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Redknapp gesture to Shamrock Rovers fans

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  • #62
    stovelid
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    AGC wrote: »
    Normally your 'fans' running towards the east stand.

    The curry chips are good that side, admittedly.


  • #63
    tommyhaas
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    rarnes1 wrote: »
    Never get the tri-colour thing myself. Celtic fans are always at it too.

    Lol at those two chants :pac:

    Always annoys me how as a country who have historically emigrated, people are so quick to dismiss the good Celtic did for for those immigrants in Scotland. There's a massive connection between Celtic and Ireland, and in an age where so many clubs care little about tradition or the fans, that this connection has been maintained


  • #64
    newballsplease
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    Sham fans chanting 'you should be in jail'? Ironic


    LOI Shame


  • #65
    stovelid
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    Trilla wrote: »
    Why is it funny? Why does it matter? Do you think these people are morons, hypocrites or insane?

    I just find it silly and amusing but I'm not really nationalistic. I can see why people wouldn't like to see the name of a foreign club across an Irish flag though.


  • #66
    PARKHEAD67
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,399 ✭✭✭PARKHEAD67


    newballsplease wrote: »
    Sham fans chanting 'you should be in jail'? Ironic


    LOI Shame
    Shamrock Rovers fans are the best in LOI IMO.


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  • #67
    Cameron Poe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 217 ✭✭Cameron Poe


    stovelid wrote: »
    I just find it silly and amusing but I'm not really nationalistic. I can see why people wouldn't like to see the name of a foreign club across an Irish flag though.


    Consumers of the Tottenham brand want to associate it with their nationality. Like people waving Irish flags at Glastonbury.

    Consumers of the Rovers brand feel superior because they are Irish, even though some of the players are not and probably have absolutely no loyalty towards the club. It's like someone saying If you were not born in Ringo you have no right to support Rovers anyways.

    The whole thing is silly really.


  • #68
    stovelid
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    Cameron Poe wrote: »
    Consumers of the Tottenham brand want to associate it with their nationality. .

    The Hibernian target demographic, as it were.


  • #69
    Cameron Poe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 217 ✭✭Cameron Poe


    stovelid wrote: »
    The Hibernian target demographic, as it were.

    I agree but that goes for both sets of fans. Singing chants taken from the english league and managing to adopt an english accent while doing it.


  • #70
    stovelid
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    Cameron Poe wrote: »
    and managing to adopt an english accent

    Never noticed that myself. Certainly sounded Irish accented to me. A lot of global soccer songs originate in England obviously although it's the tunes not the words that are reused.

    As somebody that stands in the singing stand at Rovers, I can assure you that a lot of the song are not from England.


  • #71
    Cameron Poe
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    I've been to a few LOI games and the chanting most definitely has an English twang to it if you compare it to any Dublin games.

    I just think it's funny when LOI fans get on their high horse about not supporting English clubs yet they are quite happily aping English football culture.


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  • #72
    _blank_
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    Cameron Poe wrote: »
    a few LOI games

    how many, and where.


  • #73
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    Cameron Poe wrote: »
    I've been to a few LOI games and the chanting most definitely has an English twang to it if you compare it to any Dublin games.

    I just think it's funny when LOI fans get on their high horse about not supporting English clubs yet they are quite happily aping English football culture.

    Really they should chant in Irish so as to completely distance themselves form all things English :)


  • #74
    Cameron Poe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 217 ✭✭Cameron Poe


    I was regularly taken to UCD games as a kid but I don't have much recollection of them. More recently I have gone to games in Dalymount as I have a few mates that are big Bohs fans. Haven't gone in a few years as most of them have emigrated. I was in Dalymount for the Everton game a few months ago though.

    In fairness it's irrelevant how many games I've been to. You only need to go to one to see that it's heavily influenced by English football culture.


  • #75
    stovelid
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    Cameron Poe wrote: »
    if you compare it to any Dublin games.
    .

    I see.


  • #76
    Cameron Poe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 217 ✭✭Cameron Poe


    rarnes1 wrote: »
    Really they should chant in Irish so as to completely distance themselves form all things English :)

    Not at all. I have no problem with it to be honest but I don't think slagging off anyone who supports an EPL club makes much sense when you are essentially consuming a product heavily influenced by the English game.


  • #77
    WindmillWarrior
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    Cameron Poe wrote: »
    You only need to go to one to see that it's heavily influenced by English football culture.

    As are fans of many different clubs in many different leagues. You'll also see plenty of Ultra culture on the terraces in the LOI. A lot of LOI fans do try to bring something different to the match experience. Ireland in many respects is heavily influenced by England, so I don't really think its all that ironic tbh


  • #78
    Cameron Poe
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    stovelid wrote: »
    I see.

    I go to two or three Dublin games every year. I also go to a few Leinster games. I try get to as many internationals in football and rugby as I can.

    I don't think I'm biased.


  • #79
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Cameron Poe wrote: »
    I go to two or three Dublin games every year..

    Don't they all...


  • #80
    uch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,021 ✭✭✭uch


    Anyways, Harry's fisting was a non-incident, I'd love to know who is moaning about it, as I thought it was a bit of craic.

    21/25



  • #81
    [Deleted User]
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    uch wrote: »
    Anyways, Harry's fisting was a non-incident, I'd love to know who is moaning about it, as I thought it was a bit of craic.

    Go Harry


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  • #82
    ricero
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    CSF wrote: »
    Thugs? They're football fans singing songs at football matches. You should try it sometime.

    i have no vocal chords :(


  • #83
    FlawedGenius
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    He was hurt by people shouting his sons a ****e pundit.


  • #84
    noodler
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    Delighted to hear it wasn't anti-English ranting or religious ranting which is what I initially feared when I read the reports on Sky and BBC.

    Actually is kind of funny.

    Anyway a 0-4 drubbing with his 2nd team should have been all the response he required but who cares about a fist clench if thats all it was.


  • #85
    dfx-
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    uch wrote: »
    Anyways, Harry's fisting was a non-incident, I'd love to know who is moaning about it, as I thought it was a bit of craic.

    No fan in the ground complained about it I heard..it was the UEFA delegate/press that mentioned it


  • #86
    monkey9
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    FlawedGenius wrote: »
    He was hurt by people shouting his sons a ****e pundit.

    Ah but come on! It was a top top chant!!!


  • #87
    monkey9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,337 ✭✭✭✭monkey9


    This was never an issue! It was a story made up by the press and the press alone. They were the only ones interested in this!

    These are the stories that make me chuckle about the press. They print something that they think is a bad influence on kids and bad coverage for the game itself. Yet, incidents like this would go unnoticed unless the press reported it.

    So therefore, this only comes to light when the media report it so therefore it's them influencing the very people the claim to protect!


  • #88
    Blatter
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    How on earth did this make it to 3 pages:pac:

    A total non issue.


  • #89
    losthorizon
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    newballsplease wrote: »
    Sham fans chanting 'you should be in jail'? Ironic


    LOI Shame


    Someones been "reading" too many tabloid newspapers. That's like a headline from the Sun.


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