“Best fans in the world”? Not quite… - Support Local Football

[DavydMT]

full article: http://backpagefootball.com/best-fan...t-quite/42808/

Gerard Pique said he’d remember it for as long as he lives. 30,000 Irish fans, on the other side of Europe, belting out that staple of rare trips abroad – the Fields of Athenry. “That’s football” exclaimed Pique on his Twitter after his side hammered their Irish counterparts 4-0 in Gdansk. Ireland were out of Euro 2012, a ten-year wait for a major tournament hardly seemed worthwhile. And yet, the fans kept on singing. German and French television cut their commentary with five minutes left to listen to the Irish sing. English commentators roundly proclaimed Irish fans as the “best in the world”. Even Robin Van Persie and Fabrice Muamba, via twitter, joined in. And as a nation, we wallowed in it. The Sunday papers and morning radio talk shows jumped up and down on the corpse of Ireland’s Euro 2012 campaign while bombastically roaring about how good the fans were and how it’s great that we have something to smile about at last. Yes, it seemed like it was true. We, the Irish, love football...

[beachesl]

Sort of the reverse with what is happening in Canada, except we still lack good organization at the local level as well.

We all love success and the partying that comes with it. But, the Irish have been fairly successful at football since the WC 199o, and are verynationalistic

[closetboostie]

I wonder if (when) Canada gets to the World Cup and possibly (probably) goes three and out, if the public in Canada will say "See, I told you they suck." Or will we be proud we got there and celebrate getting back asap. We got a long way to go.

[CanadianSoccerFan]

I wonder if (when) Canada gets to the World Cup and possibly (probably) goes three and out, if the public in Canada will say "See, I told you they suck." Or will we be proud we got there and celebrate getting back asap. We got a long way to go.

The first one unfortunately