While I do wish that we could eradicate the odd bit of trouble at games this article is a complete joke. Hooliganism? I think not. And how exactly will Gardai pretend to be 13 year olds??
Ironically, the Sunday Business Post doesn't have a sports section but it regurally carries informative article about the League of Ireland from a business point of view. In recent times, it has looked at the foundation of Sporting Fingal, Bohemians' deal with property developers, the cash crisis at Cork City, a profile of Nick Leeson/Galway United and the rise and fall of Shelbourne.Originally Posted by Guitd
Last edited by Paddyfield; 02/03/2008 at 8:38 PM.
Have you seen some the new recruits? They will have to make them look older so that they can look 13.
Unbelievable. Over a dozen pages of sport and not one paragraph about our own league. The FAI should ban them from press confs until they get their act together.
Together with all our hearts.
The News of the World article was complete tripe. There might be a few problems in the league but using a picture of english thugs in an LOI article suggesting they are similar is pathetic. I would hope the LOI complained to the NOW & threaten withdraw acreditation for Internationals.
The problem with the EL for the Irish sports editors is that they cant copy and paste the articles from English papers like they can with their English football coverage so it means they would actually have to do some work themselves for it to happen
NOTW is owned by Sky , their policy seems to hype up the premiership and run down everytyhing else they don't have the TV rights too. Shocking article BTW expect the herald to have follow ups this week.
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Indeed, I expect the Heralds headline to start with SRFC Ultras in link with...
The Sindo had a half page written by Sean Ryan and a couple of snippets.
There was a small piece in todays Star urging the people who head across the water see Arsenal/ManU etc. to go to their local LOI game on the Friday before they head off, "you might be pleasantly surprised" it finished.
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Reading this reminds me of this song.
Words are very appropriate for the crap they print here.
Last edited by pete; 03/03/2008 at 8:34 PM.
So if you think Bohs are big read this. http://www.astronomy.ie/perpespective.html
You'd think, but it's unlikely. There's no money to be made by going after the NOTW, not like the league's own clubs. Unfortunately for the league, you can't fine a newspaper.
ONE CITY, ONE TEAM.
No such excuse for the Sunday Turbine. They are able to produce pages and pages of copy on irrelevencies like GAA club competition and schools rugby yet cannot come up with a paragragh on the LOI.
Like I said, the FAI should ban em from press confs until they get their act together.
Together with all our hearts.
Every cloud and all that - surely this promised increase in attendances can only improve the league's standing. Live games will look better on TV with less empty spaces thanks to the preponderance of undercover Gardai in hoodies and baseball caps. This is excellent news.
And one of the incidents happend in Derry, so are the Gardai patrolling in the North now??
New revamped Sports section in the Sunday Times today.
Almost Zero mention of the Eircom League and football in general greatly reduced. You can see last night's results if you borrow a microscope. No league tables, nothing on the European draws or the Bohs match. However we are in good company as the premiership is getting Virtually ignored now too.
The only mention of Irish football is a dreadful error strewn article about the Shamrock Rovers XI v Brazil game in 1973. It must set some sort of record for the most mistakes ever in a newspaper article.
Why don't you spell 'em out here? It'd be interesting to see them.
Too much tokenistic good 'ol days nonsense coverage in Irish football. Gives them the excuse not to cover the game properly now.
I don't know enough to spot the errors you speak of, but I know I'm blue in the face reading about a sham Ireland team and Brazil and having my kids marvel at the hairstyles.
Agree about the lack of EL coverage, though no change there whatsoever. Premiership not being ignored, it's just it's the middle of the break, the European Championships are over and it was a big weekend in other sports; Wimbledon's singles finals, British GP, All-Ireland matches, and Olympics buildup.
don't have it to hand and didn't look them up but a few others looks wrong.
The ones I know from reading it
It wasn't the first All Ireland team in 60 years as the IFA kept picking southern players until 1950. Even allowing for that the FAI only split from the IFA 52 years earlier.
There were also 2 All Ireland v England games in Dublin in 1955 and 1956 as part of the An Tostal celebration.
Paddy Mulligan won 50 caps not 10 - huge difference. surely anybody that knows anything about Irish football would know he got a lot more than 10 caps.
Chelsea did not win the 1971 UEFA Cup. there wasn't one. they won the ECWC.
Chelsea did not win the 1972 League Cup. they lost to Stoke in the final.
Pat Jennings did not win the UEFA Cup with Arsenal - they never won it. I'm pretty sur ehe was retired before the 1987 League Cup too and certainly he didn't play in the final.
Louis Kilcoyne actually organised the Brazil game.
The Derek Dougan one is a common mistake too. He failed to play in any of Northern Ireland's 5 games before the Brazil game and was a few months shy of his 36th birthday when the game was played. If Harry Cavan was the real reason he stopped playing for Northern Ireland (he certainly believed that) it was more likely due to an alleged incident on the plane home from a 1-0 defeat in Cyprus (his last game) involving himself and Cavan. However it may just be that he was dropped.
I also forgot to mention that the article claimed Terry Conroy played for Limerick which is simply not true.
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