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Club will have a stall or some form of presence there so your bound to see some of the regulars on here hanging around harassing people. TP borders on some of the citys lovely Northside estates so feel free to ramble around. (just avoid the pubs later on that night)Quote:
Originally Posted by Martinho II
Nearly fell off my chair when I seen Leo the Lion walking around the East stand about 30 mins into the match :D
Shocking performance by Dave Ryan in goal at HT (and Karl Spain) it has to be said, nice bit of exposure for the club on the day though.
People were getting their pictures taken with Leo after the match, in front of a van with Limerick FC on the side. Good to hear Karl Spain say he was a Limerick fan too...after all the kids taking peno's had been Liverpool & Man U 'fans'.
didnt realise you were at the match sligoman! what area were you in? I was in the east stand.. i met up with Gary Spain at the match and gave him two town athletico madrid eleven match reports for him and his dad bernard!!Quote:
Originally Posted by sligoman
gas that I will be in Limerick again next week! Might go for a stroll there again! Its some set up there didnt know that Limerick played a lot of their big games there! Why didnt they not play Real Madrid there can I ask?
In the west stand Marty, had the Rovers jersey on:).Quote:
Originally Posted by Martinho II
Because a certain organisation moved it to Dublin, a decision still to this day, sickens all Limerick soccer fans.Quote:
Originally Posted by Martinho II
It was the club that moved it to Dublin.Quote:
Originally Posted by LFC-Zulu
Thomond Park was considered and available. However UEFA's heavy fines for pitch incursions was a factor. This is also why the Markets Field was used for Southampton and AZ67 and Thomond Park for the Tottenham friendly. The Markets Field needed a lot of work and wouldn't have been ready for the Real Madrid game.
With hindsight it was clearly a mistake to move the Real Madrid game. The main people behind the decision are no longer with us. They would be the same people that hired Eoin Hand and ran the club very well at the time albeit there were a couple of others robbing the club blind at the time too.
There were no buses or trains back to Limerick after the game. Furthermore the game failed to capture the imagination of the Dublin football public whereas Waterford got huge crowds for Man United and Celtic. Lansdowne may have also been a novelty for those ties as the national team didn't play there until a year after the Celtic game (or at least hadn't since 1927).
well then I was opposire you then! many of ye travelled up?Quote:
Originally Posted by sligoman