Be there
Crowds this season are up, with Sligo and Derry drawing the guts of two and a half thousand a game and Rovers getting their usual “full house.” One thousand tickets have gone to them for this game, and I expect a crammed Jodi Stand for Bohs. With Rovers in the shed, the proximity of both sets of fans is going to make for one hell of a game. While the pull of this game is understandable, hopefully those making their trip to Dalymount for the first time, or for the first time in a while, realise that football in this country isn’t going to survive unless there are heads coming through those gates week in, week out. (A few quid spent in the bar or the club shop wouldn’t go astray either…) What should be a tight, and tense affair may go some way to attracting people back. My heart is already in my mouth, and I truly can’t wait to get up to Dalymount on Friday. Derby day is always special, lets hope this one is no different.
Come on Bohs.
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Nice bitter side swipe with the “full house” comment.
” A couple of them will be popping their LOI cherry”
On the wrong side of the city might I add! McDowell’s isn’t enough for some people :*-(
Seriously but, think this will be a great advertisement for the league on d’telly.
Not at all bitter Hooperman. All those swipes are made in jest, any pieces that I put up on a Bohs/ Rovers game are hardly going to be free of the odd poke here and there. Wish Bohs were getting 4/5 thousand in a game.
What are the origins of the intense dislike between Shamrock Rovers and Bohemians?
They aren’t particularly near neighbours, as compared to the other Dublin clubs. And while Rovers are the most successful club in the country, it isn’t as if Bohs are the second most successful.
Why is there more bile between these two clubs than there is between any other combination of Bohs, Pats, Shels and Rovers?
Mark, the reason is basically that in the 1970s, when LOI clubs began to attract a hooligan type element, Rovers and Bohs were the biggest two teams in Dublin and it’s grown from there.
On top of that, Bohs had a brief period of gloating while Rovers were rubbish followed bya sustained period of Rovers dominance in the 80s.
But I’m told that the real bitterness kicked in later, after the sale of Milltown when Bohs fans were the only ones who passed the picket at Tolka when Rovers fans were boycotting the games.
In the 1990s when I first started going, Bohs were the only fans to be segregated at the RDS and there was guarenteed to a few punch ups in and around the ground. The wierd thing is that in those days no one including the Guards, really cared. It was sort of considered part of the day. It was only in the 2000s that the press started making a big deal out of it and you started seeing really heavy security.
I think games like this are hugely important for getting new people interested in the league.
My first LOI game, supporting Bohs, was them against Shamrock Rovers in the FAI Cup in August 2006 in Tolka. It was a 1-1 raw as far as I remember.
I have no real recollection of the goals or what happened on the pitch but the those first experiences of the Bohs crowd will stay with me forever: hundreds of people around you singing in unison and seeing people right in front of me light up flares. It was quite special.
Hopefully some of the new faces who we’re bringing along to the game on Friday will experience that as well.
Claire Tully’s article on extratime is getting some heat:
http://extratime.ie/newsdesk/articles/5392/derby-day-dalymount/
“Traditionally it’s a battle between the north and the south sides of the city. It almost makes me feel a little bit sorry for St. Pats because in a way their meetings with either club get overshadowed compared to this one titanic fixture. Don’t get me wrong, St. Pats are one of the big three in Dublin (and I have such a soft spot for them and some of their fans) but nonetheless there is nothing like when both sides of the Liffey collide four times a year. It reminds me a little of Newcastle and Sunderland when they played Middlesborough in the Premier League, it was still a derby, just not the derby.”
I’m very conflicted. As a Galwegian I should follow the tribesmen, as a former UCD student I should follow the blues, as a resident of dublin 8 I should follow Pat’s but when I moved to Dublin a few years ago I lived on benburb st and visited Dalymount first…on the Bohs!
Does anyone follow UCD?
I suppose your first love is the one you’re stuck with! Benburb Bohs edges out the saints there.
Going to record this one off d’telly, we’re playing UCD at home. I will verify that nobody supports them the next day. Some cracking games between Bohs and Rovers in recent seasons.