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Overly passionate sports fans

  • 01-09-2013 03:35PM
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 954 ✭✭✭lahalane


    I know a lad who is really quiet and relaxed until Liverpool are playing, then he becomes a psychopath. Once he was at a house party after the nightclub and there was a United flag back at the house. He set it on fire in the sitting room as a 'joke'. He apologised to the owner of the flag when he was sober and offered to let him burn his Liverpool flag as payback??

    As stupid and crazy as these kind of fans are, they amuse me (as long as I hear about the story rather than witness it). What are some of the stupidest things you've seen sports nuts do?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,754 ✭✭✭oldyouth


    lahalane wrote: »
    What are some of the stupidest things you've seen sports nuts do?

    Follow Man United


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    I've never understood why they shout so much. Especially at television screens.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,652 ✭✭✭fasttalkerchat


    Had an argument in a bar with someone claiming to be a Celtic fan who justified racism against a black rangers player because he said playing for rangers was worse than being a racist and its only done to put a player off.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 241 ✭✭Ava_e


    Lamest thing I've seen, when in a bar an Ireland V England rugby match was on the big screen TV, O' Gara was going for a conversion kick and someone tried to shush everyone in the bar into silence (like they do in the actual stadium, so the kicker won't lose concentration). Goon.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    oldyouth wrote: »
    lahalane wrote: »
    What are some of the stupidest things you've seen sports nuts do?

    Follow Man United Liverpool

    Obvious error there has been corrected.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,428 ✭✭✭Talib Fiasco


    We were in the canteen at work one day during the summer on about transfers and general slagging each others clubs. One of the older lads, pure hard looking lad now starts to get a little heated when Liverpool were slagged. He proceeded to showing loads of tattoos with the crest and other stuff on him....very passionate like....that was fine we let him off. Then we resumed conversation and Liverpool were slagged again as well as every other club. By this stage the tattoo guy was nearly in tears and said he never respects or talks to United fans. He picked up his food and moved away. He was a complete helmet to work with too.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    lahalane wrote: »
    . What are some of the stupidest things you've seen sports nuts do?

    Pay extortionate amount of money to watch footballers play (usually in England etc), when the players themselves couldn't give a toss and would rather be at home riding the brothers wife.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 454 ✭✭Il Trap


    This pretty much sums it up.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 585 ✭✭✭Portlawslim


    Heard a story about a complete Liverpool nut, while watching a Man utd v Liverpool game a they were showing fergie on the telly he actually spat on his own telly…


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,753 ✭✭✭Vito Corleone


    Grown men crying over Ferguson's retirement. Pathetic.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,845 ✭✭✭timthumbni


    I used to be mad about football as a wean and then right up to early 20s. Then I started to realise that its actually quite a boring game to watch.

    I know many people who still go if in a huff if their team loses. I keep telling them to wise up as Rooney, Gerard, lampard etc will pick themselves up when they see the weekly 150 grand dumping into their bank so why should they worry.

    Its bad enough seeing petulant younger fans but when these huffers are in their late 20s, 30s etc then its a bit sad.

    What's even funnier is seeing shinner bot types getting worked up over their man love for their British side whilst otherwise slagging anything English or British.

    All in all football is just a game despite what some loser scouser manager said. Up Utd. Lol.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 940 ✭✭✭JamBur


    So much homoeroticisim...


  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,393 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    Grown men crying over Feguson's retirement. Pathetic.

    Nothing pathetic about tears of joy. :D

    As a Leeds fan it is my sworn duty to abhor all things Man U, although to be fair that just translates to a bit of banter with some of the lads in work, usually at my expense. However I have heard of one English Leeds fan who refuses to sit down at away matches if his seat is red, despite the fact that he could be at Middlesboro or Swindon. There's another who's a painter and he turns down any job where he's requested to paint something red. That's just ludicrous.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,845 ✭✭✭timthumbni


    Heard a story about a complete Liverpool nut, while watching a Man utd v Liverpool game a they were showing fergie on the telly he actually spat on his own telly…

    Lol. Have heard similar stories loads of times. Heard of supporters putting the boot straight through their own telly. Suspect this is normally whilst pished up in front of friends showing how uber they are.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,681 ✭✭✭✭P_1


    Once you don't take things too seriously there's no harm done. For example, Tottanham and Dublin happen to be currently playing Arsenal and Kerry respectively. Now were both teams to win it will make me smile but I'm very sure I won't be despondent were they to lose.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 454 ✭✭Il Trap


    timthumbni wrote: »

    Its bad enough seeing petulant younger fans but when these huffers are in their late 20s, 30s etc then its a bit sad.

    I remember driving down the main street of Dundalk on the afternoon that Man City won the Premier League. Outside a pub were a group of middle aged men all decked out in blue and white popping champagne bottles and dancing/celebrating in the street. Has to rank among the cringiest things I've ever witnessed.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭Muise...


    I love it when an overly passionate sports commentator goes off on a mad victory lap of a speech.





  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    These people use their chosen sports teams to compensate for the lack of meaning in other facets in their lives.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    These people use their chosen sports teams to compensate for the lack of meaning in other facets in their lives.

    Like picking your boards username based on a soap character sports team?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,754 ✭✭✭oldyouth


    Zaph wrote: »
    There's another who's a painter and he turns down any job where he's requested to paint something red. That's just ludicrous.

    I read his autobiography. He'll also paint white over anything red for free :P


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,252 ✭✭✭FTA69


    I never understood Irish people who actually cream themselves over English private limited companies in cities they have little connection with. I support Spurs, but to be fair I live in North London and if I'm going to invest myself in supporting a team I'll follow a local one. While I do get enjoyment from cheering them on and seeing them do well in the league, I certainly wouldn't p*ss myself with emotion over what is a money making exercise; especially one that I'm not strictly local to either.

    GAA, on the other hand, is a different matter. That is the embodiment of local sporting achievement. The players are unpaid amateurs who come together to represent the place of their birth with pride. The players themselves make huge personal sacrifice for often little reward and behind them is an army of club players, volunteers, coaches etc who all pitch in year in and year out to contribute to games that are a national treasure. The importance of the GAA to local communities cannot be overestimated, similarly it promotes comradeship and physical exercise as well as providing a vital outlet for the youth.

    There is no better feeling than following your club and county's progress throughout a championship, to sit with 80,000 other fans in a heaving Croke Park final, to see the best of the best from different parts of the country battle it out. When you see your county battle it's way to victory and lift the Sam Maguire cup for the first time in 20 years, it's impossible not to make an emotional investment in it. And to be honest, where's the harm in that?


  • Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I went to the pub last year for the Man U vs Liverpool game and I will never go again. I witnessed:

    - Lads calling each other 'Manc Scum' and 'Scouse W*nkers'. These are boys who grew up together in West Dublin.

    - Chanting in Mancunian and Scouse accents at the telly and at each other

    - A United fan decked out in that Green and Gold protest scarf against 'foreign' owners and his mates thinking he was a dedicated lad for doing so.

    - The coup de grace, though, was one fella squaring up to the ref (TV Screen in reality) and his mate holding him back going ''just leave it man''.

    Never again.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,019 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    Dylan Moran......

    But look at the people who use their potential — who do actually give it everything... The Beckhams or Roy Keanes of this world. People charging! Running up and down the field, swearing and shouting at each other. Are they happy? No! They're destroying themselves! Who's happy? You! The fat fúcks watching them, with a beer can balanced on your ninth belly, roaring advice at the best athletes in the world. "YOU WÁNKER!"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,987 ✭✭✭Legs.Eleven


    lahalane wrote: »
    I know a lad who is really quiet and relaxed until Liverpool are playing, then he becomes a psychopath. Once he was at a house party after the nightclub and there was a United flag back at the house. He set it on fire in the sitting room as a 'joke'. He apologised to the owner of the flag when he was sober and offered to let him burn his Liverpool flag as payback??

    As stupid and crazy as these kind of fans are, they amuse me (as long as I hear about the story rather than witness it). What are some of the stupidest things you've seen sports nuts do?

    Hahahaha!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    David Stubbs sums it up for me:

    "I feel that those who aren't fans of football, or some other sport, are genuinely missing out on a whole dimension of life's spectacle – the cathartic, masochistic, joyful experience of getting involved in and keyed up about something that really doesn't matter at all, yet churns you up and makes you scream and shout the way the truly important things in life fail to."

    That said I find it a bit strange when people get keyed up so much about a random team with zero geographical connection to them and often a team they've never even been to watch.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 447 ✭✭ONeill2013


    grown men training an under-8 girls gaelic football team and actually looking like they were enjoying it, that's my crazy experience.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    ONeill2013 wrote: »
    grown men training an under-8 girls gaelic football team and actually looking like they were enjoying it, that's my crazy experience.

    And you've taken the thread in an entirely different direction in 5..... 4..... 3.... 2.....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,075 ✭✭✭Wattle


    Zaph wrote: »
    Nothing pathetic about tears of joy. :D

    As a Leeds fan it is my sworn duty to abhor all things Man U, although to be fair that just translates to a bit of banter with some of the lads in work, usually at my expense. However I have heard of one English Leeds fan who refuses to sit down at away matches if his seat is red, despite the fact that he could be at Middlesboro or Swindon. There's another who's a painter and he turns down any job where he's requested to paint something red. That's just ludicrous.

    I wouldn't worry too much about Man U if I were you. Short of you guys getting taken over by a billionaire or drawing us in one of the cups were not going to be playing you anytime soon.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭demanufactured


    Never understood the appeal of it all...
    if I get asked "Who do you support lad?"
    I usually respond "Myself and my wife".

    Gob****es swooing over so called english football teams....then giving out about english people stealing our country blah blah blah


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 293 ✭✭GorillaRising


    anncoates wrote: »
    That said I find it a bit strange when people get keyed up so much about a random team with zero geographical connection to them and often a team they've never even been to watch.

    Well that's the thing - in most cases it's not just a random team.

    People grow up with members of their family watching/going to games of certain clubs. You get involved, emotionally invested - as silly as it sounds and you care. Simple as that.

    You could be talking about people who have followed a team for maybe 10 - 50 years of their lives.

    Also, what's geography got to do with it? It's like saying I don't watch Breaking Bad because it's set in another country. What connection do I have to New Mexico?

    As it happens I love Breaking Bad and I'd call someone a tool if they said it was rubbish having not even watched it. What I'm saying is, I'd defend as I would a player I liked for example.

    The 'geography' thing is not a good argument. People's emotions are farther reaching than borders. I think you'd be cheating yourself if you let that stand in your way for some reason or another.


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