QuoteI'm sorry to hear all that Derek. Were the guys that were abusing you kids or adults?
SLigo Rovers 1:1 Dublin City
I did'nt know how to start this thread. I had several headings in mind but just went with what you see above. First things first, I am by no means a prude or sensitive and I expect the Shamrock Rovers fans to read the heading and open up with all guns blazing but in this instance I am able to say that this is not about Shamrock Rovers antics, no this one is about our country cousins over in the west, Sligo to be precise.
I went to watch Sligo Rovers play Dublin City in the first division last night and it shaped upto be a great night, we got to the ground an hour before kickoff, parked the car and then went for a couple of pints, I figuered two pints would be ok as it would be three hours and a big mac before I drove home.
The game kicked off to a full house, at least 2000 Sligo fans, we had very few fans, five singing and five/ten board/family of Dublin City. so what has this got to do with my complaint, nothing apart from setting the seen.
Dublin played very well being on top for the firsat 45 minutes giving the handful who traveled something to sing about, now I know that when your team is playing well then the opposition fans will get on your back a little and that is part of following football, I had the usual comments of "You fat b@stard" and other such like which do not cause me any great concern even though I would not sling this kind of remark back.
What upset me and made me want to become a bit of a hooligan was the remarks about myself and my nine year old son. Too be honest if I wasn't in such a good mood and most importantly trying to show the nipper a good example I would have kicked the sh!te out of the people who slung the offensive remarks our way. The jist of the comments were about me picking my son(maybe they did not know he was my son) up in a local toilet and having sex with him. Even as I write this thread I am so annoyed with this situation that I would like to go back down to the Sligo sh!t hole and knock the balloxs out of the pr!cks who used this kind of cr@p to stop us singing. My young lad is still upset with the bullsh!t he had to listen too. I have spent several hours talking to him about the reasons why these muppets spoke to us in this way, but to be honest I don't know if the EL is worth this kind of crap, How do people come up with this kind of nonsense? Are they trying to immatate the stuff they see on the english TV? What would drive fans of football to inflict this kind of abuse on kids?
I reckon I will get reponses of sympaty and ignorance on this subject but that is OK. I just wanted to let off some steam about the crap my son and I had to listen too last night. I know if I told his mother the real reason he was crying at the game then that would be his last game. Is that what we are trying to achive? Trying to put the kids off following the EL?
I just hope that when then morons went home after the game they maybe felt looking back on the situation that they had crossed the line between following your team and being a w#nker although some how I doubt it.
Sligo fans you should be ashamed to hve muppets like this in your ranks.
Derek.
Last edited by Derek; 03/10/2005 at 12:42 AM.
I'm sorry to hear all that Derek. Were the guys that were abusing you kids or adults?
Life without Rovers, it makes no sense...it's a heartache...nothing but a fools game. S.R.F.C.
Adults, by age not mentality.Originally Posted by sligoman
I'm sorry to hear all that Derek. Were the guys that were abusing you kids or adults?
Ok. It's just last night the ground was full of little kids running around. Did you tell any stewards?
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The stewards were awre of the goings on. I cannt say if they heard the remarks as you well know pepole have an acute sense of not seeing/hearing things that do not suit them.
Well hopefully the idiots will cop on in future and not say such idiotic things, especially when you have a child there with you
Life without Rovers, it makes no sense...it's a heartache...nothing but a fools game. S.R.F.C.
But in all fairness ... that kinda thing is totally out of order, were there any Gardas there ??
The minute you heard it, you should have upped and left .... Derek, as an eL fan yourself, you do realise that this is not the norm !! As bad as it was, i wouldn't react to just one incident.
I would definitely raise it with Sligo Rovers FC though, the club should be made aware of this kinda thing, sounds kinda disturbing alright.
The SFAI are the governing body for grassroots football in Ireland, not the FAI. Its success or the lack of is all down to them.
Yes Derek, you should definetely get in touch with the club about it. The quicker the club get rid of the little scumbag element in it the better
Life without Rovers, it makes no sense...it's a heartache...nothing but a fools game. S.R.F.C.
I am long enough going to games to understand that this is not the norm, bu how many times should it happen before I should react? Raising it with the club would be a waste of time as the incident is already old news, what could I expect to happen? lokk at some of the recent fines/penalties handed out to other clubs over recent events! I have no names, no pictures, no witnesses to point out who said what which would ultimately come down to "he said you said I said" type of thing. That does not mean that these things did not happen but just that I can do nothing about it
I reckon as I said I had to let off steam somewhere and this is the only place I can think of.
How about in the guys face?
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Derek ... seriously, Sligo are a fair progressive club from the way it looks just now, there must be someone on the staff who would understandably be concerned over this ..... but if they are never given the information, they will never be able to react to/prevent it ..... even if they cant do anything about it, at least they are aware of it and can be alert to it in the future.
If it were my club ... i know i'd definitely want to know about it. I telling you ... put them in the picture and they can sort it out.
The SFAI are the governing body for grassroots football in Ireland, not the FAI. Its success or the lack of is all down to them.
I thought about saying it on the night but my concern was the young lad, he is at the stage where he is not a boy and not a man, he was crying his eyes out facing the pitch so nobody could see him cry. Just read what I am saying and try to imagine if you had kids of your own what they would be feeling.
I may send a letter to the club during the week or maybe I will compose some unsavory tunes for our next encounter and by the way I have no problem chanting at a game, but then I am civalised and would not sink to those levels but by fcuk I want to knock the lard out of these fcukers, I am half tempted to go back for the next Sligo game with whoever they are playing just to srort these gob****es out.
Is this what the EL is about, making people sink to this?
In fairness Derek most Sligo fans are sound but it isn't the 1st time somrthing like this has happened.When we won in the cup there 2 years ago we were hurled with abuse and stones after the match.They have also been in trouble down in Kilkenny.Sligo have a minority scum element following it and need to sort it out.
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Derek, I suggest that you do write a letter and accompany it with a phone call. You have already seemed to decide that it is pointless but I don't think it is. You need to notify clubs about this so they have the option to take action. No one should have to put up with that at a game and most would be sympathetic to you and agree its bang out of order. In every walk of life you get the minority bringing it down for the rest.
I suggest that you do not lower yourself to composing similiar songs in attack as you merely lower your own self doing so! Hopefully they will one day come across the wrong (or right) person when verbally attacking them and that person will do us all a favour and rip their tongues out or something!!
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Its hard to work out where these people are coming from.
They obviously don't give a toss about what anybody thinks about either them or their club to stoop so low.
Even though they were probably just a few doing it its worrying that nobody in the home crowd had the bottle to stand up and be counted by telling them to stfu
Last edited by the 12 th man; 03/10/2005 at 7:42 AM.
he is spot on there im afraid...they let us down...im sorry..they arent football fans..they're are losers trying to feel important 1 day a fortnight with threats....
Yes Derek Rovers do have their element that embarrass the rest of us decent supporters.
Your best bet would be a letter to the club, because we would like something done about this element also.
Also, your idea of returning to the showgrounds to seek revenge, probably isn't on, as it could be a few seasons before you get the chance to.
A mate of mine was sitting close to you and he knew exactly who they were & so does almost everybody who goes to the Showground’s, they were arrested & kicked out of the game in Kilkenny (same gang of Wnakers different individuals) a few weeks ago.
In fairness to the Rovers Management they are trying to deal with them we were on our way into the ground & they had one of them stopped outside & now they have him Barred (No Consultation to you).
These are the worst type of simpletons you could have the torture of listening to, Paralysed from the shouldersn up, Brain Dead.
They have shamed us at every game I have seen them at this season.
My Mate will be writing a letter of complaint but I suggest you do so to (It will add weight to it).
Did someone break the Drum Sticks as well? I heard something about that don’t know if there is any truth in it.
Last edited by Bravo; 03/10/2005 at 9:01 AM.
That's sick.
If someone did that to my kid, or allowed that to happen to my kid, I'd make it my mission to make them pay for it. Are we going to fine and ban people for jumping up and down on pitches and at the same time tolerate these perverts?
What are Rovers going to do about it? If these people are known, what are the gardai going to do about it?
We had a little bit of hassle last time we were in the Showgrounds aswell...
a small group of wanna be "hard men" having a go at a young fella (13 or 14) who
travelled up with us. The lads in question were about 18+ or so by the looks of it.
We said it to the steward who was beside us and he basicially said it was our own
fault for intimidating them by sitting there (old wing stand)!!!
I've been to see Sligo heap of times and it is a minority. Any time I've seen hassle there
is when the club are doing well and loads of "sunshiners" go games and cause bother. I'd
almost guarentee that if Sligo we're the wrong end of the league them tw@ts wouldnt be
there and it would just be the genuine fans there who by and large are sound
Id say you'd be right to write a letter to the club and the Supporters Trust
(as they organise buses to games) because Im sure neither of them want that kind of element
ruining the work they have done os far this season.
Last edited by Ash; 03/10/2005 at 10:20 AM.
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