Why do you support the team you do?

[Soper]

I just remembered one thing that perplexed me back in the day - they used to have cork city shirts in the window of a sports shop in Sligo (around the time we got promoted in 93/94).Not very condusive to promoting the local team.

[MyTown]

The Junior soccer scene in Galway was always healthy, but if you live (as I do) even a short distance from "town", you had no cause to hitch your wagon to. In 1976 along came Galway Rovers which mutated a few years later into United (no self respecting EL club can survive longer than a decade or two without a name change)

I looked enviously at Limerick & Athlone who both had very good sides in the League at the time and were both about an hours drive from "home".

When Galway got a shot at a League of Ireland "franchise", I wanted to be a part of SUPPORTING it & I've been here since. There have been good days and bad days, great wins and humiliating defeats, but I've got a team based in my local area playing senior soccer for 30 years. I'm well happy with that.

[Higgo]

I started following Shels roughly 12 years ago, my dad brought me to a match V Bohs and I got hooked. To this day, he says it was the worst thing he's ever done...and he's probably right. I treat the whole thing too seriously, to the detriment of other (more important) things in life.

[Calcio Jack]

My old man hurled for Clare, went to a well known fee paying southside rugby school, brought up in D4, but luckily for me that was 10 minjutes walk from Milltown, we were made for each other.