That’s terrific footix banter.
Luckily @Bandage wont be that first customer 
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I remember the footix folk around the time of Men Behaving Badly. The two dovetailed nicely together. Sean from Tipp town who would be in a foul mood on Sunday and in work on Monday at the 11 am coffee break, because “United” lost on the weekend. And had the six pack of beers for Sky Sports and banished “the wife” or “herself” for a few hours from the house to go shopping, so he could catch up on footix related stuff. Or went on a date with some lass and ditched her because she didn’t know where Liverpool played home games.
I remember working in a warehouse with a fella from Shannon who used to refer to himself as a “scouser”. Man child used to give me grief because I wore a Utd hoody the odd time.
Isn’t there an ultimate footix back in Pallaskenry with a house called Old Trafford?
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We could nearly have a thread of it’s own for this type of banter as the season goes on
I worked with a man back in the day whose house was called Anfield.
He had a self made wall charts on the classroom wall with all the seasons fixtures including lineups, goalscorers, attendance and so on. He could show you ones from other years then. He famously attended champions league finals and was back in school teaching the following morning.
He used tell his classes that life revolved around the three "F"s, namely faith,family and football but not necessarily in that order.
He was the best and most committed teacher I ever worked with but picked up a terminal illness not long after retiring. Liverpool gave him a page in one of their match day programmes.
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That’s mad. I don’t get it. But I suppose I don’t get the people I met at a Bruce Springsteen gig who used to follow him around on the tour so would go to multiple dates etc. Even the bands that I like, I’m not sure I would be bothered to do that.
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good idea, keep all the noted mad over indulgent premier league banter in one thread. maybe call it Footix of the Day or something?
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We’re all just living for the weekend brother!
Mad alright. He was married but no family. Would see Liverpool around 15 times a year. I remember one weekend he told me he watched 6 games but none Liverpool as they were the Monday night game. The games revolved around future opponents in England and in Europe as well as clubs where Liverpool had players on loan.
He didn’t support Ireland but cared more about how Liverpool players got on during international break.
As I said previously he was the most professional teacher I ever worked with. Life just revolved around work, his wife, religion and Liverpool.
Maybe you are as well off keeping it simple.
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A lot to be said for it I suppose. Would his wife join him on the trips?
Those midweek finals in 2005 and 2007 were iconic occasions. I was still in primary school for both of them but I heard of a couple of Footix ending up in Istanbul while their summer exams were on. Well worth skipping an Irish exam for.
Sir, – While Edmund Van Esbeck’s love of rugby was matched by his gift in writing about the sport for so many years, many Irish Times readers may well be unaware how much he enjoyed watching English Premier League football.
A lifelong Arsenal fan, Ned named his house Highbury in honour of the Gunners. May he rest in peace. – Yours, etc,
MICHAEL CULLEN,
Sandycove,
Co Dublin.
Cc @ChairmanDan
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A right little footix
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We’ll forgive the great Ned that one transgression. It’s a real testament to his greatness that he has just become the first posthumous Footix of the Day winner.
Anybody hailing from Tramore will in all reality be a footix.
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Well that explains why @ChairmanDan loved him so much.
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He must have been truly exceptional to turn pro-footix in that era. Going around the world pro-footixing in the 1960s like Miguel does now. Mind-blowing.
Footixing today, the likes of Kenneth Early, Cunningham and Miguel are doing social commentary and investigations even! Some going when the rest of us are playing Football Manager and pulling the wire off ourselves.
I’ve seen plenty of Old Traffords and Anfields in shithole estates, but Highbury is a new one to me.
Chelsea fans singing Fuck the Pope and IRA Monday night. To think Kieran Donaghy nearly got dropped off Kerry panel for going to see Chelsea.
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Maybe he’s not a practicing catholic and doesn’t agree with the tactics of the provos?