My teams are City ,Celtic and UTD, in that order.As a football fan you develop a favourite team in any league you become familiar with.Barca and Juve would be "my teams" in their respective leagues.If City play any of the above, its a nobrainer, City everytime.When Celtic play UTD in the Champions league, I'm in the green corner.When its Manchester V Liverpool, I'm with the champions.However, despite getting immense enjoyment from watching these games on tv, NOTHING comes close to being in Turners Cross with the shed in full voice.Celebrating a goal by your local team, in your local ground is real .
This is what is wrong with irish football "fans" http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=6h7KHtyI-5c at 1:21,lad rolls up a drogs jersey to reveal a liverpool tattoo on Norwegen telly.
Lets suppose for a second there was a rapid vienna fan interviewed on the irish news who rolls up his jersey to reveal a Bayern Munich tattoo.
Would you be a little confused? I would.
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The lad was in Norway supporting the Drogs,obviously he also supports a foreign team, in this case Liverpool, personally, I don't see a problem.Originally Posted by Charles Bronson
I dont follow an english team myself
but yeah fair play to him for going to follow his local side.
i dont see a problem with people supporting foreign teams so long as they support their own aswell. it was a little bit cringe worthy though.
You can change between a Drogs and Liverpool jersey if you want. You can't just 'change' a tattoo. A tattoo generally symbolises an undying love for something. In this case, it says to me that this guy loves Liverpool more than Drogheda.
It doesn't look like a real tattoo anyways, perhaps a seven year old drew it on with markers. Was it just me or did it sound like they were singing "We're on drugs"?
would be if Drogs were to face Liverpool in Europe.In Scandinavia its common to see locals cheering for British teams, in opposition to their local sides, weird , but true.I can't get my hear around that, but I'm 100% sure the same scene would be replicated in Ireland.
I can imagine your average Norwegian Joe sitting at home watching that and after seeing that fool reveal his tattoo, heavily scratching his head and reaching for an atlas just to check what countries Drogheda and Liverpool are and having it confirmed feeling very, very confused.
Remember Bertie the great ( he won loads of money at the races) is he not a Manure fan I mean you could not make this stuff up infacta.
Norway actually has a bigger liverpool support there than ireland does.
i was standing behind Ged (tatoo) when this interview was done and if memory serves he has a drogheda united crest on other arm. he goes to every game home and away and leads all songs and chants at matches, this despite the fact he was brought up a liverpool fan. when drogs play lfc in the champions league some day it will be a no brainer for him.
so i dont think that clip sums it up. what sums up how pathetic some people are is when in drogheda the day of the kiev game over there you go to a pub and ask them to turn on the game and they ask what game? then it gets worse when muppets complain and ask "is there nothing on sky?"
slaggin a fan in norway for not being a good fan is kinda riduclous
Obviously, by the fact he traveled to norway, hes a good drogs fan, i wasn't disputing that, its just the whole Liverpool tattoo thing reeks of minnowism, suggesting that following an Irish club isn't enough, you have to support a "real" team too.
So you have 5 teams??Do you have a social life at all??My teams are City ,Celtic and UTD, in that order.As a football fan you develop a favourite team in any league you become familiar with.Barca and Juve would be "my teams" in their respective leagues.If City play any of the above, its a nobrainer, City everytime.When Celtic play UTD in the Champions league, I'm in the green corner.When its Manchester V Liverpool, I'm with the champions.However, despite getting immense enjoyment from watching these games on tv, NOTHING comes close to being in Turners Cross with the shed in full voice.Celebrating a goal by your local team, in your local ground is real .
For the most part, people dont have that kinda money to be throwing around not to be mention 'investing' in an LOI club where the chances of a return of pretty much nil. Mind you thats not saying that any of the investors in the Liverpool scheme will get a return either.
The clubs in Ireland need to develop a sustainable structure and the wages that were paid to a number of players by Cork were unrealistic and not feasible considering the income the club generates. Thats not to say that the club can not be run as a professional set up.
Sustainable structures coupled with improved facilites and relative success in Europe are key to the league developing.
Some Shamrock Rovers fans did just that in 2005.
6,300 divided by 100 multiplied by 4?
The Rovers equivalent...
I like high energy football. A little bit rock and roll. Many finishes instead of waiting for the perfect one.
Without denying your experience at all -mine has been the exact opposite. There is for sure a clique, most likely instinctively right wing white van driving types, who don't like "outsiders" at "their club" -but they tend not to like anyone who doesn't look like, talk like, think like them or live on their road anyway.
As someone who supports Limerick AND Leeds United my experience has been that Leeds people genuinely love the fact that Irish people, Dutch, Scandinavians ...trek over in numbers to see Leeds play. Not just these days when the club is in the third division either. ...And if it was the other way 'round we'd be the same. My only experience of such a phenomenon is an English couple I met with no Irish connections at all who regularily travel to Limerick to watch Munster at Thomond Park ...they have a genuinely stronger connection than I have to a team who play across the road from my house -and good luck to them.
On the specific issue of Liverpool/ shareliverpool ...yeah it's regretable from an LOI perspective. Especially when a club like Liverpool, in the league they're in with the profile they enjoy, will have a far more diverse range of opportunities and options for revenue raising than an Irish club would.
" I wish to God that someone would be able to block out the voices in my head for five minutes, the voices that scream, over and over again: "Why do they come to me to die?"
Well said. A fella travelling Europe to support his LOI side just isn't enough for some people in here.
I think I should the parachute, because I'm great.
In fact, I think I should get both parachutes, in case one doesn't work.
Agreed. Ged is a Drogs legend.
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