http://bifsniff.com/sport/who-stole-our-game Arts & culture blog based in Cork Ireland Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:48:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://bifsniff.com/sport/who-stole-our-game/comment-page-1#comment-18478 Love me, love the GAA! « Come on the Déise Fri, 17 Aug 2007 16:51:22 +0000 http://www.bifsniff.com/sport/who-stole-our-game#comment-18478 [...] Emmet Malone, writing in The Irish Times (subs needed - but the pertinent quote can be found in the summary) a few weeks back, referred to the late Brian Moore and his regret at the effect Sunday afternoon highlights packages had on the attendances at matches in the League of Ireland and the Irish League. Anyone, like myself, who has grown up viewing the stories of Cecil B DeMille-style attendances at League of Ireland matches in the 1950’s and 1960’s with eyebrow-raising scepticism should take heed of such wanrnings from history. In the wake of Daire Whelan’s excoriating account of the decline of domestic soccer in Who Stole Our Game?, it should be obvious how television has cut a savage swathe through sporting attendances, and only the paranoid have survived. [...] [...] Emmet Malone, writing in The Irish Times (subs needed – but the pertinent quote can be found in the summary) a few weeks back, referred to the late Brian Moore and his regret at the effect Sunday afternoon highlights packages had on the attendances at matches in the League of Ireland and the Irish League. Anyone, like myself, who has grown up viewing the stories of Cecil B DeMille-style attendances at League of Ireland matches in the 1950’s and 1960’s with eyebrow-raising scepticism should take heed of such wanrnings from history. In the wake of Daire Whelan’s excoriating account of the decline of domestic soccer in Who Stole Our Game?, it should be obvious how television has cut a savage swathe through sporting attendances, and only the paranoid have survived. [...]

]]> http://bifsniff.com/sport/who-stole-our-game/comment-page-1#comment-2434 Daithi Mon, 26 Feb 2007 14:59:48 +0000 http://www.bifsniff.com/sport/who-stole-our-game#comment-2434 Kevin Doyle, I think, will be a watershed moment for the League, but the "True Irish Soccer fan" in their Celtic jersey and Man Utd bed spread should hang their head in shame for neglecting their own game. Besides, Rio Ferdinand and his ilk represents everything that is wrong with modern football, why support them when you can look on at local heros and finally be proud. City till I die!! Kevin Doyle, I think, will be a watershed moment for the League, but the “True Irish Soccer fan” in their Celtic jersey and Man Utd bed spread should hang their head in shame for neglecting their own game. Besides, Rio Ferdinand and his ilk represents everything that is wrong with modern football, why support them when you can look on at local heros and finally be proud. City till I die!!

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