Originally Posted by manic da hoop
Hoops hit for six was one of my personal favourites.
Irish Footballs Biggest Clichés
Pat Fenlon has used this so often and in so many contexts it makes the list
"Some people will have to take a good look at themselves"
"We're just trying to raise the standards, and do things right....and take it to the next level and we're getting slated for it"
Shelbournes fans being all teenagers
Can't believe it took 21 posts before this gem was brought up. Second only to the taxi driving Hoops in the realms of LOI cliches.
KOH
No One Likes Us, We Don't Care
'I used to go the games years ago but its not the same now is it' or various other excuses
You regularly hear this one from lapsed 'League of Ireland 'supporters,especially in Waterford.
Harps in tune (last season)
Harps off tune (this one)
“Jockey Wilson . . . What an athlete.” - Sid Waddell
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LOL
As I say, we're just young & a bit nieve.
How about the GAA cliches, they are fookin desperate. 'Hungry for the ball' and 'the fifty, fifty balls'. Whatever ya say about LOI cliches the bogball ones are terrible, i cant stand bogball and i fu[kin hate the commentry.
the biggest cliche i hear is the name of a fanzine down here in cork(think its still being made anyway)
"I was out there once...."
another one was "Its ****e etc...." then i ask them when was the last time you were at a city game and they say it was years ago.
a lot more people are sitting up and taking notice now since last thursday and last years run also.
Life isn't all beer and football...some of us haven't touched a football in months
If you hate the commentary then turn the volume down on the TV and throw on the radio and listen to Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh.the man is in a league of his own.Or you can listen to the local radio station doing commentary.I love listening to 103fm or Radio Kerry commentary.its hilarious!
why is it always that a county has only 1 chant maybe 2 at a stretch for games?makes me cringe a little.
Life isn't all beer and football...some of us haven't touched a football in months
I hate when you are walking home or go to the pub after a game and so many people say '' How'd we get on''?? I mean for fck sake, probably never been to a game before and they refer to the club as we. I'd love to tell them all to fck off and get their arses to a game.
Harry and Liam, Harry and Liam, Harry and Liam, Harry and Liam.
No wins since 1987 makes that one a bit outdated
"Rebel rising as Cork win puts them up the league"...
As I say, we're just young & a bit nieve.
'The old lad used to bring me to Dalymount/ Milltown when i was a young fella - he'd lift me over the turnstiles - haven't been for years of course'
"Finntastic Harps back in tune..."
Finn Harps Dot Com
www.finnharps.com
"............Feels the burn,as shels win again"
I know it's not Irish football or a cliché(even though it was used twice) but when Selthick got knocked out by Inverness Caladonian Thistle in the cup a few years back,it finished 5-2 or something,the back page read
"Super Cally go ballistic,Seltic are atrocious"
Last edited by Anto McC; 28/08/2005 at 11:11 AM.
try to listen to any radio bulletin when they are talking about eL fixtures without them saying "meanwhile here at home"as if english/scottish football is default , they never say meanwhile in english football
It is a bit local but in Limerick when you talk about eL you will always get one lad who says "They should never have left the Markets Field" or "I couldn't support them since they left the Markets Field". We left the MF () in 1983. 22 years ago! Get over it. Why can't they just say - "I am a lazy bas tard and would much rather sit here on my stool shouting at a team through the telly and then tell everyone I am big into the football".
By the way I have nothing against watching (or supporting) foreign teams and leagues - I'll watch the Premiership, Serie A, SPL etc. A lot of people don't realise that going to games and watching games on TV are not mutually exclusive. (Unless they're on the same time in which case it is easy to spot the real fotball fan - he or she is the one outdoors shouting at someone that can actually hear them).
"It's impossible to make a man understand something when his livelihood depends on him not understanding" Upton Sinclair
When Dublin team travels outside the pale the away ground is always "hard place to get a result" but rarely are Dublin grounds mentioned in same way for visiting non-pale teams.
UCD will always be "thought a lesson" or teach someone else "a lesson"
That dope Paul Collins from Today FM Sport said that this morning when reading the sports newsin fairness does he not do any research into what he is saying ?
Well we've helped him by putting all the cliches in one place...That dope Paul Collins from Today FM Sport said that this morning when reading the sports news
If you attack me with stupidity, I'll be forced to defend myself with sarcasm.
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