Barstool facepalm

[bennocelt]

I was right. Aidan O'Hara did write the exact same article two years ago: http://www.independent.ie/sport/socc...-26672367.html

He even opens with the same ****e about x,000 number of people going to a gig.

Ha well spotted, wonder is this O Hara a regular in the Ireland forum here!!
Think Peader made a good point a while back - some like to bitch and moan about lack of support for the LOI, myself included, but after we get over all that we still end up chatting about football when all the dust has settled. This excuse is a load of rubbish and obviously he must be getting it in the neck from a few of his mates! His conscience is getting to him. He is a god awful tipster too - Think he nearly went a year once with a huge minus record

[Macy]

Do they though? To whom do they have to justify their lack of interest? There are an infinite number of things in the world in which I take absolutely no interest; I surely don't have to justify my lack of interest in them to anyone else.

Maybe some people will feel they need to justify their lack of interest out of some sort of guilt and they may well come up with what we view as spurious excuses as to why, but there's no necessity to explain oneself to anyone.

They shouldn't have to, but it's my opinion that they feel the need too - they can't just say they have no interest in going to watch football and would rather watch it on the TV. Why that is, ultimately you'd have to ask them.

[DannyInvincible]

They shouldn't have to, but it's my opinion that they feel the need too - they can't just say they have no interest in going to watch football and would rather watch it on the TV. Why that is, ultimately you'd have to ask them.

Fair enough. My misunderstanding.

[TonyD]

Perception or an excuse? People have to justify dismissing the LoI, so when all else fails blame the people that do bother their holes to go to games. If they don't want to go, don't go - it's their loss - it's the coming up with absolutely pathertic reasons that really bugs the crap out of me. The media run this rubbish as it helps them to justify ignoring the league too.

We're supposed to believe that someone won't got to a LoI game as they might get slagged for being a part timer or johnny come lately, but will pay €100's to go once a season to somewhere like Old Trafford, where they're despised by all but the money men. And it's the LoI fans with the problem?

Spot on. Go or don't go, your choice, but spare us the lame justifications please.

[Brusher]

Just listening to the end of the Colm Hayes show, and when signing off his show he related to plenty of sport this weekend to look forward to, there's the hurling and the Premiership to look forward to, jeez these gob sh1tes should be told to mention our own bloody matches on this weekend, as it is our National broadcaster!

[Strongbow10]

Brace yourself for it lads, we will soon see "the greatest fans in the world" flocking towards UFC now. Hype is already at a fever pitch, have heard school teachers, farmers, stock brokers, event junkies the lot telling me the basics of an arm bar and Kimura lock

The FAI should follow the mantra "make it a hot topic in the pub and they will come"

[Trainee]

What a retard

https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.n...15824734_n.jpg

[Charlie Darwin]

Sarcasm or a genuine moron?

[Jofspring]

I would think thats sarcasm.

[ger121]

I thought sarcasm

[nigel-harps1954]

It is indeed sarcasm reading into it a bit more through his page.

[DannyInvincible]

The official tweet was subsequently deleted.

[Charlie Darwin]

Says a lot about how beholden we are to English football that Trevor Welch started the coverage of Arsenal-Fenerbahce by announcing that Bruno Alves had cost the Turkish side "five million pounds" from Porto (it's actually Zenit) despite the fact all transfers outside England are conducted in euros and, you know, whisper it, we use euros in Ireland too.

[dong]

Trevor Welsh is one disgusting human being.

[DannyInvincible]

Says a lot about how beholden we are to English football that Trevor Welch started the coverage of Arsenal-Fenerbahce by announcing that Bruno Alves had cost the Turkish side "five million pounds" from Porto (it's actually Zenit) despite the fact all transfers outside England are conducted in euros and, you know, whisper it, we use euros in Ireland too.

That's just bizarre.

[brendy_éire]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-26039380


Reminds me of the ones on boards.ie who selected the MLS team to follow. Slightly more depressing (and wrong) that this involves children.

[Straightstory]

Everything about this story is horrible.

[BonnieShels]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-26039380


Reminds me of the ones on boards.ie who selected the MLS team to follow. Slightly more depressing (and wrong) that this involves children.

They picked Go Ahead Eagles in the Netherlands.

Sure there's [insert all foot.ie memes] in Derry!

Absolutely odious decision by the school.

[SwanVsDalton]

Odious? The teachers are trying to teach the kids maths and literacy - this isn't a handy job. Presumably the aim is to catch the kids' imagination. The reality is that using the attention of Premier League footballers is a much better way of doing that than a trip to the Coleraine Showgrounds or Moyola Park (fyi Upperlands is in the middle of nowhere).

I don't like the implications of it, if anything it reminds me of that Simpsons episode where, in the future, the school syllabus is sponsored by Pepsi. But from a football point-of-view, these kids are long gone already. And if I was a child at the school, or a parent, the idea of PL coaches coming over would be fairly thrilling.

[Charlie Darwin]

They picked Go Ahead Eagles in the Netherlands.

Sure there's [insert all foot.ie memes] in Derry!

Absolutely odious decision by the school.

To be fair, it's hardly a uniquely Irish problem. I didn't hear you sneering when that school in China adopted Termonbarry Alberts.