Riot on O'Connell Bridge?

lightening

nesf wrote:

Ah. I'd agree. It's a minority group in both. It's not very widespread in either, it's just more likely that a group of lads kicking the **** out of each other on O'Connell bridge will be on the news than a group of lads doing it in Ballywhateveryoucallit. Compared to some of European cousins we've very little sports violence tbh.

Agreed 100% A minority in both GAA and Soccer. Good point about the group in Dublin compared with the group in Bally.... Easier to get cameras to, makes better copy, easier to be repulsed.

nesf

lightening wrote:

Agreed 100% A minority in both GAA and Soccer. Good point about the group in Dublin compared with the group in Bally.... Easier to get cameras to, makes better copy, easier to be repulsed.

And with more people living in Dublin, more people will care. It's always a lot more disturbing when the violence in "on your doorstep". It's easier to ignore something happening a few hundred miles away in some place you've never heard of or never set foot in.

That and you'll see more sports violence in Dublin simply because there's more teams and more people. If you compress loads of people together you'll get friction, if they happen to follow different teams...

Gaspode

Plissken1 wrote:

A yeah sure it happens every week down the country, large gangs of wannabe English Hooligans attack each others pubs, and completely trash the place after a hurling match. :rolleyes:


Sure we are just a suburb of the UK at the end of the day, so its no wonder we dress and act like them.

Ya know, It's funny cos it's true!

There's a good 10 page thread in each of those sentences!!

lostexpectation

CiaranC wrote:

They were just people walking home from a hostile area after a football game. The escort was to prevent them being attacked.

I love the attitude on this forum, anyone who is working class and attends football matches is obviously a criminal.

and who is that they were being protected from? who may have attacked them?

other people who'd just left the match thats who...

Hard Larry

seansouth wrote:

Not one of the people in that YouTube clip is wearing a jersey of any description.

Of course any trouble caused is by fans of the eircom League.

Some of the ignorant, ill informed claptrap on this thread boggles the mind.

I regularly attend eircom League games, and have never been involved with violent scenes of any nature, thanks very much.

Oh, and yes, I own a jersey too.

Surprisingly, I don't sing with an English accent though.

What do Celtic Jersies have to do with Bohs and Rovers? Or was that just someone who doesn't really knowing what they are talking about making some kind of generalisation?

:rolleyes:

I wholeheartedly agree with ya on the Celtic Jerseys....the words Tar and Brush come to mind just because someone wears a Celtic Jersey (or any jersey for that matter) doesn't mean they're a thug

But the reason those lads aren't wearing Jerseys in the Video outside Hill 16 Pub is because its the Bohs and Rovers Casuals...they don't wear Jerseys...they wear casual sports gear to distinguish themselves from other fans...the casuals in the UK do it so them onions do it too.

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Yeah, thanks for the lesson in the life and times of football hooligans in Ireland. You obviously didn't read when I said I regularly attend eircom League games, you think I didn't know any of that.

And I certainly wasn't defending the Celtic Jersey wearing, ball scratching, tracksuit-bottoms in socks morons, like this idiot.

:rolleyes:

OhNoYouDidn't

is there any chance the title of this thread can be changed to something more appropriate like "**** all happened on O'Connell Bridge?"

Zebra3

OhNoYouDidn't wrote:

is there any chance the title of this thread can be changed to something more appropriate like "**** all happened on O'Connell Bridge?"

Give the OP a chance. He's probably looking for a job with the Herald.

Hard Larry

seansouth wrote:

Yeah, thanks for the lesson in the life and times of football hooligans in Ireland. You obviously didn't read when I said I regularly attend eircom League games, you think I didn't know any of that.

And I certainly wasn't defending the Celtic Jersey wearing, ball scratching, tracksuit-bottoms in socks morons, like this idiot.

:rolleyes:

ooooh tetchy someone has sand in their jimjams

didn't realise this thread was just for you.

Collie D

So no actual riot occurred? A bunch of people went to a football match and then went home? I'm sure it wasn't the OP's intention but why if nothing happened why is this thread just being used as a "soccer fans are scum" rant?

I follow a few sports (although soccer would be my number one). I have never encountered trouble at a soccer game...bit of hassle and aggressive attitude from opposing fans while in Amsterdam once but they were just dicks who didn't represent the majority of good-natured Dutch lads who enjoyed a few beers and some banter.

I have encountered scumbags at GAA games...this doesn't mean all GAA fans are scum...they are just scum who happen to like a particular sport.

CiaranC

lostexpectation wrote:

and who is that they were being protected from? who may have attacked them?

other people who'd just left the match thats who...

There have been several incidents in recent weeks of fans of Rovers & Shelbourne being attacked at their own home games, which didnt involve these peoples team at all. Certainly there is a small element of fans within the grounds who are bent on hooliganism, but Id wager the majority of these guys werent at the match.

But dont let mere facts get in the way of your whining.

lostexpectation

CiaranC wrote:

There have been several incidents in recent weeks of fans of Rovers & Shelbourne being attacked at their own home games, which didnt involve these peoples team at all. Certainly there is a small element of fans within the grounds who are bent on hooliganism, but Id wager the majority of these guys werent at the match.

But dont let mere facts get in the way of your whining.

so it involved people following the other team at the match? thats what I said..

OhNoYouDidn't

lostexpectation wrote:

so it involved people following the other team at the match? thats what I said..

no, in involved local gougers attacking Dublin buses with fans (and others) on them.

it could be a rugby, cricket or tiddlywinks game happening. get off your high horse.

lostexpectation

OhNoYouDidn't wrote:

no, in involved local gougers attacking Dublin buses with fans (and others) on them.

directly outside the grounds?

why would they do that?

CiaranC

lostexpectation wrote:

directly outside the grounds?

why would they do that?

The buses (and fans) were not attacked directly outside the ground, they (the northern parts of bus routes (16, 41) from the southside) were attacked around Dorset St, both on the way to and after the matches. A garda operation before the Rovers vs Derry city match led to several arrests before the match in the Dorset St area, and subsequently no further incidents occurred on the night.

Im afraid you'll need a social psychologist to answer the second part of your post.

OhNoYouDidn't

lostexpectation wrote:

directly outside the grounds?

why would they do that?

you are trying to imply its football related rather than little bástard related.

if you think the rugger crowd going to croke park are safe from this, you need to get real

lostexpectation

OhNoYouDidn't wrote:

you are trying to imply its football related rather than little bástard related.

if you think the rugger crowd going to croke park are safe from this, you need to get real

im not trying to say anything, show me an semi-organised fight like a rugby match

Collie D

lostexpectation wrote:

show me an semi-organised fight like a rugby match

Why? There was no semi-organised fight after the Bohs-Rovers game either...this whole topic was a non-event.

Rosita

colm_c wrote:

along with paddy wagons, QUOTE]


Paddy Wagons?

Was this Dublin or Cricklewood?

Did the Bobbies give the Paddies a good kicking before dumping them in the Paddy Wagons?:rolleyes:

lostexpectation

Collie D wrote:

Why? There was no semi-organised fight after the Bohs-Rovers game either...this whole topic was a non-event.

there have been what does that video show?

OhNoYouDidn't

lostexpectation wrote:

there have been what does that video show?

it shows a bar brawl from a few years ago.

we are talking about what (didn't) happen last week.

sorry to dissapoint, but the days of hooliganism at LoI games has long passed.