I asked the girl behind the bar in Pifko to throw in the match on Friday. And she did. The darn Slovaks are more interested in the LOI!
DID YOU NOTICE A SIGN OUTSIDE MY HOUSE...?
On a positive note, I was in Helsinki last week. Out for drinks with a couple of young local journos. One asked where I was from. "Small place - you probably wouldn't know anything about it - Sligo." Straight away he goes: "Sligo Rovers." Needless to say, my round.
Bizarrely, had the same thing in provincial Germany a few weeks ago. Asked the middle-aged bloke: "How on earth do you know Rovers?" "Everyone knows Sligo Rovers," he replied. I'd dearly love to believe him but I can't help thinking he's probably in the Illuminati or something.
Well their victory made me notice them and I was in Canada.
DID YOU NOTICE A SIGN OUTSIDE MY HOUSE...?
What was the story with that? He was under 23 so presumably Sligo were entitled to a tribunal fee, but English clubs refuse to pay that and training compensation to Irish clubs so I'm guessing Sligo knew they were bent over a barrel and just got as much money as they could (ie much less than he was worth)? A sad state of affairs for our clubs, and another example of the lack of help provided to us by our supposed national association.
Kerry County final today in front of 8500 supporters and RTE start the sport news with soccer from across the water. Disgrace.
Yeah man, they call gambling a disease, but it's the only disease where you can win a bunch of money.
An archived RTÉ video news report from 1994 entitled 'Love Hate for Manchester United': http://www.rte.ie/archives/2014/1121...hester-united/
Originally Posted by RTÉ
I was once in 2013 in a Bray Wanderers match when taking the train back to Dublin I noticed some guys speaking an Scandinavian language to each other. They had the full gear, shirt, scarves, pins, were dressed like diehard Bray fans. I asked them where they were from and how come they ended up there. They were norwegian and said that when playing FIFA at the XBOX somebody started picking up Bray as it's one of the ****tiest teams available in the game, turned into a machine beating everything and everybody and such inner joke spiraled out of control and they finished actually following the team in real life, culminating with the idea of travelling to Ireland to see them play. I kind of understand them because I had a similar relationship with Forfar Athletic because of Football Manager
Pats have a Norwegian supports club. They were on a trip to Dublin when we played IBV in Europe a few years back and they decided to go to the game and got hooked. They come over to loads of games. They were even in Warsaw for our Champions League game this season and came to the home game as well
The Norwegian lads 1st game was 5-1 v rovers on good Friday. Came to dublin for weekend and didn't realise pubs closed that day. Very sound lads and 2 made it over for the Cup final this year too
I have an irrational grá for Lincoln City because of Premier Manager 98.
DID YOU NOTICE A SIGN OUTSIDE MY HOUSE...?
In Europe our league is well known, thanks to bookies and stat junkies (or both). Strangest request I had was in a pub/bar in Kursk being asked for an opinion on Wexford Youths vs Shels! And the folks asking were not gamers or hipsters!
I'm sure this will surprise exactly nobody. Three separate foreign football clubs more popular than any Irish domestic club, or the national team.
Edit: Although I was surprised to see Leeds still up there instead of say, Manchester City or Chelsea. Maybe barstoolers are more loyal than I thought, in a perverse sort of a way
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