An advertisement has appeared on a number of facebook pages recently. I'd imagine that it is tailored to appeal to the hitherto non-political footballing yoof of Ireland. Placed by Eoin Ryan, a Member of the European Parliament for Fianna Fail, it promises us that: 'Eoin Ryan loves football, MOST of the time! Click here to find out why!'
Like a dutiful old dog I clicked on the link. It takes you to this, a letter written by Ryan to (I presume, as this isn't clear) the President of the European Parliament, outlining Ryan's disgust at Scottish born players who represent Ireland at international level receiving racist abuse. I have no problem with this, in theory, although it presupposes that Irish fans are saintly in their terrace comportment, when this is plainly not the case (does anyone remember when Ireland played Denmark in a friendly a few years back and the PA mistakenly informed the crowd that Peter Lovenkrands, then of Rangers, had come on as a sub? The player who actually came on was booed for the remainder of the game, on the grounds that he [Lovenkrands] played for Rangers).
Wouldn't it read better as 'Eoin Ryan Loves Political Capital!'?
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Correct. It was a Madsen from Brondby in fact - came on at half-time to a chorus of boos from the Celtic-jersey wearing 'Ireland fans'. They didn't know what to do with themselves when Lovenkrands actually came on as a sub 30 mins later...
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