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The Boy Z 
Jack Charlton 
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 Posted: 09 Oct 2015 at 12:03pm |
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Been to 30 odd LOI matches this season but my team is Manchester United. I can't re create the same buzz I feel for Utd going to watch any other team. Will get over 5 or 6 times this year I hope.
What I don't understand is lads who follow English teams who's 2 or 3 trips per year are the only exposure they get to live football. They profess to love football but see 3 matches a year? I just don't get that. |
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Theres only one sport that matters..
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Green Devil
Robbie Keane
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Posted: 09 Oct 2015 at 12:09pm |
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Not every football fan in Ireland has a LOI club on their doorstep  People have lives outside of football too.
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"He drives two Ferraris; I think he's a very lucky lad to have 50 caps for Ireland,"
Eamonn Dunphy on Glenn Whelan |
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The Boy Z
Jack Charlton
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Posted: 09 Oct 2015 at 12:29pm |
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Always laugh at that one. People take days off to go across the water, spend hundreds of €, but won't drive an hour to get to a match. Understand it's difficult to have an affinity with a team if you don't live near one but loving football and going to 3 live games a year is a bit of a contradiction. Would also include people's own football as 'live football' too.
And people who go to matches have a life outside of football. Utterly ridiculous comment.
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roverstillidie
Jack Charlton
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Posted: 09 Oct 2015 at 12:34pm |
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There is a uniqueness to the justifications used to not go to games. I wish people would be honest and say Manchester is a jolly boys outing on the session away from the kids and football is the excuse to go.
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Jack Charlton
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Posted: 09 Oct 2015 at 12:36pm |
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Roy Keane
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Posted: 09 Oct 2015 at 12:46pm |
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Can I say "we" about an Irish League team, given that I come from and live in the 26 counties?
Is this allowed under the rules of the guardians of the meaning of the personal pronoun?
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Green Devil
Robbie Keane
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Posted: 09 Oct 2015 at 12:49pm |
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How many days off do these people take per year to go watch an England team given that the average Irish, PL fan would probably make 3 or 4 trips over maximum a year? I'm one of those people who goes over to watch Sunderland a few times a year. Right, try living in Carlow with a full time job, coach a youths team and play yourself. Do you honestly think I have the time to drive to 30 LOI games a season bearing in mind Waterford United an hour away is my nearest LOI ground? |
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"He drives two Ferraris; I think he's a very lucky lad to have 50 caps for Ireland,"
Eamonn Dunphy on Glenn Whelan |
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Jack Charlton
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Posted: 09 Oct 2015 at 12:53pm |
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I say you have plenty of time? You ain't married and you don't have kids, loads of time to go the rsc |
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Croftman
Liam Brady
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Posted: 09 Oct 2015 at 12:54pm |
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You're a t**ser. Fact |
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Some people just deserve a slap
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Green Devil
Robbie Keane
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Posted: 09 Oct 2015 at 12:55pm |
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If I go the RSC on a Friday I can't train my youth team? I train twice a week with the team I play for too? So 4 nights a week are taken up with football. I also work most weekends, hence why I won't be in Poland!
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"He drives two Ferraris; I think he's a very lucky lad to have 50 caps for Ireland,"
Eamonn Dunphy on Glenn Whelan |
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sid waddell
Roy Keane
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Posted: 09 Oct 2015 at 12:58pm |
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Croftman
Liam Brady
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So because I can only afford to go to liverpool 2/3 times per year I don't love football? That's all I can get to see them live but I watch 2/3 schoolboys matches every weekend which i prefer doing over watching a LOI team that I've no interest in. Your way of thinking on this is strange. Edited by Croftman - 09 Oct 2015 at 1:07pm |
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Roy Keane
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Posted: 09 Oct 2015 at 1:05pm |
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" BFC always gives me a laugh........ "
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eire77
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Posted: 09 Oct 2015 at 1:55pm |
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Touch a nerve there did I???? Edited by eire77 - 09 Oct 2015 at 1:56pm |
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Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get me...
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Croftman
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Posted: 09 Oct 2015 at 2:10pm |
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Not at all, was just stating a point |
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The Boy Z
Jack Charlton
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Posted: 09 Oct 2015 at 2:19pm |
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I play and coach myself. Not saying you could make 30! I'm fortunate that Bray is 5.45 KO on a Saturday so I have been to most of their matches. But, I doubt you train every Friday that there's a match. Is your league a summer league? It was a personal choice not to go to a match (if you haven't been to one). I think your situation is a bit different to the majority. With you playing and coaching you are exposed to live football and the feeling of being at a match. Same with Croftman going to schoolboy games. It's the people who treat football like a TV programme that I don't get. A lot of my mates are in that bracket. 1 or 2 games a year, don't play,watch or coach but still know it all!
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eire77
Ray Houghton
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Posted: 09 Oct 2015 at 2:31pm |
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Fair enough - but a point without any evidence to go on. My statement is fact. You don't play in EPL. You don't come from the city of the team you believe you are somehow a part of. You are a deluded man who wears an overpriced jersey in front of your TV shouting at the pictures and afterwards console or congratulate yourself on how you (plural) have done. You do not realise you are nothing more than a consumer. A consumer who thinks they are a part of the product they consume. You, sir, are an imbecile. |
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Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get me...
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Green Devil
Robbie Keane
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Posted: 09 Oct 2015 at 2:37pm |
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No it's a winter league down in Carlow, but during the summer months I play gaelic and hurling as well as work a lot especially weekends so I'm always on the go.
I would only live in a LOI club were on my doorstep, I just feel the odd Friday night I haven't got anything on all I want to do is chill out and take a break from sport as much as I love it. A lot of my mates come into that category too they have been to England once maybe twice in their lives to watch their team and sh*te out about being a super fan   An there I am a regular Ireland match goer home and away and while I'm not claiming to be single handily keeping football going in Ireland or anything, I'm doing my bit at grass roots. But yeah I will most definitely at least try and make a few LOI matches next season for sure!
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