QuoteMidland Athletic, who of course, weren't from the Midlands!
Looking though old programmes and books, the league in the past had the most baffling array of clubs with the stangest names. Some only lasted a season, while others were in the league for years. Can anyone shed light on the following fallen flags of the LOI - any historical tidbits or if any of these clus are still here today in junior or other form:
Fordsons
Jacobs
Transport
Shelbourne United
Dublin United
Dublin Reds
Cork Alberts
Midland Athletic
Bray Unknowns
Olympia (this one really intrigues me)
Drumcondra
Cork Bohemians
Evergreen United
Dolphin
Last edited by Boh_So_Good; 25/11/2007 at 12:17 PM. Reason: forgot some clubs
Midland Athletic, who of course, weren't from the Midlands!
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There was a Midland Athletic playing in the Dublin AUL until recently AFAIK
Fordsons are part of the endless saga of Cork clubs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fordsons_F.C. When Ford dumped the association they became Cork FC and later Cork United with that lineage eventually dying out in 1948.
Cork Alberts played a couple of seasons in the late 70's and eventually turned into a second reincarnation of Cork United finally dying in 1982.
Drumcondra still exist, if only to provide Bertie with an excuse never to go to LoI games ....
Actually, they really do still exist and their history is here
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I've never heard of that team!
Originally Posted by Boh_So_Good
BTW anyone here involved with this ?
it's an all time LoI league table - the top is a bit galling....
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not very good, teams dont change names, they go bust, and a new club is formed, limerick 37 are a year old and are 9th in the table, they have never played top flight football, it should be done properly but it would take days to gather the required info, good idea though,
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Exactly - and the Shamrock Rovers that exists now has no connection with the club that won things, right? which means we're the bestest....
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Truth hurts, huh?
And the inept clowns who now run Bohs have WHAT connection to the people who ran the club properly in the past???
Something on Wikipedia in being inaccurate rubbish shockerExactly - and the Shamrock Rovers that exists now has no connection with the club that won things, right? which means we're the bestest....
Same company, same articles of association, same ground, 87 years unbroken membership of the league...... and I'm sure there were other inept clowns in previous generations too, but our structure has at least saved us from losing our ground (until we surrendered it voluntarily), going bankrupt, relegation* .......
*actually I don't think our structure had anything to do wit hsaving us from relegation, i just threw that in...
Last edited by sonofstan; 24/11/2007 at 8:42 PM.
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Same ground???
It used to be an excellent stadium. Now it's a derelict car park. Well done.
More than you can say
Kilcoyne wasn't a Rovers man or a Rovers fan - he was a selfish, scheming, thieving crook. What's your excuse???
Hmmm... maybe it's the same.
Time will tell.
Life without Rovers, it makes no sense...it's a heartache...nothing but a fools game. S.R.F.C.
I was in one of those houses in Glenmalure Square. Very nice they are too.
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All of this has happened before. All of it will happen again.
Wow .... being slagged about your ground by a Rovers fan is a bit like being awarded a penalty against a one-legged keeper in a goal that stretches from one corner flag to another......
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sonofstan
People would still have the capacity to miss that penalty kick
Transport merged with another club some years ago to become Transport Ceannt. That club played UCD back in the 1990's in the Leinster Senior Cup. Transport used Harold's Cross Greyhound Stadium and the Carlisle Grounds as it's home venues when it was in the League of Ireland. They won the FAI Cup back in 1950 I think and Johnny Giles' uncle was their manager.
Bray Unknowns went bust in 1943 as far as I know and Bray Wanderers were formed in their place.
Last edited by CollegeTillIDie; 25/11/2007 at 7:51 AM.
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