I'm a bloke,I'm an ocker
And I really love your knockers,I'm a labourer by day,
I **** up all me pay,Watching footy on TV,
Just feed me more VB,Just pour my beer,And get my smokes, And go away
I have worked for a good few consultancies and banks at this stage. And I'm actually beginning to think that this is what turned me off Rugby as much as anything else. I used to attend any games I could get tickets for when I lived in Dublin, but since I came over to London my interest has seriously waned for it. I would put that side of it down to all the Irish I worked with*, who mainly came from private schools in Ireland, mainly Dublin and Cork but also Limerick. That and the GAA stuff I did, who would have seen Rugby as their "other" sport, even though they have no real connection to any club and also thought Rugby was the main sport behind GAA which it clearly isnt and never was in Ireland.
I remember around the time of Croke Park opening up, it was as if it were only opening up for Rugby, the lads over here who most had never even been in croke park nevermind a GAA game explaining to English lads what it was all about...they hadn't a fcuken clue and then trying to dumb it down for English colleagues. Used to really grate me.
I'm a bloke,I'm an ocker
And I really love your knockers,I'm a labourer by day,
I **** up all me pay,Watching footy on TV,
Just feed me more VB,Just pour my beer,And get my smokes, And go away
I met an old school mate at a financial conference in London around Easter time. I told I had just been home and had taken my son to Shamrock Rovers at Tallaght. He looked at me with a totally confused look on his face. "Aren't they, you know, kind of like Celtic?" I genuinely think he didn't even know about the LOI. He's from Terenure/Rathfranham.
I met two NZ tourists, husband and wife in their 70s, in our hotel in Bordeaux during the Euros. I was explaining the format to the husband and he generally didn’t know very much about football. His wife knew a bit more and said her daughter’s kids and most of the kids of their age are now playing more football than rugby because of the fear of head injuries.
It also winds me up when people bang on about how huge rugby is in Wales. Even Newport & Wrexham get broadly comparable crowds to the Pro14 teams, and the big two get massively more, week in, week out. There was a radio documentary "In Wales The Ball Is Round" exploring the perception of rugby being the Welsh national game on BBC4 during the Euros. The narrator was saying never once in his days in school was the Monday morning chat about rugby, it was always about MOTD. There are rugby dominated areas, but these are small towns in the sticks for the most part. North Wales is totally football (southern Liverpool basically).
I think I've made both of these points before on this thread
Did anyone think yer mans wife was a scunthorpe fan when reading this? Nothing worse than a woman who has adopted her husbands thinking and gone further with it.
I hope you didnt reply when he text 6 months later Certainly doesnt seem like someone worth associating with.
I wish I had been there that night.
I'm a bloke,I'm an ocker
And I really love your knockers,I'm a labourer by day,
I **** up all me pay,Watching footy on TV,
Just feed me more VB,Just pour my beer,And get my smokes, And go away
I'm a bloke,I'm an ocker
And I really love your knockers,I'm a labourer by day,
I **** up all me pay,Watching footy on TV,
Just feed me more VB,Just pour my beer,And get my smokes, And go away
Oh that w@nker!
Only joking, I remember the lunch but I can't remember that guy, I clearly removed him from memory to do with the "worth associating with " bit. I only remember the other fella who admitted less interest in football but wasn't dismissive of it so I'm guessing its not him. Was he at that pub near Birkbeck?
I'm a bloke,I'm an ocker
And I really love your knockers,I'm a labourer by day,
I **** up all me pay,Watching footy on TV,
Just feed me more VB,Just pour my beer,And get my smokes, And go away
Interesting piece here on GAA players efforts to enrich themselves, which caused a bit of a minor conniption with Dean Rock this week: https://www.rte.ie/sport/football/20...-a-hard-place/
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Top 50 watched shows in 2021 released: https://www.tamireland.ie/top-50-tv-programmes-2021/
No Ireland footall game in the top ten, only one in the top twenty, and four in total in the top 50
England's semi final against Denmark and final against Italy are fourth and third, respectively
All the six nations games are in the top 20, except Italy
Rugby sponsor with vested interest in raising rugby's profile sponsors poll that finds rugby is not just a sport but a way of life.
Energia survey of ... Energia customers. Mmm-hmm. That passes every objective test for unbiased and reliable research I can think of.
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Who cares which is most popular?
They’re all very popular on the island and all wonderful games to watch and play
I hated playing rugby!
Its fairly simple rugby is going well at the moment so loads of interest. The same when ladies team were in world cup. Great interest in Formula 1 when Eddie Jordan had a team in it.So not surprising. We in general get behind Irish teams regardless of sport so hopefully they will do well.
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