Talk:Derry City F.C.
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[edit] "Safety concerns"? Please expand!
Quoth the article:
- Derry City formerly played in the Irish Football League, but was forced to leave that league following the 1972-73 season because of safety concerns.
It would be constructive to expand on this. Whose safety did Derry's play in the Northern Irish league endanger and how? --Jfruh 18:52, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
For their own safety. Derry City left the Irish League for the Eircom League for near enough the same reason as Belfast Celtic disbanded - sectarian violence. --[[User:Unregistered] 15:48, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
- Yeah i think your right, Derry City major support comes from a republican base, and i think the major issue was with Institute F.C. which was more of a unionist supported club. But i always have had the impression that Derry City was more or less forced out then leaving on their own accords. --Boothy443 | trácht ar 04:47, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
Institue weren't around as a senior club when Derry left the Irish League or joined the League of Ireland. They were only elected to the IL in 2000 or so. In any case they are a very small club so no security issue really applies to them. Derry leaving the Irish League had to do with the Brandywell area being a virtual warzone in the early 1970s and unionist supported teams (which was everyone else except Cliftonville) refusing to travel there. The IFA then ruled that the Brandywell didn't qualify as a senior football venue so teams would not have to travel there. Derry had to play in Coleraine (a unionist town) for a couple of years but then gave it up in 1973 until 1985 when they were elected into the newly created 1st division of the LOI. Jdorney
[edit] Location and League
I think this section should be excised or (preferably) split into a separate article. It bears only tangential relevance to Derry City and the status of the UK clubs cited is not comparable to that of Derry, as they do not cross international borders. DublinDilettante 16:10, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
- Agree that this section looks and feels totally out of place. Dodge 12:02, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] POV
We can assume that that will be the end of the Candystripe's European adventure for this season!
Totally POV so I deleted it.
Nick M 25th of August 2006
Ahh!!! Ye of little faith! wait til thursday night!!
[edit] Club colours
Any idea where the red and white stripes originated?--134.226.1.194 17:03, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
Sheffield united apparently - can't remember the whole story but a former sheff utd player came over and playes or was manager of City and they adopted the "Candystripes"
[edit] Recent anon edits
In responce to the following comment on my talk page:
- "Can you please stop removing important information regarding Derry City F.C. from the page? If you refuse to stop this childish behaviour I may be forced to report you to the powers-that-be. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Johnfullerton (talk • contribs) 2006-10-15T18:54:50 (UTC)"
My recent edits on this article have been in response to a request for assistance on one of the admin notice boards. My main edits have had suitable edit summaries, but to sum things up:
- I couldn't care less which photo goes where, but when anon editors change that they need to do so with care and not remove other valid edits.
- The "Location and league" section is pure nonsense and does not belong in the article. It is inaccurate, original research and unsourced.
- The list of supporter fan clubs is not encyclopedic (see WP:NOT for starters)
- There are far too many external links, links which do not enhance the article or are unreliable sources (see WP:EL.
Based on this I have remade the majority of those edits, but leaving the photos alone. Please note that a number of editors of this article would also seem (evidence being their reverts) to agree with my viewpoint. Thanks/wangi 20:16, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
- I have since deleted Image:Derrypsg.jpg as a copyright violition (not as claimed a PD photo taken by Johnfullerton). Thanks/wangi 12:56, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
