Irish Soccer supporters

Nice of you to acknowledge.

Irish fans...you mean the "supporters" who never go to a game every week,except if you count sitting in a pub watching man utd and Liverpool as support ing your team.

yep that would be them

Come on triumphoragony build a bridge. The little men with folded arms have given the barstoolers/ole ole brigade a free pass to enjoy the Euros. Some diehards even travelled over and some even participated in the fun.

It's starting to get nauseating.  Part of me wants to see the Boyz in Green man up and go on the rampage.

I can't handle anymore 'best fans in the world' stories.  it's almost we think we are competing for some sort of prize....when did we get so pious, self-conscious and up ourselves?  What happened to just going on the lash?

Absolutely Oz and i am a member of the boys in green army, i don't mind the whole cleaning up after themselves and changing an old couple's tyres but the celebrating with other fans really got to me when i seen it, the gaa fans are welcome, however singing is a novelty to them but these shanks need to be sat down and told where we draw the line, i believe that is the reason for celebrating with the Belgium fans, they do not have the intelligence to know you don't do with the other fans after you get your arse handed to you. We have a long way to go with these bumkins

Let's be honest these fans are only interested in a p!ss up,
There's more Irish "fans" in France than there does be in the aviva for a qualifier.

Rocketfingers....Did many skanks/ultras/casuals or whatever you boys call them, travel over?.

its all about the booze up.........if alcohol didnt exist us irish would just die off

It has gone way over the top , its starting to get silly.

Rocketfingers starts off praising Irish fans but when Ozymandius comes up with his usual self loathing he rings it.

He used to call himself " the Loan ( sic) Ranger " also self styled himself as Batman,his new nickname should be Marla,don't know whether there should be a fada there.

Does it matter if the Irish fans are going for a party,fact is they behave themselves and bring credit to this country.
I know its fashionable to sneer at the ""ole ole brigade " but what harm are they doing.

They make me proud.

I love soccer, support Bohs from a historical/sentimental perspective and also have a waxing/waning love of Everton but I have never been inside Goodison or in Dalymount for many years.

Watching the recent games in a pub the palpable sense of disappointment in Saturday's performance was clear yet, in today's game, a few breaks here and there mean little enough can divide the teams with a few notable exceptions. I thought Ireland were about to "man up" in the second half only for the wheels to come off and in hindsight 25 or 30 more minutes of the first-half so-called football could have been the call.

In fairness, Ireland have been a dreadful experience for the last 10 years - the inability to complete a pass from the halfway line on is THE most frustrating experience in sport when you are willing them to do well all the time. If you travelled home or abroad with this outfit and weren't there to enjoy yourself knowing the virtual, certain disappointment ahead of you in the quality stakes you would be a strange concoction. As many of those travelling today will barely remember the halcyon days of '88 etc it's just a rare occasion for us to go abroad en masse and have a good time.

And ending on another sentimental note I thought the advert (possible Eir) of the French kid running into his home shouting "the Irish are coming" was good television.

Singing to a little kid, i found that a bit strange i have to admit. Anyway lets hope they all havce something proper to sing about tomorrow night.

I would not say singing is a novelty for a gaa person going to a soccer game. Its more of a novelty to actually see a score in lots of matches and I am talking generally.
Most of the matches in this tournament have been dire as a spectacle. Of course you will see things differently if your at a match and need something to shout or cheer about in terms of entertainment.
I would not watch most of these matches if they were played in my back garden.

As players get fitter and more physical in a game like soccer the playing area gets smaller. The goals should be made bigger to compensate for that. You would believe the difference having something so important a few inches bigger could make.

would not believe... A  couple of inches would make a huge difference. There is no reason why this should not be considered. The standard goal size has not changed from the time players were using the kind of boots you only wear on a building site nowadays.

Plus the worlds population has grown massively in height since then..

Very true. When the game was invented in olden times there were not many 6feet two inch goalkeepers which seems the minimum entrance size for an international goalie.

same thing in rugby.....the pitch is just too small for 30 professional athletes...not enough space.

I haven,t enjoyed a irish win since this happened a long long time ago [not football]   www.youtube.com/results?search_query=john+tracy+beats+stev+ovett

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_hTjzsp3qs

Very good R.Q     I wonder what they are like in lille   tonight

Rocketfingers,,,,,,,,,seething.

Sure could you not just play with a smaller ball.