What if Rangers make it to the Final in Dublin

**Gather round** · 17/03/2011, 12:48 PM

Originally Posted by ArdeeBhoy

Well, as done with numerous other teams/clubs, the Guards and Immigration authorities, in conjunction with the Brit.Home Office would have to implement a no-exit/entry programme, which to be fair, the latter has far more experience of.
And Ireland would definitely need their massive co-operation in implementing

Do you seriously think the British authorities would be able/willing to prevent tens of thousands of Rangers fans without tickets traveling to Dublin? How exactly- would they close the airports and have border checkpoints at Dundalk?

The 1995 game involved far far less than the tens of thousands of Huns who descended on Manchester, so no idea what your point is there as pretty much indisputable!

My point is that you are demonising Rangers fans and wilfully exaggerating what might happen if they make the final. The 1995 game- with a much smaller turnout of visiting fans- saw far more trouble and arrests, did it not?

Just because some England fans, or some of Rangers, rioted in the past doesn't mean they will in future. It makes sense to plan for the event, not to hysterically exaggerate its effect. Nor- as you seem to be suggesting the Govt and FAI should do- announcing to the World that the RoI can't stage a major European final.

As is the next point is about crowd trouble, as if thousands descend, it will happen. Any fool can see that

Is there serious trouble at every Old Firm game? No. Stop exaggerating.

there's nothing hysterical or spurious about what's likely to happen if you let that lot literally run riot. Just ask UEFA!

No-one will "let them run riot". They will need to be closely Policed, as fans are at all such games. If the FAI hadn't convinced UEFA they could handle that, they wouldn'ty have got the gig.

**ArdeeBhoy** · 17/03/2011, 2:24 PM

In answer to you first point, yes. If necessary, which it almost certainly will be.
To be fair to PSNI they have far more experience as do the Brit.cops.

The rest is based on uninformed rubbish, which only you seem to believe.....
And contrary to all the facts.

Wouldn't it be more pertinent instead, you get out and celebrate your National day, given you keep telling us all you're, er, Irish??

**Gather round** · 17/03/2011, 9:45 PM

Ok, the hypothetical armageddon won't happen. Ardee Bhoy will be so disappointed

The rest is based on uninformed rubbish, which only you seem to believe.....
And contrary to all the facts

So uninformed that you are unable/unwilling to actually answer it?

Wouldn't it be more pertinent instead, you get out and celebrate your National day, given you keep telling us all you're, er, Irish??

Do you think getting ****ed and talking nonsense on the internet makes you more irish? But thanks anyway, I had a quick half earlier.

**The Fly** · 18/03/2011, 12:07 AM

Close thread.

**ArdeeBhoy** · 18/03/2011, 3:08 AM

Ha ha.

And not just the team from Govan.....The usual uninformed drivel prevailed elsewhere recently!

**ArdeeBhoy** · 26/03/2011, 11:49 PM

Just talking to the guards outside The GPO who confirmed, they were as satisfied as anyone this never came to pass.
And who told me they were well aware of their excesses and had plenty of ways in which to deal with this.

It may have seemed bravado but rarely have I encountered Irish people so assertive and confident that they could deal with this.....

**awec** · 27/03/2011, 11:39 PM

Rangers getting to the final would have been a crime against football anyway.

As for the stopping people entering the city, that would have been pretty much impossible. I mean, do you stop and question ever car, bus, plane or train coming into Dublin? "Alright there, you sound scottish to me, get away home tae feck!"

**horton** · 31/03/2011, 9:14 AM

Originally Posted by Dublin12

I reckon they would have to hold it somewhere else, there's no way the authorities here could organise an influx of thousands of fans from the North and then you'd have thousands coming over from Scotland, England and Wales aswell. For instance, where would the ticketless fans watch the games, Im not sure many pubs would open and I can't see a big screen being erected, it would be Manchester all over again, even worse!

Sorry to be digging up an old post but for what it's worth what happened in Manchester was partly the police making a mess of the plans. Despite what was reported in the papers, the Police feared that if Rangers lost the fans in Piccadilly Gardens won't be easily controlled and they turned the screen off. They had hoped the fans would go to the other big screen nearby as they would be easier contained/kettled there if something happened. Only a few fans went, the rest stayed and started mouthing off at the police and the mayhem started. I say this as my friend was working in a bar there and the Police warned them to pull their shutters before the screen went off. I walked through town after work and I saw the whole shebang. If the Guards plan it right there shouldn't be any risk of a repeat. Oh, if Rangers do end in Dublin, don't expect to find any shops in town with alcohol left. That lot cleaned out the 2 local tescos, a sainsburys and a spar of anything resembling booze. I was rageing! Anyway sorry for going off on a tangent.