Quote2/3rds of the players you have mentioned no longer play in the League of Ireland, if at all.
Looking at the EPL and all the media coverage Suarez gets (for everything), it just had me looking at our own "characters" in the game over here.
Who would be our main headline generators? (if the press gave a sh!te)
Rory Patterson?
Georgie?
Dave Rogers?
2/3rds of the players you have mentioned no longer play in the League of Ireland, if at all.
I mean in general. Past/Present.
Nick Leeson always got plenty of coverage.
To balance that Michael D gets a bit of attention for the league as well.
Hard to think of too many, the general interest in the LOI just is not there.
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Robert Bayly has surely bitten players in the past!
Roddy Collins.
Upwards to the vanguard where the pressure is too high.
Why would Rory Patterson grab attention?
On the field Twigg was a recognisable name for people who didn't follow the league due to his and Rovers success. Forrester now seems to be the person that most people who wouldn't support the league would know about due to that chip.
Here on a technicality.
Search for "Mick Wallace" on the Indo website. Plenty of headlines right there.
He's the Suarez of the North-west.Originally Posted by PartySaint
Famous fans I suppose would be:
Tom the Gom
Maxi
President Michael D. Higgins
I see Eric Lawlor is a Bohs fan
Player wise:
Twigg last year was probably the player everybody knew about.
Joey N'Do would be a player a lot of casual fans would know.
Probably the same goes for Mark Quigley.
But to be honest the League generally doesn't get any headlines unfortunately. The biggest headline generator is when there is something going wrong with the league, like trouble at a match. But thankfully there hasn't been a whole lot of this in recent years, but a lot of people still have a bad perception of the league due to the newspapers highlighting these few and far between incidents.
I have one mate who won't go up to Oriel due to the 'Violence', but he claimed you wouldn't see incidents like this at English football pitches. Baffling.
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Weren't the old Cork City considering signing Paul Galvin a few years back and he's in the papers more than Luis Suarez? They should've signed him for the benefit of the whole league.
Call me old fashioned but if I wanted "characters" I would just barstool it and watch the Premier League.
I'm there to watch football.
Sure you can watch football anywhere.
Loads of drama in the LOI too. From talents like Ndo, McNamee, Forrester et all to the polarising figures like Sean O'Connor, Killian Brennan or Alan Keane to the outright nutjobs like Bocker Bayly. Players on the way up like Cawley or Duggam and great players on the way down like Healy and Jay Byrne
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Don't forget Barry the Bohs fan, another LOI legend.
Here on a technicality.
One from the archives... http://www.independent.ie/opinion/an...-26252091.html
Chris Turner's glove.
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In the modern era, Kevin Hunt, Glen Crowe, Wes Houlihan the "fabulous" Baker boys, Twigg, Roddy, were always worth a headline. Nowadays.....?
Further back Mick 0`Brien, Athlone keeper, probably got more International TV coverage than any LOI player in history. I remember one game and his name being chanted by Bohs fans and he did his party trick of sitting on the cross-bar in response
Sean Connor's probably grabbed the headlines more since he left the league, with his Zimbabwe dealings.
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What about Rossi Walsh ex of Shels? A right character for grabbing headlines
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