There is an undoubted bandwagon element that has always been prevalent in Limerick sport. It will flit between the GAA and Munster Rugby, depending how well either team is going at any one time. Soccer doesnât come into it, to any great degree, as Limerick have had poor teams for the guts of 40 years now.
All three have their hardcore local support who will always turn out at club level. The soccer following would gravitate more towards the GAA than rugby, however.
The inevitable by-product is gobshitery. Two things that Iâve noticed since crowds have been allowed back to games are âsupportersâ abusing their own players and the amount of people with their heads stuck in phones while the game is going on. I suspect the latter cohort are checking updates on social media to try identify players and scorers as they wouldnât have a clue who they are. Another giveaway is when they bring children onto the field after games for selfies etc, with players. They havenât a clue who half of them are with their helmets off and youâd se them glancing at the programme for their number before the âHey Tom, Hey Danâ bit.
You seem badly rattled by a bit of harmless winding up about your favourite sports team. Probably best to leave off you at this stage, lest you threaten to headbutt me.
I was briefy enraged at some of this carry on last August when i saw certain people were at the final and i was in a pub on camden street. After 50 odd phone calls that morning to say im in dublin, let me know if theres a ticket going. I let the seeth go as it was too big of a day to ruin. But there is an element of some cunts only there to throw up an Instagram story, same folks only go to big concerts to be seen, it occurred with rubby too for years. There is a bandwagon element no denying that
