What is it with football supporters?
Discussion
75_Steve said:
If you need to ask, you'll *never* understand, no matter how it's explained to you.
That's generally the sort of response you get from people who don't know themselves, but are afraid to admit it!My guess is that next up will be "Go on then Fred, you explain it to him" or words to that effect!
TheLearner said:
Cotty said:
TheLearner said:
Yes football is not a contact sport (
Football is called football because your are supposed to you use your feet not elbows, barges, shoving etc etc. From ther limited matches I have seen if I were to use these "non contact" moves trying to get a drink and you were at the bar you would not be very happy.
Not that I would, just a hyperthetical situation
Tunku said:
NorthernBoy said:
Tunku said:
Rugby is played at public schools and football isn't. Decent public schools, that is. 
And played by misogynist racist homophobes with a strange propensity for "manly" games with nude male friends.My experience of the rugby mentality was seeing them get aggressive in packs in the college bars at Oxford. Braying ruperts whose idea of fun was verbally abusing women and gays from the safety of a large group.
Isn't it odd how those that don't go to footy matches are the ones that think there ia fighting, drunks, and general yobbery. I wonder what part the tabloid have to play in that? I,ve been going since I was a kid and have seen maybe 3 or 4 fights in that time. Exactly where do people get these ideas?
NorthernBoy said:
Tunku said:
NorthernBoy said:
Tunku said:
Rugby is played at public schools and football isn't. Decent public schools, that is.
And played by misogynist racist homophobes with a strange propensity for "manly" games with nude male friends.My experience of the rugby mentality was seeing them get aggressive in packs in the college bars at Oxford. Braying ruperts whose idea of fun was verbally abusing women and gays from the safety of a large group.
NorthernBoy said:
My experience of the rugby mentality was seeing them get aggressive in packs in the college bars at Oxford. Braying ruperts whose idea of fun was verbally abusing women and gays from the safety of a large group.
I think at University, that about sums it up. That and the other piss drinking, nob flashing, type drinking team rugby shirt hillarity.If you go to a rugby club after university it's not like that. There are usually a good mix of people from a wide range of backgrounds.
TheCarpetCleaner said:
I never "got" football
While ago I was asked by some nobhead in a pub "What team do you support?"
When I told him I did not really have any interest in football, he called me a
and offered me "out for a fight"
FFS
While ago I was asked by some nobhead in a pub "What team do you support?"
When I told him I did not really have any interest in football, he called me a
and offered me "out for a fight"FFS
Really? I think the problem is that particular chap, not the sport he follows FFS
It's all to do with mathematics.The number of areseholes in the crowd is directly proportional to the number of wrs on the pitch.
In rugby the numbers are obviosuly low as the majority of players are well adjusted adults.
In football it's high as the number of jacked up, diving, spitting prima donna's acting like spoilt brtas on the pitch is high.
HTH!
rs on the pitch.In rugby the numbers are obviosuly low as the majority of players are well adjusted adults.
In football it's high as the number of jacked up, diving, spitting prima donna's acting like spoilt brtas on the pitch is high.
HTH!
deevlash said:
Because football is a working class game and many of the fans lack breeding, discipline and any sense of decency, its true and everyone knows it 
That's a very polite way of putting it. Ficko yobs, who live in scummy areas, with minimal education and no aspiration to go anywhere in life, other than 'down the local after the match', for the rest of their lives.
Depressing picture
Blue Meanie said:
Isn't it odd how those that don't go to footy matches are the ones that think there ia fighting, drunks, and general yobbery. I wonder what part the tabloid have to play in that? I,ve been going since I was a kid and have seen maybe 3 or 4 fights in that time. Exactly where do people get these ideas?
For me it's things like the comment in the article I referred to saying it was unthinkable not to have a turnstile system at a major ground (compare that to Twickenham, where the 80,000 matchday crowd just make their way to their seats in an orderly fashion without the need for such measures), or alternatively, the complete ban on alcohol on the stands at Wembley when Wales were playing their rugby there, something which rugby stadia simply wouldn't feel the need to impose, or the fact that rugby supporters will mix socially before, during and after a game, whereas the impression I get of football is one of segregation at every opportunity. I drove through Yeovil last week, and even Yeovil Town FC have Home and Away supporters carparks!OK, you don't get the pitched battle yobbery of the seventies Millwall fan any more, but from the outside looking in, there still seems to be an odd difference between football fans and followers of other sports.
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