Quoteit dosent make a difference who the 2nd team is - so ur point is worthlessOriginally Posted by Bohemian1890
Nothing wrong with supporting two teams.
I support Finn Harps and Finn Harps Reserves.
it dosent make a difference who the 2nd team is - so ur point is worthless
Can't believe this argument is still raging on...
My club are Limerick. Even if I was 18 before I got to a game. I support Limerick and while I keep an eye out, to varying degrees, for a number of other clubs it doesn't measure up on the same scale. At all.
My English team were, and remain, Aston Villa because when I was a kid they and Norwich had the nicest shirts IMO and Villa had more Irish players. My interest in Villa now is fairly moderate, it's basically something to make MOTD more interesting. I've watched out for Forest Green Rovers since the year before they reached the Conference because I've family over there and my cousin used to send me clippings when the likes of Tony Daly and Nigel Spink passed through. My cousin passed away just before the season started this year and I find that I think of him more often when I'm looking through the results on a Saturday.
I like Dundee United. Mostly for not being Celtic.
My girlfriend is from South Saint Paul in the US and I've gone to watch Minnesota Thunder over there a few times. I'd probably go as far as to call them my 'second team'. They played LA Galaxy on my last visit and I was one of a handful of people in the ground in a Thunder shirt. There were whole families in their Beckham kit and I felt, perhaps perversely, outraged on behalf of the real Thunder fans. Bandwagon, barstool fans are not exclusively an Irish phenomenon.
If you're a football fan you should have an interest in the game outside of your own bubble regardless of whether or not that goes as far as following another team. If not it's pretty parochial.
When that bubble doesn't extend to your own locality or national league though... I find that sad (more of the boo hoo variety than the pathetic version). The LOI experience dwarfs any other football experience I've had because it's my club, I'm not borrowing the sheen and lustre from anybody else, I am an integral part of the whole thing. Wherever I live I will always follow my local club without ever leaving behind the fact that Limerick are and always will be the sole player in my footballing affections. I may flirt and bat my eyes at others from time to time but I know where I belong and where I came from.
The ball is round and has many surprises.
text speak.
He said he followed Celtic because of the clubs links to Ireland.
Dundee united and Hibs have links to Ireland so does he follow them as well??His main reason for following them was because of the Oirish thing.
This post basically says it all. I'd just like to end by saying this:My club are Limerick. Even if I was 18 before I got to a game. I support Limerick and while I keep an eye out, to varying degrees, for a number of other clubs it doesn't measure up on the same scale. At all.
My English team were, and remain, Aston Villa because when I was a kid they and Norwich had the nicest shirts IMO and Villa had more Irish players. My interest in Villa now is fairly moderate, it's basically something to make MOTD more interesting. I've watched out for Forest Green Rovers since the year before they reached the Conference because I've family over there and my cousin used to send me clippings when the likes of Tony Daly and Nigel Spink passed through. My cousin passed away just before the season started this year and I find that I think of him more often when I'm looking through the results on a Saturday.
I like Dundee United. Mostly for not being Celtic.
My girlfriend is from South Saint Paul in the US and I've gone to watch Minnesota Thunder over there a few times. I'd probably go as far as to call them my 'second team'. They played LA Galaxy on my last visit and I was one of a handful of people in the ground in a Thunder shirt. There were whole families in their Beckham kit and I felt, perhaps perversely, outraged on behalf of the real Thunder fans. Bandwagon, barstool fans are not exclusively an Irish phenomenon.
If you're a football fan you should have an interest in the game outside of your own bubble regardless of whether or not that goes as far as following another team. If not it's pretty parochial.
When that bubble doesn't extend to your own locality or national league though... I find that sad (more of the boo hoo variety than the pathetic version). The LOI experience dwarfs any other football experience I've had because it's my club, I'm not borrowing the sheen and lustre from anybody else, I am an integral part of the whole thing. Wherever I live I will always follow my local club without ever leaving behind the fact that Limerick are and always will be the sole player in my footballing affections. I may flirt and bat my eyes at others from time to time but I know where I belong and where I came from.
Enjoy football everywhere. Support your local team.
Aww thanks brianw82.
The ball is round and has many surprises.
Was trying to find a suitable thread for this.....
Cop a load of this!
http://kerrydalestreet.co.uk/index.p...ic=73901&st=20
Poor critters!
As Irishmen we dilute our sense of nation by depending on the English to bring us our balls
Oh christ, why did I read that? I am so angry reading that muck, complete idiots
Life without Rovers, it makes no sense...it's a heartache...nothing but a fools game. S.R.F.C.
Bloody armchair supporter.
I support Galway United, the Galway United A Team and the Galway United U20 team.
oh jesus, that celtic forum was like reading **********...only worse.
That's the most ironic thread ever!
"You support an English club? You West Brit.. I'm a real Irish man, I only support Celtic!"
Brilliant. You couldn't make that stuff up could you.
I can recount again a story I've told a before on this board.
Drinking in O'Reillys in Basle the night before one of the Switzerland games (2003 i think). One of our group was in an Ireland rugby jersey. I was in aLimerick jersey and the rest of our group (incl a Limerick man but that's a different story) were in Cork City jerseys.
Other Irish fan - "You shouldn't be wearing a rugby jersey o na football trip. Shower of snobs, don't play the national anthem ....rant on rugby......."
Now I might have let it go except for what he was wearing. Also the fact that he had been there all night and we'd just got back from the U21 game a couple of hours away.
Me "An Irish rugby jersey is a lot better than a BRITISH football jersey".
Other Irish fan "Celtic are not British. they are an Irish club founded by adonegal man."
me "Brother Walfrid was a Sligo man but they are still a British club playing in a British league paying taxes to a British queen"
Oh please, please let this thread die!
Haven't we argued about this enough?
I suggest you stop posting on it if you want it to die...
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No!
Troublemaker.Brilliant. You couldn't make that stuff up could you.
I can recount again a story I've told a before on this board.
Drinking in O'Reillys in Basle the night before one of the Switzerland games (2003 i think). One of our group was in an Ireland rugby jersey. I was in aLimerick jersey and the rest of our group (incl a Limerick man but that's a different story) were in Cork City jerseys.
Other Irish fan - "You shouldn't be wearing a rugby jersey o na football trip. Shower of snobs, don't play the national anthem ....rant on rugby......."
Now I might have let it go except for what he was wearing. Also the fact that he had been there all night and we'd just got back from the U21 game a couple of hours away.
Me "An Irish rugby jersey is a lot better than a BRITISH football jersey".
Other Irish fan "Celtic are not British. they are an Irish club founded by adonegal man."
me "Brother Walfrid was a Sligo man but they are still a British club playing in a British league paying taxes to a British queen"
The ball is round and has many surprises.
http://forum.football365.com/index.p...ded=1&&start=0
On a British football forum , the Irish fans on the British teams are getting a slagging for their support
http://forum.football365.com/index.p...ded=1&&start=0
On a British football forum , the Irish fans on the British teams are getting a slagging for their support
I like the closest club to Dublin comment being Manyoo and Liverpool.
To be fair i would rather watch an EPL game over a ga game any day
No in fact i would rather watch a Leinster legate game over a ga game anyday as well
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