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

i remember as a small kid watching on TV sheedys equaliser against England at italia 90! Mc Loughlins goal aswell in Belfast will always be special! As someone previously said the atmosphere outside Hennessys pub in Kingsbury in 2013 was brilliant and the fans at one stage bringing traffic to a standstill! the little off licence next door was running out of beer and the owner couldn't hide his delight at all these fans who had made Kingsbury the place to be before the game instead of central London! O'shea's goal against Germany aswell and the crazy celebrations as up until that point I don't think anyone was going be having any great memories of dreary Gelsenkirchen!! on the Homefront in 1999 a group of us went to Galway for the Pats v Galway game but we had no way of getting back we took a chance that the supporters bus would have empty seats but they were all full! Pat Dolan became aware of our plight and he allowed the 4 of us get a lift back on the team bus! Can vividly remember stopping at Supermacs in Loughrea and a box load of food been bought for the journey back and Dolan saying help yourselfs!!

Edited by Trigboy 10 - 20 Apr 2016 at 1:49am

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the other day i watched a video on killianm2 of the penalties and the post match celebtations from the u18 euro final against germany in 98. hearing george hamilton yell ireland are the european champions. great stuff. there must have been one or two lads from on here that were in cyprus that day.

With the truly awful 5 or 6 year spell that came after it, hindsight made the Spain second round game at the World Cup a nice memory despite the outcome. The fact we had a team that went toe-to-toe with the Spaniards and arguably should have won the game made me proud for a period where there was precious little to be proud about.

Edited by OnTheOneRoad - 20 Apr 2016 at 3:26pm

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"

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"

Someone who would say that doesn't understand football and sport in general. Nobody should follow their country just because of the standard they are capable of playing to. Same goes for your club. I could never understand the people who slated us for singing the FOA the way we did in Gdansk when 4 down. Id challenge anyone to find a more passionate version of it by us or the rugby fans.  One of the many beautiful things about football is the passion it invokes in people , and that passion wasn't found wanting on that dreadful night. Gerk done a great piece at the time in response to some idiot of a sports journo who criticised the Irish support there that night for doing what they were there for , support. Its my stand out moment out of all the great moments iv experienced watching football for the simple fact that iv haven't yet, and probably never will again experience that defiance in the face of defeat and pride of my country 

Edited by PanteirA - 20 Apr 2016 at 10:18pm

PanteirA wrote: 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" Someone who would say that doesn't understand football and sport in general. Nobody should follow their country just because of the standard they are capable of playing to. Same goes for your club. I could never understand the people who slated us for singing the FOA the way we did in Gdansk when 4 down. Id challenge anyone to find a more passionate version of it by us or the rugby fans.  One of the many beautiful things about football is the passion it invokes in people , and that passion wasn't found wanting on that dreadful night. Gerk done a great piece at the time in response to some idiot of a sports journo who criticised the Irish support there that night for doing what they were there for , support. Its my stand out moment out of all the great moments iv experienced watching football for the simple fact that iv haven't yet, and probably never will again experience that defiance in the face of defeat and pride of my country

Well said kerryman

OnTheOneRoad wrote: Aye, first and foremost it was the utter unbelievable joy that we'd pulled off a result like that, but it was very nice to have that when people were constantly running down the team as sh*te

Sad thing is though that most of those same people are now tripping over themselves to get tickets for the Euros this summer...and God knows how many of those are getting them!

Anyway, not sure I can add to any of the moments mentioned on this tread tbh, they've already been mentioned but my favourites include Ray Houghton's winner v Italy at Giants' Stadium and McGrath's performance in the same match, Matt Holland's screamer against Cameroon in 2002 WC, our performance against Spain in the 2nd round of that tournament, the atmosphere in Gelsenkirchen in 2014 and of course the celebrations for O'Shea's equaliser.

Hopefully more moments to come this summer

PanteirA wrote: 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" Someone who would say that doesn't understand football and sport in general. Nobody should follow their country just because of the standard they are capable of playing to. Same goes for your club. I could never understand the people who slated us for singing the FOA the way we did in Gdansk when 4 down. Id challenge anyone to find a more passionate version of it by us or the rugby fans.  One of the many beautiful things about football is the passion it invokes in people , and that passion wasn't found wanting on that dreadful night. Gerk done a great piece at the time in response to some idiot of a sports journo who criticised the Irish support there that night for doing what they were there for , support. Its my stand out moment out of all the great moments iv experienced watching football for the simple fact that iv haven't yet, and probably never will again experience that defiance in the face of defeat and pride of my country

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