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Originally Posted by NY Hoop
Don't worry BD converts like us are often the most fervent in promoting their beliefs unlike those who were simply born into their religion. ;)
well since i can remember ive had Liverpool fc drummed into me by my uncle. then when i was about 10 our neighbour (an avid harps fan) asked if i wanted to go to finn park. i hadn't a clue wat he was goin on about but i went anyway. i havn't looked back since, im now 23. don't get me wrong im a big liverpool fan (couldn be bothered wi that scottish pish) but harps win out every time. the weekend aint the same without goin to a harps match, even through the hard times (all in the past now hopefully)
Limerick fan from Limerick, Cork fan from Cork, Sligo fan from Sligo, Derry fan from Derry, Kildare fan from Kildare, Galway fan from Galway. ;) Seriously though, there's a big difference there. If I really loved my county like most country folk do and there was one big team basically representing that county of course I'm going to support them playing the sport I love.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dodge
its not about "loving your county" or whatever you mean by that.
It pains me to say it but a lot of cork people hate city and would never go to turners cross.
I cant understand the mentality. There is a big anti-city sentiment in some parts and i dont know why.
I already told ye bout my brother saying if city were playing out in the back garden he would close the curtains. It just baffles me!!
A lot of fellas i know have the same attitude, never go down to the Cross but yet they are in the pub every Sunday sreamin at the telly, willing "their" team to win!
Its a joke and il never understand it.
They dont realise what they are missing out on by supporting your local team.
They will never experience at atmosphere like there was in turners cross on nov 18th 2005 when we finally won the league again, or when we won our one and only FAi Cup in 98 beating Shels after a replay, or the pride you feel when YOUR team beats some cocky European team who thought they were only coming over here on a holiday.
Or even last year, walking down Patrick St and seeing our Club Shop having pride of place in the middle of our main street and full of customers....
It's all about pride and these pathetic barstoolers dont know what they are missing out on.....
i used to live right beside the brandywell and my dad started takin me when i was about 4 or 5 years old. i cant remember wat game it was oviuosly but iv rarly missed a match since then
I am mainly a follower Parvilla as I live about 3 mins from the stadium but I was born in Drogheda so I chose them as an EL team to follow.
Longford Town. Was relatively late to the scene, they're my local team and I've supported them since two seasons before we got to the Premier. Was a Liverpool fan in my formative years but not too bothered about how they do these days..
I started going to games at Belfield in my first year at UCD out of curiosity. I attended as a neutral but fast developed an affinity for the team.
I also love Celtic. I went to my first game in 1988, aged 4, while visiting my relations in Scotland and have been to a good 30 games since on my visits. My father is of a GAA background from Mayo and I have no LOI tradition. I'd say that also plays a factor in lack of support for Dublin clubs in proportion to the population. A lot of our parents would be from outside Dublin and many from spots like Mayo that don't have a LOI club. The death of so many clubs in Cork before Cork City also severs the lineage of a direct family tradition of supporting the same club.
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By banter I meant in school or work rather than the pub (never a fan of watching games in the pub, although can be a good atmosphere at times). When your best friends support Man U, Arsenal, Liverpool, or in my case Everton, they don't want to talk about St Pats or Bray. I'd often go into school after a league of Ireland match was on the tv and try to talk about it but nobody else had the slightest interest. It was the same in my last job. Although where I am now there's a mad Bohs fan and a Pat's one which makes a nice change.
I follow Bohs in much the same way I follow Liverpool these days, I've never been to Anfield either. As the name suggests it's a passing interest. I will however, take a greater interest in Wexford Youths.
Fair play to the Shels fan for travelling from Wexford, but it was never an option when I was younger and it never appealed to me since I've been living in Dublin.
I think Wexford people will support the team and a new generation of 'real' supporters will develop and pass the passion down through the generations.
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Originally Posted by passinginterest
Started going to Rovers when I was very young, and got hooked.Supported Manure too, purely because my two favourite players, Giggs and Keane, played for them.Got hooked on Rovers though, went to nearly every home and away game that me and my family could.
The first time I realised what a barstooler was when some muppet (of the gah persuasion) in my primary was obsessed with Manure, and how his father had a magnet of champagne for when they won the European Cup.
People, eh.
I used to follow Liverpool as a kid, but I've been persuaded to watch a few Spurs matches here as a few of my housemates are Spurs nuts and the bug has caught. But it just doesnt compare to watching your own team back home. If anyone here asks me who my team is. Its Longford Town.
I think anyone who really likes football will want to see it live as tv only gives you a glimpse. This is the reason why International managers attend games as opposed to just watching on tv.
I would not expect a 5 year old to ask to be brought to an eL ground so its logical he/she will watch tv & get attached to a popular team.
Coming from Wexford I'd agree with Passing Interest on most of his comments. Closest EL team to me would have been Waterford (about 50 min drive away) but there was never much coverage of EL on tv growing up and always had Premiership or Italian football (of which I'd have far more interest in and have attended much more Italian league games than Premiership, not hard seeing as I havent been to a Premiership game). When Waterfrod were on a good cup run a few of us would go watch games at the RSC, and since I've moved to Waterford I have gone to the odd game.
But I never really had a passion for the team or the club. I used to watch the Wexford Youth teams quite a lot, and would have far more sense of having a team when they played, so I was delighted to hear we now have a team in the EL and it will be a start of EL supporters in Wexford.
Thanks Pete that's kind of the point I was trying to make, however badly. If there had been blanket media coverage, a match of the day type programme etc. in place, I'm sure many more young people who don't have a team in their county or community would have supported another Irish team and maybe grown up to become a true supporter and started attending matches. Instead we were soaked in UK football and the home based teams never stood a chance.
I grew up in a GAA heartland but hated it so Match of the Day was our saviour every week. I moved to Bray in the early 90's and was really disillusioned with the soulless English game on TV so I went along to watch the Wanderers play one Sunday afternoon and was instantly hooked- they lost but the atmosphere was great and the Carlisle was a very welcoming place. Actually, I bought a scarf so then I had to go back! I remember when we won the Cup in 99, the semi away to Shels on Good Friday, back to Bray but all the boozers closed! Now I bring my young lad along with his mate and they love it. It's a great League once you give it a chance imo.
I think my first Galway Utd game was in 1988, when I was about 10. One of the first memories I have is of Vinny Arkins getting an awful slagging for the state of his haircut.
I think the crux of this debate, "who do you support if you have no ties", comes down to whether you're interested enough in watching the drama of live football. The choice between sitting in the pub having the "craic" watching a game, or going out in the freezing cold to follow a team through thick and thin is tough. For me,attending live football will always win out.
Things would be a lot better if everyone followed the Frank Skinner rule for deciding this:
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The nearest Italian club to me is Juventus
i would definitely agree that the league needs more exposure - kids exposed to premiership only know the premiership
from a hurling heartland in east galway - but had family friends in the city years older than me - one of them had a galway united jersey - i thought it was a hurling jersey and was told it wasnt
as a kid this obsessed me to the point i got me old man (from mayo, no interest in soccer) to bring me to terryland
cant remember when it was but the pitch was going the other way and there was feck all at it - i was hooked
In terms of local team, Rovers could've been my local-est team as the 86 bus went from the top of our road past Milltown. My da brought me to a Rovers league game once when I was young but just cos they played in green and white didn't mean they were a patch on his beloved Belfast Celtic so he never bothered going back and seeing as there was no-one else to bring me, I was saved from a fate worse than death. :D
I kinda stumbled onto Pats as being my local team about ten years ago. I was renting a flat in Rialto at the time, used to go out for a wander every Sunday, just following my nose, would sometimes end up down in the Museum of Modern Art, sometimes walk along the canal, wherever.
Anyway, one Sunday in Jan 1997 I was just wandering along Emmet Road, heard crowd noises coming from behind the houses, got curious and went to investigate, lo and behold Pats were playing either UCD or Derry, can't remember, it finished 0-0 anyway.
Started going more regularly, then discovered that friends of friends were regulars so started going with them. Been hooked since.
Eirebhoy is a closet EL fan ;) buy me beer or i will out you :p
Da brought me to pats many moons ago, still go now bring my damn weiner kids (which somehow costs the same as going to McD :confused: )
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Grew up in Galway, football obsessed but this was the 60s/70s and Galway didn't have a league team - remember seeing galway Utd(?) beaten 10-0 by a German U-16 team at terryland in the early 70s, though.
We moved to Athlone in '74 the year the town came second and made the UEFA cup - was completely hooked; as far as i was concerned this was easily as good as seeing Arsenal (my mother grew up in London and the Arse were her and her father's team) since I'd never seen Arsenal and knew no better.
We moved to Dublin in 75 and I never really established a Dublin team - though Bohs were the nearest - went to internationals in Dalyer though. Then Punk rock led me away from football for quite a while.......
.....its 2000 and for academic reasons I'm in Colchester. A similar exile - from Norway - Brings me along to see Col U; it all comes back in a flash, I remember again what football is really about (I'd been to a few prem. matches in the meantime - no real buzz) when i came back to Dublin, I decided to turn my vague affiliation to the Red and Black into reality, a time which coincided with an burgeoning interest in football on my Daughters behalf ....... and 5 years on we're still there (or at least i am - she's discovered music and had less patience with the Farrelly era that I) Like BD, I love that we're a members club and the fact that we're a real urban institution, pluralist and local at the same time. And i like being able to say 'we' and it meaning a bunch of people I know, a place I pass most days and not simply a shirt i bought off a club in a city hundreds of miles away.
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Originally Posted by sonofstan
Like BohsPartisan I'm from Navan, I still live here. Up until about 99/00 I barely knew this league existed and was a Man United 'fan' (I've been to Old Trafford once in '98). A lot of the Bohs squad, after training, used to come to the place where my Dad works (we both work there now) for their lunch and my dad go to know a good few of them. He'd come home a few evenings and tell me about how he was talking to whatever player. He especially got to know the keeper Wayne Russell who was a sub for a long while and at half-time he'd bring me and my mate out to take penalties on him when he was warming up with the subs.
My dad and uncle then went to their first Bohs match, a 0-0 draw against Waterford in Dalymount on apparently the coldest night ever. I went to the next one with them and unfotunately I cannot remember what team we played or what score it was.
The atmosphere after the Aberdeen match in Tolka was the first time I just thought, wow, this is unreal. I would've been about 11 or so. Since then the only team I really support is Bohs, and to me nothing beats just being in a football ground watching live football.
Kildare County are my local club, i live about a 15 min drive from the stadium, went to my 1st match when i was 12 after managing them in Championship Manager!
Lost 2-1 to Monaghan on that day (i think), went with 2 of my friends, they didnt ever delevop an intrest in the Eircom League. But I was, havent missed many home matchs since then.
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i was born in waterford and lived in kilcohan park all my life next door to waterfords old ground, my first ever match was watching the blues take on manchester united in a friendly back in 1990 and ever since that day i have adopted both teams the blues and man u as my two fav teams,
i attended all of the blues home games last season and about 8 away games and have also been to old trafford 7 times this season with 2 more trips to come before the end of season.
Always been a fan of the Rovers really but theres a lot of people in the town who would look out for their results and not actually bother going to the game and would have the attitude that the league is crap but still would call themselves Rovers fans. In fairness I used to be one of them myself. I remember when the Dublin Dons thing was around and I didnt think there was anything wrong with it , I was a Manchester United fan at the time and thought it would be great to have the Premiership in Ireland. As the years wore on the alliegience for Man United wore off , i suppose it was easier after secondary school where nearly everyone had an English team and i thought nnothing of it. I remember being delighted when they won the European Cup so to be honest I wouldnt disparage the club at all when they gave me all those memories and i still hope they win the title this year but its from a different perspective I am viewing it now.
I got into Longford Town when a few of the older section o lads and myself used to cycle out to matches in Mullogher every couple of sundays. We are still going to matches today. Sorbo the Greek was part of that gang.It was very difficult supporting them in those days. We were always losing and I didnt know the players. Loved the craic have being goin ever since.
My first away game was the 1999/00 season the bug has totally got hold of me since then. I have supported them seventeen years now!
proud moments getting promoted, stephen kenny, europe and the trophies we won!:
Like most here I grew up about 5 minutes walk from Ramblers ground, my uncle played for them and I remember my father bringing me to a game when I was 9 and I was hooked after that.
Oh Jaysus Christ, you are actually saying i love my county. I cant speak for all of our fans but i can speak for me and my mates and tell you that i have no affinity and no loyalty to my county. it has nothing to do with me and the people who reside in it have nothing to do with me. and above all i am far from in love with it or them. I am from sligo town not out in the boglands, in my opinion a person from rural county sligo has more in common with a person from mayo than with people from sligo town. The closest thing it can be described as is all the 'culchies' that head up to dublin for the sales and the general annoyance with which dubs look on these 'outsiders'. that is how i look on people from outside sligo town, especially with people from sligo county who take half an hour before they make that dive onto the rampaging escalator in Quayside, or when they get to the top of the que in tesco and count out all their ****ing coppers as 10 people wait behind them in the que, or how the bog men spill there pints all over you with their big fat fingered farmer hands.Quote:
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The joys of been a townie
They also should have their sandwiches and flasks confisicated before they enter the Showgrounds.
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Originally Posted by Da Real Rover
Ha ha thats funny , the way you are talking you would swear you are living in Manhattan or LA , not a small provincial town like Sligo. By the to any Dubliner you are one of those culchies.
Sligo Rovers has always been representative of the county and surrounding regions. There wouldnt be much of a club if just people living in the town attended games.
A friend of mine used to go to Terryland and I went with him a few times. We would never really watch the match. I was one of those kids who ran around the place drinking Fanta and then kicking the empty can around the place.
Then I really became really interested when Galway United got to the 1985 FAI Cup semi final versus Limerick City. The first leg was a draw in Tolka and the replay was held in Athlone. I asked my mother if I could go and she said to ask my Dad and he said to ask her so after a process of elimination, I got the half day of school and I was on a train with my mates to St Mel's for the all-or-nothing replay.
John Mannion scored the winner after extra time and I was truly hooked.
Went to the first match in the LOI in 1985 when i was 12.. Home Farm in the league Cup. Went to all the matches for a few years then moved away to college in Britain.. now back and living in Dublin so make more away games than home games.
Before that it was Liverpool on tv cos there was no local team to support
A bit off topic, but I miss going to see my team play so much that when I go back to university again in a few years, I'm tempted to move back.
My Dad and Uncle brought me to my first match in terryland in 1986 against Derry City and Ive had the bug ever since. Would also be a Man Utd fan, since all of my family (bar me) were born there and we still go back as often as possible even though every year that gets less and less.
Missus wants to move outside Dublin, 1st thing i thought off " **** that travel to pats games" so we ehh not moving ever. btw this not moving thing costing me a few hundred grand.Quote:
Originally Posted by Soper
Dedication :D
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