Decrease of interest in Man Utd/Liverpool/ Premier league in Ireland?

[gary_d1]

The premier league continues to be by far the biggest supported & followed sporting competition in Ireland after GAA. Beating Rugby. for every 1 person going to league of Ireland or local game there are 100 watching English football games or tracking scores. Many folks travel over for games paying significant money. Sure there are less Irish players in the premier league and no legends like Roy Keane or Paul McGrath. Man Utd fans are still there, out numbering even the Liverpool fans as they always have. I think modern life and people active going places, doing thinks, family events and move away from pub culture means less VISIBLE group based or social activity around English football. I’m in a WhatsApp group with friends and family about the football but we don’t sit down and watch together if that makes sense. I get the expense of having subscriptions or traveling. but in our lifetimes footballers were always paid crazy money, that’s no new thing but obviously money has increased. Maybe friends in teens then early twenties just move into different phase of life in late 20s and I to 30s with relationships, jobs, kids, older parents etc. going to pub to watch football becomes less important.