QuoteSlow news days so. How in gods name can they comment on anything even remotely close to it in the last five years.
Typical media hype including such nuggets as
"Violence at League of Ireland games has become common over the last five years"
Gardai spotters will be attached to each club and will travel with fans to away games.
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Slow news days so. How in gods name can they comment on anything even remotely close to it in the last five years.
The SFAI are the governing body for grassroots football in Ireland, not the FAI. Its success or the lack of is all down to them.
Campdown?
A Garda spotter (ooh, er....) will sashay over and perform "Go West!" into the ear of the offending ruffian thus ensuring the poor lad never shows his face inside a LoI ground again for fear of repeat mortification - good move!
A patriot is someone who knows how to hate his country properly.
LOL. Gardai traveling with fans. Is this supposed to be undercover or something?
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Yeah, look out for anyone wearing these !!Originally Posted by BohsPartisan
The SFAI are the governing body for grassroots football in Ireland, not the FAI. Its success or the lack of is all down to them.
FAI bans 30 in clampdown on hooligans
Written by Mark Hilliard
THIRTY League of Ireland supporters have been banned from football grounds across the country as part of stiff new security regulations being introduced ahead of next season. The Football Association of Ireland has also confirmed that garda 'spotters' will be attached to each club and will travel with fans to away matches in a bid to identify and remove undesirable elements. Information on those fans will also be held in a central database at garda headquarters in the Phoenix Park where FAI security officials will liaise with gardaí. As part of the broad set of security measures being introduced to the Irish domestic soccer league, FAI security officials will seek advice and support from their counterparts in the English Premier League.
FAI chief security officer, Joe McGlue, told the Sunday Tribune: "The message that we are trying to get across is to the genuine supporters; to the people who are bringing their kids to the game that there is a safe environment there and that the minority who are causing the problems are being watched, identified and, hopefully, wiped out." The FAI were reluctant to identify the individual clubs from which the 30 fans have been suspended but it is understood that one club alone has had nine of its supporters banned, making up nearly one third of all actions. Progress on new security arrangements with gardaí remains at an early stage but the FAI believes the new measures will be enforceable by the start of the new season next March. A security officers' forum met before, during and at the end of last season to discuss the key issues facing clubs. They have also mimicked measures taken by the English FA whose clubs were overrun with hooligan elements in the past. "Obviously, it's not on the same scale, but we would hope to have the security there for 2009," said McGlue.
Violence at League of Ireland games has become common over the last five years. Gardaí say that it takes the same level of officers to police a game against Shamrock Rovers and Bohemians as it does an All-Ireland final. "It would be a category A match for us, requiring the public order unit, the dog unit, the mounted unit and around 100 gardaí," Inspector Tony Gallagher of Fitzgibbon Street garda station said last year. "These groups are fuelled on aggression and intent on attacking each other. They have to be watched." Supporters of the rival teams consume drugs and alcohol in large quantities before meeting up at pre-arranged points before the game to fight. The FAI is quick to point out that the fans banned from grounds are just a fraction of the estimated 100,000 people who paid in to see their teams play last season. "It's a small minority but it's there and it niggles at us that there is misbehavior. If it's a serious offence the club can ban them for one or two seasons; if it's a minor offence the club can take them in and interview them about their behaviour and give them a yellow card."
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"It's time for the FAI to grow up." John O'Donoghue, Minister for Sport, RTE , Sunday 7 Nov 2004
Yeah, look out for anyone wearing these !!lol Probably not far off the mark there A face. Back in the Feile days I remember being able to spot undercover Drug squad by the crew cut and the black bomber jacket. (And by the fact they were trying to sell you something called ecshtashee).
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replies in thick Mayo accent: "Shelbourne lad, it's called shelbourne"
In 10 years ive been going to Eircom League games ive only felt half threatened/intimidated just once and that was in the Show Grounds during a heated Connacht Derby.
To say violence has increased alot in 5 years in pulling the p"ss completely.
AGAIN I ASK,WHERE THE HELL IS SOMEONE FROM THE FAI TO COME OUT AND DENY A STATEMENT LIKE THAT WHICH CAN DAMAGE THE LEAGUE?????
You can comment on the Tribune site:
http://www.tribune.ie/article/2008/n...ns/?q=hooligan
All you zombies tweet tweet tweet.
Sounds a bit drastic!
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Its probably the most coverage that the paper has given the LOI this year.
I can just see it now.
"Mr. McGlue, some fellas at the Bohs Rovers game are throwing shapes at each other."
Darth McGlue "Wipe them out. All of them".
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Its off season, i know there are projects being worked on but if ever there was a time where the FAI could come out and address this bad press its now. It seems to be a never ending cycle at this stage, someone should grow a pair and do something about it. This is the administration we all seek.AGAIN I ASK,WHERE THE HELL IS SOMEONE FROM THE FAI TO COME OUT AND DENY A STATEMENT LIKE THAT WHICH CAN DAMAGE THE LEAGUE?????
The SFAI are the governing body for grassroots football in Ireland, not the FAI. Its success or the lack of is all down to them.
Small amendment on that
The SFAI are the governing body for grassroots football in Ireland, not the FAI. Its success or the lack of is all down to them.
God, the Tribune is loathsome.
There is trouble at matches. It is a fact and one that shouldn't be brushed under the carpet by eircom League fans. We all know it exists so why make a big joke out of it?
Yeah, when did you see it? I haven't seen trouble at a game in years and I support a team who supposedly has one of the worst problems. In fact the only thing that would come close to being called trouble I've seen at games was the Gardaí almost kicking off a few times with their supposed "crowd control" measures.
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I love the part about having same security for Bohs V Rovers as the All Ireland final. GAA fans are such angels compared to soccer fans. They should go to Thurles when the Munster Championship is on and you will see plenty of anti-social behaviour. Underage kids ****ed out of their heads and people ****ing on the streets. These people are in the minority Id admit but this is similar to Eircom League fans. Just the media dont report this.
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