Match is now sold out.
We've come a long way from Tolka.
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Match is now sold out.
We've come a long way from Tolka.
Read the 1st line of my post again..Quote:
Originally Posted by Jamesie
Express whatever but pay the fine! Not there would be one at a domestic final but costing a club a players yealy salary in fines from UEFA for a single political 'fleg' albeit on a different stage, by a very niche league club...well by all means protest but pony up and dont let another carry the can! I know ts ridiculous to try to seperate politics from sport when sport is based on tribalism and competition between nation states but sometimes a football match should just be a footbal match!
Apologies for not explaining context - fans/Ulltras that misbehave and incurr fines repeatably should be made responsible for the fines, pyro likely the main isssue in the stadium tomorrow. My reference to UEFA was to do with a €25k fine for one Palestinian flag at a European qualifyer in Oriel a number of years back and I do think it was regularly at all games so some times there is a time and a place for these things, the club warned fans of the risk and was ugnored, I was thinking generally rather than just secifically abou tomorrow. I dont paricularly like football being used as political tool. or that waering certain clubs colours are an expression of identity/ethnicity and not in a good way eg the odd old firm types in Ni and to a lesser extent in Ireland these days, we all know some. So again can a football match just be a football match rather than a hijacked platform for some to express their opinions on non sporing matters.
Ive been following Derry since about 2000 and by extension League of Ireland obviously and I have never seen demand like it in Derry and obviously across the country, we really need to make sure to facilitate the extra numbers while we can, have a feeling this is a massive crossroads for Irish football either build on it now or lose it to globalisation/capitalisation if football (for us that means England).
A sell out cup final. Wow.
Kudos to both clubs and all the clubs who have been growing the game. I reckon a few other combos would have done it too and I don't say that to take away from it being done...I just think we are heading in a really exciting direction.
And shame on those working against it all and/or ignoring that the time is ripe for investment.
I didn’t think I’d see it tbh. I remember one Sunday in Richmond twenty years back v Monaghan United and five or six hundred showed up. It’s unbelievable to see 48k at a LOI match.
It’s incredible all right.Quote:
Originally Posted by D24Saint
You don’t even have to go that far back. i remember only about 10 yrs ago you could easily ramble up to Richmond or Dalyer on a Fri night and pay at the gate and there might be less than 1k in attendance, depending on the opponent.
I honestly thought the only chance we’d ever have of filling the Aviva would be for a Rovers V Bohs final. Pats have proved me wrong though. Fair play to them. They’ve increased their support massively in recent years. Fair play!
The success of the underage national leagues can’t be underestimated in all this. And we haven’t even maximised that fully.
Yeah it’s a huge element. As our Director of football Ger O’Brien said the other night at the cup preview night , we now have proper football clubs not just football teams. The increasing popularity of the women’s game will also help clubs grow we are aiming to have a senior women’s teams in the next few years.Quote:
Originally Posted by Philosophizer
Getting the auld phone out at 3:30 in the morning after a night on the gargle, is not always the wisest choice.Quote:
Originally Posted by DCWA
I saw Bohs are allocated as the 'home' team but will they be in their home colours or are sides using the game to flog a few alternative jerseys?
Unbelievable. Never thought we'd ever see these crowds.Quote:
Originally Posted by brendy_éire
Is Devine on his way back from a wedding?
Crowds for the dart were insane. People were left stranded on platforms out as far as Killester, and that’s 6 stations out from Lansdowne. Never seen the dart so crowded even for an Ireland match.Quote:
Originally Posted by SkStu
Looks magnificent in Aviva today, fantastic to see.
Why are the front rows all cordoned off?
Maybe to try prevent pitch invasions?
Amazing crowd. Can't be many in Europe that'd have a Cup final crowd higher than it. 12k for the Turkish Cup final last year (with Fenerbahce in it) for example. 34k in Denmark. 47k in Scotland, so it's higher even than that. Mental stuff.
Never a peno
Loi refs struke again
How does the pats keeper have the same colours as the officials
Peno all day
Went and checked this on wiki actually - if the crowd is 48,000 then it's the seventh-highest crowd for any domestic Cup final across Europe this year. (I don't see any of the ones with no reported attendance matching that)Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
That's incredible stuff.
Code:1 England 83,179
2 France 78,038
3 Germany 74,667
4 Italy 68,500
5 Spain 55,579
6 Russia 53,425
7 Ireland 48,000
8 Scotland 47,247
9 Poland 44,701
10 Belgium 42,000
11 Netherlands 40,650
12 Denmark 34,937
13 Switzerland 31,500
14 Austria 30,000
15 Norway 25,532
16 Hungary 24,152
17 Belarus 21,058
18 Cyprus 19,076
19 Czech Republic 17,037
20 Slovakia 15,427
21 Serbia 12,371
22 Turkey 12,182
23 Romania 11,813
24 Kazakhstan 11,200
25 Northern Irl 9,688
26 Slovenia 9,217
27 Luxembourg 8,385
28 Croatia 7,041
29 Latvia 6,747
30 Faroe Islands 6,500
31 Sweden 5,832
32 Bosnia-Herz 5,000
33 Finland 4,431
34 Malta 4,128
35 Iceland 3,845
36 Montenegro 3,500
37 Bulgaria 1,400
38 Estonia 1,347
39 Liechtenstein 1,298
40 Wales 1,231
41 Moldova 1,185
42 Greece 0
Ukraine N/A
Albania
Andorra
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Georgia
Gibraltar
Israel
Kosovo
Lithuania
North Macedonia
Portugal
San Marino