15th Anniversary Rep. Ire V England

Was in the South Terrrace with my dad and brother. After it kicked off I remeber lads crowd surfing down to front to try to at the english. We must of stayed at least 30min after the game was abandoned. I'll never forget the cheer when the riot squad finally moved in and started hitting anything and everything.

Was also in the South Terrace, myself and my Mate brought a bottle of Pernod and Creme De Menthe into the game.

Still both in School, cant remember who's parents drinks cabinet was robbed for them. I remember there was alot of trouble on the buses to the game. Seen many a bloodied English Fan. Some clown got on our bus and started singing no Surrender on his own.

Some lad just headbutted him and when he hit the ground all the young lads on the back of the bus did a job on him.

There was lots of trouble before David Kelly Goal, it just intensified after that.  We were on the pitch not long after the game was abandoned.

Edited by Stretchryan - 12 Feb 2010 at 8:05am

Stoked Up wrote: t_rAndy wrote: Would love to get them back though, even for a 'friendly' Would there ever be such a thing? Apparently the FAI had England lined up for the first game at the new Landsdowne! Luckily, I missed the 1995 minute game having to sacrifice my tickets as I had a gig. Watched it on TV though and I'll always remember the BBC newsman describing the Gardai as 'uncomprimising' Like most, I don't condone violence at footy games, but ya couldn't but admire the guards that night, even if they did make a fcuk up over the organisation along with the FAI who put the English fans in the West Upper rather than down at ground level.

Remember big Jack that night was really ashamed... You have to be fair to him, he is an Englishman. That hit him hard I'm sure.

MayoMark wrote: Remember big Jack that night was really ashamed... You have to be fair to him, he is an Englishman. That hit him hard I'm sure.   Lets hope we never see anything remotely like that again in this country.   We would have beaten them ***ts too!!

Thats the worst part, I have no doubt we were gonna hammer them that night

Was at the game. As is my wont I arrived early and waited to get into the ground outside the DART station. Opposite me was a single thug in an England shirt walking up and down the passing Irish fans yelling "Irish pigs", Irish scum" and the rest. As ever they ignored him which was a good thing as there was a group of about 20 English pr!cks waiting by the wall near the level crossing waiting to pounce. The Gardi were nowhere in sight but I have to say this. These scum (I refuse to call them fans) were treated well by the stewards and the Gardi and it just goes to show that no matter what the authorties did these f**kers were out to cause trouble. Some other notes. 1. The match was not given full international status by the English FA and there was doubts about the FAI listing it as official. Why? I have always put it down as a full international with caps awarded and David Kelly's goal count to include this game. Why deny the players caps just because of scumbags? 2. When the Gardi did their stuff (God bless them!) and then arrested the ringleaders they were quickly booted out of the country. Why? They were criminals and should have been tried as such. Put them in Mountjoy for a year or so and we'd see who'd squeel like a pig. 3. The scum that cause the trouble were not the preconceived idea of the England fan (Working class from deprived areas) but rather if memory serves Stock brokers and high profile jobbers. 4. It's one hell of a walk back from Lansdowne Road to Raheny.

Member it facking well maaate. Me and the boys gorroff the boat at Dun Laoghaire and we met up with a few of the Shamrock Rovas boys. Had a right knees up, ran them all over the pier. Then we got on the train and ran into Shamrock Rovas fans, facking carnage all ova the place. Went into the city to have a quick pint and a line then we ran into the Shamrock Rovas mob. Some geeza called Top Boy was running the Irish end of the operation. Cant believe he didnt get nominated in the annual hoolies award although it was a great year that year. Then we went to the ground and ran into more of the Shamrock Rovas mob, we facked them up good. The ground was pretty good for ripping up, top marks for the people who run the ground. Smashed the train up on the way home and then spotted the same Shamrock Rovas crowd from earlier, facking hell we ran the all over the souf pier.

Great day altogether

Remember that game... Told me mam that i was studyin in mates house for leavin cert. 2 of us headed to the east terrace for the game

i was watching it on the telly we were all watching some cop bursting the brits with a truncheon in the stand some laugh!