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Guys who support Man Utd, Munster and Fianna Fail...

  • 09-12-2008 02:28PM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 284 ✭✭


    do these sort of people annoy you? these gloryhunting, bandwagon types. I have to admit i've a couple of friends like this - One of them is from Galway all his life and supports Munster :eek: Annoys the hell out of me - when did it become so unfashionable to support your local team or root for the little guy?!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,086 ✭✭✭irishvamp90


    well joyce i was kinda making a similar point in my thread about the niall mellon charity.its very annoying.my dad loves rugby but munster rugby is a social/drinking thing now


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    In at least two out of the three of those, it can't possibly impact on you so who cares who they support?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,759 ✭✭✭✭dlofnep


    Don't worry.. Soon enough, they will be supporting Brazil, New Zealand and Fine Gael.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 284 ✭✭Joyce Country


    In at least two out of the three of those, it can't possibly impact on you so who cares who they support?

    it's just annoying because i honestly feel these people look down at you if you support connacht rugby or your local eircom league team/west ham/celtic/ whoever outside big 4 teams ..... as for the politics - i swear they vote for whoever they feel will get into government, not on their own beliefs or candidates quality. It's just something i've noticed thats becoming very prevalent in irish culture - a fear of standing out from the crowd as such - rant over :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 761 ✭✭✭grahamo


    There will always be bandwagon jumping gobsh***s! Every successful team has them and truth be told the real fans find them cringeworthy!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    To support United is too easy. It's convenience supporting. It makes life too easy. There is no challenge. It is a cowardly form of escapism, a sell-out to the forces of evil.

    Paul Morley
    November 1998


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,384 ✭✭✭Highsider


    Dont all Man U's fans live in London?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,260 ✭✭✭jdivision


    Depends on when you started supporting them. Most liverpool fans for example are bandwagon jumpers because they started supporting them in their glory years.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,477 ✭✭✭✭Raze_them_all


    would ya not be more annoyed with the sudden surge in Chelski supporters since Abramovich??


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,159 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    All aboard the Man. City bandwagon! Choo choo!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭Pighead


    Watch all these fcukers jump on the Chicken bandwagon now. " Sure I never really liked beef or pork anyway" they'll say. Nothing worse than a bandwagon.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    all the rags must be still in school no bites on this thread at all:)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,179 ✭✭✭FunkZ


    Xavi6 wrote: »
    All aboard the Man. City bandwagon! Choo choo!

    That train goes up and down, but it never reaches its destination. It's like being stuck in limbo.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,836 ✭✭✭S.I.R


    do these sort of people annoy you? these gloryhunting, bandwagon types. I have to admit i've a couple of friends like this - One of them is from Galway all his life and supports Munster :eek: Annoys the hell out of me - when did it become so unfashionable to support your local team or root for the little guy?!

    im a born and bread liverpool fan ( since around 6 years old, after the glory days ;) ) and jesus it wreaks my head, ive good mates who root for new zealand when the rugby world cup is on, ferarri when the f1 is on etc...


    either tryign to have a safe bet or look like sheep :rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,003 ✭✭✭ratinakeg


    Does anyone remember when Blackburn won the league, there was loads of idiots jumping on their bandwagon and now you don't see any of these moron's around, probably jumped ship to another bandwagon team like Newcastle or Sunderland. I hate Sunderland fans supporting them because of Roy Keane, what will they do now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,159 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    ratinakeg wrote: »
    Does anyone remember when Blackburn won the league, there was loads of idiots jumping on their bandwagon and now you don't see any of these moron's around, probably jumped ship to another bandwagon team like Newcastle or Sunderland. I hate Sunderland fans supporting them because of Roy Keane, what will they do now.

    Put back on their Celtic jerseys?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,836 ✭✭✭S.I.R


    ratinakeg wrote: »
    Does anyone remember when Blackburn won the league, there was loads of idiots jumping on their bandwagon and now you don't see any of these moron's around, probably jumped ship to another bandwagon team like Newcastle or Sunderland. I hate Sunderland fans supporting them because of Roy Keane, what will they do now.

    ive a sunderland jersey from the mc the w*nker mc cartey days...


    We aint all sheep ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2 cortoonman


    joyce, i think i know who you are. you claim you want people to support local teams etc etc.

    how many galway united games did you go to this season? admittedly io only went to the final home match of season but still 1 is better than none.

    i also think you're the same guy who wouldnt go see the galway senior football final (with one of your closest friends playing) because it cost too much to get in. 10 euro was not too much surely. but your main reason was that you were too hungover.


    not one connacht match this season, you've been at.

    pot kettle black........i think


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 831 ✭✭✭rotinaj


    What if your a Republican who was born in Manchester and now live in Cork?

    Is it ok to support all 3 then?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 106 ✭✭AvrilLavigne


    S.I.R wrote: »
    im a born and bread liverpool fan ( since around 6 years old, after the glory days ;) ) and jesus it wreaks my head, ive good mates who root for new zealand when the rugby world cup is on, ferarri when the f1 is on etc...


    either tryign to have a safe bet or look like sheep :rolleyes:

    People support teams that they like and enjoy watching, and guess what these teams are often the best because they are play well and are good to watch.
    ratinakeg wrote: »
    Does anyone remember when Blackburn won the league, there was loads of idiots jumping on their bandwagon and now you don't see any of these moron's around, probably jumped ship to another bandwagon team like Newcastle or Sunderland. I hate Sunderland fans supporting them because of Roy Keane, what will they do now.

    Again, supporting Sunderland because Roy Keane is there is a valid reason to support Sunderland. People like what appeals to them and what they are into at the moment. Big f##king deal if you support Newcastle one season and Sunderland the next.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 12,719 ✭✭✭✭fullstop


    S.I.R wrote: »
    im a born and bread liverpool fan ( since around 6 years old, after the glory days ;) ) and jesus it wreaks my head, ive good mates who root for new zealand when the rugby world cup is on, ferarri when the f1 is on etc...


    either tryign to have a safe bet or look like sheep :rolleyes:

    You were born and bread in Liverpool? (or bred perhaps?)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,778 ✭✭✭tallaght01


    S.I.R wrote: »
    ive a sunderland jersey from the mc the w*nker mc cartey days...


    We aint all sheep ;)

    Mick was a legend!!!!

    I was a season ticket holder for Sunderland for the last few years before I went to Oz (way before Keane came on the scene). Was a fan since I lived there in the 90s.

    But suddenly Roy is the manager, and all these boggers would be on the plane over ever week. Big Cork heads on them. They'd be distraught on the way home if we lost, like they'd been fans all their lives.

    I'll be really interested if they're still all going to games when I'm back home next year.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,207 ✭✭✭meditraitor


    S.I.R wrote: »
    , ferarri when the f1 is on etc...

    :

    These fuckers arre worse than united supporters, what a shower of ******* ***** ***** *****

    Go on Hamilton, World Champion


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 153 ✭✭Wacko


    S.I.R wrote: »
    ive a sunderland jersey from the mc the w*nker mc cartey days...


    We aint all sheep ;)

    Had one of those myself got it back when they were selling them off for a fiver in the sports shops, I have burned it since. Anyway in short, Irish people like being part of the winning team, being the popular one and being able to slag other people because they didn´t win anything, we have a craving to latch onto any bandwagon going.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 491 ✭✭deleriumtremens


    do these sort of people annoy you?

    Yes


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 106 ✭✭AvrilLavigne


    tallaght01 wrote: »
    Mick was a legend!!!!

    I was a season ticket holder for Sunderland for the last few years before I went to Oz (way before Keane came on the scene). Was a fan since I lived there in the 90s.

    But suddenly Roy is the manager, and all these boggers would be on the plane over ever week. Big Cork heads on them. They'd be distraught on the way home if we lost, like they'd been fans all their lives.

    I'll be really interested if they're still all going to games when I'm back home next year.

    Congratulations on being such a great Sunderland fan. I really mean it. But why moan about new fans who became interested in the club because of Roy Keane being manager? Something has to spark a persons interest. So what if they no longer support them now that Keane is gone? Such is life, people move on, do new things, god forbid, support a new club. Supporting a new football isn't like raising kids, it's not a life long commitment, it's just a bit of fun for most, whilst it may a religion for a few.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,159 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    Again, supporting Sunderland because Roy Keane is there is a valid reason to support Sunderland. People like what appeals to them and what they are into at the moment. Big f##king deal if you support Newcastle one season and Sunderland the next.

    You're right it is a big deal


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 160 ✭✭04KY


    Big f##king deal if you support Newcastle one season and Sunderland the next.

    Em, well, then they aren't supporters.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 153 ✭✭Wacko


    People support teams that they like and enjoy watching, and guess what these teams are often the best because they are play well and are good to watch.



    Again, supporting Sunderland because Roy Keane is there is a valid reason to support Sunderland. People like what appeals to them and what they are into at the moment. Big f##king deal if you support Newcastle one season and Sunderland the next.

    I don´t think you can really refer to people like that as supporters, they would be more spectators with a slight bias.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,255 ✭✭✭getz


    Highsider wrote: »
    Dont all Man U's fans live in London?
    thats not true i am manu fan i was born 4 miles from old trafford , most fans are from manchester but a lot of fans come over from ireland, by plane ,also if you go on the ferry at week end its packed with mu fans-united have always had a big irish connection-


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