You mean it doesn't matter to people like you.Quote:
Originally Posted by alltogethernow
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You mean it doesn't matter to people like you.Quote:
Originally Posted by alltogethernow
Yeah, I agree. What was interesting though was that Rovers seemed more prepared to pass their way out from the back than they were against Ruben Kazan. Or maybe Spurs backed off a little more than RK did when Rovers got the ball in their back four?Quote:
Originally Posted by Stuttgart88
Anybody who was at both games have a view on this? Its one of those things that you get much more of a sense for when you're actually there...
Similar to that famous picture of Rangers 0-3 Shelbourne. Sigh.Quote:
Originally Posted by bennocelt
Well done Shams. Thoroughly enjoyable watch. Always proud of the LoI and as this one was accessible for me I'd like to have travelled the few miles south but for other committments. Fantastic support and really respected commentary over here. Graham Taylor was particularly complimentary of 'Shamrock'. He did eventually, post match actually call them Shamrock Rovers but he was very honest in his comments on their performance and he did say he hoped it would not end up with more goals conceded as Shamrock Rovers didn't deserve that.
Harry's comments were completely lacking in the usual platitudes. It was really nice to see.
Is it up online anywhere?Quote:
Originally Posted by BonnieShels
People like me??!!Quote:
Originally Posted by L.T.F.C.
Clearly Rovers arent a facist/racist club.
What pi**es me and others, including Rovers lads I know, is the complete denial by the club that nothing goes on. there have been a number of incidents over the last few years which have been denied dispite proof.
If the numbers doing these things are small as said surely the club should sort it?? But they don't, they don't even ban known hooligans.
Snippets on RTÉ. I'm sure BBC carry more.Quote:
Originally Posted by A face
"Shamrock Rovers- Ireland's Shame" on a Celtic messagboard? I'm not a Rovers fan but this really annoys me from a club whose fans are continuously involved in sectarian and pro-terrorist chanting. There can't be much of their glass house left surely?
Brilliant effort from all the players, Mon and Magilton deserve great praise too. Fantastic atmosphere.
Great craic had between Spurs and Rovers fans. It was a perfect day apart from a ten min spell in the second half.
Rice scoring is even less likely than Brush, but absolutely delighted for him. The 10 minutes of Barca style olé possession and 90 minutes off it, great stuff. It took Pavlyuchenko, Defoe and a Barca youth to apply the finishing touches. Pavlyuchenko's header was the pick of their bunch, Ricers goal was far superior. :)
One mans terrorist is another mans.....but a Nazi is a fricking Nazi. We don't have a hooligan issue either, they do. They shamed us again and reminded me why I can't stand them. I just don't think Shels fans would behave like them on the road.Quote:
Originally Posted by boovidge
Ah the scourge of facism. As my friend always says "ugly girls need loving too".Quote:
Originally Posted by alltogethernow
I thought Rovers were magnificent against one of the top clubs in the world. Put it this way, they did much better than Liverpool did at White Hart Lane a few weeks ago. The two strikers for Spurs are worth about £40 million alone. Rovers did unbelievably well against that level of opposition. It's just not realistic to expect a part-time team to go to London and beat Spurs so I think they did exceptionally well in the circumstances. Fair play to them. Keep doing the league proud.
If the reports are true, clearly these people are a disgrace and should be rooted out.
Back to the match, it was incredible to watch. An incredible effort to be 1-0 up but in the end when you're up against a strike force of world class players like Defoe, Pavlyuchenko and Dos Santos they're going to make goalscoring opportunities for themselves. Great effort, roll on PAOK.
Where, foot.ie reports from people who were not at the game - where is the evidence, apart from a silly celtic forum?Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
I don't know about Nazi salutes, but I did hear the hokey cokey at one stage...I guess for a split second there was 2,000+ rovers fans giving a Nazi salute while singing a childrens song?
Steady on!Quote:
Originally Posted by bluemovie
Fair play to them but you can't compare a full-strength team Spurs teams to a relative Spurs reserve side playing a Premiership match to a tournament they obviously couldn't care less about. Fair play they did alright, but were lucky not to have been completely hammered if truth be told against a team that couldn't be bothered.Quote:
Put it this way, they did much better than Liverpool did at White Hart Lane a few weeks ago. The two strikers for Spurs are worth about £40 million alone. Rovers did unbelievably well against that level of opposition. It's just not realistic to expect a part-time team to go to London and beat Spurs so I think they did exceptionally well in the circumstances. Fair play to them. Keep doing the league proud.
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Originally Posted by bennocelt
Just passing it on what someone from London said. He's from where the match was so I'd say he is as good a source as any and unlike others he has no agenda.
I heard rumours of the Auschwitz chants around the time they were alleged to have happened. I don't know if it really happened or to what extent, but unfortunately you sometimes have bold boys who go to football matches and make a show of the club, like the Manchester United fans chanting about Istanbul at Elland Road the other week. I do think certain people are a little too happy the rumours have surfaced though.
Are you for real? Feeling shame about alleged actions at a match you weren't at, reading reports from a football forum in a country not involved in the game, going off only those second-hand reports that you want to hear and not bothering your hole to work out for yourself what really happened? A tabloid attitude at its most ridiculous.Quote:
Originally Posted by TiocfaidhArmani
Rovers fans were a credit to the club and the league last night. Paul_oshea rightly notes that some Tottenham fans stayed behind to applaud them. I was at Arsenal v Olympiakos on Wednesday as well and the Rovers fans were singing for much longer than the Greeks (and the Greeks are well known for the atmospheres they can create). Place went mad when the goal went in; the reply was fairly vicious, but expected really - Spurs were generally far better than Rovers throughout.
Good craic though; I think I owe paul_oshea and Crafty a pint still - getting your round in early in a group that keeps increasing in size is always awkward! The food robbing was entirely Stutts' fault though...
The fella who commented is from that very city it was played in. There's pictures going around of them doing it apparently, I can't see it in work.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
The pub full of Celtic fans I was in went wild when Rovers scored and all. If only they knew the attitude of LOI fans to them. Looks I was getting when I cheered Spurs goals :D
Just flicking through the channels here in Thailand and the Rovers game is on. Sweet.
There's pictures going around apparently?! Ah well that changes everything. :rolleyes:
And a Londoner confirmed this for you? Well, he must know every single thing that goes on in London, seeing as he's from there.
I wonder if mypost has a vacant seat on the spaceship for chucky
If Dos Santos is world class, I'm twice as good as Messi.Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
I'm sure you got the attention you craved.Quote:
Originally Posted by TiocfaidhArmani
Stutts i turned to you just after half time and said id rovers can play like this away from home against far superior opposition this proves exactly what i have been saying about trap and Ireland. rovers played football we Ireland fans could only dream about at times.it was very entertaining. It really put paid to the whole defenders of the trap system and it was great to see.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stuttgart88
Really enjoyed the shamrock rovers champions....when everyone was singing.sounded very good.the arsenal chant was funny too.
Yeah but in the end, as impressive as it was, Rovers lost. Ireland haven't.Quote:
Originally Posted by paul_oshea
No, as a member of the GAA, I remember their adoption of loyalist anthems and screaming it like English hooligans, and believe me the cheering of Spurs came from the heart!Quote:
Originally Posted by hoopy
He was in a pub full of them yesterday, he doesn't know what goes on everywhere in London, but he knew what went on in that pub because he was there. Why start a thread about it and make up a fake story? What motive has he got to lie about a club he knows little about and cares little about?Quote:
And a Londoner confirmed this for you? Well, he must know every single thing that goes on in London, seeing as he's from there.
Have we even seen this thread or have we only got your word for it?
In fairness, the difference in clas between Spurs and Rovers is probably greater than that between Spain and Ireland.Quote:
Originally Posted by micls
Great night for Irish footie - jaysus when they went 1 up it was real 'pinch yourself this can't be happening' stuff. Of course, Spurs brought everyone back to earth fairly quickly and I think a Shels win tonight will be a better night for Irish footie, but they did us proud.
Really good PR for the league.
Sounds very like your good bogball buddy from Thomas DavisQuote:
Originally Posted by TiocfaidhArmani
You can't see it, it's a members only viewing forum. I copy and pasted it. Would you like to see a screenshot?Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Perhaps you can have a word with your Shels friend. He seems to be troubled by something.Quote:
Originally Posted by born2bwild
Bogball? How clever.Quote:
Originally Posted by hoopy
Are you new to this?? christ on a bike... Hows about stickfighting?Quote:
Originally Posted by TiocfaidhArmani
What is this...someone alleging Shams fans made fascist salutes and sang Austwitz chants?Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
It was a great night with so much to celebrate and admire. Out of all that solid good news, what kind of fan of the LoI is going to choose to focus on the alleged carry on of a tiny minority of cretins????
No, man, I'm too hungover to bother my hole with that. Besides, I'm heading down to Tolka now...good luck, lads.Quote:
Originally Posted by hoopy