Donal

☘️ 🇮🇪 🇮🇩 🇳🇬 Irish by birth…….Cork by the grace of God. Anfield visitor 🔴⚪️ All tweets ‘genuine’ (unless being investigated in which case I was hacked)

[Donal @Sullyod]

To think there’s lads kicking a ball around & diving all over the place for 100’s of thousands a week………& then 40+ amateur lads from @LimerickCLG & @OfficialCorkGAA (& every other county too) give us games like that!! ❤️🤍 Hurling really is the BEST sport ever #gaa #hurling

[laplfc @laplfc]

BREAKING:🚨

Aston Villa are to take legal action against channel 4 presenter Jasmine Harman after she said on an episode of 'A place in the Sun' "the villa is a bit small and lacks character".

[Donal @Sullyod]

@TotalVilla_ @MattH1874 Finally……someone speaking sense

And I can’t stand him btw

[Donal @Sullyod]

I’m no Spanish language expert but telling people to be careful of wind and waves before getting clattered by a wave is just brilliant 😂😂😂😂

[Breaking911 @Breaking911]

WATCH: A Spanish reporter warned viewers of rough seas moments before a giant wave knocked him down during a live broadcast.

[Richie Inglis @richieinglis1]

Fucking get on this thread. Comedy genius 😂😂😂👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[Donal @Sullyod]

@LFCShayan He’s just unbelievable. And if you can’t see it, then maybe he’s not a talent 🤷🏼‍♂️

[Donal @Sullyod]

@ynwa71 @TheAnfieldWrap That and Origi 😂😂😂😂

[Donal @Sullyod]

A sending off can’t not be a sending off cos it “spoils the game”. Either it’s a red or it’s not!!!

What spoils the game is incompetent referees!!!!! Two yellows for those two tackles is an absolute joke 😂😂

[Sky Sports News @SkySportsNews]

"That spoils the game!" 🗣️

The Ref Watch panel discuss whether Ryan Gravenberch should have been shown red against Manchester City on Sunday 🔴

[Donal @Sullyod]

Deliberately done or just a coincidence……….either way this is brilliant ahead of Sunday 😂😂😂 #lfc #city #mcfc #115

Give the ticket office crew a 👏🏼

[TEMP @TEMPMCR]

Someone in the group chat clocked that all our tickets have 115 at the start for Sunday 😂😂😂😂😂😂 some shithousery that 😂😂😂

[Donal @Sullyod]

@alan_tobin @N_UTD_99 Don’t touch come on here and be talking sense. That’s not allowed on the app 🤷🏼‍♂️

[Melly Barnes @Ta1kingTurf]

A long read, but its the truth!
I genuinely think we are watching football loyalty slowly die and I don't know what replaces it.
I've followed Man United home and away for decades. Thousands and thousands of miles, trains, cars, coaches, hotels, stupid kick off times, days off work and an absolutely frightening amount of money.
But forget the money for a minute because you can always earn more money.
You can't get the time back.
Weekends away from your wife and kids, family things you've missed, holidays planned around fixtures, getting home at stupid o'clock then getting up for work a few hours later.
And none of us were forced to do it. We did it because we fucking loved it.
When the fixtures came out you didn't think do I fancy that game?
You thought right, how am I getting there?
That's the difference.
And lately I've noticed more and more people I've known through football for years saying the same thing.
"They can have my ticket."
That's not normal.
These aren't people who started supporting United because they won a trophy last year. These are lads who've been everywhere following them.
And before rival fans jump on with the glory hunter stuff, that doesn't really wash anymore either.
Yes, Manchester United were ridiculously successful. We were spoilt for years and I'll never pretend otherwise.
But we've been mediocre for the best part of 12 years now.
There are kids going to Old Trafford today who've never seen Manchester United win the league. For some of them, United being bang average is basically all they've ever known.
What glory are they hunting?
They're still going.
Their dads and mams are still taking them. They're still buying the shirts, travelling away and growing up supporting United.
So this isn't about demanding we win the league every year.
Football fans can handle losing. Fuck me, we've proved that.
It's everything else.
You can have a Saturday night kick off now where you're £100 for a train, £100 for a hotel, ticket, food, drink and you're basically writing off 24 hours of your life. Sometimes you're fucked for work the next day as well.
And increasingly you sit there thinking...
What am I actually getting back from this?
Not trophies. I don't mean that.
I mean from the relationship with the club.
Because it doesn't feel like a relationship anymore.
It feels like a transaction.
You're a membership number. A ticket account. A customer.
And if after 20, 30, 40 years you finally say fuck this, you can have my ticket, it doesn't really matter.
Someone else will take it.
Probably someone who'll spend more money while they're there.
They'll buy the shirt, go in the Megastore, buy the experience, take the photos and maybe pay hundreds more for something that used to simply be part of going to the football.
Financially that might make perfect sense.
But I think football is playing a very dangerous game.
Because the people you're slowly replacing aren't customers.
They're supporters.
They're the people who went when it was brilliant and went when it was shit.
The people who knew everyone around their seat.
The people whose dad took them and who now take their own kids.
The people who didn't need a "matchday experience" because the fucking match WAS the experience.
And I don't even think this is just Manchester United.
I'm hearing supporters from other clubs saying exactly the same things.
Maybe we're just further down the road than some.
Football is becoming an event.
A day out.
A product.
Something you experience once and stick on Instagram.
And maybe that's just the future. Maybe old fuckers like me need to accept it 😂
But here's the bit I'd worry about if I ran a football club.
People aren't as angry anymore. They're just losing interest.
There's a massive difference.
Angry supporters still care.
They protest. They complain. They sing about the owners. They demand change.
When someone who's arranged their entire life around football for 30 years suddenly says...
"Know what? I can't be arsed going."

[Donal @Sullyod]

@danwba_ Looked like he didn’t have the pace to get away from him. But he should have at least made a better effort to get inside the box.
He didn’t need to feel much to go down 🙄

[Donal @Sullyod]

Why can’t they ever have their pants tied properly 🤷🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️

[Donal @Sullyod]

@AndrewHorgan Everytime I watch this, I still expect it to go in!!! No idea how it doesn’t (& never will) 🤷🏼‍♂️😰

[Donal @Sullyod]

The amount of people who have said “she tripped herself”

Sweet suffering Jesus!!!! Do these people not know how being tripped actually physically happens 🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Audrey Werro fell in the European Athletics Championship women’s 800m semi final. She was put through to the final after an appeal. She then won the 800m final. Don’t agree with this. Surely this sets a precedent for fallers to appeal and get reinstated?

[Donal @Sullyod]

@ynwa71 Some absolute belters 😂

[Donal @Sullyod]

If you do nothing else today……..look at the replies 😂👏🏼💪🏼

[Anthony Day @AnthonyDaytv]

New liverpool away shirt has arrived! @LFC @LFCRetail

[Nick Delehanty 🇮🇪 @Nick_Delehanty]

The absolute state of this.

We did not "fail to redeem" or "leave behind €60mil".

This scheme was foisted upon us.
Its a humiliation ritual for busy families.

It has caused chaos for local councils.
DCC now spends €600k+ to clean up Bin Raids.

What about the scheme's failed bid to get an exemption from paying VAT in unclaimed bottles? How they paid a Fine Gael councillor to lobby a Fine Gael Minister.

Re-Turn spends about €6million a year on advertising and PR.

What about the fact that bin collections now cost more?

Its a complete and utter scam.
Shut it down.

[Donal @Sullyod]

@StephenBrowne4 Heard a rumour it’s being renamed “The Kerryway” from January onwards. 🤷🏼‍♂️

[Donal @Sullyod]

@LBLFC_ U obviously haven’t heard the shit show that’s Been coming from The KOP the last few seasons then (I know I have)