Very good....
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
Ya excellent agree with it 100%
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"Cause Galway are MASSIVE"-RW Rover on 24/8/07 00:29am
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.
Where..was it in a newspaper?Originally Posted by Bosco
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"Cause Galway are MASSIVE"-RW Rover on 24/8/07 00:29am
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
I know Martin he is a gent and genuine fan like most of us here.Originally Posted by Fortuna1886
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.Originally Posted by CollegeTillIDie
Class.Most fans on here could relate to it...............
Yeah was posted on here before.. good though.
I know I had to watch RTS a few times while staying there. Waiting for Crvena Zvezda TV to start upOriginally Posted by Poor Student
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.
of course, everything looks bad if you remember it.- Homer Simpson
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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
Larry Be Wyse
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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!!!!
Beat me to it, almost like the "choose life" speech from trainspotting.Originally Posted by blutil
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
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.
Muhammad Ali
Roy Keane is still a pri*k!
Which Sligo fan are you on that forum??Originally Posted by 1 9 2 8
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What forum is it.There is 1928 on irishfootie.netOriginally Posted by superfrank
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"Cause Galway are MASSIVE"-RW Rover on 24/8/07 00:29am
I saw it in the Irish League section on ukfootballforums.
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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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