Own Up! Who did this?

OhNoYouDidn't

Which one of you hun-lovers is responsible for this?

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/roishirtsonly/

DerekD Goldfish

If I could get with without the Eircom logo like the players Id wear one
as for the no celtic jerseys rule I dislike celtic as much as most on here but people should be able to wear what they want to games

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Signed.

I hate seeing any club jersies at international football, not just foreign ones.

Charlie

Wasn''t myself, but i'd happily take credit for it if it was. Can't stand the Kell-tick brigade.

Xavi6

Until the sponsor goes on the replica shirts I'll be wearing my Ireland tracksuit top (well, whenever I get home that is).

Down with the Sell-Thick brigade anyway.

CountingCrows

Can't beat ignorant Celtic bashing :rolleyes:

Eirebear

Wasnt me...but i agree with it.

I wouldnt wear a gers top to a scotland game.
I wouldnt wear a Finn Harps top to an ireland game.
And theyre teams from the same country.

I certainly wouldnt wear a foreign teams top to a national game

gucci

Its blocked out here( at work) take it its a ban on wearing english/scottish club jerseys to ireland matches?

OhNoYouDidn't

DesF wrote: »

Signed.

I hate seeing any club jersies at international football, not just foreign ones.

Really? You wouldn't wear a shels top?

Its clearly someone on a wind up, but I have no objection to anyone brightnening the place up with green and white shirts of any persuasion.

Why not pick on the red and blue foreign shirts that get worn before picking on the green and white ones?

OhNoYouDidn't

gucci wrote: »

Its blocked out here( at work) take it its a ban on wearing english/scottish club jerseys to ireland matches?

Just Celtic.

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OhNoYouDidn't wrote: »

Really? You wouldn't wear a shels top?

If I ever start going to Oirland games again, I wouldn't be wearing a Shels jersey, no.

OhNoYouDidn't wrote: »

Its clearly someone on a wind up, but I have no objection to anyone brightnening the place up with green and white shirts of any persuasion.

Why not pick on the red and blue foreign shirts that get worn before picking on the green and white ones?

Meh, all the same to me. ManYoo, Liverpool, Chelsea, Aston Villa, Celtic, Rangers, Bayern Munich, Cameroon, Sparta Prague.

All foreign teams.

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What will be really hilarious is when these Home Internationals start again, and there are numpties in the stands, "supporting" Ireland against Scotland, but wearing a Celtic jersey.

Eirebear

DesF wrote: »

What will be really hilarious is when these Home Internationals start again, and there are numpties in the stands, "supporting" Ireland against Scotland, but wearing a Celtic jersey.

And many of them will be Scottish.....

KdjaCL

OhNoIDidnt

We, the signatories of this petition, are requesting that Football Association of Ireland ask fans of the Republic to only wear the Republic of Ireland shirts and regalia at
international matches.

Why do some fans wear the shirts of a foreign team at Ireland football matches? Are they ashamed of the Irish jersey? I'd imagine that if someone turned up at an England match in a Barcelona shirt, they'd be laughed at by all the other fans. Similarly, if some supporter of les bleus was seen sporting a Bayern Munich or Ajax jersey at a match involving France, he'd be treated with the appropriate contempt.

So why should some Irish fans be different? I'm referring of course to those fans who wear Glasgow Celtic shirts at Republic of Ireland matches. Glasgow Celtic is a Scottish team with some obsolete links to Ireland that are no longer relevant. That in itself would be of little consequence were it not for the fact that Glasgow Celtic's fans comprise one half of a low level Catholic versus Protestant bigotry that has been rumbling in Scottish
society for centuries.

Given the history of this country and island, it should be obvious that any association between Irishness and either side in this sectarianism would be very prejudicial to support levels for the team. There is a well documented
problem in Northern Ireland where Roman Catholics don't feel welcome at Windsor Park. We don't need to have the same problem down here where the Republic of Ireland team becomes identified with Catholicism. So I'm calling
on the Football Association of Ireland to respectfully ask fans of the Republic

for whoever cant see it.



kdjac

CountingCrows

Imagine the cheek of some people wearing a jersey from a club started by a Sligo priest to help Irish emigrants abroad.

Charlie

CountingCrows wrote: »

Imagine the cheek of some people wearing a jersey from a club started by a Sligo priest to help Irish emigrants abroad.

Who I am sure would be turning in his grave if he saw some of the type of people who 'support' his club.

jesus_thats_gre

Signed up myself..

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charlie mchugh wrote: »

Who I am sure would be turning in his grave if he saw some of the type of people who 'support' his club.

Just one "for instance"

http://bifsniff.com/wp-content/files/2007/02/mail.jpg

And another

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/uncyclopedia/images/thumb/b/b7/Skanger.jpg/225px-Skanger.jpg

Eirebear

CountingCrows wrote: »

Imagine the cheek of some people wearing a jersey from a club started by a Sligo priest to help Irish emigrants abroad.

.......and then sold to publicans less than a year later.

gucci

That picture never gets old! Its because of shams like him that celtic tops cant be worn anywhere outside parkhead, never mind to ireland games!

Xavi6

Get the fuccck would ya. Wear the hoops with pride - as the song goes If ya know your history - and u obviously dont!

If anyone else signs this petition, we'll use the IP address to find out who they are. You have been warned. Signed... The IRA. We haven't gone away you know.

Do I ROFL or shake my head?

eirebhoy

Hate seeing Celtic jerseys at Ireland games too.

LuckyLloyd

CountingCrows wrote: »

Imagine the cheek of some people wearing a jersey from a club started by a Sligo priest to help Irish emigrants abroad.

So you would have no problem if I turned up to the next Ireland match:

- wearing my Panitanikos jersey;
- my notre dame football jersies or hoodies;
- my Boston Celtics jersey;

all sporting institutions with some tenuous link to the idea of Irishness and modern Ireland. Or would you find some of the above a little strange?

Wearing no jersey is better than a celtic jersey imo.

Mr Alan

Wearing no jersey is the way forward.

Gavin "shels"

Signed it myself. Although I'm a bit of a hypocrite as I wear my Shels jersey to matches since last summer as now some Portguese scumbag has my Ireland jersey.:mad: But I suppose wearing a Shels jersey isn't half as bad as a Man U, Liverpool, Celtic, etc... jerseries.

CountingCrows

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

So you would have no problem if I turned up to the next Ireland match:

- wearing my Panitanikos jersey;
- my notre dame football jersies or hoodies;
- my Boston Celtics jersey;

all sporting institutions with some tenuous link to the idea of Irishness and modern Ireland. Or would you find some of the above a little strange?

Wearing no jersey is better than a celtic jersey imo.

Nope I'd have no problem at all. In fact anyone wearing anything green to support there country is fine with me.

Mr Alan

do you think the players look at the crowd and say, look that lad is wearing a green jumper, i must try harder?!

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Mr Alan wrote: »

do you think the players look at the crowd and say, look that lad is wearing a green jumper, i must try harder?!

lol

Xavi6

CountingCrows wrote: »

Nope I'd have no problem at all. In fact anyone wearing anything green to support there country is fine with me.

That's ridiculous. So a person wearing a Boston Celtics top is supporting their country more than the lad in the Bohs jersey?

Eirebear

Xavi6 wrote: »

That's ridiculous. So a person wearing a Boston Celtics top is supporting their country more than the lad in the Bohs jersey?

I do to an extent agree with what CC is saying in terms of colour.
Its always a better spectacle when the crowd is decked out in the teams colours.

CountingCrows

Xavi6 wrote: »

That's ridiculous. So a person wearing a Boston Celtics top is supporting their country more than the lad in the Bohs jersey?

So were going down the "who supports there country more" road are we :rolleyes:

The more people at games supporting Ireland the better, regardless of what there wearing

super_furry

Xavi6 wrote: »

Until the sponsor goes on the replica shirts I'll be wearing my Ireland tracksuit top (well, whenever I get home that is).

I always wear my Rovers shirt to Ireland games and will continue to do so until I can buy an Ireland jersey without an eircom logo.-

Gavin "shels"

CountingCrows wrote: »

The more people at games supporting Ireland the better, regardless of what there wearing

You won't be saying that when you have to sit next to someone in the nip at Croke Park.:D

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The thing about wearing a Bohs/Shels/Pats jersey is that none of the players would recognise it.

And they'd just think a Rovers one is Celtic :pac:

Xavi6

CountingCrows wrote: »

So were going down the "who supports there country more" road are we :rolleyes:

Nope not at all. eL jerseys of any kind are at least relative to the game at hand, Boston Celtic singlets are not.

The more people at games supporting Ireland the better, regardless of what there wearing

No arguments there in principal but really there is no place for Man. United jerseys at an Ireland game.

super_furry wrote: »

I always wear my Rovers shirt to Ireland games and will continue to do so until I can buy an Ireland jersey without an eircom logo.-

Personally I don't see any problem with wearing eL jerseys as an alternative to the sponsored Irish jerseys.

Boggles

Well if I paid 80 quid for any jersey coupled with the cost rapeage of bringing myself and a couple of young fellas to a game then You are more than welcome to approach me in the ground and have ago at my attire.

Who knows, you could start a thread the following week on how many replica shirts you counted in casualty!

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Anyone who thinks wearing the jersey of a foreign club is in ANY way "supporting" Oirland is delusional, and a product of corporate brainwashing.

Any jersey for that matter.

There were no replica jersies in the 60s/70s, and teams had just as good support back then as they do now.

No folks, a jersey or "colours" is not a pre-requisite to supporting a team.

Myself? I wear a couple of Shels Pin-Badges on the collar of my jacket. I do own a Shles jersey or two, but I don't religiously buy one every time a new one is launched.

And a scarf for the winter.

Raskolnikov

Jesus, isn't it enough to worry about supporting the team then having to deal with FAI-fashion Nazi's?

I say where whatever you like to an international match, if it's green, all the better.

Mr Alan

blow up hammers and leprecaun hats are also essential.

This is Des before the last game at Landsdowne. FACT.

http://users.ca.astound.net/bdeal/halloween/2006/Halloween2006_Leprechaun.jpg

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Mr Alan wrote: »

blow up hammers and leprecaun hats are also essential.

This is Des before the last game at Landsdowne. FACT.

http://users.ca.astound.net/bdeal/halloween/2006/Halloween2006_Leprechaun.jpg

True, and this is me when I was a baby.

I started young.

patmac

Looks like a good marketing scam to sell a few more replica shirts in order to pay half of trapp's wages.

fullstop

Mr Alan wrote: »

do you think the players look at the crowd and say, look that lad is wearing a green jumper, i must try harder?!

More classic drivel from Mr Alan :rolleyes: Do you think they look and see someone wearing a Celtic jersey and say "look at that lad wearing a Celtic jersey, i must try less hard"?
The point he was tryng to make is that anything green adds to the spectacle and gives the stadium a better look.

eddiehead

I do agree to an extent that wearing green adds to the spectacle of the crowd, but i wouldnt like anybody to think the were giving any more support by wearing a Celtic jersey. It bears as little relevence to the FAI and irish soccer as some random nike or reebok sweater or tshirt etc. I think most peoples problem with it is not the fact that somebody is wearing one to an Ireland match, its the slightly deluded notion inside that persons head that....

Celtic=Irish
Me wearing Celtic jersey=Me more Irish than you:D

LuckyLloyd

CountingCrows wrote: »

Nope I'd have no problem at all. In fact anyone wearing anything green to support there country is fine with me.

CountingCrows wrote: »

So were going down the "who supports there country more" road are we :rolleyes:

The more people at games supporting Ireland the better, regardless of what there wearing

Well, I do agree that anyone who wants to turn up and give some passionate support should be welcomed irrespective of what they want to wear. And so long as you are happy that a top with a bit of green on it is why you wear a celtic jersey rather than it being any sort of an Irish national representative singlet then I can't really argue.

Fair enough.

Mr Alan

fullstop wrote: »

More classic drivel from Mr Alan :rolleyes: Do you think they look and see someone wearing a Celtic jersey and say "look at that lad wearing a Celtic jersey, i must try less hard"?

No. I think they couldnt give a ****.

fullstop wrote: »

The point he was tryng to make is that anything green adds to the spectacle and gives the stadium a better look.

So wat? surely an atmosphere is more important that how things "look"

Do you think people arrive at fenerbache, besiktas, san siro etc and say, "jaysus lads! they're not even wearing replica kits! this is gonna be a walk in the park!"

Doubt it.

Too many people at Irish matches who confuse acting a fool and dressing like a tit, with creating an atmosphere.

stooge

So do you think that by banning celtic shirts it will create a better atmosphere? I would bet serious money that it wouldnt.

If you ban celtic shirts and presumably scarves etc then the likelihood is the spectacle won't be just as intimidating for opposition teams.

As Raskolnikov said, wear whatever the heck you want. If its green its a plus.

Personally I dont give a sh1t if you wear an LOI team shirt, a celtic shirt, or a ROI replica. It doenst make you a better supporter what you wear.

I think the person who came up with the idea could have spent his/her time coming up with something CONstructive rather than DEstructive i.e. chants/songs etc.

gustavo

I don't mind the wearing of anything green , just don't like the fact that the Celtic shirt is being worn as some de facto Ireland shirt

Mr Alan

tbh, i probably shouldnt have gotten involved in this debate cause its not something i particularly care about. i'll bow out now. apologies for any offence caused.

DSB

Definitely am signing. As stated, Celtic aren't Irish. I'll wear my Shels jersey with pride though.

Mr.Nice Guy

This is absurd in my opinion. The Celtic strip is green and I see no reason in stopping people from wearing it. I've seen people wear green Gaelic football shirts to Ireland matches too. Ban the bastards. :rolleyes:

I'd be more concerned about stamping out the Provo chants that you hear some fans engaging in.

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Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

I'd be more concerned about stamping out the Provo chants that you hear some fans engaging in.

+1, the addition of the "Sinn Fein/IRA" part to a certain song, usually by Celtic-jersey "Éire 32" bedraggled, furry mustache sporting, Dutch Gold swigging, sovereign ring wearing imbeciles, should be a capital offence.

estebancambias

stooge wrote: »

So do you think that by banning celtic shirts it will create a better atmosphere? I would bet serious money that it wouldnt.

If you ban celtic shirts and presumably scarves etc then the likelihood is the spectacle won't be just as intimidating for opposition teams.

As Raskolnikov said, wear whatever the heck you want. If its green its a plus.

Personally I dont give a sh1t if you wear an LOI team shirt, a celtic shirt, or a ROI replica. It doenst make you a better supporter what you wear.

I think the person who came up with the idea could have spent his/her time coming up with something CONstructive rather than DEstructive i.e. chants/songs etc.

we need to start doing what Italy do and use pop songs and manipulate them into a killer chant. Pardon the pun...*coughs* thankyou, thankyou very much.