Ah, I was desperately hungover/still drunk when I wrote that diatribe earlier and evidently in some sort of heal-the-world mood.
I stand by some points, not all.
And I've now actually looked through that IrishKop thing... those people are indeed jokes.
For the record though, I am probably different to most football fans here in that I do consider myself a 'football fan' first and am not all too partisan. I realise too many of you I am as such a lily-livered freak too weak to commit the proper range of emotions that go with truly partisan support. You're probably right.