Extratime reporter Louise Zayed went out onto the streets of Dublin and asked the public their opinion on the League of Ireland. www.extratime.ie Produced by Peter O'Doherty
I am a english fella living in Waterford, i support Luton Town, i still go and watch them. I went over to watch them at Wrexham a few yrs back, Luton beat Wrexham to win the league 1 title, i travelled back on the ferry along with a few hundred irish fans who support Man Utd, 1 of them asked me why i supported Luton Town, i told him bcos i am from Luton, i asked him why supported Man Utd, he went red in the face and walked off. Irish fans should support thier own teams.
Even if all the available fans went to league of the crowds would never be great except for dublin.Generally 10% of a given population is a good average crowd to.Take dublin 6 clubs total pop 1.3 roughly each club could draw from a community of 200 000 so 20 000 would be the optimum crowd,but outside dublin the draw is much smaller like dundalk population 28000 waterford 45000
It's only the morons who "support" the likes of Manchester United and Liverpool - their interest in Irish football (commonly known as soccer over here) is often suddenly rekindled for 90 minutes while the national team play 😪 then it'll all be about the English Premier League again. The best supported club in the Airtricity League per head of population is Dundalk. Sligo, Longford and Waterford all also get decent crowds considering the size of their towns (a lot smaller than the average town size of a conference side)
Pat Devlin stated the other night on MNS that the league needs to have another league for the reserve players, as a lot of them are young lads and are not getting any better by sitting on the bench. If this was introduced it would really help out the young players and help them develop even more! Its so simple that its needed. Also no wonder the irish league has no money, its because of the some irish people's negative attitude towards the league.
To those in the video saying that they don't support a League of Ireland side as they don't live near a club or have a local club, then surely it makes no sense to support an English side as they don't live near them either.
The English lad everyone is talking about is the hot press editor and has a better attitude to Irish football than most Irish people . In the uk most real fans support their local teams , he gets it .
@facup88 i live up in ongar and started supporting the l.o.i 3 years, bohemians would be classed as our local club in the league so natulely im a bohs fan now
The sad thing is we could very easily have one of the best leagues in Europe if the Irish people supported their local team. Because of Dublin’s population , the big 4 clubs there could be getting crowds of 50,000 every week. And if the likes of cork, Galway, limerick and Kilkenny’s GAA teams can get crowds of 30,000 , surely their football clubs could get 20,000 fans in every week. Irish football has potential to be a multi billion euro industry and create hundreds, Maybe even thousands of jobs. And it’s very, very easy for us , the Irish people, to make this a reality. All we have to do is go to the games. It’s that simple.
The players from the L.O.I that have gone across the water have done themselves justice and held their own. The league will never have a lot of money, big crowds or great stadia but some of the goals scored are of the highest quality and the games are cheap and good craic to go to.
@RossByrne96 its possibly for teams to get into the groups of the europa league all depending on the draw they get. the new rules on the champions of each league getting preferential treatment over bigger clubs who may have come fourth in their league. its fairly possible but still may take a while
The English bloke knows more than I do. He knows his stuff and I commend him for that. He recognises the league here as a competitive one. I don’t k ow many English people who would put time into the league. If an English man can appreciate the LOI, there’s no excuse for us lads.
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I'm a Cork City fan but I completely understand why people don't support the LOI. Monaghan United went under recently, Dundalk are about to go under and what is the CEO of our football association John Delaney doing...getting drunk in Poland. Because of the Euros, the FAI have never been richer and what are they doing to for the LOI...sweet FA. How can somebody support a league when its own association doesn't even support it!?
@@RSPproductionz the FAI can never go broke because it's you and me that's funding it. A public body where its stakeholders take home all the profits, and its the people of Ireland that has to cough up the funds to support it. Any time its gets into trouble financially the government will just top it up with another €70 million of tax payers money.
I know this is super old but everyone is right about the money, look at GAA clubhouses across Dublin and Ireland, 90% of them probably have their own bars and the government fund a lot the huge GAA clubhouses, soccer clubs, many of them don’t even have a clubhouse my manager used to keep the goals out his back ffs
@GiveMeABreak20 I am a Bohs fan, go to pretty much all the home games and travel to a lot of the away games too. Trust me, it was Shels who drew with Deportivo.
I love what the woman says at the start and you see a Celtic top on her. And don’t give me this shit there an Irish club. They were founded by an Irishman but there still a Scottish club. And the club is in another country.
Its about being consistent.I followed Kilkenny city for years, every season goin and wondering what players were gonna be in the squad. Bad enough that, but to have to wonder who is even gonna be in the league..too many clubs in and out of the league. Think about it, Kilkenny City, St. Francis,Sporting Fingal St James gate, Dublin City/Home Farm,Cobh ramblers, a bunch of Cork city's, Kildare County, Galway United..the list goes on and on. turned me off it altogether.
what i think is its not all about the money.....what the other problem is there isn't enuff competition there is only the premier devision and division 1....the league of Ireland need to link up with different leagues around Ireland to make it good
Sligo rovers gets on average 2000 per game thats 10percent of the town your not going to get more than that .Ya you could say that the county is 65000,but half thats GAA.For example drogheda 28000 and the team roughly gets 10percent of that your not going to get more.May be in dublin they could do better,but outside not really
I would love to see the LOI grow in popularity but can't see it happening. It tends to be in the shadow of GAA all the time. Hopefully more people will turn out to games and get this game growing.
@ExtratimeVideo I think the reason that the LOI players don't stand a chance now is because our manager doesn't give a fuck about that league. He only calls up players in the BPL, he should give others a chance too. With all do respect to Trap, I know he's half the reason we are going to the Euro's, but I think most would appreciate it if he called up some young blood for once. There's a young lad who plays for Chelsea called Conor Clifford, look him up. He's scored some amazing goals.
I support Man Utd but i dont use that as an excuse not to go and support the league of Ireland.Its a shame to see other soccer supporters in Ireland not supporting their local team.Galway United 4 life.
Even though i follow LOI closely and regularly go to games,when its a good game good atmosphere its quite good.But theres a ceiling-when there`s a good player he`s gone across channel-still i`d back the LOI teams against anyone everytime,they are ours and irish.How the hell would you back man utd or liverpool against our own?Thats unreal
Really its a shame the LOI is a great league i seem to be one of the only people in my school to respect it, i say watch it and others go "i have higher standards", its a great league full of great players who just never got a chance
WERE THE SEAGULLS THE MIGHTY SEAGULLS WE ARE THE WANDERERS , WERE THE SEAGULLS THE MIGHTY SEAGULLS WE ARE BRAY WANDERERS , WE NEVER WIN , WE NEVER WIN , WE NEVER WIN
I'm only interested in soccer for the past 4/5 years. I used to, and still do prefer rugby, but something I've noticed about soccer in Ireland, everybody thinks that they know it all! I'd say 99.9% of Irish people haven't a clue what they are talking about. At junior level, the fitness is terrible, and people are living off what they did until they were 20/21. I support Limerick FC and Arsenal (Limerick first) in case you want to know.
haha yeah because if ya know noting about the big time airtricity league ya know noting about the sport of football, well done mate! Do you know anything about the Iraq league? no, but that doesnt mean ya know noting about football. I actually never said the Dublin teams ''hold it together''..I watch the games from time to time too, My point is ,regardless whos playing the best football, the league ,in general,only appeals to fans from Dublin.I actually have a very good knowledge of football.
if they put more effort in to sign younge kids the league be much better also the irish national team would dramatic improve i play a local team in ireland and iv seen some unreal tallent that 100 percent deserve to play for ireland but that's not going happen ireland never put there finger out there holes and listen
youre not a real soccer fan if you dont support soccer in your own country too put in gaa terms if you supported your county team but wouldnt support your local team are you a gaa fan
unfortunately for Ireland theirs to much devotion to gaelic and hurling for a chance of Irish football breaking thru. no money aswel of course. no scouts of sort come to watch games aswel. also in mayo football for example i play here and there is one referee and no linesmen at u17's level? seriously? its a shame!
@FreshToTheBeat I'm sorry to anyone who thinks this is offensive but all hurling is a bunch of druncken oul paddys running around the field with sticks!!! And if GAA is so great why isn't there a great demand, oh ya no one else wants to play those crap games around the world!?!?! Answer that!
Metalist? Kryla Sovetov Samara you thick, as for the chap from Donegal, If he's never been to a Finn Haaaaarps game, how does he know they aren't great to watch?
if that was the case...on your part...we should just pack up and go home....because of few saps....an all ireland league is the way forward....yes at the start there be a few knocks and bumps but it would be better than moneyless leagues on the island now..if the rugby ,cricket,boxing,gaa, can do it why not the soccer ...here in ireland
3:14. What is he on about? The Scottish league is not 'miles ahead' of the L.O.I. Rovers actually qualified for the Europa league and didn't rely on a team to get kicked out for them to get into it, and I would hardly say Dunfermline would beat Rovers or Sligo etc. the old firm aren't even that good nowadays
ha yeah and? that doesn't make my point wrong...No matter what's in my name i live in Ireland and I know what the airtricity league is like and It is only good if your from Dublin and it is a bad aul league anyway..
Cmon Drogheda! :D N I bet even de ppl in de ra support united :/ it's a sham support ur local club and bring in money If every1 in Ireland who liked soccer did that thers no reason y de Loi could be as big as the Scottish league and then ppl from Glasgow Celtic could be wearing rovers jerseys instead !
The english bloke was talking more sense then anyone else
I am a english fella living in Waterford, i support Luton Town, i still go and watch them. I went over to watch them at Wrexham a few yrs back, Luton beat Wrexham to win the league 1 title, i travelled back on the ferry along with a few hundred irish fans who support Man Utd, 1 of them asked me why i supported Luton Town, i told him bcos i am from Luton, i asked him why supported Man Utd, he went red in the face and walked off. Irish fans should support thier own teams.
Even if all the available fans went to league of the crowds would never be great except for dublin.Generally 10% of a given population is a good average crowd to.Take dublin 6 clubs total pop 1.3 roughly each club could draw from a community of 200 000 so 20 000 would be the optimum crowd,but outside dublin the draw is much smaller like dundalk population 28000 waterford 45000
It's only the morons who "support" the likes of Manchester United and Liverpool - their interest in Irish football (commonly known as soccer over here) is often suddenly rekindled for 90 minutes while the national team play 😪 then it'll all be about the English Premier League again.
The best supported club in the Airtricity League per head of population is Dundalk.
Sligo, Longford and Waterford all also get decent crowds considering the size of their towns (a lot smaller than the average town size of a conference side)
@@stoney7145 Cork could get a good support and so could Belfast if there was a league for the whole island.
Fellow hatter here, not expecting a reply, but you must be buzzing at the moment with how well we are doing. You still come over for the games?
that english man has a real voice for radio!!!
4:37 the truth spoke
That young fella in the Pats jersey is the head off Chris Forrester
Forever haunts my dreams.
The English guy should be a tv host he has great voice
That "English" man is Stewart Clarke, of Hotpress, and he features on RTE and Today FM regularly.
Pat Devlin stated the other night on MNS that the league needs to have another league for the reserve players, as a lot of them are young lads and are not getting any better by sitting on the bench. If this was introduced it would really help out the young players and help them develop even more! Its so simple that its needed. Also no wonder the irish league has no money, its because of the some irish people's negative attitude towards the league.
To those in the video saying that they don't support a League of Ireland side as they don't live near a club or have a local club, then surely it makes no sense to support an English side as they don't live near them either.
Aidan M Guinness the Tottenham fan who said he travels to games when he can was the worse
The fella in the green and white shourt
Thank you! good point!
The English lad everyone is talking about is the hot press editor and has a better attitude to Irish football than most Irish people . In the uk most real fans support their local teams , he gets it .
@facup88 i live up in ongar and started supporting the l.o.i 3 years, bohemians would be classed as our local club in the league so natulely im a bohs fan now
The sad thing is we could very easily have one of the best leagues in Europe if the Irish people supported their local team. Because of Dublin’s population , the big 4 clubs there could be getting crowds of 50,000 every week. And if the likes of cork, Galway, limerick and Kilkenny’s GAA teams can get crowds of 30,000 , surely their football clubs could get 20,000 fans in every week. Irish football has potential to be a multi billion euro industry and create hundreds, Maybe even thousands of jobs. And it’s very, very easy for us , the Irish people, to make this a reality. All we have to do is go to the games. It’s that simple.
holy jaysus, waaaaaaaaay too many cuts , DAMN YOU MTV GENERATION!!!!!!
The players from the L.O.I that have gone across the water have done themselves justice and held their own. The league will never have a lot of money, big crowds or great stadia but some of the goals scored are of the highest quality and the games are cheap and good craic to go to.
@MrCyberthug97 The English fella is Stuart Clark, one of the main reporters at hotpress magazine
@RossByrne96
its possibly for teams to get into the groups of the europa league all depending on the draw they get. the new rules on the champions of each league getting preferential treatment over bigger clubs who may have come fourth in their league. its fairly possible but still may take a while
The English bloke knows more than I do. He knows his stuff and I commend him for that. He recognises the league here as a competitive one. I don’t k ow many English people who would put time into the league. If an English man can appreciate the LOI, there’s no excuse for us lads.
@Semajnitramreppoh The 'English Guy' is Stuart Clark,He;s the Editor of the Irish Hot Press magazine,He's also a really nice guy
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well said
I'm a Cork City fan but I completely understand why people don't support the LOI. Monaghan United went under recently, Dundalk are about to go under and what is the CEO of our football association John Delaney doing...getting drunk in Poland. Because of the Euros, the FAI have never been richer and what are they doing to for the LOI...sweet FA. How can somebody support a league when its own association doesn't even support it!?
Ó Braonáin Ironically since you made this post 7 years ago, Dundalk have recovered to be the dominant force in the LOI.
And the FAI are broke lol
@@RSPproductionz the FAI can never go broke because it's you and me that's funding it. A public body where its stakeholders take home all the profits, and its the people of Ireland that has to cough up the funds to support it. Any time its gets into trouble financially the government will just top it up with another €70 million of tax payers money.
I know this is super old but everyone is right about the money, look at GAA clubhouses across Dublin and Ireland, 90% of them probably have their own bars and the government fund a lot the huge GAA clubhouses, soccer clubs, many of them don’t even have a clubhouse my manager used to keep the goals out his back ffs
@SimplyFinch lol ur comment on loi vid got recommented by extratime .. are you coming out 2moz
@GiveMeABreak20 I am a Bohs fan, go to pretty much all the home games and travel to a lot of the away games too. Trust me, it was Shels who drew with Deportivo.
Why does no more videos be put up eg goals of loi
I love what the woman says at the start and you see a Celtic top on her. And don’t give me this shit there an Irish club. They were founded by an Irishman but there still a Scottish club. And the club is in another country.
@Semajnitramreppoh Thats gas, he's on the radio all the time.. its stuart clarke from Hot press magazine!
Its about being consistent.I followed Kilkenny city for years, every season goin and wondering what players were gonna be in the squad. Bad enough that, but to have to wonder who is even gonna be in the league..too many clubs in and out of the league. Think about it, Kilkenny City, St. Francis,Sporting Fingal St James gate, Dublin City/Home Farm,Cobh ramblers, a bunch of Cork city's, Kildare County, Galway United..the list goes on and on. turned me off it altogether.
The Sky Sports suggestion is just nonesense. The Irish League is on Sky Sports and in 2013 the Irish League teams got hammerd in the Setanta cup.
And how come Bohs were only mention once?
what i think is its not all about the money.....what the other problem is there isn't enuff competition there is only the premier devision and division 1....the league of Ireland need to link up with different leagues around Ireland to make it good
Sligo rovers gets on average 2000 per game thats 10percent of the town your not going to get more than that .Ya you could say that the county is 65000,but half thats GAA.For example drogheda 28000 and the team roughly gets 10percent of that your not going to get more.May be in dublin they could do better,but outside not really
stoney71 Cork , limerick and waterford can do far better.
YOU KNOW LIKE !!
I would love to see the LOI grow in popularity but can't see it happening. It tends to be in the shadow of GAA all the time. Hopefully more people will turn out to games and get this game growing.
@ExtratimeVideo I think the reason that the LOI players don't stand a chance now is because our manager doesn't give a fuck about that league. He only calls up players in the BPL, he should give others a chance too. With all do respect to Trap, I know he's half the reason we are going to the Euro's, but I think most would appreciate it if he called up some young blood for once. There's a young lad who plays for Chelsea called Conor Clifford, look him up. He's scored some amazing goals.
I support Man Utd but i dont use that as an excuse not to go and support the league of Ireland.Its a shame to see other soccer supporters in Ireland not supporting their local team.Galway United 4 life.
Even though i follow LOI closely and regularly go to games,when its a good game good atmosphere its quite good.But theres a ceiling-when there`s a good player he`s gone across channel-still i`d back the LOI teams against anyone everytime,they are ours and irish.How the hell would you back man utd or liverpool against our own?Thats unreal
shamrock rovers fan here!!!!
Really its a shame the LOI is a great league i seem to be one of the only people in my school to respect it, i say watch it and others go "i have higher standards", its a great league full of great players who just never got a chance
Did the spurs fan miss the euro clash with rovers?Too far away and he goes to london-what a .....?Donegal man-all you say is like,like,like
is she related to eamon zayed?
What the feck does that man say at 3:40. I can't understand it :/
@wally152637 They are from Belfast#
@AidyGingerBeard me too and i know him haha
c'mon the hoops
WERE THE SEAGULLS THE MIGHTY SEAGULLS WE ARE THE WANDERERS , WERE THE SEAGULLS THE MIGHTY SEAGULLS WE ARE BRAY WANDERERS , WE NEVER WIN , WE NEVER WIN , WE NEVER WIN
go galway united!
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I'm only interested in soccer for the past 4/5 years. I used to, and still do prefer rugby, but something I've noticed about soccer in Ireland, everybody thinks that they know it all! I'd say 99.9% of Irish people haven't a clue what they are talking about. At junior level, the fitness is terrible, and people are living off what they did until they were 20/21. I support Limerick FC and Arsenal (Limerick first) in case you want to know.
@ExtratimeVideo I suppose he's not too bad considering he's not Irish :L
Just as im sitting here thinking this video cant get anymore Irish a fucking Tayto van just scoots on past not a bother on him 4:44
do you really think support of about a thousand irish people is really gonna help money problems
haha yeah because if ya know noting about the big time airtricity league ya know noting about the sport of football, well done mate! Do you know anything about the Iraq league? no, but that doesnt mean ya know noting about football. I actually never said the Dublin teams ''hold it together''..I watch the games from time to time too, My point is ,regardless whos playing the best football, the league ,in general,only appeals to fans from Dublin.I actually have a very good knowledge of football.
if they put more effort in to sign younge kids the league be much better
also the irish national team would dramatic improve
i play a local team in ireland and iv seen some unreal tallent that 100 percent deserve to play for ireland but that's not going happen ireland never put there finger out there holes and listen
Longford Town fan here. Come on the Town!
Premier division here we come! ;)
youre not a real soccer fan if you dont support soccer in your own country too put in gaa terms if you supported your county team but wouldnt support your local team are you a gaa fan
English lad knows ball
He sounds like Piers Morgan lol
Rovers
bang yer won ouev eh
theres only 1 them in donegal thats finn harps ? what about donegal celtic :L
hon sligo
Why is the woman in the Celtic top talking about? Don't tell me they're an Irish team, they're Scottish. Support your local
unfortunately for Ireland theirs to much devotion to gaelic and hurling for a chance of Irish football breaking thru. no money aswel of course. no scouts of sort come to watch games aswel. also in mayo football for example i play here and there is one referee and no linesmen at u17's level? seriously? its a shame!
Trust the English chap to be the poetic in his speech...
@FreshToTheBeat I'm sorry to anyone who thinks this is offensive but all hurling is a bunch of druncken oul paddys running around the field with sticks!!! And if GAA is so great why isn't there a great demand, oh ya no one else wants to play those crap games around the world!?!?! Answer that!
The issue is money? I see... the more money they get the more encouraged to play better they become?
Playing during winter would be alot better
@SimplyFinch hahaha come off it finchy
Haha the only person who had an educated opinion was the English guy. Ah Ireland where would we be without you?
Metalist? Kryla Sovetov Samara you thick, as for the chap from Donegal, If he's never been to a Finn Haaaaarps game, how does he know they aren't great to watch?
if that was the case...on your part...we should just pack up and go home....because of few saps....an all ireland league is the way forward....yes at the start there be a few knocks and bumps but it would be better than moneyless leagues on the island now..if the rugby ,cricket,boxing,gaa, can do it why not the soccer ...here in ireland
@SimplyFinch
cause he is what we like to call a glory hunter
MON THE HARPS
Irish teams didn't do great in the Europe Cup((
1:40 - 2:05 ... can someone please translate what the fuck he said? hahahaha!
3:14. What is he on about? The Scottish league is not 'miles ahead' of the L.O.I. Rovers actually qualified for the Europa league and didn't rely on a team to get kicked out for them to get into it, and I would hardly say Dunfermline would beat Rovers or Sligo etc. the old firm aren't even that good nowadays
ha yeah and? that doesn't make my point wrong...No matter what's in my name i live in Ireland and I know what the airtricity league is like and It is only good if your from Dublin and it is a bad aul league anyway..
Donegal ROFL
Up the Finn Harps, best Donegal team ... in Donegal!!
Cmon Drogheda! :D
N I bet even de ppl in de ra support united :/ it's a sham support ur local club and bring in money If every1 in Ireland who liked soccer did that thers no reason y de Loi could be as big as the Scottish league and then ppl from Glasgow Celtic could be wearing rovers jerseys instead !
@PatrickquigleyDUFC no the ra support derry city
You'd prob get too much sectarian chanting, violence and all that shit with an all Ireland league. It's not worth the headache really.
Get that English chap on MNS!
UP THE GAA
league of Ireland is only really good if your from Dublin, and even then its no where near great...:/
Irish league is boring.