QuoteWhat about Chris Doran though - he probably went home devastated after the reception he got.Whoever made the decision to have him sing at half time should be shot. I mean come on - Eurovision at an Irish game.......
glad to see it didn't really materialise. club rivalry should be left at home for international matches
What about Chris Doran though - he probably went home devastated after the reception he got.
Yeah, the booing of the 'celebrities' is becoming one of the more entertaining features of home games. I also particularly enjoyed the boos afforded to Royston "I'm running for the European Parliament, you know" Brady at the presentation before the game.Originally Posted by 4tothefloor
What about Chris Doran though - he probably went home devastated after the reception he got.
Maybe you should put her on a leash, agent-man.
of course it was, but that's a completely different argument, it wasn't Celtic -v- Man Utd last night, it was Ireland -v- Czech republic, glad to see it didn't happen, although i heard a few people refer to him as a scumbag, that's pot calling the kettle black IMO
I heard a good few boo & insult Miller, plus Milan Baros got an awful reception as well. Why??
Why indeed. ManYooNided "fans" booing a Liverpool player, maybe? Probably some of the same sorts who have carpeted Celtic "fans" for booing Rangers players/ex-players in recent times. The whole booing thing at national games is pathetic and embarrassing, whoever is involved. Time to grow up.
PP
(We're not the only ones tainted, btw. Alan Thompson had fifteen minutes of "No Surrender to the IRA" and anti-Celtic songs thrown at him by the chimps among the England "support" after starting for them last night. Nice.)
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i think all this booing,particularly at international matches is a reasonably new unwelcome development.what we are talking about here i think is a basic lack of respect for both the player himself and the countries shirt he pulls on.this cancer im afraid includes players who pull on the green shirt for ireland/how dare they, the fcuckers even think about booing any player who has the balls to play in an international match.admit it lads, they say its a great honour and i know it is,to play for your country but it takes bottle to play at this level also.
i would not care who any player played for when it comes to an international match you respect the player and his country,even if its against england/waits for reaction/
if the english fans for instance behave like wkners it doesnt mean that we do likewise.
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Respect is earned. To whit:
I've just seen Viorel Ganea's career-threatening challenge on John Kennedy from last night's Scotland-Romania match (he's out for twelve months with multiple knee ligament damage, btw) and it will be all I can doo not to catcall the dirty ******* if he plays at Lansdowne in our next game. Sorry, but right now I'm bloody angry about this. Not an Ireland matter, I know, and it runs counter to what I've said elsewhere, but I daresay he'll be booed if he plays at LR. And I'm not sure I will blame those who do.
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pp, a dirty player will always get a hard time from opposing supporters and rightly so(its gone on as long as football has).what i think is different now though is at international matches players are getting booed for playing for a league team in england who the people dont like irrespective of whether they are hard men or just an ordinary guy trying to make a living.
this would never have happened at intl matches up to a couple of years ago.
Crumlin UTD
This is the crux with Celtic and Ireland. If Ganea had almost finished Zinedine Zedine's career, no one would give a f*ck (apart from perhaps Eanna) at LRd. Sorry PP, but Kennedy plays for Scotland and on this one I'm with the anti-Celts. It's not our problem what happens to other countries players.
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I understand that Lopez, it's just that I - personally speaking as a fan of the club for whom Kennedy plays - would find it hard to give those who let Ganea know what they think a hard time over it. If they were to boo him for being Romanian, playing for Wolves, parking his hire car wrongly at Dublin Airport, etc. - all of this I consider unacceptable, and would react accordingly.
I appreciate this is a blurring of the country/club supporting line as discussed at some length above, but we're not likely to see Ganea at CP in the foreseeable future and I'm sure one or two people will choose to make their views known at LR instead.
Watch the challenge and see for yourself why my ire is provoked. (Sky Sports News were showing it about every ten minutes last night). I'm sure that - hypothetically speaking - if a young Irish player had been in a similar and potentially career-ending situation with Ganea in a club game (specifically not an Ireland fixture in other words), then the fans at LR would round on him collectively with none of this navel-gazing regarding the booing of players.
Rant over.
PP
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PP. It isn't merely a case of club and country. It's a case for many of the elevation of Celtic to the same heights of Irishness - or even higher - as the Irish team. I've known some Celtic fans that detest the 'free-state' side, not because of anti-Irishness but through their own blinkered politics. I knew one 'blanket protest' lookalike at the London No. 1 who asked why anyone Irish would support either of the two Irish sides. Indeed some of the top weekend provos would gladly cheer if Alan Thompson had scored a goal the other night. When Henrik Larsson scored one of the goals that prevented Poland from going to Euro 2000 and let the tans in instead, there were a few Irish fans who were happy to see Larsson score. HE PLAYS FOR SWEDEN, FFS. I thought Larsson was a c*nt that night when I was in Skopje and I would have booed him the next time I saw him for that alone. But then I would probably have been lynched by the OK2BOO brigade or my 'Irishness' questioned.
This is one of the reasons I'm pretty cool on Celtic. Like I think it was Eanna who said this on that thread that was closed, I too have some affection for the club, solely because of its Irish connections. This however is tempered by the behaviour of a fair few of their supporters. Booing foreign players for fouls on other foreign players - no matter how bad - , writing a book about a foreign club manager or simply playing for or previously for a foreign rival club has absolutely nothing to do with Ireland and should be left at home. Either boo all our opponents or none of them.
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Well I can remember LM being boo'd at the game on Wednesday.
He didn't do much to warrant a cheer either though.
I had to laugh at those sad Liverpool fans cheering for Baros as he was taken off!
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I haven't been to Lansdowne since 1998 but I have recetnly noticed opposition players being taken off and getting a cheer while watcing on the box. I've thought that either the visiting fans are quite vocal (no great shakes in Lasndowne the Library) or that Irish fans are just being polite. Thanks for telling me the real reason. Dead right: W*nkers - cheering on the man who scored against Ireland.
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I was in the east stand on wednesday night and it sounded like the few gob****e's who did boo LM when he came on were mostly in the corner of the south terrace under the commentry box, where all those kid's bounce about shouting @ that fella to ring the bell, maybe if they had their ticket's taken off them for forthcoming match's it might teach them a lesson about supporting people who pull on the green shirt not going against them just because they don't like something they've done for the club they play for. It was only a very very small handfull of a**holes who boo'ed LM, but a small handfull to many. I could'nt care less what people have done @ their club, when they pull on the green shirt they deserve 100 per cent support, nothing less.
Its crazy to see people be what society wants them to be but not me.
so what if baros scored against us.thats what he is supposed to do!!!!.
there is still no need to boo him
plenty players have scored against us and not been booed, Baros was booed because of the liverpool connection pure and simple and it was most likely Man Utd or Everton fans that we're booing him, or else little scumbags for whom Baros was the only name they'd recognise.
there was no need to cheer him off, but i'd sooner that than booing him.
in a nut shell,there lies the problem,who gives a sh1t which club he plays for,he is playing for his country and while not expecting to be adored by the home crowd, is entitled to respect because of the fact he is playing for his country
Agree 100% (I vote for booing all of them).
Absolutely agreed. I booed when he scored - but it was for the defending, not the scoring. I applauded him off the pitch, out of respect for a good opposition player.
If he'd injured one of our players (apart from maybe Harte), I would have booed him off, but booing has to be done for the right reasons, or it's just sad. It would have been sad to boo him for being a Liverpool player, and I think a few Man U fans did that last night. It's not just a pathetic Celtic thing.
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