So true. Sunderland is the perfect example. Go back, say, 7 or 8 years and ask anyone younger than 20(?) about Sunderland (who their manager was, their captain, the name of the ground etc etc) and they'd be like a rabbit in the headlights. Now, because of Quinny and that tvvat (why him Quinny, FFS!) there was an explosion of "interest" in them. You could buy a Mackems replica shirt a hell of a lot easier than a City one, believe me. The Irish edition of the Mirror (yeah, I know; wash my mouth out!) had a full page devoted to Sunderland EVERY saturday!! Don't know if they still do; don't buy it any more. As for the verminous scum, their fans are everywhere. A lot of them have been influenced by their dads and especially grandads, a lot of whom probably worked and lived in Manchester in the 50's/60's around the time of...................Wexford Blue said:A lot of pre-premiership Rags would cite Best, McGrath, Moran, Stapleton etc.. depending on their age..
The sad fact is though that a lot of muppets over here love hopping on a bandwagon - Rags, Munster rugby, Sunderland, Shelbourne (when they nearly made the Champs League groups) etc. Anyone sucessful and they'll turn up in their droves with the comedy hats on and pints in hand. Just check out how the attendances for Munster have changed over the past 5 to 10 years when they started getting sucessful.
They were selling Sunderland programmes in my local Spar ffs, just because of that traitor Rag b~stard. A serious lack of imagination and originality. That's why it's great meeting fellow Blues over here- you know that they actually know something about football. Throw a stone over here and you'd hit a Rag... guess that's a good thing!
Exactly what my dad did. He cried over the air crash but remained staunchly blue, as he had been since the 30s/40s, listening to the exploits of City player Peter Doherty.jimharri said:So true. Sunderland is the perfect example. Go back, say, 7 or 8 years and ask anyone younger than 20(?) about Sunderland (who their manager was, their captain, the name of the ground etc etc) and they'd be like a rabbit in the headlights. Now, because of Quinny and that tvvat (why him Quinny, FFS!) there was an explosion of "interest" in them. You could buy a Mackems replica shirt a hell of a lot easier than a City one, believe me. The Irish edition of the Mirror (yeah, I know; wash my mouth out had a full page devoted to Sunderland EVERY saturday!! Don't know if they still do; don't buy it any more. As for the verminous scum, their fans are everywhere. A lot of them have been influenced by their dads and especially grandads, a lot of whom probably worked and lived in Manchester in the 50's/60's around the time of...................Wexford Blue said:A lot of pre-premiership Rags would cite Best, McGrath, Moran, Stapleton etc.. depending on their age..
The sad fact is though that a lot of muppets over here love hopping on a bandwagon - Rags, Munster rugby, Sunderland, Shelbourne (when they nearly made the Champs League groups) etc. Anyone sucessful and they'll turn up in their droves with the comedy hats on and pints in hand. Just check out how the attendances for Munster have changed over the past 5 to 10 years when they started getting sucessful.
They were selling Sunderland programmes in my local Spar ffs, just because of that traitor Rag b~stard. A serious lack of imagination and originality. That's why it's great meeting fellow Blues over here- you know that they actually know something about football. Throw a stone over here and you'd hit a Rag... guess that's a good thing!