New Documentary on Irish Football

Howya,

Just to introduce ourselves we’re a group of Multimedia students in DCU all fans of league of Ireland football, The group consists of Shels, Pats, Drogs and even a Monaghan Fan.

We’re propsing to make a documentary for our final year thesis on League of Ireland football. The documentary will be specifically focusing on the past, current and possible future states of the league.

The inspiration for the documentary came from a book written by Daire Whelan, which I’m sure some of you’s have read, called Who stole our Game. The Book focuses on the Fall of domestic Irish soccer, relating to fan numbers, money and outside influnces.

We’d really appreciate if anyone has any stories or insights into the topic as we’re open to suggestions on what we might include and are also looking for the fans opinions.

Cheers
Frankie, Si, Alan, Laura and Ross.

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Originally Posted by Ross_DCU

Howya,

Just to introduce ourselves we’re a group of Multimedia students in DCU all fans of league of Ireland football, The group consists of Shels, Pats, Drogs and even a Monaghan Fan.

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Oi less of the "even"!!!

PM me if you need anything.

Hi,

There's a bunch of media students putting together a documentary on L37 for a thesis. I can put you in contact with them if you're interested. Share footage, or interviews, or whatever you media students do...PM if you're interested and good luck with everything.

Im extremely interested to see what ye come up with for this.I wish ye the best of luck with it.I might try dig through the boxes of old programs i have,off the top of my head theres one article i think ye might like.

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Originally Posted by Ross_DCU

The inspiration for the documentary came from a book written by Daire Whelan, which I’m sure some of you’s have read, called Who stole our Game. The Book focuses on the Fall of domestic Irish soccer, relating to fan numbers, money and outside influnces.

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But be warned the myth of regular massive crowds at LOI games pre-1970's is just that. Prior to BBC, LOI had a GAA Event Junkie type following. Which in effect was huge crowds for league deciders and cup finals and pathetic crowds for non-hyped games. I would say that LOI over the course of the entire season are probably far bigger now than in the early 60's.

The "huge crowds before UK tele soccer" is one myth that badly needs to be undone as it is based on nothing more than lazy journalists making false assumptions on seeing grainy B&W images of cup finals at Dalyer and assuming that was what all games were like in the LOI back then.

Being misty eyed about a false past is for ignorant journalists, but it just ain't true.

Great idea and best of luck. Will we ever see it on the box :)

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Originally Posted by Boh_So_Good

But be warned the myth of regular massive crowds at LOI games pre-1970's is just that. Prior to BBC, LOI had a GAA Event Junkie type following. Which in effect was huge crowds for league deciders and cup finals and pathetic crowds for non-hyped games. I would say that LOI over the course of the entire season are probably far bigger now than in the early 60's.

The "huge crowds before UK tele soccer" is one myth that badly needs to be undone as it is based on nothing more than lazy journalists making false assumptions on seeing grainy B&W images of cup finals at Dalyer and assuming that was what all games were like in the LOI back then.

Being misty eyed about a false past is for ignorant journalists, but it just ain't true.

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In my post-youthful ignorance, I was buying into this. Surprised, to say the least, that things were bad back then too.

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Originally Posted by Boh_So_Good

Being misty eyed about a false past is for ignorant journalists, but it just ain't true.

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I would also caution at being misty-eyed about a false future, as in 'Who Stole Our Game?', which IIRC put forward a rather flimsy plan to reform the league so that it appeals to nice middle-class folk.
Anyway, the first person I would talk to if I were undertaking such a venture would be Noel Mooney.