Your club's Greatest League in the world moment?

[CorribsideSteve]

https://foot.ie/attachment.php?attachmentid=2744&stc=1

[Martinho II]

loved ballybracks press release very witty at times... reminds you so much of the stephen ireland incident.

[ToberonaTornado]

Seen this on Twotter earlier.
Iconic image - from Athlone v AC Milan 1975 i believe?(that was the heading on the photo)so much going on :)


https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DtzpDY3WkAARlnZ.jpg

[Martinho II]

Seen this on Twotter earlier.
Iconic image - from Athlone v AC Milan 1975 i believe?(that was the heading on the photo)so much going on :)


https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DtzpDY3WkAARlnZ.jpg

yeah correct Giovanni Trapatonni was on the coaching staff with AC Milan at that game! saw black and white picture before but never colour which is great to see!

[Nesta99]

I can imagine that the pitch wasnt much better than the parking area!

[joey B]

Game in the U17 European Championships in Longford held up because the ref went to Offaly instead 😂

[Martinho II]

Game in the U17 European Championships in Longford held up because the ref went to Offaly instead ��

very funny story tonight! I was stewarding at the game tonight and spoke to the taxidriver at it! he made a honest mistake. he hadnt being to Longford in over 20 years and made the wrong turn at Kinnegad! he showed me how little battery he had and obviously couldnt use his sat-nav!
and to make it more interesting the last time he was in Longford was in the mid 90s when he reffed a Longford Town Home Farm game in Mullogher when a certain Stephen Kenny was playing for Home Farm!
I cant remember his name but he reffed in the 90s and early 00s and reffed our games in Abbeycartron and Mullogher!

its only in the league of ireland that this happens!

[pineapple stu]

Wrong anthems played out in Bray this afternoon. The Austrian anthem was announced, but the Spanish one was played, and then vice versa.

[nigel-harps1954]

Did the Austrians sing the Spanish anthem?

[joey B]

3 Sligo fans landed in Waterford tonight expecting a League of Ireland game apparently,at least they got a game!

[Martinho II]

3 Sligo fans landed in Waterford tonight expecting a League of Ireland game apparently,at least they got a game!

saw a good few sligo rovers fans at portugal iceland game last night. conor ogrady was also seen in the crowd too! wonder were they any of them heading to waterford?

[TonyD]

I can imagine that the pitch wasnt much better than the parking area!

Who says that was the parking area :D

[Nesta99]

Who says that was the parking area :D

Maybe there is another photo of them clearing cattle out of the way for training...

[OwlsFan]

The Kilcoynes’ sale of Milltown has been mentioned but Louis then went on to become President of the FAI !! I mean you couldn’t write better fiction and then they were going to have a minute’s silence to mourn his passing at LOI games - at least they had the sense to drop that.

[marinobohs]

The Kilcoynes’ sale of Milltown has been mentioned but Louis then went on to become President of the FAI !! I mean you couldn’t write better fiction and then they were going to have a minute’s silence to mourn his passing at LOI games - at least they had the sense to drop that.

I think they had a minutes applause to mourn his passing (booing less obvious 😁)

Was quite popular as FAI President with most. Remember meeting him and being advised in advance by a mutual friend - don’t mention “the Milltown thing” 😁

[Nesta99]

I think they had a minutes applause to mourn his passing (booing less obvious 😁)

Was quite popular as FAI President with most. Remember meeting him and being advised in advance by a mutual friend - don’t mention “the Milltown thing” 

What a FAI board member avoiding difficuly questions? the more things change the more they stay the same....

[ToberonaTornado]

Has to be up there :D


27 min. The Finn Harps mascot has been sent off for pretending to save shots behind our goal (0-0)
https://twitter.com/sligorovers

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D-LBSLpW4AA9Gxb.jpg

[Nesta99]

During the game? Could have been distracting though still funny!

[nigel-harps1954]

He wasn't exactly sent off, just told by the referee to clear off from behind the goal as he was mimicing every move the goalkeeper made.

Former Harps player Conor keddy in the costume
too, and he's mad as a bag of cats.

[marinobohs]

He wasn't exactly sent off, just told by the referee to clear off from behind the goal as he was mimicing every move the goalkeeper made.

Former Harps player Conor keddy in the costume
too, and he's mad as a bag of cats.

Shocking stuff, a lifetime ban the very minimum. 😁

[Eminence Grise]

Given that he has to watch every home game, anything more than a sentence of time already served would be harsh.

[D24Saint]

Couple of moments standout moments for me , if it’s just the league we are talking about id go for Greg Bolgers goal v Sligo in 2013, my second league title but the marney episode tainted the first one. I largely missed the boat for the two in a row but got a few games in. They were different times when I actually believed in the league.

[Nesta99]

Shocking stuff, a lifetime ban the very minimum. 

Our Lily the Panda got deported for less!!:eek:

[Mr A]

There is always a fair chance Tomas Connolly will send off someone from Harps, but he is getting desperate at this stage.

https://www.independent.ie/world-news/and-finally/justiceforharper-uproar-after-mascot-sent-off-during-irish-football-match-38266254.html?fbclid=IwAR39RcjubjW_59nmypEr2RPAO3P 1fIANfjQv7eaeYVd3VitUf81Nn2Z3Eds

[sidewayspasser]

So is the mascot suspended for tonight's match? Can a match be forfeited by fielding a suspended mascot?

[D24Saint]

There is always a fair chance Tomas Connolly will send off someone from Harps, but he is getting desperate at this stage.

https://www.independent.ie/world-news/and-finally/justiceforharper-uproar-after-mascot-sent-off-during-irish-football-match-38266254.html?fbclid=IwAR39RcjubjW_59nmypEr2RPAO3P 1fIANfjQv7eaeYVd3VitUf81Nn2Z3Eds

Brilliant !

[wexfordned]

Bohs and their keeper James Talbot had a page in the Shamrock Rovers programme dedicated solely to a review of his post match radio interview and with RTE after the last derby. Has any other club ever afforded an opposition club/player the same treatment.???

Can't belive anyone in Shamrock Rovers thought that was a good idea

[ToberonaTornado]

:D #GreatestLeagueInTheWorld


https://twitter.com/collieoneill/status/1147263242147905538

[Nesta99]

I'm surprised this hasnt popped up elsewhere! Very Waterford Whisper like but even as a rumour should be part of this fine thread as much 'cause it's not beyond possible! JD's way back to Europe along with Waterford FC. If he has been payed off by the FAI then they havent found or proven legal wrongdoing so he couldnt be stopped heading a new ownership group on fit to be a director type rules with any govt or football groups. It would be pure entertaining....
https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer/national-league/power-unaware-of-any-waterford-takeover-bid-from-john-delaney-1.4059446

[pineapple stu]

That Thai fella at Man City was a fit and proper person. That test isn't worth a ****e from what I can see.

The article suggests the terms of his payoff mean he can't get involved in an LoI club, which would surely scupper things. Though you never know in this league!

[Nesta99]

I dont know on what legal grounds they could make that a requirement. If he has been paid off rather than sacked outright there cant be such legally binding requirements beyond confidentiality on the payout amount. If he wanted to do it but there is a clause in his 'redundancy' he could easily challange it. It would fit perfectly with the pig ignorant nature of the chap and I'd hope that Waterford fans would stand against his involvement at any point. Either way it would make for an interesting development on so many levels!

[pineapple stu]

I dont know on what legal grounds they could make that a requirement. If he has been paid off rather than sacked outright there cant be such legally binding requirements beyond confidentiality on the payout amount.
I guess if he has signed in writing to confirm he won't take up such a position or else xyz happens, that may be enough. How they work in practice - thinking contact clauses saying you won't leave a company to join a close competitor for example - I don't know.

Though of course there's always ways around regulations, as John Gill/Vinny Perth will know.

And even then, as Delaney well knows, Waterford could just conveniently denied a licence...

[Longfordian]

Those general non compete clauses would usually have to be time limited in order to be enforceable. And the time period has to be reasonable, it's been a while since I had a look at that area of the law but I have it in my head that you'd struggle with a clause that lasted 12 months or more.

[Nesta99]

I guess if he has signed in writing to confirm he won't take up such a position or else xyz happens, that may be enough. How they work in practice - thinking contact clauses saying you won't leave a company to join a close competitor for example - I don't know.

Though of course there's always ways around regulations, as John Gill/Vinny Perth will know.

And even then, as Delaney well knows, Waterford could just conveniently denied a licence...

I'd have used the Jeff McNamara example of Dundalk getting around the rules especially with Waterford as the subject!!

The licencing process under a Delaney led ownership was one of the angles for a GLITW moment I was thinking of. There are so many reasons not to do this and be completely horse sh1t but it is so out there there could be some actual substance to it all. John th Baptist doesnt do rejection too well and he needs a crowd to throw his tie in to after all..

[joey B]

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=479905389049163

An absolute belter of a Greatest league in the world story!!

[nigel-harps1954]

George Hamilton mistaking Ronan Finns child for a teddy bear live on television is peak #greatestleagueintheworld

[sullanefc]

George Hamilton mistaking Ronan Finns child for a teddy bear live on television is peak #greatestleagueintheworld

He is a joke at this stage.

[Nesta99]

When ye see him in front of the camera the glasses he wears are practically binoculars. Sadly he is of another era with the recently retired and departed old cohort at RTE Sport.

[Nah Nah Nah Nah]

Sure he thought Farrugia scored the winning penalty

[nigel-harps1954]

Sure he thought Farrugia scored the winning penalty

In fairness, that was Fenlon who called the penalty. Hamilton called it as O'Neill after he scored.

[NeverFeltBetter]

George Hamilton mistaking Ronan Finns child for a teddy bear live on television is peak #greatestleagueintheworld

Same guy who called every black player on the French team Pogba at some point during the World Cup.

[Martinho II]

Sure he thought Farrugia scored the winning penalty

Noticed that when Gary ONeill went up to take it there was no mention of this being the winning penalty. Think Hamilton is finally losing his nation holds its breath!

[joey B]

*Bump for Waterford fans!!

[Yossarian]

I can’t believe this thread hasn’t been filled with pages of stuff from Dundalk for the last two years!

[trevy]

Waterford have lots of contenders for this but sacking a manager by text message 3 days before the biggest game for the club in years has to be our number 1!

[Mr A]

Ha. The best stuff probably doesn't even make it on places like this!

[Martinho II]

The Mark Bircham sacking brings back memories of the sacking of Martin Lawlor as Longford town manager only days before the start of the new season in 2002. It turned out to be a good decision but I cant remember the exact circumstances behind it?

[Longfordian]

It wasn't that exciting really. He'd signed hardly any players because nobody wanted to play for him and those that he did sign he'd given ridiculous contracts. The coaches he'd brought in were going to leave too. Some of the players that were there a while and wanted to stay on made the club aware of how bad the situation was so they sacked him and gave Alan Mathews the job. Leading to "sack the board" chants from certain members of Section O whose anonymity I shall respect ;)

[Nesta99]

If this was LoI it would top the GLITW list! Ridiculous stuff.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/59448376

[Philosophizer]

That's FAI-grade shambles all right...