Stand Up For The Cork City!

[FlyingColumnist]

What is it about football that makes some people need to spurt out noxious abuse at other teams and their supporters? Some of the rants on this forum are an embarrassment to our club. The “we fcuking hate Shelbourne” thread is pathetic. City have thousands of supporters who are passionate about football, interested in the League of Ireland and supportive of efforts to make attending Irish football games a worthwhile experience. Yet a few pea brains claiming to represent our club log on to this and other clubs’ websites and spew their bile at people they don’t even know because they...erm... follow an Irish football team! The Waterford United message board is bombarded with abuse from these hate-filled desperados, as is the Shels board and others, with the result that we are fast becoming the most despised club in the league! Well City fans don’t deserve that reputation. Cork City F.C. should be respected as a positive force in Irish football and not as a haven for blinkered delinquents. Rivalry and banter are essential football traditions but those who stoop to degenerate slandering are essentially just talking about themselves.

[thecorner]

What is it about football that makes some people need to spurt out noxious abuse at other teams and their supporters? Some of the rants on this forum are an embarrassment to our club. The “we fcuking hate Shelbourne” thread is pathetic. City have thousands of supporters who are passionate about football, interested in the League of Ireland and supportive of efforts to make attending Irish football games a worthwhile experience. Yet a few pea brains claiming to represent our club log on to this and other clubs’ websites and spew their bile at people they don’t even know because they...erm... follow an Irish football team! The Waterford United message board is bombarded with abuse from these hate-filled desperados, as is the Shels board and others, with the result that we are fast becoming the most despised club in the league! Well City fans don’t deserve that reputation. Cork City F.C. should be respected as a positive force in Irish football and not as a haven for blinkered delinquents. Rivally and banter are essential football traditions but those who stoop to degenerate slandering are essentially just talking about themselves.

ok..whatever you say

[Fair_play_boy]

That came as a bit of a culture shock to me too when I came on this forum at first. But after a while I got to thinking:
1. It's all a bit of a wind up.
2. The forum would be a bit boring without it.
3. Between fixtures it gives you something to do with your PC.

[dahamsta]

Gotta say, I though the Shels thread was kinda pathetic too. Surprised Colm started it.

adam

[James]

Gotta say, I though the Shels thread was kinda pathetic too. Surprised Colm started it.

adam

colm hates Shels :P
aint suprised one bit

[dahamsta]

Apologies for the edit xtreme rebel, genuine mistake. But back on topic:

As I've said time and time again, what exactly has this kind of inciteful garbage - because that's what it is - got to do with football? Bear in mind that I don't have much truck with the "it's only banter" excuse.

adam

[patsh]

Personally, I think we should be toning down the rhetoric. I have absolutetly no time for $hels, but we may be giving them ammunition to use against us. Heightened security, and intolerance from those "stewards" will probably be the result of what they see is "tension" being stoked up by City fans.

Remember, we are going up there TO SUPPORT CITY,
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to abuse and slag off $hels.
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(That can wait until AFTER the game.... )

[adamd164]

Patsh you do have a point but sure if we couldn't slag them off that half the excitement gone!

BTW is this thread a wind up???!

[Colm]

Take a look at the first post again Adam. I only started it to tell of a rather unique incident about two sets of opposing fans singing the same song on tuesday night, something which doesn't happen very often.

[That Edit button is killing me. --adam]

[dahamsta]

They are scum and I have no time for them.

So you're saying that all owners, management, players, staff and fans of Shelbourne are "scum"?

adam

[paudie]

What is it about football that makes some people need to spurt out noxious abuse at other teams and their supporters? Some of the rants on this forum are an embarrassment to our club. The “we fcuking hate Shelbourne” thread is pathetic. City have thousands of supporters who are passionate about football, interested in the League of Ireland and supportive of efforts to make attending Irish football games a worthwhile experience. Yet a few pea brains claiming to represent our club log on to this and other clubs’ websites and spew their bile at people they don’t even know because they...erm... follow an Irish football team! The Waterford United message board is bombarded with abuse from these hate-filled desperados, as is the Shels board and others, with the result that we are fast becoming the most despised club in the league! Well City fans don’t deserve that reputation. Cork City F.C. should be respected as a positive force in Irish football and not as a haven for blinkered delinquents. Rivalry and banter are essential football traditions but those who stoop to degenerate slandering are essentially just talking about themselves.

I know i sound like I'm an old codger but I agree with the general thrust of the above post.

i hate Shels and would love if we beat them but some of the posts on the "we fcuking hate Shels" thread are just abuse of Slash/ED, who seems like a genuine EL supporter.

I suppose its a question of what is or isn't "banter". I think people should have better things to be doing rather than abusing fellow EL supporters.

Now I'm off to put on my slippers and listen to my Mario Lanza 78's while drinking my cocoa.

[Colm]

So you're saying that all owners, management, players, staff and fans of Shelbourne are "scum"?

adam

Pretty much yeah!

*in case you haven't noticed I lose all sense of perspective and common decency where Shels are concerned!

[Colm]

Ban Colm. He has no common respect. Ollie Byrne is a great man who is very easy to get on with. Some City fans resent him because of shels success

It's amazing the way you always have great respect for the people everyone else hates!!

[GavinZac]

find a girl and settle down

if you want you can marry.
Look at me, I am old, but I'm happy.
Son
All the times that I cried, keeping all the things I knew inside,
It's hard, but it's harder to ignore it.
If they were right, I'd agree, but it's them you know not me.
Now there's a way and I know that I have to go away.
I know I have to go.

[James]

altogether now.......

[Colm]

if you want you can marry.
Look at me, I am old, but I'm happy.
Son
All the times that I cried, keeping all the things I knew inside,
It's hard, but it's harder to ignore it.
If they were right, I'd agree, but it's them you know not me.
Now there's a way and I know that I have to go away.
I know I have to go.

A song for the bus tomorrow perhaps!!
I'm getting my vocal chords in tune as we speak!

[GavinZac]

its a duet, i nominate Vitamin D as the "son" part

[James]

A song for the bus tomorrow perhaps!!
I'm getting my vocal chords in tune as we speak!

as long as you stay from singing waterloo with Ois again i'm happy

[Colm]

its a duet

That's ok Wayne will be on the bus.
Karaoke boys back in action!!

[dahamsta]

Take a look at the first post again Adam. I only started it to tell of a rather unique incident about two sets of opposing fans singing the same song on tuesday night, something which doesn't happen very often.

I guess it might have been funny at the time Colm, but would you not agree that as long as fans tolerate the underlying incitement that this kind of thing encourages, it's going to hurt the business of football in Ireland, and so the game itself?

Not the fans but everyone else....yes.
why have you a problem with that?

Because it's a generalisation with no foundation. Unless you know them all personally that is. Do you?

Some fans are scum.

Which is a much better way of putting it. And need I remind you that some City fans are scum too?

Adam, Do you realise the size and magnitude about the game tomorrow, I'm beginning to think you know nothing about EL football.

Since when are we talking about the game tomorrow?

adam