Gerrup!

So Dublin are the Leinster champs - fair play.

Yesterday was my 3rd Leinster final ever, I'm proud to say I've been to at least 90% of the Dublin championship games in the last 4 years or so, and it's a blast, It's really good craic.

However, I'm finding it quite hard to fit into a group here, now, usually with sport it's pretty easy, say for instance in Soccer, I would generally fit into the "non-yob wannabe pundit" group, with probably 25% of the rest of the Soccer loving Irish public.

The strange thing with GAA is there appears to be only 2 types of Dublin supporter, On your left you have the total scumbag - who arrives at Croke park with his Dublin Jersey around his head showing off his marijuana leaf tattoos and his ferociously pale upper body, this type of supporter genuinely loves the Dublin team - no doubt - but also seems hellbent on drinking his FACE off before and after the game and systematically destroying Dublin city centre on a drunken rampage later in the day. I don't think I'd fit in there, mainly because I don't have the marijuana leaf tattoo.

The other side - and this is possibly worse than type A - on the right hand side you have this pseudo intellectual snobbish GAA supporter who will basically look right down their noses at you when you don't recognise a certain player. These people are obviously very interested in the sport and probably genuinely love Dublin aswell, but the damage they do is not to the city, it's to the game of GAA, and let me explain why,

I'm not a source of information about Gaelic football and I don't think i'll have have such an interest that I'll make it my business to learn EVERYTHING there is to know - but I have been going to games for a while now, and I enjoy it - so what's the harm in being a fairweather fan?
People who know more about the sport are putting other people off going because they are being made feel inadequate by these jerks!

The more game you go to - the more you learn, so give us all a break before you start giving out every year about how the championship brings all the part-time supporters down to the games, we're paying in like everyone else damnit!

(Calm down)