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From an Irish point of view, we are exposed to the premiership as much as England is on tv and our parents and family all support premiership teams (or Leeds in a lot of cases). The majority of fans support Liverpool, United, Leeds and Everton as far as I can tell and the main reason I think they do is because of the large Irish connection to those teams. That is how my family and the generation ahead of me started supporting Liverpool anyway. I was born in 88 so have seen no league success but I was brought up in an extended family where everyone supported Liverpool. We don't just sit at home and watch the game on our own, we go down to the pub and have the banter about it with mates etc. I don't personally sing when I go to any matches be it Liverpool or Dublin so I don't feel that I'm missing out on that anyway. If I lived in Liverpool I would fork out the money but geography dicatates that its not feasible to go to every game. I haven't swapped any club for Liverpool, and I'm sure most Irish fans are the same. The Irish League is a load of sh1te in my opinion and I wouldn't expect you to fanatically support your local park team ahead of Liverpool as they are the team you have always followed and cared about
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Because football in NZ sucks basically!!! And I was into Liverpool before there was a Wellington Pheonix, so they won me over. thank you for replying this is the type of feedback I was looking for to help me understand...
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From an Irish point of view, we are exposed to the premiership as much as England is on tv and our parents and family all support premiership teams (or Leeds in a lot of cases). The majority of fans support Liverpool, United, Leeds and Everton as far as I can tell and the main reason I think they do is because of the large Irish connection to those teams. That is how my family and the generation ahead of me started supporting Liverpool anyway. I was born in 88 so have seen no league success but I was brought up in an extended family where everyone supported Liverpool. We don't just sit at home and watch the game on our own, we go down to the pub and have the banter about it with mates etc. I don't personally sing when I go to any matches be it Liverpool or Dublin so I don't feel that I'm missing out on that anyway. If I lived in Liverpool I would fork out the money but geography dicatates that its not feasible to go to every game. I haven't swapped any club for Liverpool, and I'm sure most Irish fans are the same. The Irish League is a load of sh1te in my opinion and I wouldn't expect you to fanatically support your local park team ahead of Liverpool as they are the team you have always followed and cared about yes you make some fair points, I would of thought people in Ireland would of supported Glasgow Celtic if they were to support another club due to the Clubs Irish Catholic Roots. You say football in Ireland is not so good but surely clubs like Linfield, Glentoran, Home Farm or Shamrock Rovers are all good solid football clubs ok maybe not Premier League standard but still worthwhile, don't forget the likes of Ronnie Whelan and Roy Keane came out of those clubs and I think Liam Brady...
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Well I feel for the prem because I liked the competition and the guts of it. We don't have that down here, it dead boring and I never would have started watching football if the teams down here had anything to do with it, would have been boring. I didn't have ONE team at first, just watched the games, but I loved the fire that Liverpool played with, so for some reason, that I still don't know, I started following them, and from there, it's become a bit of an obsession.
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I'd keep an eye on Celtic and would be similar to the example Faz gave but they wouldn't be my club as such.
Linfield and Glentoran are in a different league and Home Farm aren't a senior team. They have connections (or used to anyway) with Everton as far as I know they were called Home Farm Everton. When I was young, there was never any exposure to League of Ireland, it was always just Liverpool and when I was old enough and went to one or two games the standard is sh1te and the fans are thick so I have no interest in it. There are good players in the league but they are few and far between and it is often a case of watching football tennis
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From an Irish point of view, we are exposed to the premiership as much as England is on tv and our parents and family all support premiership teams (or Leeds in a lot of cases). The majority of fans support Liverpool, United, Leeds and Everton as far as I can tell and the main reason I think they do is because of the large Irish connection to those teams. That is how my family and the generation ahead of me started supporting Liverpool anyway. I was born in 88 so have seen no league success but I was brought up in an extended family where everyone supported Liverpool. We don't just sit at home and watch the game on our own, we go down to the pub and have the banter about it with mates etc. I don't personally sing when I go to any matches be it Liverpool or Dublin so I don't feel that I'm missing out on that anyway. If I lived in Liverpool I would fork out the money but geography dicatates that its not feasible to go to every game. I haven't swapped any club for Liverpool, and I'm sure most Irish fans are the same. The Irish League is a load of sh1te in my opinion and I wouldn't expect you to fanatically support your local park team ahead of Liverpool as they are the team you have always followed and cared about Ireland is different there is a very close connection with the uk and Northern Ireland is part of te uk. Plus you can go to the odd game. In a edition there s a very close connection to Liverpool both in terms f the seaport short hop over the sea plus the very close family ties
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From an Irish point of view, we are exposed to the premiership as much as England is on tv and our parents and family all support premiership teams (or Leeds in a lot of cases). The majority of fans support Liverpool, United, Leeds and Everton as far as I can tell and the main reason I think they do is because of the large Irish connection to those teams. That is how my family and the generation ahead of me started supporting Liverpool anyway. I was born in 88 so have seen no league success but I was brought up in an extended family where everyone supported Liverpool. We don't just sit at home and watch the game on our own, we go down to the pub and have the banter about it with mates etc. I don't personally sing when I go to any matches be it Liverpool or Dublin so I don't feel that I'm missing out on that anyway. If I lived in Liverpool I would fork out the money but geography dicatates that its not feasible to go to every game. I haven't swapped any club for Liverpool, and I'm sure most Irish fans are the same. The Irish League is a load of sh1te in my opinion and I wouldn't expect you to fanatically support your local park team ahead of Liverpool as they are the team you have always followed and cared about Ireland is different there is a very close connection with the uk and Northern Ireland is part of te uk. Plus you can go to the odd game. In a edition there s a very close connection to Liverpool both in terms f the seaport short hop over the sea plus the very close family ties I can see there would definitely be a big United following in Northern Ireland because of Georgie Best...
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Plus in the 70's Liverpool always used to tour Ireland on their per seasons
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