Ok name a football journo thats better(apart from humphries)!! I read fanning the whole time and i find he always does his research and is an astute follower of the game, some of his articles have been phenomenal, a real investigative journalist. he is never one to make a statement willy nilly..The only reason i can think of your apparent dislike is that u are a liverpool fan...then ur resentment would be justified...To say the only reason he is in a job is because of nepotism is pure ******xxx, andi s such a cop out. if your so adamant on his incompetency as a journalist i dare you to quote any of his work that justify this!Originally Posted by NeilMcD
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This is just a plain untruth. In section E I was singing for the whole match; "Stephen Stauntons Green & White Army" alone for example, for about 15 mins & I was not booing. There were NOT people arond me singing. The boo boys were NOT singing for "nearly the whole match". Please do not make completely false statements to back up your argument. You guys make me sick.
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"I always likened him to a Rolls Royce. You just used him once a week & he'd be flawless"
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I was in section E and although i booed at the end, myself and people around me were chanting a fair bit, as someone pointed out were fans not cheerleaders, would ya ever go and put on ur leprachaun suit and do a foockin jig and get off your morale highground...
I have to be honest and admit that I began to heckle Stan and John O'shea(just dont rate him) after about 30 mins a) through drink taken and b) through the fact that I could honestly sense what was to come.
At half-time i'd seen enough and left, thats my choice to make as I felt my presence wasn't supporting the team.
I'm glad I wasn't there at the final whistle as I'm not a big fan of the 'Boo boys'.
I didn't boo, I never would, but that's my choice.
It was a heartbreaking performance true and I hope I never witness anything like it again.
Could we try and keep this thread on-topic? I am sure there are other threads that have this type of content.
Cheers.
Just cause someone decides not to boo them does not make them a leprachaun suit wearing fan. We all have different ways of supporting our team and when we are winning its easy to be a fan but when we are losing it is another story and we all adop different methods to getting our frustration out. Some cheer, some boo, some go quiet some leave the ground some get more drink in etc. I chose a mixture of cheering for most of the game and also hurling out some abuse to the players towards the end but I still cheered in the most surreal way ever when Ireland scored the winner. There is no correct way of supporting your team other than going to the games.
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come of it, fanning is a joke
doubt he is a real football fan, bet he really is into rugby like all the other fannyings in that rag of a paper
A Liverpool I dont think so. Anyway I heard him the other day and he sounded like hie was bias towards Liverpool on Newstalk so I dont know who he supports and I dont care as it has nothilng to do with my opinion of him.
I dont like him because the article he printed the other week is typical of the type of stuff he does. He writes an article with no quotes or any evidence saying that senior players are going to retire if Staunon quits but he has not evidence to support this. Pure **** stirring on his part. Secondly he did similar stuff during the end of the Kerr reign also. He does not analyse the game but just spouts nonsense about behind the scenes bitchiness amongst teh players.
His view on the Irish team is of someone who only watches the Premiership on his laptop or somesort and he does not show that he has a love or a decent knowledge of the game.
James Lawton
James Richardson
Graham Hunter
Gerry Thornley
Emmet Malone
Tom Humprhries
Liam Mackey
are all good journalists in my opinion.
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Im not having a go at people who didnt boo, im defending people that did...people were upset by that performance... I must say I enjoy fanning articles on a Sunday and am also a big fan of humphries....
Malone is decent enough
Not a huge fan of lawton
Ger thornley is the times chief rugby correspondant
Richardson writes maily about serie a
Gerry Thornley certainly was a huge football fan. He used to go and watch UCD a lot before becoming rugby corr for the IT.
Thornley was the Eircom League correspondent for the Irish Times previously and he is a quality journalist. Richardson writes about SerieA but that does not make him a bad journalist. What all of them have in common is that they are not prone to hyperbole and do not start stories based purely on rumour, something that Fanning does time and time again. He is not better than Hyland in the Herald.Im not having a go at people who didnt boo, im defending people that did...people were upset by that performance... I must say I enjoy fanning articles on a Sunday and am also a big fan of humphries....
Malone is decent enough
Not a huge fan of lawton
Ger thornley is the times chief rugby correspondant
Richardson writes maily about serie a
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Get on ur bike will ya!!!
that should read not much better than Hyland in the Herald.
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Had, I might just do a jig, I won't be gettin off the moral high ground though, sure it's people like you that have put me here. Youes need to get up here & join me. Actually no I've got a better idea; don't come to anymore matches.
"I always likened him to a Rolls Royce. You just used him once a week & he'd be flawless"
Townsend on McGrath
No dont think so ill be at the rest of the matches no matter what.....
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