Cliftonville Official " bottled" by Linfield/IFA thug last night

[lynchbhoy]

why ? because you dont like the truth ?

linfield are effectively the establishment, therefore ifa - though Tony links them even further !

Effectively? Are they not suing each other over the Windsor Park lease? Saying that an "IFA thug" threw a bottle is infantile.

as for stopping playing and conceding two goals - thats no excuse...sure yer taught to play until you hear the whistle!

Agreed. Irrelevent, but 100% right.

it will be some craic when the all Ireland league starts, and we have sham-soccer rovers fans up fighting in belfast and throwing pigs heads , with the same kind of scum trapsing down from there to riot on our streets against our local scumbags (rovers fans)

You are aware of the existance of the Setanta Cup, which has been almost entirely trouble free for the 7 or 8 years its on the go?

theres plenty about either side that you know even less than I do
I suggest you read mor of what Tony says (it might be a tad hyped up but its close enough to the truth).

think you are looking away from the sc**bag element when you are wearing your sham-tinted glasses !
Setanta cup is a starting point that has had plenty of violence and will get worse when the lower soci-classes start following their teams north and south of the border on a more regular basis !

[stiffler]

Soccer in the north is in serious need of a complete overhaul from top down.

For too long incidents like these have went unnoticed, with little if any reprecussions for the offending club.

[Myles Na G.]

What is a Linfield/IFA thug exactly?

Had a search there and nothing from Fearon when a Linfield player got hit with a rocket last time out. Launched by a Cliftonville/IFA thug no doubt.

You didn't search too hard, did you? He didn't start a thread on it - but the big man did say it was deplorable (before reverting back to his usual schtick)

Deplorable incident but only the latest in a long line of thuggery at Windsor Park. I witnessed Gerry Daly getting split by a bottle and Linfield/IFA getting off scot free, way back in 1979. Belfast Celtic were forced out of the league due to savage attacks on their players way back in the late 1940s. Linfield/IFA supporters threw hand grenades at Cliftonville fans back in the 90s etc.
The IFA's partisan espousal of unionism is a large factor in this and means that the facilitate tribal confrontation. Another reason why a new stadium at the Maze is needed and Linfield/Ifa need to be reined in after getting off scot free for decades. But then again they are the IFA's favourited and favoured club

I was standing on the Kop that night when the blast bomb was thrown. The Cliftonville supporters all around me started cheering, because they thought it was an attack on the RUC. At the end of the match we were all funnelled out along the side of the Olympia Leisure Centre. A group of empty heads started lobbing rocks over the fence at the cars in the car park. An older man remonstrated with them and told them to stop trying to damage other people's property. 'It's Orange property', one of the yobs told him, and continued chucking. But that probably wasn't sectarian. Maybe he just didn't like brightly coloured cars...

That is possibly the biggest porkie pie from you yet Myles, keep them up though, very entertaining

And you base that comment on what, exactly?

[Doogie Browser]

Well your user name itself is a famous pseudonym from someone world famous for fictional comic stories and you are following a similar vein on here, so that kind of gave it away.  Keep it up though as you are giving me a chuckle.

[Myles Na G.]

Well your user name itself is a famous pseudonym from someone world famous for fictional comic stories and you are following a similar vein on here, so that kind of gave it away.  Keep it up though as you are giving me a chuckle.

Good spot on the username, but otherwise you're way off the mark. I went to a handful of Cliftonville matches each year for 3 or 4 seasons around that time, as a mate of mine was playing for them. The match with the blast bomb was one. Another was the home match against Portadown which had to be abandoned after fans started a riot.

[carribbear]

it will be interesting to see how utv live/ bbc newsline cover this as when the firework hit the linfield player it was the top story with hagan in the studio doing an interview on utv

also i remember alan snoddy abandoning a game when a plastic bottle was thrown on from the cville end years ago

the crowd trouble between linfield and the glens on boxing day wasnt reported on much, i didnt see any footage on local news

wud hav been a lot different if it had been a row at a gaa match

Which game was it that a fan came on the field and kicked a player - I'm guessing it was Linfield vs Belfast Celtic but I could be very wrong, I think it was around the early-mid 90's.
I don't even think that game was abandoned.

[Rossfan]

Which game was it that a fan came on the field and kicked a player - I'm guessing it was Linfield vs Belfast Celtic but I could be very wrong, I think it was around the early-mid 90's.
I don't even think that game was abandoned.

Belfast Celtic ...1990s 
I think Tony will soon point out that this club was driven out of existence by Linfield/IFA in the 1950s.

[carribbear]

Which game was it that a fan came on the field and kicked a player - I'm guessing it was Linfield vs Belfast Celtic but I could be very wrong, I think it was around the early-mid 90's.
I don't even think that game was abandoned.

Belfast Celtic ...1990s 
I think Tony will soon point out that this club was driven out of existence by Linfield/IFA in the 1950s.

Sorry - It was a while ago, I don't follow that league so you'll have to forgive me on the name, probably was Donegal Celtic. I just remember watching the incident on UTV. Fan jumps onto the field, kicks the player and then disappears back into the crowd, helped by his fellow supporters to hide.

[Rossfan]

That incident rings a bell alright.
I dont follow soccer in any of its forms but that was on news reports all over the place at the time.

[stiffler]

Well your user name itself is a famous pseudonym from someone world famous for fictional comic stories and you are following a similar vein on here, so that kind of gave it away.  Keep it up though as you are giving me a chuckle.

Whos this?

[Gabriel_Hurl]

He was a satirist for the Irish times back in the 50's and 60's

[Myles Na G.]

He was a satirist for the Irish times back in the 50's and 60's

And an exceptionally funny one.

[stiffler]

Flann O'Brien, aka Myles na Gopaleen

[Myles Na G.]

A pint of plain is your only man.

[stiffler]

When money's tight and hard to get
And your horse has also ran,
When all you have is a heap of debt -
A pint of plain is your only man.