WELCOMING comment and reaction, PostSport is asking for your opinion. So, the best sporting, tweet, letter or email of the week wins a Free Large Pizza from Domino’s – Tweet @donnosullivan, email: [email protected] or send your letters to Donn O’Sullivan, Limerick Post Newspaper, 97 Henry Street, Limerick.
Here’s last week’s winner:
Dear Donn,
First off may I start by saying that I always enjoy reading your excellent sports column in the Limerick Post. In my opinion it is a far better read than the sports column in the other Limerick newspapers.
However, I have to take issue with your comments re the Irish press core and how they criticise Trapatonni. Especially on light of how you also did the exact same thing yourself by launching an attack on the IRFU’s selection policy!
As a long time fan of the Irish soccer team I believe they have a point. Good players such as Clark (Aston Villa), Coleman (Everton) Mc Carthy (Wigan) Hoolohan (Norwich) and Stokes (Celtic). All these players who have been playing well for their clubs are continuously overlooked by the likes of Whelan, St Ledger and Andrews. St Ledger and Andrews don’t even play in the Premiership anymore.
Your comment; “Who really cares as long as we win”, could also be applied to the Irish Rugby team as well couldn’t it?
It seems to me that you regard the success of the Irish rugby team as being far more important the success of the soccer team. Therefore anyone who dares to question the tactics or selection of the Football team manager is nit picking but people are perfectly justified in criticising the IRFU selection committee.
Fair enough if the success of the Irish rugby side is more important to you and you don’t really care about the soccer team. But please don’t allow this bias to make its way into the comments of your weekly sports column.
It is wrong for the local media to assume that Limerick people are ALL Rugby fans before soccer fans. Far from it.
I think us local Soccer fans many of us who will be travelling up on the train to the Aviva on Tuesday for the second leg of the play off deserve better.
Rgds
Thomas Ryan.
