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Because Croke Park's facilities are miles short of meeting UEFA's standards. And because the owners (GAA) hate the very thought of SOCCER being played there.
Croke park is nowhere near the Aviva
About an hour’s walk from memory. So hardly ‘next’ to each other.
I'm sometimes an hour's walk from my memory too!
Well, it's good enough for Bruce Springsteen
I had to explain to a work colleague today how my memory works: “there’s today, there’s yesterday, there’s the day before yesterday, and there’s some time before that. What you’re asking about it is in category 4.”
But only if he recovers from the COVID he caught from Larry David after drinking from the same glass of water.
OK, an hours walk or 15 mins by taxi. But both in Dublin, the latter to be filled with Liverpool & Rangers fans for the final.
Why sell 12000 to fans worldwide? Crazy. I think any real football fan has no problem with a stadium being packed exclusively with supporters of the finalists. And FOUR tickets each. Ticket tout heaven.
In his excellent autobiography Liam Brady recounts being thrown out of his senior school just before his final exams by the Christian Brothers who ran it because he’d shamed the school by signing schoolboy forms at a football club!
I think the GAA might have something to say about that.
When Lansdowne Road was demolished for the building of the Aviva stadium the Irish RFU asked the GAA if the Ireland rugby team could play at Croke Park. The GAA gave its permission only because the Irish national rugby team represents both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland as opposed to football (soccer!) which are two separate entities N.I. and the Republic.
Not entirely sure that is the reason why. After all, the Republic's soccer team played their international games there whilst the Aviva was being built (between 2007 and 2009).
I'm sure.
