The Ireland football fans aren’t a bad bunch, really, and the locals in France are taking note.
On Thursday night, locals in Bordeaux were taken aback by the Irish fans engaging in something we don’t often see from travelling football fans – they cleaned up after themselves.
Well, it wasn’t just the tidying that impressed the French, but also their enthusiasm while doing it. The footage below shows the Green army merrily chanting, “Clean up for the Boys In Green” while picking up rubbish in the French city.
"Clean up ! For the boys in green ! Clean up ! For the boys in green !"
Ne les laissez jamais repartir svp. pic.twitter.com/lCm2ShImSG
— Charly M. (@SeriousCharly) June 16, 2016
Unsurprisingly, the reaction from France has been overwhelmingly positive.
This writer’s Leaving Cert French skills have taken a serious decline down the years, but thankfully, Bing has managed to somehow survive despite the presence of that other search engine that we don’t even have to name for you to know who we’re talking about, and Bing translate also still exists.
Irish fans showing the values of sports and real fun 👏👍🏻 @robhendo13 @SmithyGraigue https://t.co/4xJu4S58T1
— Gonzalo Quesada (@GonzaloQuesada) June 16, 2016
