Lara confusion as Indo predicts Bohs-Derry league 'final'

SectionF

The Indo, not renowned for its prioritising of domestic football over the TV game, has compared the sublime event that is a Bohs-Derry title decider to a tawdry awards ceremony featuring Hollywood has-been Lara Flynn Boyle. Or is that the other way round?
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XYZ123ABC

SectionF wrote:

The Indo, not renowned for its prioritising of domestic football over the TV game, has compared the sublime event that is a Bohs-Derry title decider to a tawdry awards ceremony featuring Hollywood has-been Lara Flynn Boyle. Or is that the other way round?
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How many forums have you posted this on??!! This is the third time I've read it!

And why on earth would the Indo prioritise domestic football when it's a joke?! The Indo isn't a state body, it's a business. Give me Barcelona, Milan or Arsenal ANY time.

Jackie laughlin

XYZ,
Clearly you like to watch football on TV but you are not a fan/supporter. The Eircom league is in the real world, the playing surfaces are sublime and superior to many in the English premier league, the standard of football is excellent (3 Cork City players stepped straight into Reading.) and best of all a supporter meets other supporters who know what they're talking about - a refreshing change from the common or garden, armchair/barstool football ignoramus.

XYZ123ABC

Jackie laughlin wrote:

Clearly you like to watch football on TV but you are not a fan/supporter.

Yep, love to watch great football on TV, but also manage to go to up to 20 live games a season, mainly in England, Spain and Italy. I think that makes me a supporter of great football, rather than a sad sheep who settles for local rubbish because it makes you feel like a patriot :rolleyes:

Jackie laughlin wrote:

The Eircom league is in the real world

God help us all if it is. Even Michael McDowell runs the Dept of Justice better than you lot run your league. It's a joke.

Jackie laughlin wrote:

the playing surfaces are sublime

They should be too, they're well fertilised with all that s**t on them every week.

Jackie laughlin wrote:

the standard of football is excellent

The old ones are the best. The standard is abysmal. Almost lost the will to live watching a few of your games on TV last season, I have never seen worse in all my life.

Jackie laughlin wrote:

3 Cork City players stepped straight into Reading

Yes, Kevin Doyle has done very well - does that prove the Eircom League is better than the Premiership? Shane Long is rarely in the Reading team, except when they have injuries, and as he proved on his debut against San Marino, when he was taken off, he has a long, long way to go. Alan Bennett has only arrived so you can hardly judge him yet, can you?

Jackie laughlin wrote:

and best of all a supporter meets other supporters who know what they're talking about

Are these the supporters who are so anti foreign football they refuse to watch any of it, so the only football they know is the Eircom League. Ah yes, they know their football alright.

Jackie laughlin wrote:

a refreshing change from the common or garden, armchair/barstool football ignoramus.

Ah honey, don’t be so bitter! Are you a Shelbourne fan? The Irish champions who are bankrupt and have been relegated? Yes, it’s a great little League alright. What ignoramuses us non-patriots are for settling for Arsenal, Barca and Milan!

Jackie laughlin

XYZ,
God forgive you! Me, a Shels fan! God no!

Italian and French teams have been relegated for much worse than Shels' mismanagement.

The point I'm making to you is that being a supporter runs deep, much deeper than any notion of patriotism. By the way, I don't know any supporter who doesn't also like to watch football on TV.

Do you not have a team which is intimately connected to you, whose winning or losing really matters to you, a team you watch week in, week out with a mixture of hope and dread? If not, you are missing something from your football.

SectionF

XYZ123ABC wrote:

ignoramuses

You said it.
You're hardly a typical football fan, jetting off to all points on the continental mainland in search of football that's up to your exacting standard.
Irish football is not as good as English football or Spanish football. You may have noticed that our space programme is not as well developed as that of the US or the Soviet Union. The one good advantage that live local football has over your globalised ideal is that it is here. That's got nothing to do with patriotism.
There is nothing wrong with watching English, Spanish or Italian football on television, but it is not the only way to experience the game.
By all means run for biggest carbon footprint on the planet so that you can gloat over where you've been so far away, but please try to pick up some original thinking on your travels. Your rabid objections to Irish football are tired and defensive.

Jackie laughlin

Read "Fever Pitch" re Arsenal or better still read "There's Only One Red Army" re Sligo Rovers. Either book might give insight into being a supporter.