What's the 'most Irish' Premier League club?

Johnny Utah

Probably United or Liverpool....

What do ye think?

Doyler92

Sunderland.

lordgoat

Johnny Utah wrote: »

Probably United or Liverpool....

What do ye think?

Neither. Both are English clubs.

If you mean who has the most Irish supporters, i'd say liverpool.

Essien

They're gonna love this thread.

Panthro

Essien wrote: »

They're gonna love this thread.

Stick on the popcorn!:pac:

lordgoat

Essien wrote: »

They're gonna love this thread.

Get in early and sit back eh? Out of interest are there many chelsea fans. Say over 25. I know 2 guys i work with, one lived in london and the other is spanish, has no spanish team but is a chelsea fan.

Essien

lordgoat wrote: »

Get in early and sit back eh? Out of interest are there many chelsea fans. Say over 25. I know 2 guys i work with, one lived in london and the other is spanish, has no spanish team but is a chelsea fan.

I only know 1 Chelsea fan under 25 (I'm 26:pac:), in my area I know maybe 10 or 12 Chelsea fans, all 30+

CSF

Johnny Utah wrote: »

Probably United or Liverpool....

What do ye think?

Seriously, go away with this ****.

Badabing

Everton

Panthro

lordgoat wrote: »

Get in early and sit back eh? Out of interest are there many chelsea fans. Say over 25. I know 2 guys i work with, one lived in london and the other is spanish, has no spanish team but is a chelsea fan.

I've been to the supporters club in both Galway and Dundalk (Dundalk had me raise the oul eyebrows too!) In both sets of clubs the majority of fans looked 40's+ from what I could see, a few mid 20's and then the young lads. I'm guessing of the older generation a few of them might have worked over there and returned home since perhaps, purely speculation though.
From the Superthread here, it seems to be a mixed bag agewise, which I'm glad to see personally.

Link of official chelsea supporters clubs

Xavi6

Celtic

Deedsie

Not a one, they are all English. Some have great Irish support. Liverpool and United by a country mile I'd say have the most Irish followers.

cson

I'm going to answer your question a different way; I would imagine Wolves having 7 Irish lads in the first team squad are the 'most Irish' Premier League club.

eZe^

cson wrote: »

I'm going to answer your question a different way; I would imagine Wolves having 7 Irish lads in the first team squad are the 'most Irish' Premier League club.

Plus the pseudo-irish legend that is Mick McCarthy.

delta_bravo

Kolkata Knight Riders

Mars Bar

Leeds would have a fairly hefty Irish following I would imagine

spiralism

The only clubs that can really claim the whole "irishness" thing are hibs and celtic. After that it's much of a muchness really, utd, pool and arsenal all have substantial irish followings. chelsea not so much, maybe due to the much stronger "british" image than the other 3 but there's a decent amount of them around

Kingp35

mars bar wrote: »

Leeds would have a fairly hefty Irish following I would imagine

Yep we are everywhere. Doesn't make the club in anyway "Irish" though. There is no point in deluding ourselves, we support an English club that have nothing to do with Ireland, simple as.

Jim

eZe^ wrote: »

Plus the pseudo-irish legend that is Mick McCarthy.

And don't forgot our 10? Irish supporters :pac:

theteal

spiralism wrote: »

The only clubs that can really claim the whole "irishness" thing are hibs and celtic.

If you're going by that yard stick you're forgetting my beloved Dundee UTD

As for what the OP is looking for, I'm going go with most Irish supporters, its a flip of a coin between man utd and liverpool I reckon...

Coillte_Bhoy

Xavi6 wrote: »

Celtic

Well aren't you the witty fellow

bullpost

There would be a big following of Chelsea supporters over 40 in Ireland. They are probably concentrated outside Dublin though.
I'm from Waterford and over 40 and I know loads of Chelsea supporters that age-group.
Waterford and Chelsea had the same colours during the seventies and so it was a natural fit for kids, get the Chelsea gear and you also have the Waterford gear. and besides, both Chelsea and Waterford had really exciting sides then.

papagormo wrote: »

I've been to the supporters club in both Galway and Dundalk (Dundalk had me raise the oul eyebrows too!) In both sets of clubs the majority of fans looked 40's+ from what I could see, a few mid 20's and then the young lads. I'm guessing of the older generation a few of them might have worked over there and returned home since perhaps, purely speculation though.
From the Superthread here, it seems to be a mixed bag agewise, which I'm glad to see personally.

Link of official chelsea supporters clubs

Paul Tergat

ha, i read the first line of this pretty badly on first look, i thought it was this:

bullpost wrote: »

There would be a big following of Chelsea supporters, over 40 in Ireland.

Had a good chuckle :pac:



But to answer the question none of them are remotely Irish.

Johnny Utah

mars bar wrote: »

Leeds would have a fairly hefty Irish following I would imagine

What about Reading? Plenty of young Irish lads playing for them...

Johnny Utah

Xavi6 wrote: »

Celtic

delta_bravo wrote: »

Kolkata Knight Riders

spiralism wrote: »

The only clubs that can really claim the whole "irishness" thing are hibs and celtic.

theteal wrote: »

If you're going by that yard stick you're forgetting my beloved Dundee UTD

We're talking about Premier League clubs, not SPL clubs. Please stay on topic, thanks.

Nalz

Johnny Utah wrote: »

What about their bitter rivals, Reading? Plenty of young Irish lads playing for them...

I'm scratching my head at all of this, in particular the above to be really honest

AgileMyth

Johnny Utah wrote: »

We're talking about Premier League clubs, not SPL clubs. Please stay on topic, thanks.

Don't start threads on stupid topics then;)

None of them are Irish, in any way shape or form. Manchester United have followers in Korea, are they Korean too?

aliveandkicking

It's an overused term on the net but I genuinely had a facepalm moment when I logged onto the soccer forum 5 minutes ago and saw this topic high up on the first page.

BOHtox

What defines an Irish club?
Playing in Ireland?
Having Irish players?
Owned by an Irishman?
Pay taxes to the Irish government?
Have Irish fans that go to a match every 3 or 4 years?
Just wondering

fullstop

cson wrote: »

I'm going to answer your question a different way; I would imagine Wolves having 7 Irish lads in the first team squad are the 'most Irish' Premier League club.

Was going to say Wolves too but it's only 5 really in the first team squad;
Foley, Ward, Hunt, Doyle and Doherty.

Jazzy

reading.

no wait... Leeds!

TangyZizzle

In terms of what, OP?

Support base?

Involvement of the Irish at the founding?

Number of players in the squad, at the moment?

Or and this is the one I most highly suspect - Are you trying to justify supporting an EPL team by fooling yourself into believing they're 'Irish' enough to overwrite the fact that they are in fact in English?

Essien wrote: »

They're gonna love this thread.

papagormo wrote: »

Stick on the popcorn!:pac:

Funny, aren't yas?

Xavi6 wrote: »

Celtic

Cute.

Panthro

TangyZizzle wrote: »

Funny, aren't yas?

Cute.

Quick question, has any of the posts that you quoted been offensive in any way or are you simply not a fan of those sort of posts?

Now admittedly, my first post in the thread wasn't what I would call overly contributary to the thread, but I would consider my second post to be. If the OP or a mod considered any of the posts quoted by yourself to be harmful/dis-respectful etc, I'm sure they would have been removed by now.

TangyZizzle

papagormo wrote: »

Quick question, has any of the posts that you quoted been offensive in any way or are you simply not a fan of those sort of posts?

Not a fan.

papagormo wrote: »

If the OP or a mod considered any of the posts quoted by yourself to be harmful/dis-respectful etc, I'm sure they would have been removed by now.

Don't count on it.

the untitled user

Liverpool possibly have the only tangible claim? Seeing as one of their founding members, John McKenna, was Irish.

Panthro

TangyZizzle wrote: »

Not a fan.

thats fair enough

ctrl-alt-delete

Well simply because they only need the addition of the letter "I" and the moving of another letter,

I'm going to say Sundireland.

Xavi6

Johnny Utah wrote: »

We're talking about Premier League clubs, not SPL clubs. Please stay on topic, thanks.

We are? Only, the thread title doesn't specify you meant the ENGLISH Premier League. Therefore Celtic is as reasonable an answer as any.

BOHtox

Xavi6 wrote: »

We are? Only, the thread title doesn't specify you meant the ENGLISH Premier League. Therefore Celtic is as reasonable an answer as any.

Righteo, Bohs, Rovers, UCD, Pat's, Drogs, Galway, Sligo etc would all be Irish clubs in the Premier League of a particular country

greendom

Eirsenal

the untitled user

BOHtox wrote: »

Righteo, Bohs, Rovers, UCD, Pat's, Drogs, Galway, Sligo etc would all be Irish clubs in the Premier League of a particular country

West Brits don't count. :P

TangyZizzle

the untitled user wrote: »

West Brits don't count. :P

Get out

Xavi6

BOHtox wrote: »

Righteo, Bohs, Rovers, UCD, Pat's, Drogs, Galway, Sligo etc would all be Irish clubs in the Premier League of a particular country

Yep but combined they'd probably have less Irish support than Celtic.

BOHtox

Xavi6 wrote: »

Yep but combined they'd probably have less Irish support than Celtic.

point being?

Gavin "shels"

djfitzerjnr

Isen't Liverpool the English city with the highest population of Irish emigrants in it?

losthorizon

I think it would be Galway as its nearest the Gaeltacht althought I think thats a very old fashioned view of looking at Irishness. Its really the Premier division club that interacts most with the community. So I suppose then it would be a club thats owned by the fans maybe Shamrock Rovers. Bit of an odd thread though as you exclude first division clubs.

Warper

Has to be Everton. We all know about Liverpool fc turning away the Irish in the past whereas Everton never did.

Xavi6

BOHtox wrote: »

point being?

They have the most Irish support.

stumpypeeps

I usually detest people who decide to post their disapproval of a thread on said thread. But this one is particularly retarded.

Nalz

Xavi6 wrote: »

They have the most Irish support.

therefore they are the "most Irish"? I'm just joining in for the buzz now