We were driving through Ballyboefy on the way home from Derry and we let a few Pats fans cross the road,they had a good stare and then we nodded
We were driving through Ballyboefy on the way home from Derry and we let a few Pats fans cross the road,they had a good stare and then we nodded
RIP JOHNNY
The SFAI are the governing body for grassroots football in Ireland, not the FAI. Its success or the lack of is all down to them.
Thinking about it whenever im abroad i always seem to meet fellow el fans, and always end up having the craic with them. Cant say it happens that much at home though!
Més Que Un Club - More than a Club
I was in Quinns in Drumcondra there on Thursday night, the 'county colours' night, and saw a guy wearing a Shelbourne top. I would have acknowledged him if I was wearing my Derry top but I forgot to wear it. Better to acknowlegde a Shels fan than someone wearing a Liverpool/Man U top etc. Mind you, the vast majority in Quinns were wearing GAA tops.
Robbie Hedderman. Arguably the greatest Derry City player of all time...
In light of the death of Sonic I think that we should all make more of an effort to acknowledge each other. The love of this struggling sport binds us all together in a unique way and I know I will make every effort to say hello to any el fans I see from now on.
I agree. There are too few of us on this planet to ignore one another. Forza LOI!
jaysus dcfcsteve! I dont think so. U could see him straining to check the crest on the jacket!
There was a coupla Harps fans floating around Mary I back in my undergrad days (I appreciate that somebody will get a kick out of the potential to quote 'coupla Harps fans floating around Mary', I've just done it, let it go.) One of them was a girl that I vaguely remember being cute but it could just have been the shirt that did it for me too.
I've seen a few Cork City shirts there too. There is usually a nod alright. Had a chat with a Cork fan on the bus one day but that's going back a few years now too.
And there was this guy who used to come into the shop I work in wearing a Dublin City baseball cap. I asked him was he a fan one day. "Oh yeah for years and years," he assured me with a cheesy grin. "Back in the Home Farm days and all so?" I enquired. He looked blankly at me. When I told him that Dublin City were a pretty new proposition in that form he blushed and decided that it was mostly the Gah he was into. He spun more Walter Mitty style yarns at other times but that first one remains my favourite.![]()
The ball is round and has many surprises.
Being acknoledged by other el fans is not always a good thing. When we did our last exam in Maynooth the faculty all came out to have a drink with us, and I was talking to the professor of experimental physics when a passing Bohs fan shouted 'Go on you Finn Harps Bast**d!' (or something to that effect) for no apparent reason, especially given the fact that I wasn't wearing any colours. I had no idea what to say next, but the prof just looked amused and asked whether that happened to me often.
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