15 Damned Good Reasons Why GAA Is Better Than Soccer

biko

I love lists

1) The GAA player who played in front of 80,000 at the weekend will be teaching your children, selling you meat or fixing your drains on Monday morning. The soccer player who plays in front of 80,000 will be moaning about playing too many games and will be trying to sell you his personalised brand of leisure wear

2) GAA nicknames are better. Soccer players just add a Y to their surnames

3) Dublin vs Meath is a real derby. What does Utd. Vs City mean to Ronaldo or Sibierski?

4) How many soccer players does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Answer eleven. One to stick it in and ten to surround and kiss him after he does it

5) Soccer players go to the papers after a game. GAA players go to the pub

6) John Terry would run a mile if he came up against Francie Bellew

7) GAA teams are numbered 1-15. A soccer team reads like the lottery results

8) All soccer players wear shin pads. Some hurlers wear helmets

9) Television runs soccer. Schoolteachers run the GAA

10) The GAA is about where you're from. Soccer is about who you like

11) No segregation at GAA games

12) No soccer team has a nickname quite as lovely as the Fighting Cocks of Carlow

13) Bubble perms never made it to Croke Park

14) A scoreless draw in the GAA would be quite a novelty

15) Roman Abramovich can buy the League. You can't buy Sam!!

Ruffty^

Well there was talk of bringing in a rule in soccer, you must have 6 english lads (or whatever league you are on about) on the field at all times. If that gets through, some of your reasons would b addressed. The top soccer teams around have the best players from all over the world. GAA has the best players from like 3.9million people => the top soccer players would be more skilled because they are the best out of billions of people that play soccer, so they get away with being stupid pretty boys. My verdict; don`t waste your time comparing...

dSTAR

biko,

Un-believeable!

Makes me proud to be Irish any day!!

blackbelt

Don't want to disrespect soccer,I like it.

However my passion for GAA has outgrown my passion for soccer.

In soccer these guys get way more money and don't know what to do with it.

Roy Keane receives 100,000 a week.Thats more than the majority of normal people earn in a year.

In soccer,if a player is tapped he rolls around the groung clutching his foot or knee.In GAA it takes a broken leg or a v dangerous tackle/collision for that to happen.

I feel the atmosphere before a gaelic match is a bit better than a soccer match but maybe I should go to more matches at Lansdowne to compare it fairly.

In GAA,the players give everything they have for no monetary rewards and get injured and risk being out of their normal occupation.In soccer if a player gets injured they are payed to stay at home.

On another note,I would like to ask people this.....Should the GAA look after players who are injured so bad they can't work?

Just say Colm Cooper broke his neck or his leg while playing for Kerry,the GAA should have a scheme (insurance) where an injured player gets benefits/money paid to him while he's out of work.

dSTAR

blackbelt wrote:

On another note,I would like to ask people this.....Should the GAA look after players who are injured so bad they can't work?

Just say Colm Cooper broke his neck or his leg while playing for Kerry,the GAA should have a scheme (insurance) where an injured player gets benefits/money paid to him while he's out of work.

Good point!

I think that GAA players SHOULD get more than adulation for what they contribute to the country and not just if they become injured.

Lemlin

On another note,I would like to ask people this.....Should the GAA look after players who are injured so bad they can't work?

Perhaps start a new thread on it to keep this one on topic.

Vince135792003

I love both. The only problem I have if is that a fair few GAA supporters seemed to define their love for football and hurling by slagging off soccer and its capitalistic tendencies. Every sport has its good and bad points. Some more than other but what every sport has is moments of drama, skill, excitement that mean somthing and that will live in your memory eg. Mulligans goal against the Dubs or Canavans against Kerry or Maradonnas goal against England in 86 or hell even Henry's goal during the week. I guess my point is sit back and enjoy it for what it is and leave all the petty my sport is better than your sport stuff for primary school kids.

Lemlin

Vince135792003 wrote:

I love both. The only problem I have if is that a fair few GAA supporters seemed to define their love for football and hurling by slagging off soccer and its capitalistic tendencies. Every sport has its good and bad points. Some more than other but what every sport has is moments of drama, skill, excitement that mean somthing and that will live in your memory eg. Mulligans goal against the Dubs or Canavans against Kerry or Maradonnas goal against England in 86 or hell even Henry's goal during the week. I guess my point is sit back and enjoy it for what it is and leave all the petty my sport is better than your sport stuff for primary school kids.

I love both sports but prefer GAA by far. I'll never forget the look on the face of an English lad I was working with when I told him that GAA players aren't paid, he couldn't believe it.

Hagar

Good man Biko. Nice post.

Waylander

Actually I think it is a ridiculous post. As a fan of both sports I can never see why some GAA fans think it is traiterous to be a soccer fan also. The ban is gone get over yourself. Also, I am pretty sure John Terry would never run a mile from Francie Bellew. If you are going to make a list, try to at least make it factually correct.

Lemlin

Waylander wrote:

Actually I think it is a ridiculous post. As a fan of both sports I can never see why some GAA fans think it is traiterous to be a soccer fan also. The ban is gone get over yourself. Also, I am pretty sure John Terry would never run a mile from Francie Bellew. If you are going to make a list, try to at least make it factually correct.

Think you're going a bit OTT there. The post is meant to be funny and is tongue-in-cheek.

kaimera

Waylander wrote:

Actually I think it is a ridiculous post. As a fan of both sports I can never see why some GAA fans think it is traiterous to be a soccer fan also. The ban is gone get over yourself. Also, I am pretty sure John Terry would never run a mile from Francie Bellew. If you are going to make a list, try to at least make it factually correct.

O_o

if it was two different sports would you have the same reaction? > not trying to provoke anything, just i took it as a pisstake and nothing more

Waylander

Sorry guys, I just do not think it is funny. Also that mentallity still exists so it is possible the op was not being funny, alot of people do still think like that.

Lemlin

Waylander wrote:

Sorry guys, I just do not think it is funny. Also that mentallity still exists so it is possible the op was not being funny, alot of people do still think like that.

But maybe its just better to presume he was and avoid conflict

Hagar

It was an amusing post IMHO. Enjoy it, stop looking for darkness.
There's enough of it in the world without twisting fun into phobia.

Yavvy

I love finnish motor cross... but thay would all run from francie bellew espcially in a john deer

Dave!

biko wrote:

8) All soccer players wear shin pads. Some hurlers wear helmets

14) A scoreless draw in the GAA would be quite a novelty

15) Roman Abramovich can buy the League. You can't buy Sam!!

My favourites Good job

FX Meister

Maybe it's time GAA players started getting some money for what they do like soccer players instead of other people making money off their backs.

seano

biko wrote:

I love lists


12) No soccer team has a nickname quite as lovely as the Fighting Cocks of Carlow

Just a small comment ."The Fighting Cocks" is not a nickname but a placename in the parish of Rathoe.They do however live up to their name.Situated on crossroads on the Carlow - Wexford road.You only have to guess where the name originates from

FX Meister

They used to meet at the crossroads and fight each other using only their cocks?

homerjay2005

most top counties and indeed clubs DO have proper insurance schemes to cover players for serious injuries and even some players(depending on their policy) would be covered by their work insurance if they got a serious injury. at the start of every year, it should be up to players to spend a few minutes sussing out policies to insure that they are properly covered, my own club at home brought in an insurance lad to discuss this with us at the start of the year


and there was a list like this a few years ago except it contained 100 reasons why the gaa was better. i suspect this list was taken from it and edited to include modern stars......2 reason i remember from the list were

1-1 to aherlow, no score to nenagh, effin eddie, pure quality
fitzgeralds stadium,sun blazing, ground full, kerry v cork, munster final, there is no better sight in irish sport