Keith Fahey

[Drumcondra 69er]

Irish people mightnt rate those leagues particularly highly but that doesnt matter at all when the paying customers in those countries do rate it and attend their domestic game in far higher percentages than Irish people and the LOI. This is the point i am making and it highlights the difference in mentality between the Irish and most other countries when it comes to football. Though having said that i do take on board all your other points.

Problem is a huge amount of the Irish soccer public are event junkies. Hence why Dalymount had a sell out with more people present tonight for a game between Bohs reserves and a Liverpool XI made up of players that haven't started shaving yet and who won't get near their first team this season then we had for our Champions League qualifier let alone any league games......

[shaneker]

Is the poster not siggesting that they in the main support the big clubs whether they be in Prague or in England, rather than say the local provincial club?

You are correct, the local club (in a town of roughly 40,000) gets double figure attendences, although I believe a club on the outskirts of the town may get a hundred or so. To be fair, this is a hockey town. The club an hour away is in the capital city of the region and is also in the top league here, and nobody I know supports them, they all support a big team in Prague (that's the 2-hour journey) and/or an English side (always Arsenal and Chelsea for obvious reasons).

Sorry for the confusion.

[paul_oshea]

I've litterally just 2 minutes ago had a mate of mine tell me that Jay O Sheas performance when he came on is proof that the LOI is crap.When I asked him about Keith Fahey he just shrugged and said that one good game proves nothing..... I swear there are so many so called football fans that havent a clue about football.
This is the same guy though that has sworn to me for ages that Lucas at Liverpool is excellent and will be a massive player this season and that he was Liverpools best player against Spurs on Sunday, so I really dont know why I even bother talkin football with him...

Ok deep breaths.... rant over ...

Are they the kinda conversations where you feel like you are flogging a dead horse, and that you end up feeling like you know less about football, and they "think" they know more because they beleive they are a "proper fan" of an English team?!

[Razors left peg]

Are they the kinda conversations where you feel like you are flogging a dead horse, and that you end up feeling like you know less about football, and they "think" they know more because they beleive they are a "proper fan" of an English team?!

There are a certain type of football fan in Ireland that make u want to scream sometimes.The people that post on this forum are pretty much all Irish fans so I think its hard for us to understand the attitude of some people that would prefer to see Liverpool or United win rather than success for the National team. These same people of course are band wagon jumpers as soon as we qualify for a world cup or something.

I remember one instance in particular where I was watching the Slovakia game in a pub in Galway, when they equalised in the last couple of minutes there were a group of fellas close to me that I would see regularly enough watching Skys Super Sunday in the pub, who started laughing and saying ah sure Ireland are sh1te anyway. To even think of getting fella like that up to support their local LOI side would be impossible.

Dont get me wrong Im a bit of a Man United fan myself so Im not against the Premiership at all. I get friday night in Terryland but while I love the LOI players need to make the step up from it in my opinion if they want to make the breakthrough in the Ireland squad on a regualar basis.So I was over the moon to see Keith Fahey play so well in Old Trafford and Jay o Shea come off the bench to make his debut so soon after leaving the LOI.Jay has a long way to go to be a regular but for someone to say to me that because he didnt play well in the 10 minutes on his debut is proof that the LOI is crap. well its the day after and Im still annoyed as hell about it

[DeLorean]

You're better off just laughing at those guys and using lots of sarcasm to take the p!ss out of them instead of wasting your time and annoying yourself by arguing your points with them. It's not always easy but you'd definitely feel less annoyed at the end of it.

I remember one instance in particular where I was watching the Slovakia game in a pub in Galway, when they equalised in the last couple of minutes there were a group of fellas close to me that I would see regularly enough watching Skys Super Sunday in the pub, who started laughing and saying ah sure Ireland are sh1te anyway

When I was watching the friendly against Norway in a pub last year these fellas came in and looked up at the score. We were leading 1-0 and one of them asked somebody who scored. He was told Robbie Keane and then he said "oh yeah...and the useless c*nt can't score for Liverpool at all", as if scoring for Liverpool was more important to him that scoring for Ireland. The thing is I'm sure the same idiot was probably slagging off Keane the year before when he was playing better for Spurs than Ireland.

Dont get me wrong Im a bit of a Man United fan

I have to ask so- what's the story with the username?

[Razors left peg]

I have to ask so- what's the story with the username?

Houghtons goal against Italy is my fav Irish goal

[DeLorean]

Houghtons goal against Italy is my fav Irish goal

Shame on me, Razor Ruddock and his dangerous left peg was in my head.

[geysir]

The "Chipper"

[MeathDrog]

Houghtons goal against Italy is my fav Irish goal

Hopefully for the occasion of it all, not the goal itself. It was a fluke.

[Razors left peg]

Hopefully for the occasion of it all, not the goal itself. It was a fluke.

it hit the net with the Italian keeper waving at it.... good enough for me

[SkStu]

Hopefully for the occasion of it all, not the goal itself. It was a fluke.

was watching that game with the extended family in a pub in Galway and my cousin, depressing Roscommon basterd, refused to celebrate the goal as it was, in his words, "flukey".

The whole country leppin up and down except for one grumpy teenager.

[Brendan 82]

There are a certain type of football fan in Ireland that make u want to scream sometimes.The people that post on this forum are pretty much all Irish fans so I think its hard for us to understand the attitude of some people that would prefer to see Liverpool or United win rather than success for the National team.

I know someone exactly like this. I was talking to him one day about the Stephen Ireland issue. He was all like: "Sure why would he come back like? Ireland don't have the players so its a waste of his time like." This guy is a massive Liverpool fan, watches them every weekend, never been to a LOI match.

Then after the Italy away draw I saw him playing 5 a side the next day and I go: "Hey good result for Ireland last night wha? well pleased". He goes: "Well they should have won really, I don't think they played well at all like". So if we don't have the players, how could we get an away draw to Italy? Surely this would suggest that the players are at least somewhat decent enough to qualify when they are put together correctly
This makes no sense, it sometimes feels like there are people who want the national side to fail. Why? I don't know. Maybe its so that they don't have to actually support anyone other than the English team who has their loyalty. I guess some of the Irish side might play for a rival professional team in England or something, I don't know really. Baffles me

[SkStu]

i have a theory that they are taking their imitation of your local die-hard Liverpool or Man U fan to the next level, i.e. apathy for the national team as you only identify with your club team...

[shakermaker1982]

i have a theory that they are taking their imitation of your local die-hard Liverpool or Man U fan to the next level, i.e. apathy for the national team as you only identify with your club team...

that will all change a week before the Italy game.........they'll take a sudden interest in the national side and be begging for a ticket!

[irishultra]

i have a theory that they are taking their imitation of your local die-hard Liverpool or Man U fan to the next level, i.e. apathy for the national team as you only identify with your club team...

We're not Irish we are scouse.

On the website IrishKop someone actually said that.

[irishfan86]

I've got to say Fahey didn't look up to much against Portsmouth (a very bad Portsmouth at that).

Maybe it was tiredness after chasing the ball all game against United on the weekend, but never looked dangerous.

Bottom line, as the final match before Friday's squad announcement he did himself no favours.

[NeilMcD]

It will be interesting who will get Millers place in the squad. It cant be Miller as he has no club, surely he cant be in the squad.

Stephen Reid
Chris Mc Cann
Andy Reid
Lee Carsley
Keith Fahey
Stephen Ireland
Owen Garvan

[tetsujin1979]

Was there any of the Irish setup at the game?
Or any midweek game for that matter?

[MeathDrog]

was watching that game with the extended family in a pub in Galway and my cousin, depressing Roscommon basterd, refused to celebrate the goal as it was, in his words, "flukey".

The whole country leppin up and down except for one grumpy teenager.

Haha. I was only 2 at the time. Obviously can't remember. It was a fluke, but who gave a fcuk.

[paul_oshea]

Skstu, where was the depressing roscommon basterd from?! Thats rossies for ye!!