I hope that made him feel better.Originally Posted by londonred
L@nger should have been ejected from the stadium.
It wasn't Heineken it was the Sins Alcohal s**t and it was only half full when it was thrown , the person who threw it was reprimanded for the rest of the night.
I hope that made him feel better.
L@nger should have been ejected from the stadium.
I guess that makes it all right so
agree with razor, he/she/it should have been thrown out.
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I know exactly who you're talking about. He was in Kielty's near the Bastille before the game doing the very same, although most people in the pub weren't taking too much notice. Unfortunately, my (very English) missus was. It reinforced her view of some Irish fans as racist bigots. I didn't have the brass arse to tell him this though.
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No 'pun' intended,but at least 1 Irishman was stabbed in an unprovoked incident by Russian skinhead football gangs....whilst Irish fans were generally dealt with by contempt by some of the Russian 'authorities'/businesses on the basis they were all rich Westerners
Thats the enigma of Russia, its one of the greatest countries but the problem is you need to speak the language otherwise you come a cropper pretty quickly. They have the "one country two prices" system which means if your not Russian you pay triple the going rate. Again there are ways around this but you need to speak a bit of Russian, the taxis will rip you off if you dont speak Russian, and will totally rip you off if you start ballsing up the Cyrillic and Latin ("Normal") alphabet esp. if you see a "C" and dont pronounce it an "S" etc etc. Usually you can get around these things if you (or someone you travel with) speaks a bit of Russian, the other thing to bear in mind is the people manning the ticket booths are usually old fellas who had their heyday in Soviet Times. A few compliments and nostalgic phrases and you can usually get the tickets at local rates.
It was over my girlfriend (and me, plus two other guys behind us) that the beer landed. For the record the beer covered her jacket (nice dry cleaning bill), most of her and her hair. She spent 10 minutes trying to wash it out in the bathrooms as it was nice and sticky and it also helped being a cold night so she could sit for two hours with wet hair.
Cowardly enough to chuck a pint over a balcony , even more so when they couldnt come down and apologise. My girlfriend is actually from Germany and Ive been encouraging her to come to the games with me. The one thing she was worried about was that we would in some way be like the english hooligans ! Although we had a great time in Paris this is one of the main things she remembers. When she is telling our friends about the trip she says about how great the atmosphere was, the nights out we had , singing the french anthem , the louvre , tower etc and finally ' someone threw a beer over me at the match '
...and thats the one thing my friends remember about it as well !!
Im very proud of supporting Ireland and when we won the 'Best Fans' award at the World Cup it was as if we had all contributed something to World Football and the Irish team.
But, as mentioned earlier , we have worked hard to earn a reputation but it is easily tarnished. If someone had come down and said 'sorry' to her and the two guys behind us then it would not have been the abiding memory she has of the match.
When we left the stadium and passed the line of police armed to the teeth outside the train station some old man in his 50s went over and put his hand on the police chiefs shoulder
' relax lads , we're not the f'king English you know'
Lets keep it that way !
Rant Over.
I know this isn't really what you meant but it would have been no less unacceptable had your partner been Irish.
Being the small world that it is, we have the victim in our ranks on foot.ie
If we also have the culprit then perhaps it's not too late to apologise.
If you're not man enough for that, perhaps you'll at least reflect on your behaviour and take note of the disgust with which your behaviour is viewed by Ireland supporters.
Have Boot Disk, will travel
I am not the culprit I was standing in front of them , he didn't know what was happening silly decison to have match @9pm and serve beer all day in Paris luckingly there wasn't any major trouble but not looking good for the finals in Germany as expect similar numbers will travel including the large scumbag element as it would be within their price range.
I've an idea who this bloke is. Did he have a Galway shirt on and hung around someone who looked like an Irish version of Yasser Arafat? If so, I would associate him with the anti-English singing but not with chucking a bottle at an official. He was one of the blokes mentioned screaming TAL in Luton Airport while two members of the fuzz were having a quiet coffee.
Normally a decent bloke. He had a go at people over the mini-riot with the Georgians in Finsbury Park, claiming it's a pub and everyone has the right to come in and support who they like. He's a skinhead alright, but without the drink he's not an ar*ehole and certainly no fascist. However, as someone said, the drinking hardly helped matters. And this is the result. Normally decent people acting the tw*t. There were mates of mine there who looked like they'd been on Absinthe, let alone 20 pints of Kronenberg. You met one yerself PP. He could only growl and give people head-locks and digs in the stomach. FK how he managed to get in.
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Should he have been admitted to the ground in the state you mention he was in? Could it have been him rather than his pint that went over the edge and onto the crowd below?
Doesn't bear thinking about!
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I agree, i think that if a person isnt in a state to watch the game and sing the few songs then they shouldnt be allowed in. There not making a big contribution to the team & support. there was an awful lot of people watching the game in Stade de France who cant remember the game at all.
Wallis,you speak as if your girlfriend has been scarred for life over being soaked by a pint.How many times has this happened in a night club.Some @rse throws a pint off an upper floor,your wet,briefly p!ssed off, but you get on with it.FFS she enjoyed the weekend experience,can't you just accept that there was an unfortunate incident and forget about it.Nobody was phyically injured.
Every society has idiots,ours is a substantially smaller percentage than most.
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Games on the continent usually kick off fairly late, and unlike the Irish and British the Europeans do not seem to spend the whole day drinking beforehand, so it's not a problem. Also I.M.O. people on the continent cannot comprehend the amount of alcohol we are able to consume until they actually see us doing it, so even if the people responsible for the timing of the game where told that there would be a lot of Irish drinking all day it would probably have gone over their heads.
Yes some of the incidents outside O' Sullivan's were nasty and I would not like to see them again but thank god it did not erupt into something worse.
That was my first game away from home, ive been at every home match since 1999. Im only 18 so going to an away game before this wasn't possible as the parents wern't keen on it. im not going to be going to every away game now till germany but im definetely planning 2 before then. Cyprus and Faroes maybe. 'This type of crowd' i dont think is the appropriate phrase... we are not hooligans like the ENGLISH are sometimes. but you've got to understand it's just a minority just like the english!!!
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Wise beyond your years.but you've got to understand it's just a minority just like the english!!!
Sadly though, Tarzan, it only takes a minority to start it.
In our defence though, there is an element which associates itself with English football that is very organised and deliberate.
What we have is individuals who can't handle their drink and make a fool of themselves and others.
Have Boot Disk, will travel
Probably not but how do you decide only once in 20 years have I seen someone refused admission and that was at the brandywell , hopefully there will be a drink ban on day of games in germany the 8e a pint certaintly did not deter.
well it seems that some EL fans at the game were wearing burberry, stone island etc. I also heard racist remarks being made at the stewards
That was my first game away from home, ive been at every home match since 1999. Im only 18 so going to an away game before this wasn't possible as the parents wern't keen on it. im not going to be going to every away game now till germany but im definetely planning 2 before then. Cyprus and Faroes maybe. 'This type of crowd' i dont think is the appropriate phrase... we are not hooligans like the ENGLISH are sometimes. but you've got to understand it's just a minority just like the english!!!
Yeah, but you can see how easily O'Sullivans could have kicked off. Alot of the Irish were acting the muppet. At one point, two French guys got out of their car and threw punch's at some of the Irish fans who were banging on their car, and preventing it from passing through. This was a minor scuffle, I think the French boys got sense when they saw how rowdy the crowd were and went back into their car. If I remember correctly, I think they got soaked with drink whilst doing so as well.
Basically, the Irish fans didn't give a $hit cos they knew they would out number anyone who was brave enough to challenge them. This was appalling behaviour. Granted a minority, and a pi$$ed one at that, but also enough to start a riot. Lets just say that the police witnessed this - no doubt the riot squad would have been in like a flash. Lets say that the French guys in question were scumbags, and they returned later with a gang to retaliate? Thats how things start, and as Peader said, it only takes the few to start it. What happens then is that the innocent fans who were bahaving themselves get caught up in the crossfire, and all hell breaks loose. So to be honest, 'This type of crowd', we can do without. They should stay at home, get ****ed in the pub, watch it on TV, and pick their usual fight that they have every second weekend of the year.
I stayed away from that perticular area and by and large Irish bar's for all those very reason's. I was told by my girlfriend who was in Corcoran's before the game that there was a few eejit's belting the side's of car's and bus's.
This game was alway's going to have a few eejit's sadly turning up due to the easy and cheap access of getting to Paris and the fact of who the opponents were.
Was in Malta in 99 when we just beat them 3-2 and there was load's of eejit's over there just cause it was a sun holiday and football chucked in, and was'nt surprised when there was a boot off with some local's after the local's took exception to having their car's nearly turned over.
I'm sure these same type of goombeen's will defo be in the Faroe's.
Its crazy to see people be what society wants them to be but not me.
Brilliant line!!!. . . does have the Crazy fenian gene after a few jars........
Injustice anywhere threatens justice everywhere - Martin Luther King Jnr.
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