Best experience at an Ireland match

eric_the_head

I've been to loads of Ireland matches both home and abroad but the one for me was the 0-0 result away to Litchenstein. The match itself (and result of course) was terrible, but afterwards the 2000 or so of us that was there, started singing 'Always look on the bright side of life' to the amusement of the local police who were expecting us to riot like English scumbags. All the Litchenstein players came back out and threw us their jerseys, several national flags and the keeper gave some young lad his gloves. It was amazing. But to top it off, on the way back to Zurich the next day, a few of us were on the train having the craic when a local guy came over and asked us if we were Irish. We replied that we were and he gave us a load of cans of beer. He said (and i quote) 'this is for you, because you Irish are so sporting'. Cool !!

knobbles

aren't we just the best!!!

best experience is obviously going to be associated with goals,
but i'll yake your lead on "unique" experiences and go for the half an hour after the germany game last year when all 4/5000 irish stayed in the stadium singin and dancin and huggin. There was still a 2 hour train journey ahead of us back to Tokyo for more song where we eventually ran out of songs so we started singin christmas carols
We were just buzzin, all we wanted to do is sing and we couldn't care how irrelevant the subject of the song was to the occasion.
And all that was just the warm-up for hours of singin and drinkin outside some irish pub in Roppongi until dawn. Unforgettable

Bateman

It would have to be the recent 2 day session in Glasgow. Knowing that we easily outsung the home support was a great feeling, even if it was only a friendly.

knobbles

hey bateman, i'm curious -
what was it the irish fans were chanting about keano at that game that disappointed many journalists (read a few sunday articles). I heard the "are you watching...." chant on the highlights which is harmless but was there a "****-er" chant or something

eric_the_head

I was in Japan too, Knobbles, and the bar you were in was probably Paddy Foleys. Japan had many unforgetable moments too.

knobbles

ah paddy foleys, that was the one!!!

went down there a few nights,
fekin deadly craic with the huge crowd outside the bar.
The crowds around Foleys and that street made it onto the Japanese news and a day or two later when Japan beat Russia 1-0, the locals got in on the act and hundreds of them went down to the very same spot and the partying and singin was just as crazy.....Ohhhh Nippooon,
They were hilarious, the nicest people

Bateman

Roy Keane
your'e a wanker, your'e a wanker.
That was all

Thats about it. Upsetting journalists? Tut tut.