Irish Liverpool supporters - Sickening

[stamullendrog]

I can imagine your average Norwegian Joe sitting at home watching that and after seeing that fool reveal his tattoo, heavily scratching his head and reaching for an atlas just to check what countries Drogheda and Liverpool are and having it confirmed feeling very, very confused.

Norway actually has a bigger liverpool support there than ireland does.

[diamond]

i was standing behind Ged (tatoo) when this interview was done and if memory serves he has a drogheda united crest on other arm. he goes to every game home and away and leads all songs and chants at matches, this despite the fact he was brought up a liverpool fan. when drogs play lfc in the champions league some day it will be a no brainer for him.
so i dont think that clip sums it up. what sums up how pathetic some people are is when in drogheda the day of the kiev game over there you go to a pub and ask them to turn on the game and they ask what game? then it gets worse when muppets complain and ask "is there nothing on sky?"
slaggin a fan in norway for not being a good fan is kinda riduclous

[Charles Bronson]

Obviously, by the fact he traveled to norway, hes a good drogs fan, i wasn't disputing that, its just the whole Liverpool tattoo thing reeks of minnowism, suggesting that following an Irish club isn't enough, you have to support a "real" team too.

[Bohemian1890]

My teams are City ,Celtic and UTD, in that order.As a football fan you develop a favourite team in any league you become familiar with.Barca and Juve would be "my teams" in their respective leagues.If City play any of the above, its a nobrainer, City everytime.When Celtic play UTD in the Champions league, I'm in the green corner.When its Manchester V Liverpool, I'm with the champions.However, despite getting immense enjoyment from watching these games on tv, NOTHING comes close to being in Turners Cross with the shed in full voice.Celebrating a goal by your local team, in your local ground is real .:ball:
So you have 5 teams??Do you have a social life at all??

[elroy]

So, turn this around - how many of us here would honestly agree today to band together & each invest €6,300 in a eLOI club?

For the most part, people dont have that kinda money to be throwing around not to be mention 'investing' in an LOI club where the chances of a return of pretty much nil. Mind you thats not saying that any of the investors in the Liverpool scheme will get a return either.

The clubs in Ireland need to develop a sustainable structure and the wages that were paid to a number of players by Cork were unrealistic and not feasible considering the income the club generates. Thats not to say that the club can not be run as a professional set up.

Sustainable structures coupled with improved facilites and relative success in Europe are key to the league developing.

[Billy Lord]

So, turn this around - how many of us here would honestly agree today to band together & each invest €6,300 in a eLOI club?

Some Shamrock Rovers fans did just that in 2005.

[SkStu]

6,300 divided by 100 multiplied by 4?

The Rovers equivalent...

[Lionel Ritchie]

... from talking to English supporters of English teams,who come over to Ireland to see their teams play in pre season, Irish supporters of English teams are dispised by the majority of supporters in England. The see them as blow ins going over and taking tickets from "real fans" for all the glamour games.

Without denying your experience at all -mine has been the exact opposite. There is for sure a clique, most likely instinctively right wing white van driving types, who don't like "outsiders" at "their club" -but they tend not to like anyone who doesn't look like, talk like, think like them or live on their road anyway.

As someone who supports Limerick AND Leeds United my experience has been that Leeds people genuinely love the fact that Irish people, Dutch, Scandinavians ...trek over in numbers to see Leeds play. Not just these days when the club is in the third division either. ...And if it was the other way 'round we'd be the same. My only experience of such a phenomenon is an English couple I met with no Irish connections at all who regularily travel to Limerick to watch Munster at Thomond Park ...they have a genuinely stronger connection than I have to a team who play across the road from my house -and good luck to them.

On the specific issue of Liverpool/ shareliverpool ...yeah it's regretable from an LOI perspective. Especially when a club like Liverpool, in the league they're in with the profile they enjoy, will have a far more diverse range of opportunities and options for revenue raising than an Irish club would.

[Torn-Ado]

i was standing behind Ged (tatoo) when this interview was done and if memory serves he has a drogheda united crest on other arm. he goes to every game home and away and leads all songs and chants at matches, this despite the fact he was brought up a liverpool fan. when drogs play lfc in the champions league some day it will be a no brainer for him.
so i dont think that clip sums it up. what sums up how pathetic some people are is when in drogheda the day of the kiev game over there you go to a pub and ask them to turn on the game and they ask what game? then it gets worse when muppets complain and ask "is there nothing on sky?"
slaggin a fan in norway for not being a good fan is kinda riduclous

Well said. A fella travelling Europe to support his LOI side just isn't enough for some people in here.

[Straightstory]

Well said. A fella travelling Europe to support his LOI side just isn't enough for some people in here.

Agreed. Ged is a Drogs legend.

[brianw82]

i was standing behind Ged (tatoo) when this interview was done and if memory serves he has a drogheda united crest on other arm. he goes to every game home and away and leads all songs and chants at matches, this despite the fact he was brought up a liverpool fan. when drogs play lfc in the champions league some day it will be a no brainer for him.
so i dont think that clip sums it up. what sums up how pathetic some people are is when in drogheda the day of the kiev game over there you go to a pub and ask them to turn on the game and they ask what game? then it gets worse when muppets complain and ask "is there nothing on sky?"
slaggin a fan in norway for not being a good fan is kinda riduclous

I apologise for any offence my remarks may have caused. Obviously, I do not know the man. All I can go on is what I saw, and he seemed to be one of those "over for the big day out" sort of chaps.
I am wrong though, so let's all be friends again. :)

[stamullendrog]

Agreed. Ged is a Drogs legend.


here you go the man himself.i dont know him to speak to but do by reputation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhWTMmkIuAk

[boovidge]

I was sitting in a pub watching the EPL today and the guys sitting next to me were discussing Claude Makelele's transfer and where he'd been to. One of the guys said "he's moved to a foreign team anyway."

That about sums up Irish football fans. British when it suits them.

[SUB of the day]

So you have 5 teams??Do you have a social life at all??
...at 10.25 on a Saturday night, I was out....socialising!:D:D:D