. That broadcasting law prohibits the showing of any live football (including English football) between 2:45 and 5:15 on a Saturday; it doesn't apply specifically to La Liga or foreign football.

NeverFeltBetter

11/02/2015, 1:24 PM

I think such a law/provision/whatever would be a spectacular own goal for the LOI's reputation. Not that it really matters anyway.

Yossarian

11/02/2015, 1:25 PM

I don't think this will have any significant impact. With the length of our off season we won't be affected for 4 months of their season. Add that to the fact that most of the Friday games will involve middle to lower teams as the better teams will be playing European games on Tues/Weds/Thurs and won't be playing games on a Friday.

It will just be another excuse for the people who really aren't bothered about attending LoI games anyway.

A N Mouse

11/02/2015, 1:27 PM

Have you got more info on this English "rule"? Is it in law or what?

Anyway, banning certain content from being beemed onto people's televisions isn't the solution. Depriving people of choice would only breed discontent. It's about convincing them; not coercing them.

Slightly more info can be found in the wiki article 'English Football on Television' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_football_on_television#3pm_.22Blackout.22)

I remember seeing something, possibly from uefa, listing the various 'closed times' by association. As the quote in the article indicates that 10 of 22 associations used them. If memory serves Northern Ireland were on that list, having the same times as England, Scotland and Wales (makes sense otherwise Sky would be able to broadcast live 3pm in parts of the uk), but this is contrary to the quote.

I've tried various search terms but have been unable to anything like that list.

Of course that ruling is from the 2011 case. So it's possible that these 'closed times' no longer have a mandate from uefa, or some such guff.

Interesting article here, on the outcome of that case - claims that among other things the 'blackout' is now de facto across europe (http://kluwercompetitionlawblog.com/2014/05/06/premier-league-fans-in-europe-worse-off-after-murphy-judgment/)

seand

11/02/2015, 4:05 PM

And the EPL TV rights from 2016-17 have increased by an incredible 70%. Whoever finishes bottom of the EPL in 2017 will trouser in the region of GBP90-100m in television money alone, before selling a single ticket or jersey. Realistically Barca and Real are the only clubs who'll be able to compete (financially) with the likes of Hull.

gufcfan

11/02/2015, 7:21 PM

is it possible for the FAI to ban the showing of football from another association on Irish T.V

If that was ever attempted, an army of Maxi type characters would descend upon Abbottstown.

seand

12/02/2015, 8:35 AM

If that was ever attempted, an army of Maxi type characters would descend upon Abbottstown.

Let's have a whip around for petrol....

Nesta99

12/02/2015, 10:46 AM

Let's have a whip around for petrol....

Petrol wasnt the problem last time, it was having too short a ladder....

seand

24/02/2015, 3:48 PM

There's a tweet doing the rounds (sorry, I don't know how to link to such thing!).... you've probably seen the image at some stage, the text is "Don't Let Your Kids Grow Up Thinking Football is a Television Show". Healthy sentiments all League of Ireland and match-going fans would agree with. The originator of the tweet? The Dublin Arsenal Supporters Club. Sometimes you couldn't make this sh1t up.

Mr A

24/02/2015, 4:06 PM

Saw that yeah. Here's a link: https://twitter.com/brianheneghan/status/569654030101823489

PS you can get to an individual tweet and its link if you click on the time/date to the right of the username.

nigel-harps1954

24/02/2015, 4:31 PM

I think the funniest thing is they got so embarrassed they changed their name to Dublin Arsenal on twitter and deleted the tweet.

Spudulika

24/02/2015, 4:42 PM

Got better tonight with the Editor of "World Soccer" trying to sound informed while informing Drivetime that Ireland had "recently" changed to a Summer season. This while reading the nonsense on RTE under Dunphy!

Macy

24/02/2015, 5:07 PM

I think the funniest thing is they got so embarrassed they changed their name to Dublin Arsenal on twitter and deleted the tweet.
The tweet I saw (cheers dodge!) had also attached a tweet where they gave the upcoming TV matches.

DannyInvincible

27/02/2015, 12:38 AM

Bizarrely, Bertie Ahern contributed this to a St. Pat's programme in 1994, (http://balls.ie/football/irish-times-letter-writers-strange-concerns-september-12-2001/) shortly before he became leader of Fianna F�il:

http://balls.ie/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/supersaint.jpghttp://balls.ie/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/supersaint2.jpg

Why on earth was Bertie Ahern allowed (asked?) to write two pages on his love for Manchester United in a St. Pat's programme?

Nah Nah Nah Nah

27/02/2015, 7:06 AM

Ah now. Bertie did a hell of a lot worse things then that that people should have pulled him up over.

The Donie Forde

27/02/2015, 10:00 AM

The use of caps is quite funny; it's like he's trying to introduce us to a little known team that he discovered!
UNITED blah blah blah UNITED blah blah blah
Ad nauseam.

nigel-harps1954

02/04/2015, 7:07 AM

legendz

03/04/2015, 1:28 PM

The league lacks a national vibrancy despite all the main cities being in the Premier Division. People in predominantly gaelic football counties will know more about what's going on in the hurling leagues than in the league of ireland.
In hurling, Kerry can play away at their level in Division 2A and the Christy Ring Cup. The LoI family throw out the GAA county mentality comment but if a club hasn't a connection with an area, they are unlikely to gain any support.

GypsyBlackCat

14/04/2015, 9:41 AM

I haven't read the whole thread but I must do. Seems interesting.

Anyway, I was having a chat with a mate of my about the EPL. It was about this new TV deal. I was saying how sad it is that we won't see another Notts. Forest rise up through from the Div.2 to win a European Cup or a club like Ajax because of the money in the game. He response was 'True, but don't you want to see the best players staying in our and the best coming over?' It took me a second to realize he meant the EPL. This was from a man who is a so-called die hard Ireland fan.:mad:

GypsyBlackCat

14/04/2015, 9:48 AM

Irish people criticising England fans for being boring sh!tes and not doing a mexican wave at their away fixture vs Italy, before launching into a defensive about how it's okay to support English club football because "It may be an English league, but how many English players play in it?".

Logic.

My sister-in-law is always have a go at my brother and me for going to see Bohs or our local team Glebe North play. She doesn't understand how people can watch that rubbish. It's the same when Jordan Henderson and Darren Bent were with Sunderland and I'd cheer for England because I'm happy for them and I cheer for them every week so why not now. I even said I'd cheer for a Bohs player (or any LoI player) who made it in to an England team. But then I got the standard response.

Just for the record, I've no problem with people following English football, it's the Sky generation I have a problem with.

Charlie Darwin

22/04/2015, 4:15 PM

Mr A

22/04/2015, 4:30 PM

Good to see we're finally on the way to a United Ireland.

United behind Liverpool I mean, not United behind United.

ger121

22/04/2015, 6:30 PM

Good follow up piece from the boys on balls.ie

http://balls.ie/football/the-10-lies-that-irish-premier-league-fans-frequently-tell-themselves/

dong

22/04/2015, 6:57 PM

I think mostly those points relating to LoI aren't so true.
From a lot of people's point of view the league doesn't even register. They wouldn't even bother lying about why they don't go.
And for those that do lie about it, patronising articles like that which pop up every so often probably only confirm some of their views. May be nice for people on forums like this to read but not so helpful and certainly not original imo.

outspoken

22/04/2015, 7:45 PM

Good follow up piece from the boys on balls.ie

http://balls.ie/football/the-10-lies-that-irish-premier-league-fans-frequently-tell-themselves/

Thought that was sh1te to be honest

Charlie Darwin

22/04/2015, 7:48 PM

Most of their stuff I read is, except Dodge's.

Pablo Escobar

22/04/2015, 9:27 PM

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CDMv8lAXIAAjDhD.jpg

Words fail. http://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/soccer/ireland-is-liverpool-the-midlands-is-united-with-pockets-of-arsenal-resistance-in-cork-tipp-and-mayo-325450.html
That is embarrassing. He somehow makes a connection between Man Utd and the red of Cork GAA. Poor on so so many levels.

Charlie Darwin

22/04/2015, 9:33 PM

That is embarrassing. He somehow makes a connection between Man Utd and the red of Cork GAA. Poor on so so many levels.
And apparently the rebel county gets its name from the patriots who fought to support Arsenal.

pineapple stu

23/04/2015, 11:56 AM

Am I the only one who saw that map of Ireland and thought of this?

http://stepreo.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/blockbusters.jpg

gormacha

24/04/2015, 4:09 PM

Am I the only one who saw that map of Ireland and thought of this?

Can I have a P please Bob?

nigel-harps1954

02/07/2015, 1:34 PM

http://www.balls.ie/football/cllian-sheridan-new-club/299393

Sadly, Sheridan's move to Omonoia means he has been stripped of the prestigious title of 'the only Irishman playing Champions League football,' but it's possible that by September he'll join West Ham's Joey O'Brien and Darren Randolph along with Southampton's Shane Long as the only Irishmen playing any type of European football, which is no mean feat.