Cost of going PL match

See my post above mate, the pople can not be blamed for not liking something they don't like.  It's as simple as that!

Nobody should and nobody can tell somebody which team/band/singer/actor/charity/foundation etc etc to support.  It'll never be that way.

I admire people that support their local teams - fair play to them.  I'd never tell anyone who they should support!

 

In fairness you're under no obligation to buy a programme, pie or a cup of tea at a match.

Ireland4ever wrote: Why do some  LOI fans get so worked up over what other people do? Its cringe. Spend the time energy on suporting your own team.

Fans get worked up because they can't understand how some football fans don't follow their OWN country's teams. Nothing worse than to hear fans sl*g each other saying "ah you shut up ye manc ****" or "ye scouse scumbag" when they are Irish, it's ridiculous. If you follow football then go watch all football, never know, you might enjoy yourself.

Fair enough but take Dublin which has over 1 million people, and with 5 clubs can muster just less than 10,000 fans a weekend.

sullo-bohs wrote: Ireland4ever wrote: Why do some  LOI fans get so worked up over what other people do? Its cringe. Spend the time energy on suporting your own team. Fans get worked up because they can't understand how some football fans don't follow their OWN country's teams. Nothing worse than to hear fans sl*g each other saying "ah you shut up ye manc ****" or "ye scouse scumbag" when they are Irish, it's ridiculous. If you follow football then go watch all football, never know, you might enjoy yourself.

Sono wrote: Tried LOI didn't like it and moved on, shyte facilities, shyte standard and no atmosphere, simples as that, I would rather spend a couple of hundred euro to head to a Baracelona or Real match simply cos I enjoy watching good standard of football, simple as that and fair play to people for supporting their local team but it means nothing to me as I think it's brutal to watch and I have been to many games before people attack.

no villa?

sullo-bohs wrote: Fair enough but take Dublin which has over 1 million people, and with 5 clubs can muster just less than 10,000 fans a weekend.   I just think the Irish public has made their mind up and choosed not to follow the LOI, if the league was scrapped tomorrow majority of people wouldn't care whereas if Wayne Rooney scratched his toe it would be front page news.

Don't you understand that what you're saying doesn't add up?

You are telling people what they should do and how they should do it.  What they should be saying to you is f**k right off!

It's the equivalent of me saying to you "Don't buy Kings Of Leon albums, buy Westlife albums." or "Don't eat Marks And Spencers crisps, buy Dunnes Stores'."

How much of a knob would I sound if I said those things to you?

People will buy in to what they want to buy in to, and if you think your life is better because you do A and not B, you still have no right whatsoever to preach to someone else that they should do A.

It always has been and always is a non-argument.  League Of Ireland fans sl*g fans of clubs outside Ireland and so forth, but it genuinely goes in one ear and out the other.  It doesn't mean anything to anyone.  Fans of other clubs outside Ireland don't sl*g LOI fans, they let them get on with what they wanna get on with.  The argument is insignificant to them - it doesn't even register as a point!

End of the day book stops with FAI who have squandered millions instead of reinvesting in development of the league and for that reason alone I have no sympathy for them whatsoever, said it before and I will say it again, FAI should look at the GAA as an organization and see how well that is run, an awful lot better and that's not my opinion that's a fact.

Shoco wrote: no ones telling them what they can or cant do, we just find it hard to understand why people who are football fans would support a foreign league at the expense of their own

Cos when you are six or seven you don't know borders or when an uncle or your dad gets you a united/Liverpool/Sheffield Wednesday top, you tend to start following that club too.

Plus a lot of you lads seem to think theres a LOI club in close proximity to everyone, they are not