Irish flags in crowd at premiership games

ronbyrne2005

Whats the story with the Irish flags in crowd at many premiership games? You never see cameroon flags, or welsh flags, or portugese flags but theres nearly always an irish one being waved frenetically. I noticed one again today at white harte lane for Tottenham game obviously as robbie keane was playing but robbie might not have been playing if jol rotated the squad but the irish person would still be waving i bet.

Why do many irish people feel the need to do this?? I was in a pub outside white harte land last year and a group of irish lads in irish jerseys arrived in after a spurs game and some local cockney Tottenham fans said something like " not more fuc£ing paddies" as if they resent the irish wearing irish jerseys/waving flags at spurs games in the english city of london.

jesus_thats_gre

ronbyrne2005 wrote:

some local cockney Tottenham fans said something like " not more fuc£ing paddies" as if they resent the irish wearing irish jerseys/waving flags at spurs games in the english city of london.

This would be the perfect reason to be honest!!

county

you get paddy flags at all PL games,whats your point








*no offence made by the use of the word paddy*

thebaz

I went to a few Spurs games when in London, and drank with many Spurs fans , in North London, and they certainly had a largish Irish following , and in general seamed to like the Irish , the only people they didn't seam to like were gooners.

Guy:Incognito

thebaz wrote:

the only people they didn't seam to like were gooners.

Yeah, at the Liverpool game in Anfield I was beside the spurs section, they spent the whole match chanting about Sol Campbell and/or Arsenal.:)

jank

This would be the perfect reason to be honest!!

To piss them off? Thats a bit sad to be honest

Carcharodon

Whats the question ?

Why some Irish people bring Irish flags to show their support for Irish players at EPL games and maybe to show a bit of national pride.

or

Why a couple of local Spurs fans said "not more fuc£ing paddies" when they saw a couple of Irish lads in Irish jerseys ?

scojones

I always thought it was a representation of where you come from. To show how far you have come to watch your team (ok it's only over the pond) play. I think it's a nice thing to see at games. What's wrong with it?
There is a difference between showing where you are from at a match and getting langers drunk in an Irish jersey and upsetting the locals.

jank

I never got this. If we showed half as move pride in our own league then football overall in this country and international scene would be much better then it is now.

therecklessone

jank wrote:

I never got this. If we showed half as move pride in our own league then football overall in this country and international scene would be much better then it is now.

You could lead the way and replace that Goon picture in your sig...

Spurs have a very large Irish following, and a lot travel over regularly. We are always made very welcome, everyone I ever meet is amazed we travel as much as we do and respect us for it.

I think the OP just ran into a group of assholes TBH. And assholes are everywhere.

Savman

Next people will complain that grounds are too noisy. :rolleyes:

You see flags of all sorts at any large stadium of a big team with international support. Why would that bother anyone? I'd imagine the paddies remarks are friendly banter taken out of context and so long as you're shouting for the home team nobody cares where you're from.

Personally I'd love to see various flags being hung at Villa Park be they Irish, Polish, American whatever. Who cares...