A-Z of moments that made you proud to be YBIG fan |
Post Reply | Page <1 5678> |
Author | ||
Claret Murph
Paul McGrath Hmmm, Goodness, I must say Joined: 16 Apr 2009 Location: Tibet Status: Offline Points: 15766 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
That moment will live with me for ever , when David scored ....... Proud, not sure is a right team for it but the day we played Wales at Croke Park , it was so hard to imagine that this could happen in our country , never forget the anthems still chokes up even now . Last funny really as this really touched me we were in the posher seats in Yerevan and at the end of the game a father and son was walking along in front of us and Irish lad gave him his scarf . The look of joy on the boys face was matched by the Father also and was given a huge cheer as he walked along , very simple really but always sticks in my mind of the Irish are all about at an away game .
|
||
Lansdowne Road debut aged 52 and 201 days .
|
||
Sponsored Links | ||
eire77
Ray Houghton Joined: 08 May 2012 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 2993 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
Our travelling support has been smashing for years and does make you proud to come from a country where you know you can travel and be welcomed due to having earned an excellent reputation. Our behaviour at all the major events has been great and even though I don't care much for the BFITW nonsence we really are very well behaved, respectful of our hosts and good humoured. This is actually reasonably unique in football support where many other countries intimidate and disrespect locals when they visit.
The Fields in Gdansk was special - I felt it was a show of defiance where we may have been beaten but never defeated. We've come out of tougher corners. Those who disagree can do one, they just don't get it. Although to be fair the TV pictures showed a lot more eejits than I remember from the moment. Football wise our overall performance at tournaments, the games against England where we're unbeaten in three decades, Mcateer v the Dutch, Robbie and Shane Long against Germany have been proud moments. Also the fact we are one of, I think, only three teams who have qualified for multiple world cups and always got out of our group is a source of pride too. Edited by eire77 - 18 Apr 2016 at 2:31pm |
||
Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get me...
|
||
Deane
Liam Brady Joined: 17 Oct 2014 Location: Co Down Status: Offline Points: 2960 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
Some great moments already mentioned .
O'Sheas last moment equaliser against Germany and the mayhem that followed is another in my opinion. |
||
Denis Irwin
Robbie Keane Stay Home & watch Lethal Weapon Joined: 03 Feb 2008 Location: Ath Cliath Status: Offline Points: 37960 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
Pity they didn't drop him. Might of knocked some sense into him |
||
Eamonn Dunphy:"I'll tell you who wrote it, Rod Liddle, he's the guy who ran away and left his wife for a young one".
Bill O'Herlihy: Ah ye can't be saying that now Eamonn |
||
SuperDave84
Robbie Keane ooh Thomas, how could you do this to me! Joined: 26 Aug 2011 Location: Far Fungannon Status: Offline Points: 21384 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
God, where do you start? There are so many.
Long v Germany in Dublin has to be at the top: we beat the World Champions, ffs, and the place was electric The atmosphere that night in the Aviva: especially the last few minutes O'Shea v Germany in Gelsenkirchen Those two games in Paris: performances, support, the lot The Fields in Gdansk (much and all as it divides opinion) Richie Dunne's "none shall pass" display in Moscow Drawing with the world champions Italy in Bari Keane's equaliser in Ibaraki: if you listen to the BBC commentary, Motson is resigned to Ireland losing despite their performance until it goes in. The number of Japanese fans celebrating like mad really demonstrated our appeal to the neutrals. Those are definitely my top moments. I know there are more from further back but I don't really remember Italia '90 and there was only one massive moment from USA '94. |
||
|
||
reddladd
Jack Charlton Joined: 07 Oct 2008 Location: Virgin Islands Status: Offline Points: 6945 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
The day Irish fans held John Delaney aloft to cheers of jubilation after he had generously opened the FAI coffers to give free drink to fans on the disco train. It also meant that all the slabs of beer previously purchased could be saved for later. It was heart rendering to see how the football commuity united behind their leader on foreign soil. It would bring a tear to your eye. Proud to be Irish!
|
||
I could agree with you but then we'd both be wrong.
|
||
Newryrep
Paul McGrath Just can't get enough of lists Joined: 14 Jan 2009 Status: Offline Points: 15261 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
|
||
'Irish' Songs for an Irish team - no SPL EPL generic sh*te
Richard Dunne - 6th Sept 11 - best marshalling of a defence in Moscow since General Zukov Russia V Germany 1941 |
||
Denis Irwin
Robbie Keane Stay Home & watch Lethal Weapon Joined: 03 Feb 2008 Location: Ath Cliath Status: Offline Points: 37960 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
|
||
Eamonn Dunphy:"I'll tell you who wrote it, Rod Liddle, he's the guy who ran away and left his wife for a young one".
Bill O'Herlihy: Ah ye can't be saying that now Eamonn |
||
SuperDave84
Robbie Keane ooh Thomas, how could you do this to me! Joined: 26 Aug 2011 Location: Far Fungannon Status: Offline Points: 21384 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
That toddler is probably about 12. I reckon his spelling of English words is better than yours by now, too. |
||
|
||
MayoMark
Moderator Group The NEW angrier Freewheeler Joined: 27 Jan 2009 Location: Castlebar Status: Offline Points: 26342 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
Robbie v the Germans in 2002
|
||
They finally did it man... They killed my f**kin' car...
|
||
seanyshuffler
Jack Charlton PM snitch Joined: 09 Jun 2011 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 9538 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
John Delaney standing up to Sepp Blatter!
|
||
Newryrep
Paul McGrath Just can't get enough of lists Joined: 14 Jan 2009 Status: Offline Points: 15261 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
your attention seeking, 'Look at me , look at me' posts really are tedious at this stage for about 99% of this site, the other 1 % being the other fake profile you invent so you can agree with yourself
|
||
'Irish' Songs for an Irish team - no SPL EPL generic sh*te
Richard Dunne - 6th Sept 11 - best marshalling of a defence in Moscow since General Zukov Russia V Germany 1941 |
||
Guests
Guest Group |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
World Cup last 16 match against Spain in 2002. It was the first World Cup Ireland qualified for that I was old enough to remember. Duff tearing it up down the wing. Although it was a missed opportunity they played brilliantly and to do it against a footballing powerhouse like Spain was special.
|
||
Newryrep
Paul McGrath Just can't get enough of lists Joined: 14 Jan 2009 Status: Offline Points: 15261 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
Stuttgart 06 - the usual village idiots kicking a ball as high as you can running into people crashing tables trying to catch it despite people standing/sitting around gernarlly enjoying a beer, and people trying to get across the crowd,
I personally would of told the toddler to man the fuk up but still, I thought it was a really nice jesture
|
||
'Irish' Songs for an Irish team - no SPL EPL generic sh*te
Richard Dunne - 6th Sept 11 - best marshalling of a defence in Moscow since General Zukov Russia V Germany 1941 |
||
OohAah...
Ray Houghton Joined: 09 Apr 2011 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 3522 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
1. Shane Long goal and the result(maybe cos it was recent but still raises the hairs)
2. Penalty shootout against Romania 3. Dutch away match (Watching in a quiet hotel in Wexford and the place went off) 4. Macedonia Away( getting a round of applause from Macedonians in a restuarant that their former keeper who played against us owns, when we called in after the game which he asked us to,) |
||
Portal
Kevin Kilbane Mr. Paranoid Joined: 11 Mar 2016 Location: World Wide Web Status: Offline Points: 295 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
Is this the home game equivalent of the Polish sweethearts thread? |
||
Citizen
Roy Keane Joined: 02 Aug 2007 Location: Highway 753 Status: Offline Points: 13741 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
it has to be Shane long v germany.
Beating the world champions in a crunch game after 13 years of not beating a team ranked higher than us at home. Also considering the fact that they humiliated us 6-1 at home only 3 years before that, and how we embarrassed ourselves at the euros. After that it would be France away, superb performance, just not enough on the night but i was really proud of the display. Spain in the world cup, another great performance, should have beaten them. Holland at home, beating an arrogant dutch team with 10 men, inspiring performance. |
||
My Views are my own and do not in any way represent this site.
'The FAI are the dysfunctional body that other dysfunctional bodies call Galacticos' - Declan Lynch (Sunday Indo) |
||
Borussia
Roy Keane Joined: 14 Oct 2010 Location: UK Status: Offline Points: 10780 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
|
Loads of memories for me :
- Outside Hennesseys in Kingsbury before the friendly at Wembley. The sing songs there and outside the tube stop were brilliant. - Paris 2004 : Just for the sheer number of fans that travelled. - The first friendly in Fulham against Colombia. Nobody really knew there was a game on (Local people etc) but they certainly did after ! - Was mentioned by Gerk but the Rovers - Spurs game is one of my favourite ever games over here in the 15 years I've been here. The number of fans, the non-stop chanting, the madness when Ricer's goal went in. Worked at the time with a Spurs season ticket holder and he reckoned that was a loudest away fans that had been to white hart lane in years. Went with lads from Limerick and Galway and they were joining in the songs by the end !
|
||
Post Reply | Page <1 5678> |
Tweet
|
Forum Jump | Forum Permissions You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot create polls in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum |