Research - Has our fans behaviour got worse?

kevincronin2000 wrote: A poster on here @irelandfan recently encountered behaviour on a flight to copenhagen that made him feel uncomfortable with fans thinking it was ok to grab airline staff by the ass etc.. surely if the airline slapped a ban on these tools they wouldnt be long copping on as there choice of routes to and from games and familly holidays would be severly effected. Im gobsmacked to why airlines allow such behaviour and I see one Airline saying recently that the sale of alcohol should be restricted at airports so we all would suffer the conceqences of these fools.

Wonder why the airline didn't take any action against that clown! Think Timmy Murphy the jockey got jailed for doing the exact same thing!

Edited by Trigboy 10 - 14 Dec 2017 at 2:36pm

I think the drinking side of things is the same as always but there's definitely more people coke off their heads. It doesn't bother me until I go into the stadium like in Copenhagen and the atmosphere is utter sh*t because half the fans are football family or lads who can barely stand let alone sing.

There were at least a 1000 regular fans who should have been in that stadium instead of others and they would have contributed. Makes it hard to get excited for the next aways. The others were very enjoyable however including Cardiff. A lot of carry on in the city although harmless but the atmosphere in the stadium was amazing.

Flew Aer Lingus to Krakow once and it was a dry flight.

They had too much trouble with the Polskis getting tanked up on their way home.

Didnt stop some of them smuggling on vodka though 😆

When I started travelling away in the mid eighties the main focus was always the football. The drink was of secondary concern as were Whores and drugs. The craic was generally spontaneous and good humoured. In recent times especially at tournaments and marquee qualifiers, it occurs to me that at least for a certain number of fans the actual football is just part of the trip and not the reason for the trip. I also think developments in air travel has made it easier for party fans to go to games. How many twats would have travelled to Denmark if it took 2 days by rail and boat to get there ?

Had a pint in the Dubliner in Copenhagen after the match. It was like a f**king zoo . The tables absolutely wedged with lads standing on top of them, everyone of them with their shirts off. Every single minute at least one would fall off, I'm amazed none of them who fell got seriously hurt. I went up to the bar anyway and one of these heroes was at the bar beside me ordering a treble vodka red bull. He says to me why I don't have my shirt off and that I should take it off. I says I'm grand for taking my shirt off thanks and he asks why not, am I some kind of fag. WTF

Best of luck with the research. Really interesting question.

It’s always difficult to compare different eras and the temptation is to see your younger self in a more positive light than might be warranted but I think things have got worse and will continue that way.

I have been going to Ireland away games for 30 years and in all that time I never saw the like of the game in Copenhagen. For such an important game it was disgusting to see so many “fans” with so little interest in what was happening on the pitch. Some were so pissed they could hardly stand, others just wanted more pints or selfies and others seemed to think the teams job was to entertain them. You can blame ticket allocations and all that but you cannot explain such a high percentage of a***oles.

There have always been a few morons at away games and lads who you knew would be trouble at home at the weekend. However they were a small minority and were on their best behaviour. There was peer pressure and a sense that we were representing our country and that the fans and the team were one unit, players doing their stuff on the pitch and us doing ours on the terrace or stand. There was an innocence about us as well. We were just happy to be there after years of heartache. At the games themselves I’ve seen grown men cry and atheists pray and a lad beating the bodhran until his hands bled. The games mattered and it hurt like hell when you lost.

Now I think the match is becomming an excuse to go on a stag weekend with your mates. Its cheaper than ever before and if you buy your beer in the supermarket you can get pissed on very little money compared to Ireland. I am all in favour of getting hammered in a foreign city and we shifted industrial quantities ourselves in Copenhagen but the match must come first and people who get scarce tickets should be in good enough nick to make proper use of them. Otherwise what is the ****ing point?

I think it has been building up over time and I don’t see it stopping. The match gives a licence to go over the top and you have a herd mentality. I don’t have a major problem with the antics like Victoria’s secret. You have an Irish pub next to a lingerie shop. What do you think will happen? Would have been funnier if it was a porn store but its harmless. What does bother me is the next phase which might lead to violence and turn the whole thing sour. Oh and could we drop the brain dead James McClean chant.

kevincronin2000  Think its safe to say that the authorities in this country have lost the war on drugs so as a nation we have a high usuage of Cocaine and other recreational drugs.  [/QUOTE wrote: I cannot give this enough laughing emojis, so I won't bother.

the_walls wrote: Had a pint in the Dubliner in Copenhagen after the match. It was like a f**king zoo . The tables absolutely wedged with lads standing on top of them, everyone of them with their shirts off. Every single minute at least one would fall off, I'm amazed none of them who fell got seriously hurt. I went up to the bar anyway and one of these heroes was at the bar beside me ordering a treble vodka red bull. He says to me why I don't have my shirt off and that I should take it off. I says I'm grand for taking my shirt off thanks and he asks why not, am I some kind of fag. WTF