The way the FAI thinks and works

Caught a fair bit of liveline yesterday. Mostly the usual stuff; one fan called another a culchie and not a real fan because he is also involved in hurling.

However Joe himself made two valid points I think; the europa league final in Dublin hyped by Delaney beforehand turned out to be a "damp squid". Was in Dublin at the time and no big deal and same likely to be true about the 2 euro games.

Vast majority of money for soccer (all sporting facilities) comes out of the public purse. True about racetracks, Croker and Aviva/ FAI headquarters.
Good discussion with Bobby Ballagh about the National Gallery and the Beit Collections as well. Might listen more often in future.

This whole kerfuffle makes me thing that we need an Irish tagline for the FAI similar to the Pat's one.
I'm suggesting

F.A.I.
An chreach a shoilg agus an torr a chosc.

Here is as good a place if any for this i guess,well worth a read.

"Struggle continues for Irish soccer clubs both on and off the pitch

http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/socc...itch-1.2246118

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Originally Posted by wonder88

Caught a fair bit of liveline yesterday. Mostly the usual stuff; one fan called another a culchie and not a real fan because he is also involved in hurling.

However Joe himself made two valid points I think; the europa league final in Dublin hyped by Delaney beforehand turned out to be a "damp squid". Was in Dublin at the time and no big deal and same likely to be true about the 2 euro games.

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The pigs had the city in lockdown for the Obama visit at the time, hence the lack of atmosphere.

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Vast majority of money for soccer (all sporting facilities) comes out of the public purse. True about racetracks, Croker and Aviva/ FAI headquarters.
Good discussion with Bobby Ballagh about the National Gallery and the Beit Collections as well. Might listen more often in future.

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Seriously, don't.

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Originally Posted by wonder88

However Joe himself made two valid points I think; the europa league final in Dublin hyped by Delaney beforehand turned out to be a "damp squid". Was in Dublin at the time and no big deal and same likely to be true about the 2 euro games.

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the lack of travelling fans, from Braga in particular, didn't help at all. think Braga brought about 2,000 fans. was a dreadful game also probably due to the fact that the two teams were from the same league.

biggest waste of a free ticket I ever got!

if we qualify for 2020 those two games will involve us and the place will be buzzing no doubt. watch the 15,000 or so true fans of the team getting edged out of the tickets due to UEFA ticket selling methods

Was at the Europa final. Just very bad luck those two ended there. Liverpool v Rangers? That would have been interesting.