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Why do Irish people support English teams?

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  • #1652
    8-10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,366 ✭✭✭✭8-10


    jcorr wrote: »
    If the FAI were any use they would be trying to join up with the football association in the Northern Ireland and have a cross border model like the rugby team.

    This should absolutely happen. Would be great for the game here


  • #1653
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


    jcorr wrote: »
    Why do Irish people support English teams?

    Because we've got no bloody self respect in this country.

    We have no leadership either.

    If the FAI were any use they would be trying to join up with the football association in the Northern Ireland and have a cross border model like the rugby team.

    Some of the LOI clubs have great tradition but that needs to be expanded to others and we need to make it attractive for young people to stay in Irish clubs, rather than go to England.

    I'd rather have a national league and a national team than that bastardised mish-mash that rugby uses. Countries should have their own separate national teams.


  • #1654
    8-10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,366 ✭✭✭✭8-10


    OldMrBrennan83 wrote: »
    I'd rather have a national league and a national team than that bastardised mish-mash that rugby uses. Countries should have their own separate national teams.

    It's the same in cricket it's soccer that is more of an outlier due to the association split.

    I would think you should combine the national team too if you combine the leagues so it wouldn't be a mish mash


  • #1655
    D14Rugby
    Registered Users Posts: 2,815 ✭✭✭D14Rugby


    8-10 wrote: »
    I said we're more similar to them than Poland but I don't expect you to interpret my posts correctly anymore given you maintain that I want the EPL to succeed at the expense of the LOI despite me not actually saying that.

    In any case I do think it's similar for sure in the same way that I think the advertising and brand of the EPL makes it widely popular throughout many countries. Whether we're similar in domestic league support, probably not having now learned more.

    But is I say over and over again there are many many reasons why we support English teams. Some of those might be uniquely Irish reasons but they can't all be because we're not the only ones who do it.

    The overarching point though is it doesn't and shouldn't matter why we do it, the important thing is that we get enjoyment out of the teams we choose to support. I know I do. Especially when we're the Champions of Europe!!

    Let's use Scotland then. Much closer to England both geographically and culturally than us yet our league attendances pale in comparison to theirs even removing Celtic and Rangers.
    The excuses people come out with here to avoid supporting their own league get more and more laughable by the day.


  • #1656
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


    8-10 wrote: »
    It's the same in cricket it's soccer that is more of an outlier due to the association split.

    I would think you should combine the national team too if you combine the leagues so it wouldn't be a mish mash

    Outlier or not, it's the correct way it should be done. Nobody is looking other nations around Europe to amalgamate into bigger national teams. I don't want a national side associated in any way with that rotten shower north of the border.


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  • #1657
    Sunny Disposition
    Registered Users Posts: 2,806 ✭✭✭Sunny Disposition


    Are English teams English anymore? Think it’s just a global league played in England.


  • #1658
    8-10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,366 ✭✭✭✭8-10


    OldMrBrennan83 wrote: »
    Outlier or not, it's the correct way it should be done. Nobody is looking other nations around Europe to amalgamate into bigger national teams. I don't want a national side associated in any way with that rotten shower north of the border.

    Derry City are in the league, should they be removed?


  • #1659
    NIMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,980 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    8-10 wrote: »
    It's the same in cricket it's soccer that is more of an outlier due to the association split.

    I would think you should combine the national team too if you combine the leagues so it wouldn't be a mish mash

    There is one big obstacle to this ever happening.

    Soccer is a working class game, and it's fans aren't as open to mixing. Cricket and rugby fans are more moderate, middle class.

    Could you really see a hardliner from the Shankill in Belfast, a republican from the Falls Road and a wee scally from Ballymena all standing together in a stadium cheering on the same team?

    Cos I can't. I'd love to see it, but ain't happening.


  • #1660
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


    8-10 wrote: »
    Derry City are in the league, should they be removed?

    Wouldn't cast me a thought if they were. Would be for the greater good if it put the final nail in this "United Ireland" team rubbish.


  • #1661
    8-10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,366 ✭✭✭✭8-10


    D14Rugby wrote: »
    Let's use Scotland then. Much closer to England both geographically and culturally than us yet our league attendances pale in comparison to theirs even removing Celtic and Rangers.
    The excuses people come out with here to avoid supporting their own league get more and more laughable by the day.

    This is nothing about excuses for not supporting the LOI. I go to the odd game is I've already said but I don't consider it my league. It just happens to be Irish. It's more like listening to Coldplay over U2 for me. I could listen to both but being Irish doesn't come into it as part of the decision, I already have made my mind up in who to support and I don't see myself changing at this stage.

    I support who I like and I like watching LOI on occasion and follow the scores but I don't support a team in it so I'm not as interested in the league's success because of that (which you will still misinterpret as me wanting it to fail)

    It's not like I chose Liverpool over a local club, I just chose them out of all teams available to watch. I think I was probably too young to even think about it being a one or the other thing. Most fans decide at very young and influential ages


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  • #1662
    D14Rugby
    Registered Users Posts: 2,815 ✭✭✭D14Rugby


    sugarman wrote: »
    They're in it for a reason, I'd suggest you look into it.

    Careful don't "misrepresent" them now.


  • #1663
    NewRed2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 999 ✭✭✭NewRed2


    D14Rugby wrote: »
    The excuses people come out with here to avoid supporting their own league get more and more laughable by the day.

    That's it though isn't it? You don't "need an excuse to avoid supporting LOI teams", it's a choice who you support.
    If it's a LOI side, then great, if it's not then c'est la vie.
    I'm a Liverpool fan, former Athlone Town fan and attendee while I was younger (still keep an eye out for them).
    I was prob 33% Athlone, 33% Liverpool 33% Celtic as a nipper but once my Dad took me to Anfield I was 100% Liverpool. Hearing YNWA first hand and before I knew it I was popping over 10 times a season for home games when I got older and Liverpool is a gigantic part of my life ever since. I've gone over twice on weekends when there wasn't even a home match because I got to love the city and just like being there.
    Still regard 25-05-2005 as best moment of my life, notwithstanding the recent win.
    But theres 2 lads in work who are staunch Shamrock Rovers fans and go to all their games and cant understand why I wont go their games seeing as the venue is close to work.
    I think Arsene Wenger said it best when he said everyone thinks their wife is the best wife.


  • #1664
    8-10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,366 ✭✭✭✭8-10


    NewRed2 wrote: »
    That's it though isn't it? You don't "need an excuse to avoid supporting LOI teams", it's a choice who you support.
    If it's a LOI side, then great, if it's not then c'est la vie.
    I'm a Liverpool fan, former Athlone Town fan and attendee while I was younger (still keep an eye out for them).
    I was prob 33% Athlone, 33% Liverpool 33% Celtic as a nipper but once my Dad took me to Anfield I was 100% Liverpool. Hearing YNWA first hand and before I knew it I was popping over 10 times a season for home games when I got older and Liverpool is a gigantic part of my life ever since. I've gone over twice on weekends when there wasn't even a home match because I got to love the city and just like being there.
    Still regard 25-05-2005 as best moment of my life, notwithstanding the recent win.
    But theres 2 lads in work who are staunch Shamrock Rovers fans and go to all their games and cant understand why I wont go their games seeing as the venue is close to work.
    I think Arsene Wenger said it best when he said everyone thinks their wife is the best wife.

    Honestly I'm not sure whether this season or 2005 was better. I think we need to get this season get into the past a bit before comparing.

    On the single game it's 2005 clearly. As a campaign it's probably close. But for satisfaction and feeling I think this year meant more. It doesn't feel like a flash in the pan. This was an incredible team doing the impossible to get to the final while also losing only once in the league all season.

    This was the best season from a Liverpool team that I've seen.

    And people wonder why we support a team like this!


  • #1665
    8-10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,366 ✭✭✭✭8-10


    Sunny Disposition wrote: »
    Are English teams English anymore? Think it’s just a global league played in England.

    It the Premier League level I agree with you, particularly the top 6. But drop down the leagues a bit and it's pretty English alright particularly in terms of support


  • #1666
    8-10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,366 ✭✭✭✭8-10


    sugarman wrote: »
    They're in it for a reason, I'd suggest you look into it.

    I know that, I'm saying because they joined there's no reason why we couldn't look at all the others joining to in a united league. I think it would be great long term after a likely difficult short term period


  • #1667
    D14Rugby
    Registered Users Posts: 2,815 ✭✭✭D14Rugby


    8-10 wrote: »
    And people wonder why we support a team like this!

    Everyone knows why. Because it's easy, in every way just plain easy.


  • #1668
    dundalkfc10
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,719 ✭✭✭dundalkfc10


    Omackeral wrote: »
    Ultimate Seduction wrote: »
    A Polish fan supporting an Irish team thinks an Irish person supporting an English team is laughable? Gotcha

    A- He more than likely also still supports his own team at home.
    B- He lives here now, supports his new home team.
    C- Most likely referring to people who don't support their own team but do support an English one. Probably finds that a bit hypocritical as the same type of people often are anti-English in other footballing senses.

    Correct on all 3.

    Poster knew wha I meant and only said it, as he/she had no other argument left


  • #1669
    Bonniedog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,665 ✭✭✭Bonniedog


    Deebles McBeebles wrote: »
    Another one, if our Polish friends who have moved here started to support, say Dundalk, would they be told to go support Wisla Krakow instead?


    A Polish person from Krakow has a personal connection to Krakow.

    A Polish person living in Dundalk now has a personal connection to Dundalk and Krakow. Or indeed the Louth gaelic football team.

    How is that the same as an Irish person who doesn't live in an English city, and may indeed never have been in it, supporting an English team, equivalent?


  • #1670
    Achasanai
    Closed Accounts Posts: 730 ✭✭✭Achasanai


    NIMAN wrote: »
    There is one big obstacle to this ever happening.

    Soccer is a working class game, and it's fans aren't as open to mixing. Cricket and rugby fans are more moderate, middle class.

    Could you really see a hardliner from the Shankill in Belfast, a republican from the Falls Road and a wee scally from Ballymena all standing together in a stadium cheering on the same team?

    Cos I can't. I'd love to see it, but ain't happening.


    Two reasons, imo: any merger would need a significant downsizing in staff as well as the loss of revenue from having two international teams.


    I agree, though, it would make the league much more entertaining and competitive. While it's good in a way to see new teams like Cabinteely and the like springing up, some of them do have a touch of the franchise about them, and it's hard to have loyalty for your local team if they only started existing a few years ago.


  • #1671
    NewRed2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 999 ✭✭✭NewRed2


    8-10 wrote: »

    And people wonder why we support a team like this!

    Ahhh let them wonder... There's not a club in the world like Liverpool.


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  • #1672
    8-10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,366 ✭✭✭✭8-10


    D14Rugby wrote: »
    Everyone knows why. Because it's easy, in every way just plain easy.

    So we should be done with the thread then if you're all done wondering why we do it?

    :)


  • #1673
    D14Rugby
    Registered Users Posts: 2,815 ✭✭✭D14Rugby


    Achasanai wrote: »
    Two reasons, imo: any merger would need a significant downsizing in staff as well as the loss of revenue from having two international teams.


    I agree, though, it would make the league much more entertaining and competitive. While it's good in a way to see new teams like Cabinteely and the like springing up, some of them do have a touch of the franchise about them, and it's hard to have loyalty for your local team if they only started existing a few years ago.

    Cabinteely were a club, just they were a Sunday league one. The lack of a pyramid structure in this country basically just means that if you want to join the LOI you just seem to appear out of nowhere but most don't.


  • #1674
    D14Rugby
    Registered Users Posts: 2,815 ✭✭✭D14Rugby


    8-10 wrote: »
    So we should be done with the thread then if you're all done wondering why we do it?

    :)

    Not quite, because yet again as has been explained to you time and time again the thread isn't about why do Irish people support England clubs it's about why they do that as opposed to supporting a LOI club.

    The answer to that though is fairly simple too though, a mix of ignorance, snobbery, lazyness and falling for marketing.


  • #1675
    8-10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,366 ✭✭✭✭8-10


    D14Rugby wrote: »
    Cabinteely were a club, just they were a Sunday league one. The lack of a pyramid structure in this country basically just means that if you want to join the LOI you just seem to appear out of nowhere but most don't.

    Problem is that Sunday league teams don't have fans so with Cabinteely it did sort of feel like a franchise those first few games. People attending weren't really fans their whole life, they were just going to support local and I'd wager that many already had a team previously


  • #1676
    dundalkfc10
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,719 ✭✭✭dundalkfc10


    NewRed2 wrote: »
    8-10 wrote: »

    And people wonder why we support a team like this!

    Ahhh let them wonder... There's not a club in the world like Liverpool.

    Best supoerters in the world they say. Obvs never watched South American fans but let them at it


  • #1677
    8-10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,366 ✭✭✭✭8-10


    dundalkfc10 wrote: »
    Best supoerters in the world they say. Obvs never watched South American fans but let them at it

    Ah I don't compare really. It's just never been boring was the point. Maybe all clubs are like this and I'm just biased but feel great to have experienced all the huge games from Newcastle 4-3 in 1996, Everton 3-2 in 1999, Barça in the semi final this year 4-0 and 2001 1-0 on our way to Dortmund. Roma 5-2, Spartak 7-0, PSG 3-2, Man City 3-0.....it goes on and on.

    Every fan can reel off their special games I'm sure. I just feel pride in a lot of our bigger wins, particularly the past 2 seasons.

    You gotta enjoy it while you can I suppose! I'm sure the South American lads are the same


  • #1678
    fyfe79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,205 ✭✭✭fyfe79


    D14Rugby wrote: »
    Not quite, because yet again as has been explained to you time and time again the thread isn't about why do Irish people support England clubs it's about why they do that as opposed to supporting a LOI club.

    The answer to that though is fairly simple too though, a mix of ignorance, snobbery, lazyness and falling for marketing.

    Not because the Premier League is a better product than the LOI, no?

    Do you consider yourself ignorant etc whenever you watch more Hollywood movies than movies produced by Screen Ireland, for example? I’m sure you only listen to music made by Irish people too? Only wear clothes designed and produced by Irish people?

    Just because someone’s from a particular country, does not mean they should feel forced to support a certain industry. Especially when the head of the industry in question here, doesn’t even support it himself!


  • #1679
    8-10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,366 ✭✭✭✭8-10


    D14Rugby wrote: »

    The answer to that though is fairly simple too though, a mix of ignorance, snobbery, lazyness and falling for marketing.

    So we are done with the thread then? We know the answer we were looking for? We feel enlightened now?


  • #1680
    trashcan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,076 ✭✭✭trashcan


    OMM 0000 wrote: »
    "Why do Irish people watch American movies?"

    A very, very, silly comparison. As is asking why people listen to English bands or American bands. I'm passionate about music, probably more so than football, and my favourite bands are Scottish, Irish, American, English, in no particular order. Entertainment is not competition ( which is not to say that competition can't be entertainment.)

    People who support English teams are free to do so, of course they are. I don't think you'll find a supporter of an Irish team* who would say any different. The rest of us are equally free to have a view about that support, and to express it. It's just opinions at the end of the day, no really big deal.

    *I don't know any such thing as. LOI supporter by the way, people support teams, not leagues.


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  • #1681
    NewRed2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 999 ✭✭✭NewRed2


    D14Rugby wrote: »
    Not quite, because yet again as has been explained to you time and time again the thread isn't about why do Irish people support England clubs it's about why they do that as opposed to supporting a LOI club.

    The answer to that though is fairly simple too though, a mix of ignorance, snobbery, lazyness and falling for marketing.

    Sure yeah it's a big cocktail of ignorance, snobbery, lazyness and being marketing whores.
    Absolutely..... Yer a great advert for LOI.


  • #1682
    D14Rugby
    Registered Users Posts: 2,815 ✭✭✭D14Rugby


    fyfe79 wrote: »
    Not because the Premier League is a better product than the LOI, no?

    Do you consider yourself ignorant etc whenever you watch more Hollywood movies than movies produced by Screen Ireland, for example? I’m sure you only listen to music made by Irish people too? Only wear clothes designed and produced by Irish people?

    Just because someone’s from a particular country, does not mean they should feel forced to support a certain industry. Especially when the head of the industry in question here, doesn’t even support it himself!

    To compare that stuff to football is rediculous but actually yeah if I have the choice between an Irish product and a foreign product I do tend to go for the Irish product.

    That last bit sums it up really. I assume you're trying to say that the FAI doesn't support the LOI? That has only been allowed to happen because the general public look(ed) down on the LOI so much that when LOI people were pointing out all the problems in the FAI they were promptly told to shut up by "die hard" fans of English clubs that were oblivious to the deep rooted problems these people were creating and allowing to grow in Irish football.


  • #1683
    fyfe79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,205 ✭✭✭fyfe79


    D14Rugby wrote: »
    To compare that stuff to football is rediculous but actually yeah if I have the choice between an Irish product and a foreign product I do tend to go for the Irish product.

    That last bit sums it up really. I assume you're trying to say that the FAI doesn't support the LOI? That has only been allowed to happen because the general public look(ed) down on the LOI so much that when LOI people were pointing out all the problems in the FAI they were promptly told to shut up by "die hard" fans of English clubs that were oblivious to the deep rooted problems these people were creating and allowing to grow in Irish football.

    How is it a ridiculous comparison? People consume what they find most entertaining – football falls into that category too. Of course, if the Irish product is as good as the foreign product I would choose Irish every time but would you choose the Irish product if the foreign product was superior? I wouldn't.
    For the record, most of my favourite bands happen to be Irish but I certainly don’t feel any compulsion to listen to them ahead of American or UK bands – I consume what I enjoy, regardless of where’s it’s from.

    As for the bolded bit – that is some leap! Why would Irish fans of English clubs be telling LOI fans to shut up slagging off the FAI? As long as I’ve followed football, the FAI has been a shambles – why would any Irish supporter try to cover that up? The FAI is poison for the game here. Fans of the LOI know it, fans of the PL know it. It would suit everybody for the FAI to straighten up its act. There's no big conspiracy by PL fans to keep the LOI in the doldrums.


  • #1684
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,305 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    trashcan wrote: »
    A very, very, silly comparison. As is asking why people listen to English bands or American bands. I'm passionate about music, probably more so than football, and my favourite bands are Scottish, Irish, American, English, in no particular order. Entertainment is not competition ( which is not to say that competition can't be entertainment.)

    People who support English teams are free to do so, of course they are. I don't think you'll find a supporter of an Irish team* who would say any different. The rest of us are equally free to have a view about that support, and to express it. It's just opinions at the end of the day, no really big deal.

    *I don't know any such thing as. LOI supporter by the way, people support teams, not leagues.

    And lots of people read English books


  • #1685
    Omackeral
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    NewRed2 wrote: »
    Ahhh let them wonder... There's not a club in the world like Liverpool.

    Manchester United. Historically big, successful, plays in NW of England, has a global brand, wears red and has Irish people calling them "us".


  • #1686
    Jim Gazebo
    Registered Users Posts: 2,355 ✭✭✭Jim Gazebo


    8-10 wrote: »
    Ah I don't compare really. It's just never been boring was the point. Maybe all clubs are like this and I'm just biased but feel great to have experienced all the huge games from Newcastle 4-3 in 1996, Everton 3-2 in 1999, Barça in the semi final this year 4-0 and 2001 1-0 on our way to Dortmund. Roma 5-2, Spartak 7-0, PSG 3-2, Man City 3-0.....it goes on and on.

    Every fan can reel off their special games I'm sure. I just feel pride in a lot of our bigger wins, particularly the past 2 seasons.

    You gotta enjoy it while you can I suppose! I'm sure the South American lads are the same

    Pride? In what?

    The best fans in the world


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  • #1687
    Jim Gazebo
    Registered Users Posts: 2,355 ✭✭✭Jim Gazebo


    NewRed2 wrote: »
    Sure yeah it's a big cocktail of ignorance, snobbery, lazyness and being marketing whores.
    Absolutely..... Yer a great advert for LOI.

    They're right. Your looking down on the LOI now just because a guy on boards said you're a snob. That proves the point..


  • #1688
    Atoms for Peace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,888 ✭✭✭Atoms for Peace


    The "us" thing riles me more than it should.


  • #1689
    8-10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,366 ✭✭✭✭8-10


    Jim Gazebo wrote: »
    Pride? In what?

    The best fans in the world

    In my team doing well. I watch a lot of their videos, training etc. I know how hard they work. It’s the closest word I have to describe the feeling I have. It’s probably more simple joy than pride but there’s definitely a sense of pride in supporting a soccer team. You don’t have to agree with that we’re all at different levels of investment in support and we all feel it differently


  • #1690
    8-10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,366 ✭✭✭✭8-10


    Jim Gazebo wrote: »
    They're right. Your looking down on the LOI now just because a guy on boards said you're a snob. That proves the point..

    You hope Liverpool "sink like a stone" because I called them "my club" so any pettiness works both ways as I see it:

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=110423545&postcount=1583


  • #1691
    dundalkfc10
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,719 ✭✭✭dundalkfc10


    8-10 wrote: »
    Jim Gazebo wrote: »
    Pride? In what?

    The best fans in the world

    In my team doing well. I watch a lot of their videos, training etc. I know how hard they work. It’s the closest word I have to describe the feeling I have. It’s probably more simple joy than pride but there’s definitely a sense of pride in supporting a soccer team. You don’t have to agree with that we’re all at different levels of investment in support and we all feel it differently

    Are you the Leeds manager? You know you said you would atop spying on teams training?


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  • #1692
    8-10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,366 ✭✭✭✭8-10


    dundalkfc10 wrote: »
    Are you the Leeds manager? You know you said you would atop spying on teams training?

    These vids:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnmr2jtxw6Y


    There's loads of them! :p


  • #1693
    janfebmar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,424 ✭✭✭janfebmar


    We are not very good at supporting our own in this country. That is the bottom line. The OP could equally ask why do Irish people buy so much online from foreign companies. Why do we even import 72,000 tonnes of potatoes a year, much of them from Britain? (easily verified by google). If we cannot grow our own spuds what hope is there of watching our own soccer players instead of foreigners?


  • #1694
    Peatys
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,881 ✭✭✭Peatys


    D14Rugby wrote: »
    Not quite, because yet again as has been explained to you time and time again the thread isn't about why do Irish people support England clubs it's about why they do that as opposed to supporting a LOI club.

    The answer to that though is fairly simple too though, a mix of ignorance, snobbery, lazyness and falling for marketing.

    Any room in there for the standard of football?


  • #1695
    blade1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,460 ✭✭✭✭blade1


    D14Rugby wrote: »
    Not quite, because yet again as has been explained to you time and time again the thread isn't about why do Irish people support England clubs it's about why they do that as opposed to supporting a LOI club.

    The answer to that though is fairly simple too though, a mix of ignorance, snobbery, lazyness and falling for marketing.

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    The Moldy Gowl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,889 ✭✭✭✭The Moldy Gowl


    Bohs and rovers are on TV tonight if ye want to tune in.
    Bohs missing their striker and back 4 but will be a good atmosphere nonetheless.

    Rovers have lost 7 of the last 8 against bohs.


  • #1697
    Dr. Bre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,741 ✭✭✭Dr. Bre


    Why do we marry foreign women !


  • #1698
    The Moldy Gowl
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    Dr. Bre wrote: »
    Why do we marry foreign women !

    You can still marry foreign women but can still look at Irish women.


  • #1699
    8-10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,366 ✭✭✭✭8-10


    The Moldy Gowl wrote: »
    Bohs and rovers are on TV tonight if ye want to tune in

    Thanks for the heads up! Always a good contest that fixture


  • #1700
    The Moldy Gowl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,889 ✭✭✭✭The Moldy Gowl


    8-10 wrote: »
    Thanks for the heads up! Always a good contest that fixture

    It's always a cagey match though.
    But crowd is always good.

    In those 8 games rovers only drew one. Would be like Liverpool losing to Everton 7 times out of 8. Stephen Bradley the rovers manager said it was bohs Cup final a while back so it's even better with that record.


  • #1701
    blade1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,460 ✭✭✭✭blade1


    The Moldy Gowl wrote: »
    You can still marry foreign women but can still look at Irish women.

    Thanks for the all clear :D


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