Yes. Not only that but if you live in Fingal you will also be required to mosey along to Morton Sdadium at least twice a year. I wonder if the new bin charges of €110 pa include a season ticket?
Does anyone know how much Fingal Co Co are putting into the team? I read they are developing pitches etc in Donabate to the tune of €10m but I wonder how much if any is going towards the EL team?
"oh my, that was some beer we had last night, I think I feel like getting sick" Effin Eddie
Thanks for the welcome. I'm looking forward to my first season to support the Eircom League properly. It was after the influence of a Bohs fan that i got into the league. Originally i had agreed to become a Bohs fan until i heard of Sporting Fingal and decided to go with them as i live in Swords and wanted the task of supporting a team trying to make their way up through the leagues. Getting out of the A Championship was easy enough anyway hey?!
My choosing of this team means one of two things. The team can be a success and attract fans, or another Dublin club in the league is cutting into potential growth in previously existing teams' followers.
Here's looking forward to the new season!
After the great welcome, I welcome you to check out this small wikipedia article all about Fingal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingal
We spoke our own language until the mid 1800's when it became extinct. It was a mixture of old English and Old Norse with Gaelic influences. Fingal was originally named by the Vikings and was populated by a mix of Norsemen and Irish at the time.
There is an identity out there to be tapped and awakened. It isn't 250,000 as many of that number are migrants and new arrivals, but it's still pretty big.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sporting_fingal
You gotta love our history section!
You shall be called "Sheridan 2".
That question was less stupid, though you asked it in a profoundly stupid way.
Help me, Arthur Murphy, you're my only hope!
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UCD in the Amateur League Complex on Sunday 17th at 2pm.
Not only that, but I'm sure there's a quote in a book at home that gives ye a sound claim to be the oldest footballing area in the country, how 'bout that for a bit of history for our newest club?
It's from way back around the Tudor times IIRC and seems to be identifying Fingall (sic) as the only part of the country where football is played. I'll root it out but won't be able to put it up until tomorrow.
Last edited by stann; 07/02/2008 at 12:20 PM.
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who is their manger and do will they have a squad ready for the start of the season?
Now, something to add to the wikipedia entry for whoever is doing that, and a chance to lord it over Athlone or Bohs or whoever is claiming senority in Ireland these days, a line that I got from Eoghan Corry's excellent book of Irish soccer quotes.
It's from 1698, not Tudor times (short-term memory is shot to sh!t), but what harm, still the earliest domestic football reference I'm aware of, when a travelling gentleman called John Dunton writes of the Irish:
'They do not play often at football, only in a small territory called Fingal near Dublin where the people use it much, and trip and shoulder very handsomely'.
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