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Why do Irish people support English teams?

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  • #422
    Monokne
    Registered Users Posts: 3,929 ✭✭✭Monokne


    D14Rugby wrote: »
    Still no memory of any details then? There's charities that offer their support if you want? I can post their numbers if you want to give them a call.

    Details of what?

    I have no idea what you're talking about. Are you confusing me with someone else?


  • #423
    Woke Hogan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,630 ✭✭✭Woke Hogan


    Monokne wrote: »
    Details of what?

    I have no idea what you're talking about. Are you confusing me with someone else?

    Tired and emotional I suspect.


  • #424
    D14Rugby
    Registered Users Posts: 2,815 ✭✭✭D14Rugby


    Woke Hogan wrote: »
    Pretend to be English? For watching a football match??? :D:D:D Alright you’ve clearly had a few shandies tonight. I’d say you’ll be fairly sheepish in the morning. Anyway, don’t worry about it.



    Still no memory of any details then? There's charities that offer their support if you want? I can post their numbers if you want to give them a call?


  • #425
    D14Rugby
    Registered Users Posts: 2,815 ✭✭✭D14Rugby


    Monokne wrote: »
    Details of what?

    I have no idea what you're talking about. Are you confusing me with someone else?

    See edit


  • #426
    Woke Hogan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,630 ✭✭✭Woke Hogan


    D14Rugby wrote: »
    Still no memory of any details then? There's charities that offer their support if you want? I can post their numbers if you want to give them a call?

    You might want to give them a call yourself, pal, judging by your recent history in this discussion. Go to bed.


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  • #427
    Monokne
    Registered Users Posts: 3,929 ✭✭✭Monokne


    D14Rugby wrote: »
    Not the highest quality league though is it?

    AHAHAHAHAH you removed what you actually wrote! But not until after I'd replied. Go to bed mate.

    And I said "ARGUABLY" the highest quality league so pipe down. It's top 3.


  • #428
    Monokne
    Registered Users Posts: 3,929 ✭✭✭Monokne


    D14Rugby wrote: »
    See edit

    HAHAHAHAAHHAHAAH

    AHAHAHA :D

    Keep going ;)


  • #429
    D14Rugby
    Registered Users Posts: 2,815 ✭✭✭D14Rugby


    Woke Hogan wrote: »
    You might want to give them a call yourself, pal, judging by your recent history in this discussion. Go to bed.

    Yeah in fairness to you can't expect you to remember something as trivial as who was playing where since it was over a decade ago. You must have ptsd from the "twisted faces" you poor thing.


  • #430
    Monokne
    Registered Users Posts: 3,929 ✭✭✭Monokne


    Woke Hogan wrote: »
    Tired and emotional I suspect.

    Value for money all the same. Have to respect a man going down swinging :D


  • #431
    D14Rugby
    Registered Users Posts: 2,815 ✭✭✭D14Rugby


    Monokne wrote: »
    AHAHAHAHAH you removed what you actually wrote! But not until after I'd replied. Go to bed mate.

    And I said "ARGUABLY" the highest quality league so pipe down. It's top 3.

    I didn't remove it I moved it to the correct post.

    And its not arguably at all, its nowhere near Spain


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  • #432
    Monokne
    Registered Users Posts: 3,929 ✭✭✭Monokne


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  • #433
    how.gareth
    Registered Users Posts: 1,150 ✭✭✭how.gareth


    Lads the league of Ireland isn’t even a sport, it’s just like darts except it’s outdoors and the players are less fat


  • #434
    Woke Hogan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,630 ✭✭✭Woke Hogan


    Monokne wrote: »
    Value for money all the same. Have to respect a man going down swinging :D

    :D:D:D

    His head is gonna be sore in the morning! Not least from it being shoved up his arse all evening.


  • #435
    Hobosan
    Registered Users Posts: 582 ✭✭✭Hobosan


    I used to support English teams to confuse the English. Doesn't seem to be any need anymore so I've taken up Mandarin instead.


  • #436
    D14Rugby
    Registered Users Posts: 2,815 ✭✭✭D14Rugby


    Woke Hogan wrote: »
    :D:D:D

    His head is gonna be sore in the morning! Not least from it being shoved up his arse all evening.

    Surprised yours isn't sore racking it for such minor details that are over a decade old


  • #437
    Woke Hogan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,630 ✭✭✭Woke Hogan


    D14Rugby wrote: »
    Surprised yours isn't sore racking it for such minor details that are over a decade old

    I haven’t spent a second trying to remember it, not one second. It is unimportant information I have forgotten and I won’t waste a single moment trying to recall it. And it doesn’t really matter which match it was anyway.


  • #438
    DellyBelly
    Registered Users Posts: 2,842 ✭✭✭DellyBelly


    I'm a huge Manchester United fan and started following them when they won the treble in I think it was 2000. I've gone over for a few games and always love it. Though it can cost a fortune when I visit the megastore at OT.

    Been to a few LOI games but the standard is pretty poor and the grounds are awful. So I'm going to stick with supporting United.


  • #439
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


    The last ten or so pages have been some cesspit from the LOI crew. Hardly encourage anyone to go to a game with the way they go on.


  • #440
    Greyfox
    Registered Users Posts: 3,720 ✭✭✭Greyfox


    D14Rugby wrote: »
    TLDR:
    "One of the best things about being Irish is you get to pretend to be English for 90 minutes a week, sometimes even 180 or 270"

    It's not pretending to be English, it's not been afraid to admit that there's some things the English do better, just like the way America do films and tv shows better than us


  • #441
    Achasanai
    Closed Accounts Posts: 730 ✭✭✭Achasanai


    RederthanRed wrote: »
    Bit of rebellion too. Lot of Arsenal fans who's Dads were United fans and so on.
    But they still remain within the same sport.


    Absolutely rebellion, but it has nothing to do with who the dad supports. The Arsenal fans are fans because the team was winning when they got into football.


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  • #442
    Bobeagleburger
    Registered Users Posts: 45,247 ✭✭✭✭Bobeagleburger


    OldMrBrennan83 wrote: »
    The last ten or so pages have been some cesspit from the LOI crew. Hardly encourage anyone to go to a game with the way they go on.

    No surprise there. Some of them seem incredibly bitter.


  • #443
    Omackeral
    Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    RoboKlopp wrote: »
    No surprise there. Some of them seem incredibly bitter.

    I honestly used to resent people following English teams over our own. I'll admit that.

    Nowadays, I couldn't give a toss. I feel it's their loss. I wholeheartedly believe that people are missing out by not going to live football regularly. I mean that. Seeing a last minute winner in person and being mobbed by all and sundry around you is something that absolutely cannot be replicated through a TV screen. It just can't be. You see and feel things differently when you're there in person. Again, as the GAA have clevely marketed, nothing beats being there.


  • #444
    Fr Tod Umptious
    Registered Users Posts: 14,988 ✭✭✭✭Fr Tod Umptious


    RoboKlopp wrote: »
    No surprise there. Some of them seem incredibly bitter.

    The typical welcome to a LOI game for a first timer from a LOI fan is

    "What the fcuk are you doing here now, where we're you all your life, go back to following Utd"


  • #445
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


    Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »
    The typical welcome to a LOI game for a first timer from a LOI fan is

    "What the fcuk are you doing here now, where we're you all your life, go back to following Utd"

    That's a real Irish trait actually. If you weren't in on something from birth then all you'll be is sneered at. It's not just a LOI thing.


  • #446
    Ultimate Seduction
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,464 ✭✭✭Ultimate Seduction


    I support Celtic, no idea why, have done as long as I can remember. Its much easier to watch Celtic play than it is any LOI team on TV. I don't go to Scotland much, three or four times in my life.

    Went to two limerick games over the last few years, some of the fans made me an my kid uncomfortable last time so won't be going back!


  • #447
    Hammer Archer
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 11,381 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hammer Archer


    Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »
    The typical welcome to a LOI game for a first timer from a LOI fan is

    "What the fcuk are you doing here now, where we're you all your life, go back to following Utd"
    No it's not. Stop lying.


  • #448
    howiya
    Registered Users Posts: 3,210 ✭✭✭howiya


    Omackeral wrote: »
    I honestly used to resent people following English teams over our own. I'll admit that.

    Nowadays, I couldn't give a toss. I feel it's their loss. I wholeheartedly believe that people are missing out by not going to live football regularly. I mean that. Seeing a last minute winner in person and being mobbed by all and sundry around you is something that absolutely cannot be replicated through a TV screen. It just can't be. You see and feel things differently when you're there in person. Again, as the GAA have clevely marketed, nothing beats being there.

    You're last sentence hits the nail on the head and it doesn't just apply to the GAA. Look at the success of rugby since the move to professionalism. The success of the English league globally is also down to marketing. Yet it's something the clubs don't really engage in here because they've no money.


  • #449
    Omackeral
    Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »
    The typical welcome to a LOI game for a first timer from a LOI fan is

    "What the fcuk are you doing here now, where we're you all your life, go back to following Utd"

    Is that before or after you're stamped with the branding iron?

    The reality of course is that nobody would even know it's your first time there.


  • #450
    extra gravy
    Registered Users Posts: 22,362 ✭✭✭✭extra gravy


    I don't think it takes a genius to work it out. Some of us grew up in the back arse of nowhere and would never have even heard of LOI as kids. The only football we saw was the World Cup and the FA Cup and English league on tv. It was a natural progression to start following these teams. I've no interest in LOI and couldn't care less what the high and mighty LOI fans think of me following an English team.


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  • #451
    asteroids over berlin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,115 ✭✭✭asteroids over berlin


    support Liverpool, always have as my older brothers do too. It is far more exciting to do so, going to a game in a decent ground is nice with all the facilities on offer, as said it is a happy experience. I was also a regular to Dalymount for many a year, i miss the old Dalymount, many a happy memory standing on the terraces in the 80's and 90's, days when there were less than 1000 at the games, i still loved it. I lost interest after the Jodi stand was built and the wanba be hooligan element started getting bigger there also a good if not best friend died, i just couldn't get used to going to games without him even if he was only going to 1 in 3 games. Great days that i cherish deep within me. However i do intend to bring my 3 children to the games when they are old enough and of course the redevelopment should be great. I would always support Bohs over LFC but obviously they are a multitude apart and will probably never meet in a competitive fixture.


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