A-Z of moments that made you proud to be YBIG fan

ConorMac77 wrote: Gary McKay wrote: reddladd wrote: I stood 10 feet tall heading into work the Monday after the England game, a very proud Irishman and that would continue right up to Italia 90 where we again confounded the critics and battled with the 'forces' of European football. So thanks to Big Jack and the lads for making a nations emigrant sons very proud to be Irish and not afraid to express that. Great memories that made living away from home that bit easier. I went to live in Lahndan a few months later so the big one for me was Wembley'91.   The build up was immense and such a scramble for tickets among ex-pats. At least half the stadium was Irish that night despite Taylor's and the FA's efforts to limit it. Totally bashed them despite the 1-1 scoreline and made up for the bricks and bottles thrown at us on Wembley Way. I remember watching the recording the next day and you couldnt hear the pundits talking after the game all you heard was 'You'll never beat the Irish'.   I was like a King next day in work.   Totally fcuked up that campaign by not beating the Poles at home. Would have won Euro92.   Throwing away a 3-1 lead away to Poland later that year was arguably worse.

That was an absolute disaster. We also should have beaten Poland in Lansdowne. Euro 92 was a massive missed opportunity. The team was mature, savvy and full of quality - we really could have done something special in Sweden had we made it.

ConorMac77 wrote: Throwing away a 3-1 lead away to Poland later that year was arguably worse.

In response to anyone criticising TFOA that night:

"Would you rather they only sing when they're winning?"

Gary McKay wrote: reddladd wrote: I stood 10 feet tall heading into work the Monday after the England game, a very proud Irishman and that would continue right up to Italia 90 where we again confounded the critics and battled with the 'forces' of European football. So thanks to Big Jack and the lads for making a nations emigrant sons very proud to be Irish and not afraid to express that. Great memories that made living away from home that bit easier. I went to live in Lahndan a few months later so the big one for me was Wembley'91.   The build up was immense and such a scramble for tickets among ex-pats. At least half the stadium was Irish that night despite Taylor's and the FA's efforts to limit it. Totally bashed them despite the 1-1 scoreline and made up for the bricks and bottles thrown at us on Wembley Way. I remember watching the recording the next day and you couldnt hear the pundits talking after the game all you heard was 'You'll never beat the Irish'.   I was like a King next day in work.   Totally fcuked up that campaign by not beating the Poles at home. Would have won Euro92.

If Ray Houghton had of converted that chance towards the end  - totally destroyed them at Wembley - Taylor even brought on rookie Lee Sharpe at half time in desperation.

I'd like to nominate those who stood on the roof at Dalymount..........

For me our presence and performances at EURO 88 is what stands out. There have been other moments no doubt but that summer was the best closely followed by Italia 90.

I was living and working in London at the time and was only there 6 months before the Euro's. There was anti Irish sentiment and ignorance even among decent English people. The IRA were prominent in the news and Paddy was getting the wrong end of the stick.

Then Houghton put the ball in the net and the rank outsiders beat the mighty England 1-0 and all of a sudden the Irish could play football something that seemed to go under the radar of alot of people across the water. That victory and subsequest performances against the Russians and Dutch put us firmly on the map and now we (the Irish in England) had something to stand tall about. Jaysus we were even getting praised by the English.

I stood 10 feet tall heading into work the Monday after the England game, a very proud Irishman and that would continue right up to Italia 90 where we again confounded the critics and battled with the 'forces' of European football. So thanks to Big Jack and the lads for making a nations emigrant sons very proud to be Irish and not afraid to express that. Great memories that made living away from home that bit easier.

True.

A load of Pixieheads dressed up as Leprechauns.

Versus Italy they started singing it after 20 mins FFS.

the thing about the fields of athenry in Gdansk that gave off the wrong impression to the journos and people watching on tv was everytime they zoomed into the crowd they got people (eejits) spotting themselves on the big screen and going mad and cheering cause they were on tv, this gave the impression that we were 'celebrating', 'partying' or whatever.

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Edited by fear-glas - 19 Nov 2020 at 11:41pm

ABFC wrote: Without doubt Shane Long last October. It was a big FU to the begrudgers who ridiculed the team and the rugby bandwagon fans who would ask me "why do you go to Ireland matches. They're sh*te"

Did a Rugby player rob your missus or something you've an awful obsession of painting Rugby fans as bandwagongers when there'll be plenty in France who haven't been to an Ireland game since the last Euros. You'd swear it was something unique the way you always sh*te on about it