Reply To: An Irish National Stadium!

Originally posted by Diaspora
A very good thought too!

I lament the decline in domestic soccer here, particularly Shamrock Rovers.

The league just had it’s most sucessfull season in years. Just because Rovers are dead does not mean the domestic league is. Far from it. Clubs like Bohs, Cork and Longford do very well and have decent crowds and strong local followings. The problem is that people need to switch off Sky and go and support their own league and not some British corporate entity like Celtic and Liverpool.

Ireland is the only country in Europe were the poeple think a foreign league is their own league. The Irish are deeply unsophisticated race who do everything that box of lights and sound in the corner of the living room tells them to do. We are exceptionally backward and oafish in many ways. More like stupid American trailer trash than Europeans.

Also domestic soccer in this country has to compete with a political and religious organisation which dabbles in sport called the GAA and also rugby. Put this all together and the League of Ireland seem rather sucessfull all things considered.