Do you acknowledge other EL fans?

**LeixlipRed** · 28/03/2008, 12:32 AM

She's hardly attractive. Though saying that neither is the average shels fan

though there is the odd hotty

**DmanDmythDledge** · 28/03/2008, 12:54 AM

Originally Posted by Poor Student

He said "Are you an Eircom League man?", ...

He made it sound like he was talking about some form of life that wasn't human...

**brendy_éire** · 30/03/2008, 4:29 AM

Originally Posted by Paddyfield

Always.

I stopped at a bus stop in Salthill to pick up a bunch of Derry City fans [one is BrendyEire, who posts here] and gave them a lift to match.

Cheers for that, Paddy.
Would always give a wee nod to any passing eL fan. Would do the same about Belfast for most IL fans also (bar Linfield, who always give me the stare of death).

Great passing eL fans wearing their tops abroad, even in random places like the Sligo fan Utrecht or the Pats fan in Lodz in Poland.

**Magicme** · 30/03/2008, 4:10 PM

Was in Jervis Shopping Centre on Friday and my 2 boys and myself were all wearing our Monaghan United coats. The boys were going down the escalator in front of me and a guy on the escalator going the opposite direction kept looking back tryin to read the crest on the jacket. He must not have been an eL fan or he would have recognised the Mons straight off!

**thischarmingman** · 30/03/2008, 4:12 PM

Originally Posted by Magicme

Was in Jervis Shopping Centre on Friday and my 2 boys and myself were all wearing our Monaghan United coats. The boys were going down the escalator in front of me and a guy on the escalator going the opposite direction kept looking back tryin to read the crest on the jacket. He must not have been an eL fan or he would have recognised the Mons straight off!

On a similar note, does anyone else try to scan the badges on people's coats as they walk past, looking for an EL one?

Or attempt to check if that scarf the guy in front is wearing is for example, a Liverpool or a St. Pats scarf?

**Raheny Red** · 30/03/2008, 4:45 PM

Originally Posted by Magicme

Was in Jervis Shopping Centre on Friday and my 2 boys and myself were all wearing our Monaghan United coats. The boys were going down the escalator in front of me and a guy on the escalator going the opposite direction kept looking back tryin to read the crest on the jacket. He must not have been an eL fan or he would have recognised the Mons straight off!

You can just say he was staying at your tits you know, crest? - yeah right.

**pineapple stu** · 30/03/2008, 6:21 PM

Bus driver started talking to me today, asking about the Rovers result last night. Was confused when he was unhappy Rovers had won (obviously was expecting my own reaction), but then he said he was a Pat's fan, at which stage I remembered I had my UCD jersey on. Always enjoy incidents like that.

**KevB76** · 30/03/2008, 6:34 PM

Originally Posted by thischarmingman

On a similar note, does anyone else try to scan the badges on people's coats as they walk past, looking for an EL one?

Or attempt to check if that scarf the guy in front is wearing is for example, a Liverpool or a St. Pats scarf?

Yeah, me too

Dont see many of them around here though, but always nice to see the occasional Limerick jersey, coat, hat etc...

**Raheny Red** · 30/03/2008, 9:21 PM

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Always enjoy incidents like that.

Not when it's a taxi driver.......

**pineapple stu** · 30/03/2008, 9:24 PM

A Pat's fan taxi driver? No such thing exists, sure.

**Magicme** · 30/03/2008, 10:01 PM

Yes thischarmingman I do. No Raheny Red as it was my son he was staring at. And finally Yes Pineapple Stu it happens a lot.

**Paraic** · 31/03/2008, 12:34 PM

was walking out of the showgrounds after the bohs match a couple of weeks ago (in admittedly no colours and with laptop for the web updates) and caught the eyes of a couple of bohs fans waiting for the bus.

"howaye lads, good result tonight", to which they responded,

'fookin' journo's..!

**Réiteoir** · 31/03/2008, 12:43 PM

this is going back a few years - but I was finishing up some stuff in Worcester City Centre here in England.

Couldn't be arsed to walk home - so I hopped on a bus, wearing a Bohs jersey and jacket.

Minding my own business when, at the next stop, a lass gets on wearing - of all things - a Pats jersey (the red one with the hoops on the sleeves and the Autoglass sponsorship).

Had a brief chat about the eL and the season and such as we travelled up through town - reached my stop about 15 minutes later.

(Apparently - her whole family were St Pats fans living in Worcester - although to this day I've not seen another eL jersey about the City)

**thischarmingman** · 31/03/2008, 6:12 PM

I passed a guy wearing a St. Pats coat jacket just a couple if hours ago, close to the Guinness brewery. With this thread in mind was just about to accost him about Friday night when some local kids, looking to him to adjudicate in an argument, asked him "Who won Wrestlemania last night?"

I decided to leave it.

**KianD** · 01/04/2008, 5:43 PM

Passed a Longford jacket wearer on Sth. Great Georges Street today but as I was for once entirely colourless (would usually have a Harps jacket on but was going for an interview), would have been ever so slightly weird to 'acknowledge' him...

**exiled_gufc_fan** · 01/04/2008, 10:03 PM

I've seen the occasional jersey in various parts of London, and even in more smaller places such Bournemouth and Colchester!

And yes, nods are usually exchanged.

**Erstwhile Bóz** · 02/04/2008, 12:37 PM

Amongst these people that keep getting nodded at there's one bloke with a little Legion of Mary badge on his jersey. It gives him heart that the Faith is still so strong amongst the young people that they salute him on the street.