r/coybig

Bit of a fun post (no need for hate)

But taking there’s two Irish managers (Andrew’s and McKenna), who have teams in the premier league. And as they are known to support their own As Andrew’s has Collins and Kelleher, and McKenna has O’Shea, Ogbene and Kasey. Who do you think (from our current squad (including u21s)) could potentially be good enough to play get the move for both Ipswich or Brentford.

I personally can see Omobamidele, Ferguson, Lawal or Abankwa. (Parrott potentially but I’d rather him stay in Europe)

Been working on documenting every single team in the Irish football pyramid.

1,448 teams, 148 divisions. From LOI down to every junior league across the Republic. Feedback welcome

Ireland is currently the only national team selling and presenting retail kits with sponsorship, after Switzerland moved away from the practice in 2020. At these prices, supporters should be getting a clean national team shirt, not advertising space they are paying for.

It's embarrassing. If you buy a jersey with a name and number, you will get the small number on the front for every country except Ireland, because the sponsor is in the way.

In rugby, even when countries have sponsors on their jerseys, they make them remove them and sell the sponsorless versions for World Cups. I wish they would at least have that option. Celtic have a similar option too, where you can buy a sponsorless jersey.

They need to realise we are the only country in the world that does this, and everyone knows it's ridiculous. You'd probably make more money from sales because right now, loads of fans (including myself) aren't bothering to buy them because of this. We are paying premium prices (that slowly rise over the years) for something that looks different than what is actually being worn on the pitch because we have to promote some huge corporation.

I hope at some point, Ireland fans will get together and boycott until the FAI realise how ridiculous this really is. If you want to buy an Ireland jersey, get one off Vinted or Classic Football Shirts. O'Neills also have some quality stuff. We should stop moaning about the corruption and actually do something about it for a change.