Yelled cheerily 'Up the Drogs!' at someone wearing a DUFC top at the international in Wales last November. He smiled back at me - it was a warm moment between us.
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Yelled cheerily 'Up the Drogs!' at someone wearing a DUFC top at the international in Wales last November. He smiled back at me - it was a warm moment between us.
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Originally Posted by Straightstory
Thanks for putting that up, Gavin Zac. It is truly 'beautiful'.
only really on holidays or something like that, bit odd to just grab someone off the street and say something :D
I was in matchday gear walking through Dublin 3 today and had 'Dundalk are shoite' shouted at me by some teenager. Does that count?
People country-wide come in to my work so I quiz them on their nearest team, no matter how abstract or distant.
Me and a City fan buddy have a bit of a joke where we keep asking a guy from Clarecastle if Derek McCarthy is the answer up front or should ye bring back Colin P. He doesn't follow footie.
As for just harrassing people who wear jersies on the street, I'd strike up chit-chat with all eL fans except those of 2 clubs which is a bit sad and bitter really I suppose.
No big issue just the likelihood of them annoying me. Bohs ain't one.
eL fans are generally a good calibre of people it must be said.
No, we're just talking about specifically football related banter.Quote:
Originally Posted by holidaysong
:p
Usually only City fans Id see around Cork in gear, and its getting more and more frequent. Id acknowledge them even if I didnt know them.
Met a group of Drogs fans the day of the match last week and there was a bit of banter but other than that only the odd Ramblers jacket.
In Sweden last year though we ended up in a pub rub by a Shels fan, who gave all of us free food and gave me free soft drinks for the night.
Today I was walking down to the shop and I passed this old lad in my estate who I'd never seen before and he started talking to me about Wanderers cos I had my jersey on.
Talked to a few Rovers fans in Wexford last July, i was wearing my Derry top in the Stores bar.
With beer, you'd talk the hind legs off a donkey, rovers fans or not :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by dortie
on the OP never really thought about fans from non dub teams as i see other EL fans all the time, in my job there is 8 or 9 EL fans who go to games. 2 pats 2 bohs 1 dundalk and the others rovers.
We have a branch up north and they Cliftonville and Linfield fans ( linfield fans sent me flowers when we drew them in SSC :D )lads in Kilkenny dont count anymore :o
The 2 Pool and Utd fans feel left out, on friday afternoons from about 1ish onwards the place becomes a ghost town.
Must suck being a non dub team fan and only having websites to interact with other EL fans :(
kdjac
You must have grown new legs back again lad, its been a long time since i bent your ear ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by soccerc
Im back on the road this season though, you might get the chance again. If you dont mind losing your legs that is !!
Au contraire, I wasn't the legless one the last occasion, a game I'd rather forget, though my ears are still sore from listening to you :DQuote:
Originally Posted by dortie
I can assume you'll make McDowell's Friday week so. Mines a large bottle of Bulmers
Sure will, 2nd away game for new supporters club.Quote:
Originally Posted by soccerc
See you there.
Thought I was going to have one of those warm fuzzy moments this thread is dedicated to this morning. As I was putting up posters for UCD v Sligo on the campus a guy comes up to me with a confused look. He said "Are you an Eircom League man?", expecting to strike up a nice conversation I replied "Yes". His reponse wasn't quite what I expected. "Don't waste our notice boards with that sh1te" and began roaring "Loser!" as he walked off. Very pleasant.:p
That is the saddest thing about some soccer fans in this country. Those without ears cannot ever listen. I feel your pain at that.Quote:
Originally Posted by pixiehead
Was in a pub with my Italian housemate and a few others recently enough, he's not really into football, but he did catch the United/Liverpool fans out at our table with his innocent question 'Why do you support a team that come from a place that you don't?', after a few of them started laughing at my support of Limerick 37, and the LoI in general. I actually felt embarassed for them during their silence (I presume they weren't drunk enough to launch into their 'Irish heritage' monologue) :D
My dream is to someday be walking on an exotic beach somewhere in my Shels jersey and to come across the most beautiful girl in the world wearing a Shels top. Then we'd make love in the sand.....
Oh sorry I drifted off there :D
Like this?Quote:
Originally Posted by LeixlipRed
http://www.centurynovelty.com/catIma...-620_large.jpg
She's hardly attractive. Though saying that neither is the average shels fan :D though there is the odd hotty ;)
He made it sound like he was talking about some form of life that wasn't human...Quote:
Originally Posted by Poor Student
Cheers for that, Paddy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Paddyfield
Would always give a wee nod to any passing eL fan. Would do the same about Belfast for most IL fans also (bar Linfield, who always give me the stare of death).
Great passing eL fans wearing their tops abroad, even in random places like the Sligo fan Utrecht or the Pats fan in Lodz in Poland.
Was in Jervis Shopping Centre on Friday and my 2 boys and myself were all wearing our Monaghan United coats. The boys were going down the escalator in front of me and a guy on the escalator going the opposite direction kept looking back tryin to read the crest on the jacket. He must not have been an eL fan or he would have recognised the Mons straight off!
On a similar note, does anyone else try to scan the badges on people's coats as they walk past, looking for an EL one? :p Or attempt to check if that scarf the guy in front is wearing is for example, a Liverpool or a St. Pats scarf?Quote:
Originally Posted by Magicme
You can just say he was staying at your tits you know, crest? - yeah right.Quote:
Originally Posted by Magicme
:D
Bus driver started talking to me today, asking about the Rovers result last night. Was confused when he was unhappy Rovers had won (obviously was expecting my own reaction), but then he said he was a Pat's fan, at which stage I remembered I had my UCD jersey on. Always enjoy incidents like that.
Yeah, me too :)Quote:
Originally Posted by thischarmingman
Dont see many of them around here though, but always nice to see the occasional Limerick jersey, coat, hat etc...
Not when it's a taxi driver.......Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
A Pat's fan taxi driver? No such thing exists, sure. :confused:
Yes thischarmingman I do. No Raheny Red as it was my son he was staring at. And finally Yes Pineapple Stu it happens a lot.
was walking out of the showgrounds after the bohs match a couple of weeks ago (in admittedly no colours and with laptop for the web updates) and caught the eyes of a couple of bohs fans waiting for the bus.
"howaye lads, good result tonight", to which they responded,
'fookin' journo's..!:eek:
this is going back a few years - but I was finishing up some stuff in Worcester City Centre here in England.
Couldn't be arsed to walk home - so I hopped on a bus, wearing a Bohs jersey and jacket.
Minding my own business when, at the next stop, a lass gets on wearing - of all things - a Pats jersey (the red one with the hoops on the sleeves and the Autoglass sponsorship).
Had a brief chat about the eL and the season and such as we travelled up through town - reached my stop about 15 minutes later.
(Apparently - her whole family were St Pats fans living in Worcester - although to this day I've not seen another eL jersey about the City)
I passed a guy wearing a St. Pats coat jacket just a couple if hours ago, close to the Guinness brewery. With this thread in mind was just about to accost him about Friday night when some local kids, looking to him to adjudicate in an argument, asked him "Who won Wrestlemania last night?"
I decided to leave it.
Passed a Longford jacket wearer on Sth. Great Georges Street today but as I was for once entirely colourless (would usually have a Harps jacket on but was going for an interview), would have been ever so slightly weird to 'acknowledge' him...
I've seen the occasional jersey in various parts of London, and even in more smaller places such Bournemouth and Colchester!
And yes, nods are usually exchanged.
Amongst these people that keep getting nodded at there's one bloke with a little Legion of Mary badge on his jersey. It gives him heart that the Faith is still so strong amongst the young people that they salute him on the street.
I think every Arsenal jersey/scarf/car minikit (particularly minikits) is a Pats one before I'm usually disappointed.Quote:
Originally Posted by thischarmingman
With at least 54,000 Pat's jerseys floating around Dublin your odds must be fairly good though ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Dodge
As previously advised, a lot of them were Overseas sales