Discussion of Religion in Ireland
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Originally Posted by
nigel-harps1954
Sounds weird to some, but my memories of going to Finn Park as a kid were the freezing cold nights, wrapped up in about four layers with scarves and hats, coming away from the match and feeling yourself thaw out in the car on the way home.
The atmospheres were better, the soup or tea was better, the lights in the ground on a cold, dark, winter night. None of that can be beaten by anything summer football can throw at you and I feel sorry for my own kids not getting those same experiences.
It's been done a million times over here, and not wishing to start another winter/summer debate, but I hate most of the summer football calendar for the LOI and I think the idea the Irish League are proposing May-Feb is fantastic.
It's called nostalgia, Nigel. A feeling that things were just better when you were a kid.
"Remember when we were young how no-one could get a job and you were forced to go to church on a Sunday to listen to a paedophile priest pontificate to his heart's content ? God - Ireland's really changed for the worse...".