What is it with football supporters?
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I've only been to a couple of football matches, but the language is terrible! People get inside that stadium and turn into yobs and racist pricks. The sort of stuff they are shouting would get them arrested on the street, yet inside a stadium its ok. You have to blame the teams as well, surely they know who the trouble makers are with CCTV and season tickets etc, yet seem to allow them back in 
I agree with Deevlash, most are uneducated yobs, fans and players.
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Stuart
I agree with Deevlash, most are uneducated yobs, fans and players.
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Stuart
Blue Meanie said:
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
Kermit power said:
I was just having a look through the Hillsborough thread, including the report from the Independent about the spat between Liverpool and UEFA. There was one particular quote which caught my attention...
its a tribal thing.Some bloke called Parry said:
"To have a stadium with no counting system and no turnstiles is unforgivable for any standard of game, let alone a major final,"
Why is it that every other major sport is perfectly able to have the fans all mixed up together with minimal security, alcohol on the stands and no turnstiles anywhere I can think of, whereas football fans, and seemingly only football fans have to be segregated and treated more or less like criminals? Prof Beard said:
75_Steve said:
If you need to ask, you'll *never* understand, no matter how it's explained to you.
Indeed, and that is probably much to his credit... I have no ing idea why either!My only take on the truly ridiculous nonsense and behaviour that surounds football is this:
Football is tribal. Teams and their supporters are effectively warring tribes who "defend" their home territory, and conduct "raids" on other clubs "territory".
The very keen or even fanatical supporters subscribe to primitive, base emotions that most of us either suppress or have evolved out of.
When a team, or national side goes to play abroad the primitive men who go along to "support" view it as some kind of crusade into foreign lands. They believe they are fighting foreigners to establish the supremacy of their "religion".
Regardless of whether I am right or wrong, football seems to attract a disproportionate number of violent chav thugs over other sports. Sadly, these cretins are a throwback to more primitive times.
Football supporters are the reason I like to drive to work at the weekend.
For some reason, watching some fellas kick ball around gives them an excuse to act like a group of retarded pack animals in rutting season, since when did being passionate about sport equate to acting like a prick in public?
Every Saturday during the football season, the general public has to put up with aggressive thugs being abusive, loud and offensive, and all in the name of football.
The other day there were a group of meatheads on the train who had been to watch the cricket but still ended up telling everyone how they were going to kick the sh1t out of someone, shouted at a small baby to shut the f##k up, sexually harrassed a group of girls, then started singing football songs for the rest of the journey.
You're right, I feel the need to ask but I'll never understand.
For some reason, watching some fellas kick ball around gives them an excuse to act like a group of retarded pack animals in rutting season, since when did being passionate about sport equate to acting like a prick in public?
Every Saturday during the football season, the general public has to put up with aggressive thugs being abusive, loud and offensive, and all in the name of football.
The other day there were a group of meatheads on the train who had been to watch the cricket but still ended up telling everyone how they were going to kick the sh1t out of someone, shouted at a small baby to shut the f##k up, sexually harrassed a group of girls, then started singing football songs for the rest of the journey.
You're right, I feel the need to ask but I'll never understand.
Evil Jack said:
sheets tabuer said:
Evil Jack said:
I'm a Leicester City fan. My best mate is a Coventry fan. We're supposed to be sworn enemies, and yet we often sit together when our teams are playing each other...mind you they're bloody rubbish games...
Yeah Leicester are crap
strangely, leicester cov might be a good game seeing how theyve started well, and leicester look like we might be getting there
garyhun said:
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!
football is boring shit & you've got to be mental to watch it
what a load of small minded people there are in this thread
ive been to hundreds of football matches (havent seen much football played, but thats leicester for you) never seen any serious trouble
ive watched football in pubs most weekends for years, and again nothing out of hand hardly ever
every time theres anything bad happenes concerning football and english fans, the media hype it up like mad. For sure england seems to attract a very small minority of morons, but to say that football fans are knuckle dragging cavemen.. well that sums up the hooray henry public school attiture pretty well i think
I went to a comprehensive and played rugby for the team (badly, but being big for my age helped
)i like the sport now, but quit with the pointless 'my games better than yours' mentality
ive been to hundreds of football matches (havent seen much football played, but thats leicester for you) never seen any serious trouble
ive watched football in pubs most weekends for years, and again nothing out of hand hardly ever
every time theres anything bad happenes concerning football and english fans, the media hype it up like mad. For sure england seems to attract a very small minority of morons, but to say that football fans are knuckle dragging cavemen.. well that sums up the hooray henry public school attiture pretty well i think
I went to a comprehensive and played rugby for the team (badly, but being big for my age helped
)i like the sport now, but quit with the pointless 'my games better than yours' mentalityMy boss and his colleague are obssessive about football and it's really sad to see how worked up they get over it. I've often wondered if they would be as lenient if I got drunk and failed to turn up for work the next day because my team had lost.
And can anyone explain why the response "Are you gay?" when saying no to the question of whether you like football is acceptable??
And can anyone explain why the response "Are you gay?" when saying no to the question of whether you like football is acceptable??
silversun said:
And can anyone explain why the response "Are you gay?" when saying no to the question of whether you like football is acceptable??
It's not acceptable, and if I got that, I would point out that it's not me that gets off on watching scantily clad sweaty men run around after a ball...Prof Beard said:
silversun said:
And can anyone explain why the response "Are you gay?" when saying no to the question of whether you like football is acceptable??
It's not acceptable, and if I got that, I would point out that it's not me that gets off on watching scantily clad sweaty men run around after a ball...
TheCarpetCleaner said:
Blue Meanie said:
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
"Which cricket team do you support?"
"Hampshire"
"You
" *smack*As if.
Sadly there really are people who think that if you express an lack of interest in football you are somehow slighting them - if asked about this by what I judge to be dangerously primitive types, I always say "I don't know much about football, I'm from Watford" - usually gets a laugh and they go away.
(I was born in Watford, by the way, and I really don't know much about football)
(I was born in Watford, by the way, and I really don't know much about football)
Don't forget that non-league football mixes the fans - and they even change ends at half time, and I've never seen trouble there.
As a Watford fan (who has on occasion witnessed good football), the only trouble I've ever seen from visiting fans is from Luton - and there's serious rivalry there that most fans don't appreciate exists.
As an away fan, I've witnessed trouble at Luton (again), Birmingham and Wolves - oh, and from Sheffield Utd's gorrilla stewards.
As a Watford fan (who has on occasion witnessed good football), the only trouble I've ever seen from visiting fans is from Luton - and there's serious rivalry there that most fans don't appreciate exists.
As an away fan, I've witnessed trouble at Luton (again), Birmingham and Wolves - oh, and from Sheffield Utd's gorrilla stewards.
So rugby is a gentlemans game? Is that why there are so many fights on the pitch?The interesting thing is that up until the last few years I was a fanatical follower of football. Played it all my life, watched it on telly and live all my life.
Then with the change from a good contest between men to the farce we have now (diving, jostling refs to get others sent off, general acting like tossers) I lost interest. I much prefer a good game of rugby now!!!
Then with the change from a good contest between men to the farce we have now (diving, jostling refs to get others sent off, general acting like tossers) I lost interest. I much prefer a good game of rugby now!!!
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