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    Why do we bother?

    Found this on an Irish league forum

    Do you ever wonder sometimes why you bother? I mean, how easy would it be to forsake the local version of the beautiful game for the warm and cosy alternative offered courtesy of your satellite dish?

    You've got your numerous camera angles, expert analysis, build-ups, post mortems and all manner of gadgets and gizmos at the other end of a wee red button.

    Hard to beat, isn't it? Irish League football doesn't really stand a chance. So why do we bother?

    Maybe it's something to do with a sense of belonging, a sense of pride in your own community. Your local club, well, they're YOUR team.

    You know the players - and they're ordinary blokes like yourself.

    You pass the ground on a regular basis, you've seen it develop over the years - the lights, the new stand.

    You've maybe went down on a winter's morning to help clear snow so the match that afternoon can go ahead, maybe turned up in the summer months to give the old place a much needed lick of paint.

    You sell programmes, raffle tickets, attend club dinners, sponsor a player, buy a brick. You do your bit.

    Then there’s the match itself. That feeling when things go right on the pitch. The last minute winner enjoyed in the company of your mates not forgetting the despair during the bad times. You’re all in this together.

    After the game, walking home, getting stopped in the street, queuing at the corner shop for the Pink, "How’d they do today?". You’re a real supporter, a true fan. You’re recognised as such. There’s something in that.

    And woe betide anyone who dares rubbish your team, especially some ‘expert’ who claims to support some bunch of overpaid prima donna’s they’ll only ever see on the box.

    What do they care? It won’t ruin their weekend if ‘their’ team loses or make it if they pick up those precious three points.

    Leave them to their replica shirts and their once a season trip over to scoff their prawn sandwiches. They’re not fans, they’re customers.

    With you it’s different. It matters. It matters a lot

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    Very good....

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    Thumbs up

    Ya excellent agree with it 100%
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    "Cause Galway are MASSIVE"-RW Rover on 24/8/07 00:29am

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    Very good.....seen it before do
    If you can keep your head when all around you have lost theirs, then you probably haven't understood the seriousness of the situation.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bosco
    Very good.....seen it before do
    Where..was it in a newspaper?
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    "Cause Galway are MASSIVE"-RW Rover on 24/8/07 00:29am

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    I'm pretty sure someone else put a link to it on here a few months ago.

    It was penned by A guy called Martin Harris, a Ballymena UTD fan.
    Hatchets and Hammers

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fortuna1886
    I'm pretty sure someone else put a link to it on here a few months ago.

    It was penned by A guy called Martin Harris, a Ballymena UTD fan.
    I know Martin he is a gent and genuine fan like most of us here.
    I won't bother getting a satellite dish cause they don't show Red Star Belgrade matches

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    Quote Originally Posted by CollegeTillIDie
    I know Martin he is a gent and genuine fan like most of us here.
    I won't bother getting a satellite dish cause they don't show Red Star Belgrade matches
    Serbian TV even as far as Slovenia has a horrendus quality. The reception is like 3rd quality.

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    Class.Most fans on here could relate to it...............

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    Yeah was posted on here before.. good though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Poor Student
    Serbian TV even as far as Slovenia has a horrendus quality. The reception is like 3rd quality.
    I know I had to watch RTS a few times while staying there. Waiting for Crvena Zvezda TV to start up

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    thats the type of thing that should be made into an ad to promote soccer in ireland. maybe could be done for the setanta cup next year and maybe get the guy who penned it to read it over shots of games and fans and stuff.
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    Thats a very good piece, the most hitting point is that
    supporting your local team is what makes real fans, as
    opposed to being a customer of a foreign team

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    That is absolutely ****ing brilliant. Should be printed in a newspaper, give armchair fans an idea of what its like to be a real fan
    We are the U the U the UCDD!!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by blutil
    thats the type of thing that should be made into an ad to promote soccer in ireland. maybe could be done for the setanta cup next year and maybe get the guy who penned it to read it over shots of games and fans and stuff.
    Beat me to it, almost like the "choose life" speech from trainspotting.
    Choose EL etc. could be really good campaign.
    Foot.ie's entire existence is predicated on the average idiot's inability to ignore other idiots

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    Great stuff, I'll be pointing it out to the many barstoolers I know!
    The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.
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    Quote Originally Posted by 1 9 2 8
    Found this on an Irish league forum
    Which Sligo fan are you on that forum??
    Extratime.ie

    Yo te quiero, mi querida. Sin tus besos, yo soy nada.

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    Quote Originally Posted by superfrank
    Which Sligo fan are you on that forum??
    What forum is it.There is 1928 on irishfootie.net
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    "Cause Galway are MASSIVE"-RW Rover on 24/8/07 00:29am

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    I saw it in the Irish League section on ukfootballforums.
    Extratime.ie

    Yo te quiero, mi querida. Sin tus besos, yo soy nada.

    Abri o portão de ouro, da maquina do tempo.

    Mi mamá me hizo guapo, listo y antimadridista.

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