Survey in my school (Ireland)

[salfordpaul]

41 years of age, grew up in a village in Ireland, fell in love with the blue in the mid-seventies, when there were only rags, pool and leeds being followed. Corrigan was my hero, always wanted to be the keeper. Was always a source of amusement when going thru school years, why Man. City? At that age Maine Road was a million miles away, but I was there in spirit every Saturday, always imagined myslf sitting near the woman that used to ring the bell behind the goals. I still have all my diaries, games, results,scorers, etc.
Left school, got me job, and saved for my first trip to the pictures on my wall. Stayed in some kip out in Palatine Rd, Didsbury. Maine Road was everything I expected and more, the atmosphere, the people, the first bar lady I spoke to in the old social club was married to a man from my town. That was City, it was like I had being going there all my life. Went there as often as I could over the next few years, some great days, some shite days, some great players, more shite players, but I was there. I could go back and tell all these supposed rags about Manchester, the place that they would only ever see on their wall. Only drawback was that in the times they were, and that I was an Irishman travelling on my own, I was always invited in for a "cosy" chat with the authorities going in and out of the airport. On the Sunday they would always throw in question about how a certain player had played, when they actually hadnt played at all.
Haven't been able to get to Eastlands as much since the club moved, but I'm rearing my own branch of supporters club now. Brought them all to Eastlands two days after the jersey launch, we were the best kitted out family in Blackpool for the rest of the week! City jerseys are springing up all over our town now, we even have a couple of season ticket holders, one actually won BBC 5 Live Fan of the Year a few seasons ago (anybody who went away to Groclin should have got an award). Sorry for been so drawn out, we may not be local, but we love our Blues over here, and we're on a drive now to immunise the country against the red plague. Superbia In Proelia!

i was at grocklin! great post, great thread! i was also at baalymena..what a great day for all blues! keep the faith! mate of mine lives in crossmaglen he's a big arsenal fan, he is shitting himself!

 

[solley attwell]

It is harder for blues in ireland than in manchester because the ratio of rags to blues is much higher over here.Unfortunatly it will take years for the bias towards rags and pool in the media to subside.RTE currently cover champions league in ireland and there preferred choice is rags followed by pool then arse then chelski to reflect their audience. If City and villa replaced the rags and pool in the champs league RTE would probably scale back their coverage and instead fall over themselves to get exclusive europa league games . The best selling sunday paper over here is the sunday world,their match reports only concentrate on the big 4.The football columnists irwin,nicholas and aldridge feed the uneducated football fan his weekly dose of heroworship.Sunday world is about an an a-level higher than the daily sport

 

[Corky]

100% of school plastics then.

 

[davymcfc]

41 years of age, grew up in a village in Ireland, fell in love with the blue in the mid-seventies, when there were only rags, pool and leeds being followed. Corrigan was my hero, always wanted to be the keeper. Was always a source of amusement when going thru school years, why Man. City? At that age Maine Road was a million miles away, but I was there in spirit every Saturday, always imagined myslf sitting near the woman that used to ring the bell behind the goals. I still have all my diaries, games, results,scorers, etc.
Left school, got me job, and saved for my first trip to the pictures on my wall. Stayed in some kip out in Palatine Rd, Didsbury. Maine Road was everything I expected and more, the atmosphere, the people, the first bar lady I spoke to in the old social club was married to a man from my town. That was City, it was like I had being going there all my life. Went there as often as I could over the next few years, some great days, some shite days, some great players, more shite players, but I was there. I could go back and tell all these supposed rags about Manchester, the place that they would only ever see on their wall. Only drawback was that in the times they were, and that I was an Irishman travelling on my own, I was always invited in for a "cosy" chat with the authorities going in and out of the airport. On the Sunday they would always throw in question about how a certain player had played, when they actually hadnt played at all.
Haven't been able to get to Eastlands as much since the club moved, but I'm rearing my own branch of supporters club now. Brought them all to Eastlands two days after the jersey launch, we were the best kitted out family in Blackpool for the rest of the week! City jerseys are springing up all over our town now, we even have a couple of season ticket holders, one actually won BBC 5 Live Fan of the Year a few seasons ago (anybody who went away to Groclin should have got an award). Sorry for been so drawn out, we may not be local, but we love our Blues over here, and we're on a drive now to immunise the country against the red plague. Superbia In Proelia!

mint post mate. like it a lot

 

[poh]

For our Transition Year project we had to make a survey, and i decided to do one on football supporters in my school to see how many Top 4 fans there is.
Results:

Liverpool: 289 students

Man United: 219

Chelsea: 46

Arsenal: 35

Tottenham: 13

Newcastle: 21

City: 1 (me)

Leeds: 24

Villa: 1

West Ham: 2

Blackburn: 1

Birmingham: 2

Sunderland: 8

Celtic: pretty much everyone :P

Rangers: 1


I was surprised to see how high Leeds were and how low Arsenal were. Only City fan in the school and proud of it :)

My god lad,you have just taken me back into the dim and distant past when i was the only city supporter in my school (Belfast,late sixties ) only them funny enough, there were not that many filth supporters (because they were winning fuck all then ! )there where a lot of leeds and chesea and of course celtic fans (being an RC school ) but it was great times because city were on that amazing run of trophys and hardly a filth fan in sight to spoil it,keep the faith young man those good times are coming around again,and when that filth begin their slow descent back to nothing, their fillthy so-called fans will vanish like snow of a hot tin roof.

 

[mad4city]

ROCKINGCHAIR SAID:
41 years of age, grew up in a village in Ireland, fell in love with the blue in the mid-seventies, when there were only rags, pool and leeds being followed. Corrigan was my hero, always wanted to be the keeper. Was always a source of amusement when going thru school years, why Man. City? At that age Maine Road was a million miles away, but I was there in spirit every Saturday, always imagined myslf sitting near the woman that used to ring the bell behind the goals. I still have all my diaries, games, results,scorers, etc.
Left school, got me job, and saved for my first trip to the pictures on my wall. Stayed in some kip out in Palatine Rd, Didsbury. Maine Road was everything I expected and more, the atmosphere, the people, the first bar lady I spoke to in the old social club was married to a man from my town. That was City, it was like I had being going there all my life. Went there as often as I could over the next few years, some great days, some shite days, some great players, more shite players, but I was there. I could go back and tell all these supposed rags about Manchester, the place that they would only ever see on their wall. Only drawback was that in the times they were, and that I was an Irishman travelling on my own, I was always invited in for a "cosy" chat with the authorities going in and out of the airport. On the Sunday they would always throw in question about how a certain player had played, when they actually hadn't played at all.
Haven't been able to get to Eastlands as much since the club moved, but I'm rearing my own branch of supporters club now. Brought them all to Eastlands two days after the jersey launch, we were the best kitted out family in Blackpool for the rest of the week! City jerseys are springing up all over our town now, we even have a couple of season ticket holders, one actually won BBC 5 Live Fan of the Year a few seasons ago (anybody who went away to Groclin should have got an award). Sorry for been so drawn out, we may not be local, but we love our Blues over here, and we're on a drive now to immunise the country against the red plague. Superbia In Proelia!


... I couldn't believe it when I read this post. It could almost be my life in a few paragraphs - we're even the same age. Although, I have to point out that Donachie was my hero (I think because of the '78 world cup and the fact that Scotland were there - and on my telly). - Cheers mate. Nice to know that I wasn't the only sad nut, way back then.

 

[Miami Weiss]

For our Transition Year project we had to make a survey, and i decided to do one on football supporters in my school to see how many Top 4 fans there is.
Results:

Liverpool: 289 students

Man United: 219

Chelsea: 46

Arsenal: 35

Tottenham: 13

Newcastle: 21

City: 1 (me)

Leeds: 24

Villa: 1

West Ham: 2

Blackburn: 1

Birmingham: 2

Sunderland: 8

Celtic: pretty much everyone :P

Rangers: 1


I was surprised to see how high Leeds were and how low Arsenal were. Only City fan in the school and proud of it :)

I'm the only City fan in my school too, always have to fight my corner.

 

[poh]

For our Transition Year project we had to make a survey, and i decided to do one on football supporters in my school to see how many Top 4 fans there is.
Results:

Liverpool: 289 students

Man United: 219

Chelsea: 46

Arsenal: 35

Tottenham: 13

Newcastle: 21

City: 1 (me)

Leeds: 24

Villa: 1

West Ham: 2

Blackburn: 1

Birmingham: 2

Sunderland: 8

Celtic: pretty much everyone :P

Rangers: 1


I was surprised to see how high Leeds were and how low Arsenal were. Only City fan in the school and proud of it :)

I'm the only City fan in my school too, always have to fight my corner.

Yes,there's quite a few of us irish blues on here that have gone through that, i'am still going through it even now at work at the age of 50 ! dont let the bastards grind you down.

 

[bluemike]

Was in Mayo (Castlebar) a few weeks ago.
During those few days, Liverpool fans outweighed the rags. Of course, we spread the good word while there. As the OP mentioned, there was one Birmingham fan we noticed. Saw one
Arsenal fan and a few Celtic.
A sports shop was also using Samaras on the posters to sell Celtic shirts.