Why is it wrong to support foreign teams as well?

[CollegeTillIDie]

Titan

Support your local sheriff first...,follow the others second.. no problems.
I am a follower of teams overseas but my support is unconditionally for UCD.
But if I am in other countries on a visit there are other teams I am interested in enough to visit their stadium etc and take in a game as long as I won't get killed doing so.Which means I won't be going anywhere near Serie A anytime soon.

I have attended league games in Romania when I was there on a visit and even went to see Universitatea Craiova. Well they are sort of like UCD kind of .... The locals who spoke English couldn't understand why two Irish guys would want to see their team play until we told them we were fans of a University named team too. Then they sort of understood.

Erstwhile Boez is right it is possible to do both. I know a few fans of his club who also attend Manchester City games for instance.

[Réiteoir]

I have no truck with those who follow sides from outside this country AND bother themselves to go and watch games at their local eL club.

As CTID said - I follow other sides - but my main focus and energy is with Bohs.
It won't change next year should my plans come to fruition and I move over to Oslo - I'll still follow Bohs to the hilt - but I'll also be taking out a season ticket for the side I follow there - Valerenga (who play their games on either Sunday afternoons or Monday nights - keeping it nicely seperate from the eL) .

The trips back to Dublin for Bohs games and the European trips will still be done as normal.

[CharlesThompson]

many irish follow a winning team its easy to follow man u, liverpool, arsenal and chelski there always gonna be winnin stuff, but i have more respect for some one that follows leeds or aston villa as they didnt pick there club, there club picked them,


I actually would be of the polar opposite to this point. I can fully understand in the context of choosing a foreign club that one would choose Man Utd, Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea simply because they want to follow a team that wins most of its matches.

For the life of me I cannot understand why anybody from here (generally speaking) would choose Villa, Reading, Sunderland et al. Why the hell not support a homegrown side in this case?

[sadloserkid]

For the life of me I cannot understand why anybody from here (generally speaking) would choose Villa, Reading, Sunderland et al. Why the hell not support a homegrown side in this case?


Followed Villa as a kid because growing up in the county Limerick might as well have been playing on the moon and Villa had a fair few Irish players at the time (Townsend, McGrath, Houghton, Staunton, Farrelly). Started going to Limerick games in university and never looked back. I still watch out for Villa's results and a few other teams aside in different countries and at different levels (Forest Green Rovers, Dundee United and Minnesota Thunder mostly) for a variety of reasons.

My link with Limerick is about 68,485,733,128 times stronger than my link with any of these teams.

Anybody who follows football in other countries and not their own is a consumer at best and a parasite at worst. Anybody else has no case to answer in my less than humble opinion.

[jebus]

I follow Leeds. It doesn't feel wrong. :o

It should, not because it's an English team, but it's Leeds, come on man


I don't want to swing this off topic, but I support all Irish teams in Europe.


I think that attitude sets the league back as well. A few non-EL followers I know have commented on the way it seems like it's a lovefest at times amongst so call rivals. In general I think football fans want to have rivals, want there to be teams who you dislike for no other reason than they exist. So when we're all hugging each other and saying how great we all are we fly in the face of that basic want in the football supporter

[Erstwhile Bóz]

I think that attitude sets the league back as well. A few non-EL followers I know have commented on the way it seems like it's a lovefest at times amongst so call rivals. In general I think football fans want to have rivals, want there to be teams who you dislike for no other reason than they exist. So when we're all hugging each other and saying how great we all are we fly in the face of that basic want in the football supporter
Hear, hear. Wrecks my head.

[KevB76]

I think that attitude sets the league back as well. A few non-EL followers I know have commented on the way it seems like it's a lovefest at times amongst so call rivals. In general I think football fans want to have rivals, want there to be teams who you dislike for no other reason than they exist. So when we're all hugging each other and saying how great we all are we fly in the face of that basic want in the football supporter

I always like to see eL teams do well in Europe, regardless of who they are.

I would liken it to the brother who you are always fighting with, but if some random bloke off the street starts on him you're in there like a shot to back him up.

[Tony_Montana]

I have no truck with those who follow sides from outside this country AND bother themselves to go and watch games at their local eL club.

As CTID said - I follow other sides - but my main focus and energy is with Bohs.
It won't change next year should my plans come to fruition and I move over to Oslo - I'll still follow Bohs to the hilt - but I'll also be taking out a season ticket for the side I follow there - Valerenga (who play their games on either Sunday afternoons or Monday nights - keeping it nicely seperate from the eL) .

The trips back to Dublin for Bohs games and the European trips will still be done as normal.


Jou have a great life man

In that country, jou gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then ya get the women.

[bennocelt]

I've yet to meet a LOI fan that doesn't watch Match of the day or the live sunday game most of the time. Whether we allign themselves with one of the British sides or not we all have an interest in it.


Yeah i guess thats def true, football is football at the end of the day and if its on the box you will watch it.
Remember when italian football was on a highlights package on rte years ago.........jeez the buzz that it created.....all the young fellas were watching it........but it died out in the end cause italian football can be a bit too defensive and a tad bit boring. To be fair the English premiership is a very exciting league, even if there are only about 5 teams that can actually play football

When I was doing my tour of duty in asia i noticied a lot of football fans there hadnt a clue about their local teams but were mad into......no not the premiership but.......italian, german and spanish football.........strange that the EPL hype hadnt influenced their choices

i do find it a pain that people moan that the eircom lague is a rubbish standard though, for fecks sake football is rubbish these days anyway but thats not the point, its about passion and support just as much as what is going on on the pitch

[KR's Post]

Man united is my team, and Celtic(irish connection) are 2nd, but when they're up against each other it is definately United who are number 1. Have been to OT and Parkhead recently.

[OneRedArmy]

To be fair the English premiership is a very exciting league, even if there are only about 5 teams that can actually play footballIs it?

I'd say the opposite. The standard of football is high but its not exciting at all.

How exciting can a League be when the top 4 pick themselves, as do the next 6 and then a scramble at the bottom. Its boring and entirely predictable.

[Tony_Montana]

Is it?

I'd say the opposite. The standard of football is high but its not exciting at all.

How exciting can a League be when the top 4 pick themselves, as do the next 6 and then a scramble at the bottom. Its boring and entirely predictable.


Any chance you can give us the results of this weeks games so mate ?

[OneRedArmy]

Any chance you can give us the results of this weeks games so mate ?I thought a noble warrior like you would know them?

[spaceghost]

Who would you support if they played each other in a competitive game?

I still get a giggle out of all the Liverpool/Celtic supporters (people who "supported" both, mostly Irish funny enough......) who didn't know who to cheer for in the Battle of Britain a few years ago and sat there cheering both teams in their half and half scarves.

Pathetic. You can't serve two masters (IMHO).

WHO'S PATHETIC?its a free country , thank god. we can support as many teams as we want.
and havnt you little to be giggling at?:(
and i'd support longford town if they met,if you must know.
is that ok by you, oh great honourable faithful one team man;)

[geezer]

There are a lot of trollers on this site that frown things like supporting clubs in other countries, at home giving accurate gate figures, producing promotional dvds, winning marketing awards, selling 150 season tickets at €250 a pop 3 months before the season starts is not what happens at lims,ucd,harps etc and these anoraks look down the noses at everyone else .
laughable bunch

[sadloserkid]

There are a lot of trollers on this site

There sure are. A couple of them are laughably bad at it though. :rolleyes:

[cesc]

i support arsenal as well as my local team, season ticket with my local club and about 5-10 trips over to london throughout the year, how anyone could have a problem with that is beyond me