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Every Arsehole in Ireland Tonight...

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  • #32
    realdanbreen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,312 ✭✭✭realdanbreen


    ClovenHoof wrote: »
    Is looking for Leicester on a map of the UK so they can become passionate about the club they "have followed since they were a kid." when they show up in the pub tomorrow night wearing a blue jersey using terms such as 'we', 'us' and 'them'.

    Pretty much how all the 'greatest supporters in the world' found 'their' club over the years.

    I'm sure glad I stuck the score on at 5000-1 back in August, come on ye foxes!


  • #33
    Filmer Paradise
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,345 ✭✭✭Filmer Paradise


    JoseWasntReady wrote: »
    **** the Queens league and any Irish dope that supports it.
    The Moldy Gowl wrote: »
    Why?

    Good ol' fashioned Red Neckery. Irish style.


  • #34
    omerin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,489 ✭✭✭omerin


    Wouldn't open my curtains if a league of Ireland game was played in my back garden, absolute dire standard. Well done to Leicester and God bless her majesty


  • #35
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    JoseWasntReady wrote: »
    **** the Queens league and any Irish dope that supports it.

    I don't think she's that directly involved with it these days.


  • #36
    Arghus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,401 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    The OP is talking rubbish.


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  • #37
    NIMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,351 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    omerin wrote: »
    Wouldn't open my curtains if a league of Ireland game was played in my back garden, absolute dire standard. Well done to Leicester and God bless her majesty

    Numpty.

    So you think
    1) Every EPL game is a classic.
    2) Part-time footballers from Ireland, some earning maybe €100 per week for playing should be producing football to the standard of those in the EPL, where some players are on £350,000 per week?

    Idiotic comment.


  • #38
    Into The Blue
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,356 ✭✭✭Into The Blue


    ClovenHoof wrote: »
    I am a Sligo Rovers supporter, because, eh, I come from Sligo.

    That explains the bitterness


  • #39
    deaddonkey15
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,578 ✭✭✭deaddonkey15


    NIMAN wrote: »
    Numpty.

    So you think
    1) Every EPL game is a classic.
    2) Part-time footballers from Ireland, some earning maybe €100 per week for playing should be producing football to the standard of those in the EPL, where some players are on £350,000 per week?

    Idiotic comment.

    How was it idiotic? He didn't say every game in the EPL is a classic or that low paid Irish league players should be producing the same standard. He just said he wouldn't watch it because the standard is poor and he's right.


  • #40
    The Moldy Gowl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,889 ✭✭✭✭The Moldy Gowl


    Filmer Paradise wrote: »
    Good ol' fashioned Red Neckery. Irish style.

    Am I allowed support other teams in different league's though?

    Do we have an guidelines on where the stupidy starts and ends?


  • #41
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,443 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Nancyball. Meh...


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  • #42
    The Moldy Gowl
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    NIMAN wrote: »
    Numpty.

    So you think
    1) Every EPL game is a classic.
    2) Part-time footballers from Ireland, some earning maybe €100 per week for playing should be producing football to the standard of those in the EPL, where some players are on £350,000 per week?

    Idiotic comment.

    No players are on 350 a week anyway.


  • #43
    clairewithani
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,270 ✭✭✭clairewithani


    Lots of bitter begrudgers in after hours tonight.


  • #44
    Arsemageddon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,129 ✭✭✭Arsemageddon


    omerin wrote: »
    Wouldn't open my curtains if a league of Ireland game was played in my back garden, absolute dire standard.

    It's pretty much the standard you could hope for from a small country where soccer has to compete with other sports. League of Ireland football is about going to games for the craic than the actual standard of football.

    Top marks though for you though and your hard earned barstool expertise.


    P.S. Well done Leicester


  • #45
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Luch Energiya Vladivostok fluffed their chance to move out of the relegation zone in the Russian second tier this morning. I was mildly gutted at this, and while this probably makes me a wee bit sad, I hope it doesn't make me an asshole.

    Up Finn Harps!!!


  • #46
    mickdw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,036 ✭✭✭✭mickdw


    I must admit I strongly detest anybody who comes out with the 'we played well' when speaking about a team from an entirely different country than ours.
    I wouldnt even use it when referring to my own counties GAA team because I'm not actually on the team.


  • #47
    NIMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,351 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    The Moldy Gowl wrote: »
    No players are on 350 a week anyway.

    Typo.
    Meant to be 250k.


  • #48
    Rothko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,016 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    I sincerely doubt that anyone is doing that.


  • #49
    Filmer Paradise
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,345 ✭✭✭Filmer Paradise


    The Moldy Gowl wrote: »
    Am I allowed support other teams in different league's though?

    Do we have an guidelines on where the stupidy starts and ends?

    As far as I'm aware these types just have it in for 'da brits'. SO your'e safe enough with every thing else. Even Stalin!


  • #50
    pablo128
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,210 ✭✭✭pablo128


    NIMAN wrote: »
    Numpty.

    So you think
    1) Every EPL game is a classic.
    2) Part-time footballers from Ireland, some earning maybe €100 per week for playing should be producing football to the standard of those in the EPL, where some players are on £350,000 per week?

    Idiotic comment.

    Gwan out of that. I know a league of Ireland footballer, and the flash b@stard is rollin in an '09 motor.:pac:


  • #51
    NIMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,351 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    He must be on €150 a week so.


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  • #52
    JoseWasntReady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 100 ✭✭JoseWasntReady


    Filmer Paradise wrote: »
    Good ol' fashioned Red Neckery. Irish style.

    I'm from Dublin so I support a team from Dublin. I don't understand how someone from Ireland can get so emotionally invested in a team from a city or town they've no connection to.

    I'm sure Liverpudlians and Mancunians think it odd too.


  • #53
    omerin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,489 ✭✭✭omerin


    Arsemageddon wrote: »
    It's pretty much the standard you could hope for from a small country where soccer has to compete with other sports. League of Ireland football is about going to games for the craic than the actual standard of football.

    Top marks though for you though and your hard earned barstool expertise.


    P.S. Well done Leicester

    Lol there'd be more craic watching paint dry and thanks for bringing up the barstool reference as the standard is that of a pub league


  • #54
    ziedth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,081 ✭✭✭ziedth


    ClovenHoof wrote: »
    Eh, amazing as this sounds. I am a Sligo Rovers supporter, because, eh, I come from Sligo.

    Nothing in sport annoys me more then this argument. It's borderline hipster. Just continue to support Sligo and watch LOI, good for you and I will watch the EPL. See life hasn't changed for any of us.

    Now as it happens, I'm actually a spurs fan so I was one of the few who wasn't happy come the final whistle but I think everyone has known (certainly since last monday) that's been all over bar the shouting and I couldn't be happier for them.


  • #55
    Letree
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,005 ✭✭✭Letree


    We did well though to win the league


  • #56
    ShakerMaker91
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 280 ✭✭ShakerMaker91


    JoseWasntReady wrote: »
    I'm from Dublin so I support a team from Dublin. I don't understand how someone from Ireland can get so emotionally invested in a team from a city or town they've no connection to.

    I'm sure Liverpudlians and Mancunians think it odd too.

    Well I'm from Tipperary and we don't have a local team here so we watch the Premier League instead!


  • #57
    Filmer Paradise
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,345 ✭✭✭Filmer Paradise


    JoseWasntReady wrote: »
    I'm from Dublin so I support a team from Dublin. I don't understand how someone from Ireland can get so emotionally invested in a team from a city or town they've no connection to.

    I'm sure Liverpudlians and Mancunians think it odd too.

    Really?

    I've been a Beatles fan for the last 30 years. I loved their music the first time I heard it & still love it now.

    Do you think the average Scouser thinks I'm odd?


  • #58
    rizzodun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,598 ✭✭✭rizzodun


    As another Sligonian I'd just like to put it on record that OP doesn't speak for the whole flamin county....

    Jaysus...


  • #59
    The Moldy Gowl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,889 ✭✭✭✭The Moldy Gowl


    JoseWasntReady wrote: »
    I'm from Dublin so I support a team from Dublin. I don't understand how someone from Ireland can get so emotionally invested in a team from a city or town they've no connection to.

    I'm sure Liverpudlians and Mancunians think it odd too.

    Or maybe they just like sports?

    A team 10 meters from me has the same connection to me as a team 1000 km away from me if they entertain me, particularly if it's at the top level of the game.
    It's not some closed shop where the players in a 10 mile radius have to play for the club.


  • #60
    clairewithani
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,270 ✭✭✭clairewithani


    There are many people who grew up watching English soccer teams on telly. They didn't have a league of Ireland club within an ass's roar of them and RTE didn't show LOI so it's RTE's fault way I see it. :)


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  • #61
    pablo128
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,210 ✭✭✭pablo128


    JoseWasntReady wrote: »
    I'm from Dublin so I support a team from Dublin. I don't understand how someone from Ireland can get so emotionally invested in a team from a city or town they've no connection to.

    I'm sure Liverpudlians and Mancunians think it odd too.

    Speaking personally, my father wouldn't have been one to bring us to football games and even if he did, he's from Tipp so he was hardly gonna bring us to a Dublin game. United and Liverpool were the big names when I was a kid, and you would see the games on telly. By the age of 4 I was a United fan, and I still am 36 years later.

    Tl;dr - it was the TVs fault.


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