with just 5 days to ko what paper has given eircom league the best coverage today
just seen irish mail ,poor just gave coverage to St.Pats and a small bit on each club (2 pages) in total compaired to massave coverage of english game
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with just 5 days to ko what paper has given eircom league the best coverage today
just seen irish mail ,poor just gave coverage to St.Pats and a small bit on each club (2 pages) in total compaired to massave coverage of english game
2 pages in the Star on Sunday.
Nothing in the Indo as far as I could see.
Sunday Times ..small interview with Alan Matthews.
Sunday World... maybe 200 words.:rolleyes:
Overall shocking coverage.
Should be good previews in the next week in all the papers though. See ad for 48 page season preview in the Sun on Thursday.
Anyone know when the Star and the Mirror bring out their EL guide?
Going by previous years, I'd assume it would be some day mid-week.Quote:
Originally Posted by City till I Die
Classic piece in the Mail.
Cork City - "title hopes may rise and fall depending on Georgie's mood-swings":D
The shock would be if there WAS decent coverageQuote:
Originally Posted by harry crumb
Theres a special in THE SUN on thursday
The "News Of The World" today carried an article on hooliganism at league can pretty much made up loads of ****e. I'll type it up here in a few minute.`
The Sunday Tribune - NOTHING
Looks like we will all be reliant on extratime.ie
Saw that , what a load of sh!te.Quote:
Originally Posted by Anto McC
Here is the artical in todays "News of the world". It goes under the headline Undercover Kops. I didn't add that K in, they actually spell cops with a K :rolleyes:
GARDAI INFILTRATE HOOLIGAN GANGS AT EIRCOM GAMES
Plain clothes cops will pose as fans at EL matches in a bid to stamp out football hooliganism.
Some of the major fixtures will be targeted in the new season - including the Dublin derbies between Shamrock Rovers and Bohemians.
Other fans who will be closely watched will be the following, Cork City, Derry City, St Pats and Drogheda United.
A garda source said "Last year was probably the worst on record as regards hooliganism at Irish soccer games. We're anxious to crack down on it once and for all"
- Last October, 4 Bohemians fans were jailed for 3 months after a violent disturbance in Derry. All 4 pleaded guilty to a charge of riotous behaviour at a bar in the city.
- Last August, thugs from Bohs and Shamrock Rovers clashed during disturbances outside Dalymount in Dublin and
- Last July, Bohs fans were pelted with bottles and bricks by teenage thugs in Drogheda after a game the Dubliners lost 1-0.
Gardai believe thugs here are swapping tactics on the internet with no-brainers from British clubs including Cardiff City's Soul Firm, Burnley's Suicide Squad and Chelsea's Headhunters.
Officers want to avoid the sort of violence that took place recently between Chelsea and Fulham fans in London.
Bohemians FC has banned 30 trouble makers from Dalymount Park and installed CCTV cameras around the ground.
Some of those banned have even scrawled graffati on the walls outside the stadium threatening board members.
Bohs' events director Stuart Conroy said "We will act decisively to eliminate anti-social behaviour at matches"
Drogheda chairman vincent Hoey said "Clubs have to take certain steps to weed out trouble. Our priority is to make sure people are safe"
Government figures show the cost of policing games has more than trebled since 2005. Last year it cost €95,034 to provide officers at matches, a jump from €28585 in 2005.
The article is by Jimmy Cunnigham and is carried with a picture of Chelsea and Fulham fans fighting last year.
Yeah saw that alright, gobsheens writing this crap as if its like the Italian league or something. They also have a still from the footage of a scrap thats on you-tube.Quote:
Originally Posted by Anto McC
Clubs try their best to promoted the league and encourage families to come along and these numpties write this crap. :mad:
Deep breathe, inhale, exhale, and relax. I really could have gone on a rant there. :o
I really, really hope that this is just made up nonsense. At least we're not on the list (no reason of course), but if this is true, then this is a sad day for Irish football:(
Your a sad day for Irish football.
Any clown with half a brain knows that 95% of that article is made up rubbish.
The Star have a 64 page mag out this week
Any idea what day?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mento
Eh? I well know that roughly 90% of whats in a tabloid is made up, but sure if you'd like gards pulling people out of stands for little or no reason your welcome to it:rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Anto McC
Maybe i picked it up wrong, but the article seemed to start of by saying that undercover cops will stand among the hooligans inside the grounds. However, every example it gave of previous violence happened outside the grounds either before or after games. Lazy piece of journalism.Quote:
Originally Posted by Anto McC
I'm struggling to see a problem there myself.Quote:
Originally Posted by Guitd
;)
Interesting that they had to go to England to get a picture to illustrate their story.
The Irish tabloid press would love to be able to copy and paste their hooligan perennials from their mainland editions, but when they try their stories are laughably threadbare, and they keep having to drag up the old ones. How many times now have those four eejits in Derry been trotted out?
There probably are more hooligan incidents in Grafton Street on a Friday night than in all of the eL.
Internet :eek: We thought it was bad enough when these thugs use telephones :eek:And they've even resorted to graffiti :eek: It's the end of civilization! (Actually, it was more like a sad, lonely graffito.)
While I do wish that we could eradicate the odd bit of trouble at games this article is a complete joke. Hooliganism? I think not. And how exactly will Gardai pretend to be 13 year olds??
Ironically, the Sunday Business Post doesn't have a sports section but it regurally carries informative article about the League of Ireland from a business point of view. In recent times, it has looked at the foundation of Sporting Fingal, Bohemians' deal with property developers, the cash crisis at Cork City, a profile of Nick Leeson/Galway United and the rise and fall of Shelbourne.Quote:
Originally Posted by Guitd
Have you seen some the new recruits? They will have to make them look older so that they can look 13.Quote:
Originally Posted by LeixlipRed
Unbelievable. Over a dozen pages of sport and not one paragraph about our own league. The FAI should ban them from press confs until they get their act together.Quote:
Originally Posted by DRDoc
The News of the World article was complete tripe. There might be a few problems in the league but using a picture of english thugs in an LOI article suggesting they are similar is pathetic. I would hope the LOI complained to the NOW & threaten withdraw acreditation for Internationals.
The problem with the EL for the Irish sports editors is that they cant copy and paste the articles from English papers like they can with their English football coverage so it means they would actually have to do some work themselves for it to happen
NOTW is owned by Sky , their policy seems to hype up the premiership and run down everytyhing else they don't have the TV rights too. Shocking article BTW expect the herald to have follow ups this week.
Indeed, I expect the Heralds headline to start with SRFC Ultras in link with...:rolleyes::D
The Sindo had a half page written by Sean Ryan and a couple of snippets.
There was a small piece in todays Star urging the people who head across the water see Arsenal/ManU etc. to go to their local LOI game on the Friday before they head off, "you might be pleasantly surprised" it finished.
Reading this reminds me of this song.
Words are very appropriate for the crap they print here.
You'd think, but it's unlikely. There's no money to be made by going after the NOTW, not like the league's own clubs. Unfortunately for the league, you can't fine a newspaper.Quote:
Originally Posted by pete
No such excuse for the Sunday Turbine. They are able to produce pages and pages of copy on irrelevencies like GAA club competition and schools rugby yet cannot come up with a paragragh on the LOI.Quote:
Originally Posted by gustavo
Like I said, the FAI should ban em from press confs until they get their act together.
Every cloud and all that - surely this promised increase in attendances can only improve the league's standing. Live games will look better on TV with less empty spaces thanks to the preponderance of undercover Gardai in hoodies and baseball caps. This is excellent news.;)
And one of the incidents happend in Derry, so are the Gardai patrolling in the North now??Quote:
Originally Posted by scottish_bohs
New revamped Sports section in the Sunday Times today.
Almost Zero mention of the Eircom League and football in general greatly reduced. You can see last night's results if you borrow a microscope. No league tables, nothing on the European draws or the Bohs match. However we are in good company as the premiership is getting Virtually ignored now too.
The only mention of Irish football is a dreadful error strewn article about the Shamrock Rovers XI v Brazil game in 1973. It must set some sort of record for the most mistakes ever in a newspaper article.
Why don't you spell 'em out here? It'd be interesting to see them.Quote:
Originally Posted by gspain
Too much tokenistic good 'ol days nonsense coverage in Irish football. Gives them the excuse not to cover the game properly now.
I don't know enough to spot the errors you speak of, but I know I'm blue in the face reading about a sham Ireland team and Brazil and having my kids marvel at the hairstyles.
Agree about the lack of EL coverage, though no change there whatsoever. Premiership not being ignored, it's just it's the middle of the break, the European Championships are over and it was a big weekend in other sports; Wimbledon's singles finals, British GP, All-Ireland matches, and Olympics buildup.Quote:
Originally Posted by gspain
don't have it to hand and didn't look them up but a few others looks wrong.Quote:
Originally Posted by BohDiddley
The ones I know from reading it
It wasn't the first All Ireland team in 60 years as the IFA kept picking southern players until 1950. Even allowing for that the FAI only split from the IFA 52 years earlier.
There were also 2 All Ireland v England games in Dublin in 1955 and 1956 as part of the An Tostal celebration.
Paddy Mulligan won 50 caps not 10 - huge difference. surely anybody that knows anything about Irish football would know he got a lot more than 10 caps.
Chelsea did not win the 1971 UEFA Cup. there wasn't one. they won the ECWC.
Chelsea did not win the 1972 League Cup. they lost to Stoke in the final.
Pat Jennings did not win the UEFA Cup with Arsenal - they never won it. I'm pretty sur ehe was retired before the 1987 League Cup too and certainly he didn't play in the final.
Louis Kilcoyne actually organised the Brazil game.
The Derek Dougan one is a common mistake too. He failed to play in any of Northern Ireland's 5 games before the Brazil game and was a few months shy of his 36th birthday when the game was played. If Harry Cavan was the real reason he stopped playing for Northern Ireland (he certainly believed that) it was more likely due to an alleged incident on the plane home from a 1-0 defeat in Cyprus (his last game) involving himself and Cavan. However it may just be that he was dropped.
I also forgot to mention that the article claimed Terry Conroy played for Limerick which is simply not true.