Sportscall on RTE 1

[CollegeTillIDie]

Sportscall illustrates the problem which is endemic in this country..... we as a people have no taste!

By far the two best spectator sports played in this country are 1/ Soccer 2/ Hurling.

The best attended is by far the ugliest 1/ Bogball.....


I rest my case

[gspain]

"Tyrone's All-Ireland SFC final victory against Kerry yesterday was watched by an average audience of 887,000 on RTÉ Two, equating to a 73% share of the available audience.

At its peak, over 1.1 million viewers were tuning into the match on RTÉ Two.

The average audience for the match was up 20% on last year's football final, which was watched by 743,000 viewers, and puts this year's final at number three in the top ten programmes broadcast in Ireland this year.


The All-Ireland SHC final stands at number eight and the Republic of Ireland's World Cup qualifier against France inhabits tenth place.

The figures cap an extraordinary season in terms of those tuning into The Sunday Game Live's GAA coverage on RTÉ, with the All-Ireland SHC final between Galway and Cork watched by an average audience of 726,000 - a share of 74%. "

Assuming the Swiss game or a playoff doesn't top it then this will be the 2nd time in th epast 17 years that a GAA match has been the top sporting event on RTE as oppsoed to football.

It should be noted that the France game was also live on Sky Sports whose coverage started earlier and ,amy of the 272,000 Sky subscribers in the Republic would have watched the game on this. I attend home football matches but would normally watch Sky's champions league coverage in preference to RTE's. The pubs are hard empty for football games either.

[Dr.Nightdub]

Got this by e-mail from my ex. The "soccer" references are obviously to the Premiership. I especially like #10.

15 Good reasons why the GAA is better than soccer

1) The GAA player who played in front of 80,000 at the weekend will be teaching your children, selling you meat or fixing your drains on Monday morning. The soccer player who plays in front of 80,000 will be moaning about playing too many games and will be trying to sell you his personalized brand of leisure wear.

2) GAA nicknames are better. Soccer players just add a Y to their surnames

3) Dublin vs Meath is a real derby. What does Utd. Vs City mean to Ronaldo or Sibierski??

4) How many soccer players does it take to screw in a light bulb? Answer eleven. One to stick it in and ten to surround and kiss him after he does it.

5) Soccer players go to the papers after a game. GAA players go to the pub.

6) John Terry would run a mile if he came up against Francie Bellew.

7) GAA teams are numbered 1-15. A soccer team reads like the lottery results.

8) All soccer players wear shin pads. Some hurlers wear helmets.

9) Television runs soccer. Schoolteachers run the GAA.

10) The GAA is about where you're from. Soccer is about who you like.

11) No segregation at GAA games.

12) No soccer team has a nickname quite as lovely as the Fighting Cocks
of Carlow.

13) Bubble perms never made it to Croke Park.

14) A scoreless draw in the GAA would be quite a novelty.

15) Roman Abramovich can buy the League…… You can't buy Sam!!!