"We molested football tonight"

**lofty9** · 03/05/2007, 3:05 PM

Originally Posted by LeviathanNI

ffs the Munster Senior Cup is equivilent to our Co Antrim Shield.. or the 'Bin Lid' as we affectionately know it.. Are you sure you aren't a Derry City supporter?

Leave us out of it. I was enjoying all these rantings from Cork without having to comment.

BTW anyone know the official attendance for the game that this thread is about?

**Peadar** · 03/05/2007, 3:09 PM

Originally Posted by lofty9

BTW anyone know the official attendance for the game that this thread is about?

Less than half as many people as watched us beat you 2-0 in Turners Cross to lift the title.
The biggest club in Ireland were resting their 12th Man for the final.

**GavinZac** · 03/05/2007, 3:15 PM

Originally Posted by passerrby

the best team won...

because that always happens in sport, right?

**Steve Bruce** · 03/05/2007, 3:18 PM

Easy Easy Easy Easy

**razor** · 03/05/2007, 3:19 PM

Peadar, Gav, please desist with the inflammatory comments, there are some fans here trying to love each other
Obviously we cannot partake because nobody likes us.

Boo Hoo

**lofty9** · 03/05/2007, 3:20 PM

Originally Posted by Peadar

Less than half as many people as watched us beat you 2-0 in Turners Cross to lift the title.
The biggest club in Ireland were resting their 12th Man for the final.

Just had a look at their official site match report:

http://www.linfieldfc.com/matchreport.asp?mid=420

Aidan O�Kane stepped up in the 85th minute to give the Blues the lead and to send 2500 Linfield supporters wild. Mulgrew crossed from the right, Devine flapped at it, Gamble (Setanta's MOTM !!) fluffed it, and O�Kane stole the ball off his toe to blast the ball home from four yards on the left.

For a semi final? Shocking.

**passerrby** · 03/05/2007, 3:22 PM

it does if you are gracious loser

**Cosmo** · 03/05/2007, 3:24 PM

Originally Posted by Peadar

Less than half as many people as watched us beat you 2-0 in Turners Cross to lift the title.
The biggest club in Ireland were resting their 12th Man for the final.

And 147 of them from the so called 'best supported team in the EL'

**Steve Bruce** · 03/05/2007, 3:26 PM

Originally Posted by lofty9

Just had a look at their official site match report:

http://www.linfieldfc.com/matchreport.asp?mid=420

Aidan O�Kane stepped up in the 85th minute to give the Blues the lead and to send 2500 Linfield supporters wild. Mulgrew crossed from the right, Devine flapped at it, Gamble (Setanta's MOTM !!) fluffed it, and O�Kane stole the ball off his toe to blast the ball home from four yards on the left.

For a semi final? Shocking.

Do you not find that number to be very suspect?

Considering there was officially 2647 attendance, 147 where Cork fans. So the media/Linfield are telling us Linfield had exactly 2500 fans in the ground.

Incidently there was probably around 3500 bluemen. Although not fantastic, by any stretch of the imagination, but Linfield has had many big games lately and this match wasn't close to our biggest.

But to be honest 50,000 or 200 the fact of the matter is Linfield are through

**Steve Bruce** · 03/05/2007, 3:27 PM

Originally Posted by Cosmo

And 147 of them from the so called 'best supported team in the EL'

Now don't be giving them any facts that would quash there myths

**Jerry The Saint** · 03/05/2007, 3:33 PM

Lads, this is all getting very petty, everyone needs to get back to the football and turn on Setanta tonight to watch the two best football teams on the island. At least that's something that everyone can agree on.

**lofty9** · 03/05/2007, 3:45 PM

Originally Posted by Steve Bruce

Do you not find that number to be very suspect?

I wasn't at the game. The official attendance could be seen by some observers then as a ruse from Linfield to decrease VAT on gate receipts and therefore defraud the Queen's estate. tut tut

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**R�iteoir** · 03/05/2007, 4:22 PM

Originally Posted by lofty9

I wasn't at the game. The official attendance could be seen by some observers then as a ruse from Linfield to decrease VAT on gate receipts and therefore defraud the Queen's estate. tut tut

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The so-called "biscuit tin" theory...

**BleusAvantTout** · 03/05/2007, 4:29 PM

After the final whistle, only 3 Cork players stayed on the pitch to shake hands with our players and to acknowledge their 147 fans!! I'll quote what I said on ILF & let foot.ie users decide about Cork City!!!

Originally Posted by Bleus avant tout

Disgraceful behaviour by the majority of their players, not shaking hands and not acknowledging their fans who sang their hearts out in the North Stand!!

A massive :embarasse for most of the players. Your fans had to sit for 12+ hours in a bus to get to Windsor and back. You neglected them big time!!! :embarasse

Evidently "bucket bake the gurn" was more interested in girning to the media than being a sportsman!

**LeviathanNI** · 03/05/2007, 6:14 PM

And..according to the tax man, we reguarly get 2-3000 at games

**AnnaghRed** · 03/05/2007, 6:42 PM

Originally Posted by Steve Bruce

So the media/Linfield are telling us Linfield had exactly 2500 fans in the ground.

2500? That would mean the South [3000] & Kop [4000] stands were only round a third full.

I'd be surprised, but given previous IL attendances in this competition, maybe not.

You'd have to wonder how long some of these Cork boys have been following football.

Any experienced fan knows that sometimes you dominate games but still end up on the losing side, thems the breaks.

Given some of the opinions expressed about the IL on here you'd wonder why the galacticos in the south deign to play us. It must really stick in their craw that the best of our bad bunch continue to put manners on them where it matters most, on the pitch.

**BleusAvantTout** · 03/05/2007, 7:44 PM

Originally Posted by AnnaghRed

Given some of the opinions expressed about the IL on here you'd wonder why the galacticos in the south deign to play us. It must really stick in their craw that the best of our bad bunch continue to put manners on them where it matters most, on the pitch.

Preach it, brother, preach it!!!

**GavinZac** · 04/05/2007, 12:02 AM

Originally Posted by AnnaghRed

You'd have to wonder how long some of these Cork boys have been following football.
Any experienced fan knows that sometimes you dominate games but still end up on the losing side, thems the breaks.

Of course we know that

its just this "winning ugly" line thats being trotted out is entirely inappropriate for a game when for 85 minutes of the match you were outclassed on the pitch apart from one stupid **** up by the best player on the pitch, and out sung, as cosmo so helpfully points out, by 147 fans off it. Winning ugly is grinding out results in the face of pressure or adversity; what happened monday night was the football equivalent of finding a tenner down the back of a sofa.

Cosmo, just how many people did you expect to travel in fantastic weather around exam time for 22 hours to see a secondary cup football game on a monday, after 2 changes of plan? All four or five thousand that were in the ground tonight for the important match this week?

It wasn't long ago 147 would be a decent attendance at a cobh v drogheda game

**BleusAvantTout** · 04/05/2007, 6:49 AM

This "secondary football game on a Monday" is worth at least 80,000 Euro to the winners of the semi-final, possibly 150,000 Euro!

There is no club on this island that would turn down this dinero, if it had the chance to win it!

**Peadar** · 04/05/2007, 8:45 AM

Linfield lads on here, telling each other how great they are, as they assemble in a circle, for a bit of mutual back slapping, only backed up by drogs, who are desperate to secure a ground sharing deal, for when drog park is shut down. If it wasn't so contrived, it might actually be funny!