QuoteHe meant that they shouldn't have felt the need to say where they're from, like they wouldn't say "Dublin side Shelbourne".
No, but the original criticism of RTE implies that they got it wrong ...Originally Posted by Dotsy
He meant that they shouldn't have felt the need to say where they're from, like they wouldn't say "Dublin side Shelbourne".
We're not arrogant, we're just better.
Prior to the Rovers v Derry game, the Setanta presenter was talking about the European games and he referred to the wins of Longford, Cork and "Shelbourne Rovers". The camera panned to Alan Matthews and you could see he was just thinking, 'what a dick'.
At last we find out who The REAL Rovers are!
SIGNATURESCOPE
When he meant to say Shelbourne Shams
Corless always struck me as a bit of a nerd, and his columns are usually fairly boring. TBH there's nothing much in that one that would anger me, if eL fans got angered every time somebody wrote something ignorant or disparaging about the league, eL fans would be an even angrier lot than they currently are.
Pitch attendants???? I'd love to hear him mutter that one inside an English ground.
ONE CITY, ONE TEAM.
Sorry to be an awkward sob but is there a source for newpaper circulation numbers?
Do Irish newpaper sales include sales by blow-in tabloids? and most importantly, do the sales include BULKS? The Herald is regularly dumped for free and the Indo is also notorious for bulking?
Every month the Guardian Media section shows sales for UK papers and it is amazing how newspapers bump up their so called sales by adding bulks - or freebies - to their circulation figures.
Minus bulking - does the Irish Times, Indo, Examiner sell more papers now than 10 years ago, again, minus bulking.
Since there are now more dailies than 15 years ago, either Oirish or local, wouldn't that also not indicate rising sales? Reason I ask this - are the likes of the Indo etc losing sales to the non-Irish or Oirish papers but the overall sales figures show a rise.
This post is very rambled - sorry about that - I'm getting round to asking - are the likes of the Irish Star, Irish Sun, Irish Mirror etc hitting the Indo etc because they feature more football/soccer, including local footie, in their pages.
Not disputing Troy McClure or Shels Tim - just curious.
If anyone bothers to answer this please don't forget bulking - it's a con.
I also thought that Ireland was part of the figures that showed paper sales declining and only rises in places like India, Africa etc.
Finally, given that the population is up on 10 or 20 years ago, what's the pecentage of paper sales to the population compared to the past? Is it up or down. 120,000 sales of the Indo today, for example, is quite different to 120,000 sales of same paper in 1980.
Last edited by hamish; 21/07/2005 at 8:38 PM.
SirHamish, it's all vetted by the Audit Bureau of Circulation. There's also a Joint National Readership Report that measures increases or decreases in papers' circulation and who's getting all the famous ABC1 readers. Any of the journos who post here should be able to get at the figures fairly handily.
Revenge for 2002
That, my friend, is called "Hot-Leg", and if you were that surprised to see it happening at all in the 1980s (let alone at Croker) it just goes to show that you can't have gone to too many football games in England in the 80s. In those days, especially on the Kop in Anfield, such an occurrence might actually be welcomed if it was a damp, freezing, dour match in the middle of January!Sometime in the early 1980s we went to Croke Park for a big game. It was a miserable experience. The stadium was draughty and decrepit. The mere act of trying to keep my feet in the milling scrum of a greasy Hill 16 made actually watching the game a near impossibility. The last straw was when I witnessed a very drunk man decide that, rather than fight his way off the terrace to visit the stinking toilets, he'd just unzip right there and urinate on the back of the man in front of him. Call me soft, but this wasn't my notion of a fun day out.
Aussies call it "soccer" (e.g. the "Socceroos", though I prefer the Matildas !).
I don't make fun of people calling it "soccer", only Americans calling it "soccer"!
Thanks Dr.Nightclub - should have remembered that.
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