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Pineapple stu wrote: »No other Pineapple stu posting on here
you misappropriated the name. you know it, and everyone else knows it.0 -
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The_Kew_Tour wrote: »Oh look more shame!
are these lads out there working for the tourist board then?
Fair play to the fans for giving their support, but it stops there. They won't be seen for dust when they get home.
Its painfully to the small hardcore section of the support (be it Man utd fans or LOI fans) to see our national team handicapped by a lack of real interest in the game at home.
To criticise irish fans for singing their hearts out is nonsense. Nobody is. And don't try to claim thats the issue.
The real issue is the lack of giving a f*ck as to why we will never be competitive in a a tournament like this.
Theres a real attitude of "Ah sure if the world thinks we are great fans, that will make up for us being a sh*te team". It has nothing to do with football.
Irish fans are second to none at turning up at the party. and when they do everyone has a better time. But the majority genuinely don't seem to give a flying f*ck about the bigger picture.0 -
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German ZDF TV gives tributes to Irish Fans.
http://thescore.thejournal.ie/euro-2012-german-tv-zdf-tribute-irish-fans-fields-of-athenry-492766-Jun2012/The partying Irish were poles apart say hosts
http://www.herald.ie/news/the-partying-irish-were-poles-apart-say-hosts-3144128.html
POLAND waved goodbye to Ireland last night with a flashmob singing The Fields of Athenry.
THE tournament hosts were sorry to see the Irish team crash out and 30,000 fans fly home.
Local officials last night contacted the FAI in the hope of getting the Irish team to appear on stage at the main fanzone, but perhaps unsurprisingly the offer was declined.
Massive media attention in Poland has focused on the Irish support in the wake of the Spanish game.
Poznan's Deputy Mayor Thomas Kayser told the Herald: "Everybody in Poznan says that we were so lucky to get the fans from Ireland. People love them in the city."
As the campervans pulled out this morning, fans said they will back. Already there is a speculation that Ireland could be invited back to play Poland in a friendly later in the year.
Ireland's Ambassador to Poland, Eugene Hutchinson, said: "We're getting an excellent response from the Polish people and media. The locals have been left breathless by the enthusiasm of the Irish fans. They have performed and behaved so well."
And fans on the ground say that the Poland has done itself proud.
Alison Ginty (22) from Knocklyon and Stephen Jones (26) told how a Polish couple came to their rescue after they were stranded at a train station late at night.
"We were in Gdansk enjoying a few drinks and had to get two trains back to our accommodation, but we missed the connection.
"There was a Polish couple who had been the fanzone earlier and saw us.
"They invited us to their house and they put us into their kid's bedroom for the night. It was so kind of them."
Orla Heffernan (29) from Portmarnock said: "It's absolutely brilliant. All the Poles are singing the Irish songs. Everybody we have talked to says they will come back on holidays."
Liz Heffernan (35) from Castleknock described the 'goodbye flashmob' as "a really lovely gesture".
"Win, lose or draw - or lose, lose, lose, as we do -- we will sing. The amount of people saying they will come back on holidays is amazing," she said.
Pauline Clifford (32) from Templelogue said: "I thought that they were so friendly. We got lost in Sopot and a guy spent 20 minutes helping us to find where we needed to go.
"We couldn't have got a better welcome."
At 3pm on the day of the Italy and Ireland game the locals says their thanks. I was there and most of those people where Polish dress up in Irish colours with Irish mixed in between.
Euro 2012 - Poznań thanks the Irish!
Even the BBC commented about the polish media taking about the Irish fans.
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thejakartaglobe wrote:http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/blogs/low-lie-the-fields-of-tremendous-support-by-irish-football-fans/524469
Low Lie The Fields of Tremendous Support by Irish Football Fans
Irish soccer fan cheers before their Group C Euro 2012 soccer match against Spain at PGE Arena in Gdansk, Thursday. (Reuters Photo/Kai Pfaffenbach).
If you watched the last 10 minutes of Spain-Ireland match early Friday morning, your waning faith in football must have been renewed.
If you had become disillusioned by how commercial football has gone, how the violence has tainted the image of football, how racism has made its way back to the world of football, then hearing how the Irish fans sending the team off with a rousing rendition of Irish folk ballad "The Fields of Athenry" was a rejuvenation.
Having been 4 goals down, Ireland was outclassed and outplayed by the world champions. There was no sign of a comeback, not even a hint of a consolation goal. With 5 minutes to go, elimination from the first major tournament in a decade was guaranteed, but the Irish fans chose to go out of the competition unbowed. From the 85th minute onwards, the Irish fans sang the chorus of "The Fields of Athenry" unceasingly, intermediating their team’s early exit in the hands of Spain.
Seeing this kind of sight bears an element of surrealism, even the commentators halted the commentary for a while to give the spectators a moment to enjoy the Irish fans. The song is popular among Irish sports supporters, but that night "The Fields of Athenry" almost sounded like a requiem, a majestic one, that tingled spines of those who saw it. The Irish team didn't do much on the pitch but the fans made sure that they’re going out with their heads held high.
None should be taken away from Spain’s performance. It was a signature tiki-taka display by the reigning European champions, but one that will be fondly remembered from this match in years to come is the fans. The neutrals who saw the heartbreaking sight wished they were Irish and it’s not even a St. Patrick’s Day.
As the song blared all over the stadium and the image of thousands of Irish standing proud in the face of defeat transmitted all over the world, suddenly everybody was reminded of what football loyalty is all about.
Having witnessed in person some football-related violence recently, I’ve become a little bit disgusted with football fanaticism. When the images of the clash between Polish and Russian fans spread on the Internet a fortnight ago, I felt nothing but utter sickness seeing how the hooligans kicking their opponent who laid on the ground, covering his head from further damage. Then I saw blood and fallen bodies. Some people on Twitter reckoned that it’s a very “football” thing to attack your opposing fans. It’s not. Some things only look better in films and books. I don't have an appetite for some "Green Street" actions and other hooligan traits.
The world of football also sees the increased numbers of racial abuse cases lately and some of them have occurred in Euro. The tournament had not even begun when the black players in the Netherlands team were reported to receive racial chants by the spectators during training session. Czech fullback, Gebre Selassie, was also reported to be racially abused during the game against Russia. Monkey chants were heard every time the player, who has an Ethiopian father, touched the ball.
There’s no room for violence and racism. They should not be tolerated. How sad it is to see some people try to defend these disgusting things behind the mask of football loyalty. Football has nothing to do with violence and racism. And being loyal football fans should not be associated with aggressiveness.
The Irish has shown what it is like to be loyal and how to take a beating graciously.
Oh how I would love to see the same thing happens in our local football scene. We don't have to be taught about the former for we have been backing our national team during the dark period of Indonesian football, but we could use a lesson or two from the Irish about being congenial when things don't go our way.
When I hear so many brutal stories about bad fan behaviours, it so sad and horrible. Stories like this from the other side of the world in a different culture, speaking with admiration of the Irish Fans. gives more me more pride and fondness for our fans than I already have in us Irish Fans.
We have given the world a breath space and renew hope in Football/Soccer and given it it back some hope.
Here a quote from a Canadian Newspaperottawacitizen wrote:
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Sports/Soccer/Irish+fans+show+world+winning+spirit/6794398/story.html
There is nothing quite like an Irish fan, and now the whole world knows it.
Photograph by: KAI PFAFFENBACH , REUTERS
No matter what happens from here on, I have already tucked away my most memorable moment of Euro 2012.
It has a great deal to do with what went down on the field, but nothing to do with the soccer. At least, nothing you might think we should cheer about.
On Thursday night in Gdansk, Ireland was handed a soccer lesson by the imperious Spanish, who put together an astonishing 859 passes in strolling to a 4-0 victory. The Irish were outplayed in every area of the game. Although they battled to the end, every one of them, they were outclassed.
But not in the stands, no sir. There is nothing quite like an Irish fan, and now the whole world knows it. The supporters’ performance on Thursday is a YouTube hit. Emerald green is everywhere. Their smiling faces, their laughter and their singing are bursting out at us.
And they lost.
Boy, did they lose.
Their intent was obvious before the opening whistle sounded, although it might have been a little too cheeky to chant “ole, ole, ole” when their heavily favoured opponents came from Spain. As it turned out, it was equally ill judged to chant, “You’ll never beat the Irish,” early in the game when Simon Cox got a shot on target. They didn’t get the chance to chant that again.
Almost inevitably, Spanish goals began to arrive, four of them in the end.
The Irish players tried their best. They ran and ran, and then ran some more. However, it was never going to be enough. But they wouldn’t give up, and it was with three minutes left in the game that something absolutely remarkable happened.
One section of fans began to sing The Fields of Athenry, an Irish folk ballad set during the Great Irish Famine in the mid 1800s. The story tells of Michael from Athenry in County Galway who has been sentenced to be transported to Botany Bay, Australia, for stealing food for his starving family.
It’s a song about being stoic in the face of suffering that became a fan favourite back at the 1990 World Cup and is now a regular with Irish soccer and rugby fans.
Certainly, in that Polish stadium on Thursday, the Irish were suffering. Certainly they had to be stoic. But, if nothing else, the Irish love to sing, and nothing was going to silence their voices. As the final minutes ticked away, The Fields of Athenry got louder and louder until there couldn’t have been a single silent Irish fan.
Every other sound — even commentary on some TV and radio stations, by all accounts — was drowned out. The dribbling end to the game was all but forgotten, and the singing continued as the downhearted and weary men in green trudged from the field.
Today, the music has been drowned out by something else remarkable.
This time it’s the voices of sports lovers around the world wanting to sing praises of perhaps the greatest example of fan support yet seen.
At his post-match news conference, Spain’s coach, Vicente de Bosque, had to comment. “The Irish fans have shown us what football really is,” he said.
Back in Dublin, the country’s Football Association put out a special tribute to its fans. “The atmosphere our supporters generated in the stadium was phenomenal and has brought great pride to our country.”
And the association’s chief executive, John Delaney, called them “a credit to the game and to our country.”
The Internet has been flooded with appreciative awe by fans from other countries. YouTube is full of singing videos. Wherever you look, the message seems to be that they may have been beaten on the field, but the Irish showed the rest of us exactly how fans should behave.
No racist chanting, no vitriolic filth that comes from some quarters, just plenty of smiling faces and an unequivocal love for your country shining through.
I wonder how Roy Keane, one-time playing hero for this country, will be regarded after this.
His was the most vociferous dissenting voice. Perhaps the only one.
Speaking as a pundit on ITV, the English television station, he said: “We’re a small country, we’re up against it, but let’s not just go along for the sing-song every now and again … It’s just nonsense from players speaking after the games about how great the supporters are.”
Keane, a hard man on the field, has always spoken his mind, and we have to assume he believes the Irish attitude is one of acceptance that they are not good enough. That’s anathema to this man.
Maybe there is a kernel of the truth to what he believes, but now is not the time.
The Green Army is quite likely the best ambassador its country has ever seen. Right at this moment, the world loves them. And that, in the absence of an ability to compete on the field, is something worth hanging onto.
When other people from all over the world from different cultures and in consensuses says we the best fans in the world, then we must be Right??0 -
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