Gunnersaurus wrote:LyusN1 wrote:I'm a Plastic Paddy here I suppose but it always winds me up when people come on here telling the Irish lads to 'go and support Bohs/St. Pats/Cork/Sligo' whatever.
It not only shows ignorance about the Irish but also shows a large amount of ignorance about their own club itself.
Most of my uncles moved back to Ireland in the 'good times' (although I expect to see them with my cousins back over here soon!
) but they lived in Highbury, Finsbury Park and Hornsey, etc. the entire time they lived over here from the 70s to the early 2000s.
They went to the club week-in, week-out, followed us away when they could and did basically what any Londoner would have done had he been born in N5 or surrounding.
This can be taken the wrong way, but a 'foreign' fan who has decided to follow the team recently is in a different boat to an Irish fan for me.
The Irish still run all the bloody pubs around the area anyway! Look at the names of the places in Finsbury Park, and even those that aren't called 'Paddy McGinty's Goat' or whatever, still have an Irish surname above the door.
I'll never call an Irish Arsenal fan a daytripper. Most of them spent most of their lives living far closer to Highbury than a 'died in the wool Gooner' from Herts etc.
Also, '...by far the greatest team' is to the tune of 'The Wild Rover'! That and 'Bejesus said Paddy' shows a huge Irish connection. We as nationalities of fans are all equals but the Irish are more equal than the rest
What a shit post, so every irishman is exempt of criticism because their fellow countrymen used to frequent Highbury back in the day regardless of their own commitment to the cause?
Utter Bollocks.
OK, so I admit actually didn't word this correctly at all. What I SHOULD have said was that those Irish fans who regularly attend (like the many who post on here and have come in from criticism from some posters before for being Irish and supporting Arsenal) are above a daytripper. The Irish contingent in North London IS strong and has been for generations. They have played quite a large part in our club's history, from players, to managers, to even the Highbury Tealady and groundsman. As a formerly community based club, well, they were a large part of our community. But yes, you are right. It was worded poorly and there is no excuse for that.
Just like there is no excuse for you dismissing it all out of hand. I mean, jesus, the Respect thread is still running isn't it? I was simply saying to greengooner that I don't think daytripper applies to many Irish fans.
The time this was posted was clearly after I'd got in from NYE and had a few. It wasn't completely coherent and was also supposed to be a bit tongue-in-cheek, hence the emoticons at the end. But OK, cheers for the overreaction.
Poor show from you, mate.
frankbutcher wrote:NUMPTY ALERT.
Same for you, frankbutcher. Meant to be a bit tongue in cheek, and yes actually I did put 'died' instead of 'dyed' but really? Your only comment to me ever is to call me a numpty. Cheers.
Although I will clarify what I meant. Take a person moving to Highbury/Finsbury Park at 18 in the 70s and still attending matches to this day regularly. Or a fella in Cheshunt who is say 22 and could only regularly go since the move to AG. (This is just purely down to circumstances and misfortune really but the guy from Herts might still be more accepted.) That was what I was trying to get at. Why should this fella who lived there since the 70s then be dismissed out of hand by some as a daytripper because he moved back to Ireland. I still don't think I've articulated it properly but is that a bit clearer? There are some on here who have done it before.
