Overly passionate sports fans

greenflash · 03-09-2013 03:25AM

ColeTrain wrote: »

Get your facts right before talking ****e dink*

*whatever the hell that means

Dink was the pejorative term for the Vietnamese used by US soldiers before they switched to calling the gooks.

Festy · 03-09-2013 03:27AM

ColeTrain wrote: »

If someone wants to have Celtic as their "second team" then that's their business.

You really shouldn't let it bother you.

It doesn't.

I just find it very hypocritical that more than likely 90% of the time their No1 club will be an EPL side.

Also respect to the people in Ireland who just actually out and out support Celtic.

ColeTrain · 03-09-2013 03:27AM

greenflash wrote: »

Dink was the pejorative term for the Vietnamese used by US soldiers before they switched to calling the gooks.

I guess there must be a lot of Vietnamese in Ireland with "**** the huns" on the back of their Celtic jerseys..

ColeTrain · 03-09-2013 03:31AM

Festy wrote: »

It doesn't.

I just find it very hypocritical that more than likely 90% of the time their No1 club will be an EPL side.

Also respect to the people in Ireland who just actually out and out support Celtic.

I agree with you.

I'd be a Celtic supporter myself. Anytime anyone asks me who I support I tell them Celtic and the reply is usually 'yeah but who's your other team'.

Ireland is EPL daft so it's understandable but a bit bizarre how they automatically assume that you have two teams..

Festy · 03-09-2013 03:33AM

ColeTrain wrote: »

I agree with you.

I'd be a Celtic supporter myself. Anytime anyone asks me who I support I tell them Celtic and the reply is usually 'yeah but who's your other team'.

Ireland is EPL daft so it's understandable but a bit bizarre how they automatically assume that you have two teams..

Hon Mayo

Your 2nd fav team

ColeTrain · 03-09-2013 03:37AM

Festy wrote: »

Hon Mayo

Your 2nd fav team

Nah, Mayo will always be my number one! Two different games though tbf

Have you got a ticket? Castlebar will be in meltdown if we can pull it off.

Festy · 03-09-2013 03:38AM

ColeTrain wrote: »

Nah, Mayo will always be my number one! Two different games though tbf

Have you got a ticket? Castlebar will be in meltdown if we can pull it off.

Not a big GAA fan tbh

Duffy the Vampire Slayer · 03-09-2013 04:13AM

Henlars67 wrote: »

I find that people generally support a club, not a player and they don't start supporting a different club when an Irish player they like signs for them.

Unlike Koreans, who support whatever team Park Ji-Sung's with at the moment. I'd say QPR are loving the money they're making from jerseys here. They have the same attitude towards baseball, LA Dodgers signed two Koreans and now everyone is wearing Dodgers caps.

osarusan · 03-09-2013 04:29AM

Festy wrote: »

I just find it very hypocritical that more than likely 90% of the time their No1 club will be an EPL side.

Also respect to the people in Ireland who just actually out and out support Celtic.

Why be critical of Irish people that support an EPL team but praise those who support a SPL team?

Galwayguy35 · 03-09-2013 04:33AM

MJ23 wrote: »

"us" and "we" from lads who have never even been to the country that their beloved team are from.
Idiot lemmings.

Yeah and also when they use the "us and "we" terms when the team they support win a match, you'd swear they were playing with the team on the pitch.

I work with a fella who supports Man U and he comes into work everyday wearing the cap and jacket with the logo on them all he talks about is soccer and bitches on FB about the other teams when he gets home.

Personally I would watch the GAA matches when Galway is playing and always go to the matches when the local hurling club is playing but have zero interest in soccer.

Hammer Archer · 03-09-2013 05:41AM

Programme on a while ago about mad football fans in England. There was a couple on it who were massive Spurs fans. Neither of them would wear or buy anything red as it's Arsenal's colours. Not even ketchup or Coca Cola. The woman ran a beauty salon and wouldn't stock anything red (lipstick and nail polish included). They wouldn't even talk to anyone who was an Arsenal fan.

Now I'm a massive fan of sports but that was just a new level of crazy.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 03-09-2013 06:04AM

Il Trap wrote: »

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.

You'd wonder were they wearing the blue 15 years ago when Man City were slumming it in the 3rd tier.

They probably were Blackburn Rovers supporters at the time getting ready to jump ship to Leeds. A fierce number over here supported Blackburn from the time they won the league in 94/95 to their relegation in 98/99. Most had even moved on before they went down.

anncoates · 03-09-2013 08:58AM

Wompa1 wrote: »

The older I get the more I see how professional sports are just a product. Man Utd is Coca Cola and Liverpool is Pepsi. I wouldn't get upset if a friend of mine thought Pepsi was nicer.

I have seen Man U fans bad mouthing Rooney all summer for getting upset about not being the top man.

I have also seen Arsenal fans calling Robin Van Persie a mercenary. It's so stupid. These guys are employees of a company. Why should they have a loyalty to a club?

It's mad going to a pub in Galway and hearing a crowd of Irish chanting UNITED in that English accent U-NY-EH!

And the Irish with the Celtic jerseys who have something like "F**k the Huns" on the back. You're supporting a British club. If you are so anti-british, wear a feckin' Irish clubs jersey. Ya dink

Those teams no matter how huge represent a minute amount of the football clubs in the world.

People can have any level of community based football experience - amateur; semi professional or professional -specific to their locale if they wanted.to.

It's pretty Irish to assume football starts and finishes with 3 or 4 of the biggest clubs in the world.

Festy · 03-09-2013 09:05AM

osarusan wrote: »

Why be critical of Irish people that support an EPL team but praise those who support a SPL team?

I'm critical of those who have Celtic as their 2nd favourite team.The type of people that put their Celtic jerseys on when they're playing Rangers or a big game in Europe.

zl1whqvjs75cdy · 03-09-2013 09:12AM

A friend of a friend was a die hard Celtic supporter. He would regularly come into college in a full Celtic shell tracksuit with the jersey underneath. His bebo (jesus I feel old) was a shrine to the hunger strikers and to all things republican. His dislikes included Rangers and the Gardai. He would only drink Tennants. I never watched a Celtic game with him as I would fear for my personal safety if they lost but by all accounts he'd spend 90 minutes screaming at the televison. My jesus he was some nut job.

Balmed Out · 03-09-2013 09:12AM

It is amusing Ill never forget the civil war like emotions and everyone with such strong opinions over the Saipan debacle with who was right Roy Keane or Mick McCarthy. The two lads behaving like a pair of toddlers and the entire country blind to it.

WesternZulu · 03-09-2013 09:21AM

I am a big sports fan and grew up feeling like I HAD to support and English team and becasue everyone else was supporting Man United at the time I jumped on that bandwaggon.

I used to have loads of their jerseys, Cantona at the back and all, but I remember as a young lad when the won the Champions League in 1999 in the most dramatic of cirumstaces that I felt nothing...there was no sense of overridding joy.

Being too young to realise that something more was afoot I thought that United were the problem so I went about finding another team to support.
How would a young Irish guy decide on who next to support you might ask?
Well what better way that to choose my new team than to pick the team with the nicest jersey in the league at the time and off I went to throw my weight behind Spurs, buying the jersey and all to confirm my allegiance.

A few years passed and while still being hugely passionate about soccer I just couldn't feel much for spurs and eventually just dropped the charade and gave up supporting an English team.
I realised that you don't HAVE to support and English team.

I still watch the EPL at any given opportunity and will watch match of the day every weekend without fail but I don't support anyone, I do have a soft spot for one or two of the teams (Spurs and Arsenal, go figure :pac:).

To be honest if I am in an Irish pub and watching a game and see grown men shouting abuse at eachother for being 'Manc's' or 'Scousers' I find it incredibly cringy.

I love soccer and try to go to a few Ireland games every year and do follow Mayo as well. The emotion I feel to them far outweighs any that I could feel for a team that I don't have any connection to.

I'll admit to shedding a tear when Robbie Keane scored against Germany in 2002 and if Mayo win the All-Ireland I'll be a ball of emotion and don't honestly think that I'll able to hold back the tears!

You can wrap it up all you want but you can't really feel that sense of connection if you're not from the place.

Balmed Out · 03-09-2013 09:26AM

WesternZulu wrote: »

You can wrap it up all you want but you can't really feel that sense of connection if you're not from the place.

But plenty do. I have an Everton fan who was in floods of tears when Liverpool last won the champions league. Personally in the EPL I kind of follow Liverpool but far prefer to see Cork City doing well.

SEPT 23 1989 · 03-09-2013 09:27AM

Well i wont wear anything red, i would never own a red car and you wont see a red wall painted in my house

Hoop66 · 03-09-2013 09:29AM

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Well i wont wear anything red, i would never own a red car and you wont see a red wall painted in my house

So you're "good with colours"?

WesternZulu · 03-09-2013 09:29AM

Balmed Out wrote: »

But plenty do. I have an Everton fan who was in floods of tears when Liverpool last won the champions league.

That's just sad to be honest on more than one level.

GorillaRising · 03-09-2013 09:36AM

WesternZulu wrote: »

You can wrap it up all you want but you can't really feel that sense of connection if you're not from the place.

Plenty do though. Millions in fact.

You can't tell people what they do/don't or can/can't feel.

dublinbhoy88 · 03-09-2013 09:40AM

Festy wrote: »

Ah Celtic,every Irishmans 2nd favourite team :rolleyes:

First for many,can't understand Irish people who support English teams then stick two fingers up at the English national team,weird

dublinbhoy88 · 03-09-2013 09:43AM

osarusan wrote: »

Why be critical of Irish people that support an EPL team but praise those who support a SPL team?

because Celtic are an 'Irish' club in Scotland,like an alternative international Irish team

Festy · 03-09-2013 09:45AM

dublinbhoy88 wrote: »

First for many,can't understand Irish people who support English teams then stick two fingers up at the English national team,weird

Same goes for the village idiot down the local shouting tiocfaidh ar la all while wearing a utd jersey :rolleyes: :pac:

WesternZulu · 03-09-2013 09:45AM

GorillaRising wrote: »

Plenty do though. Millions in fact.

You can't tell people what they do/don't or can/can't feel.

Plenty do, but I can't understand it.

I could jump from supporting Blackburn, to Arsenal, to Chelsea, to United, to City, back to United depending on who's winning if I am that way inclined and get fully emotionally attached to that club for the short time that I suppport them.

And why not, I have as much connection to Manchester United and Chelsea as I do to some obscure team like Shakhter Karagandy (the Kazakhstan team that Celtic played last week).

GorillaRising · 03-09-2013 09:52AM

WesternZulu wrote: »

Plenty do, but I can't understand it.

I could jump from supporting Blackburn, to Arsenal, to Chelsea, to United, to City, back to United depending on who's winning if I am that way inclined and get fully emotionally attached to that club for the short time that I suppport them.

And why not, I have as much connection to Manchester United and Chelsea as I do to some obscure team like Shakhter Karagandy (the Kazakhstan team that Celtic played last week).

That's fair enough, but just because you don't feel that way, doesn't mean others must feel the same.

Robbo · 03-09-2013 10:00AM

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.

Isn't there a sports journalist currently awaiting trial for that?

Wompa1 wrote: »

It's mad going to a pub in Galway and hearing a crowd of Irish chanting UNITED in that English accent U-NY-EH!

You should pop into Massimo when there's a Chelsea match on. Shortly after hey hit the oil money, Massimos copped that there'd be a new found following and set up a supporters club to drink there and watch the matches. Fair enough you might say, take advantage of a new market. They then printed up sheets of "suggested chants" for the newly incorporated fans to recant at the television. Watching grown men in pristine polyester reading tracts professing their love of Frank Lampard at a television because a publican suggested they do so, that's some shameful ****.

hardCopy · 03-09-2013 10:02AM

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

Unlike Koreans, who support whatever team Park Ji-Sung's with at the moment. I'd say QPR are loving the money they're making from jerseys here. They have the same attitude towards baseball, LA Dodgers signed two Koreans and now everyone is wearing Dodgers caps.

I bet there will be a whole lot of Racing Metro jerseys being worn around the rugby schools of Leinster this season.

anncoates · 03-09-2013 10:09AM

JoseJones wrote: »

Local clubs and clubs which people have some connection to I would sort of put in the same category as GAA.

Not sort of about it. The GAA don't have a patent on community and voluntarism. There's thousands of people supporting - and volunteering for - lots of other sports clubs - at all levels - all over the country.

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