Anyone here like f**tball

[cojak]

Thinking about it - I'm hoping to get a contract so I might spend a bit of time away from home over the World Cup...

[Xenophon]

Chavball.

Supported by low IQ idiots, who enjoy 'singing' a variety of 'amusing'/abusive chants in unison, whilst standing in a tuliphole stadium in the freezing cold.

I was once unfortunate enough to be stuck watching a procession of chavball fans drive away from a game - it was like watching Wacky Races. I've never seen such a series of bangers in my life. I think I saw a Jag at one point, but I'm sure he was lost.

Anyone who enjoys screaming 'WHOOOOOO ARRRREE YAAAAA??!?!?!?!' of an afternoon, is frankly a tit.

[Mich the Tester]

Sure, football’s the most popular sport, which gives the companies who play it and the organizations that run it a big responsibility to set an example.

So why do football players get away with abusing the referee? Why do they get away with lifting their shirts and acting like morons after every goal? Why all the triumphant pointing and gesticulating and dancing to the crowd after every goal? Why do the managers stand at the sideline screaming obscenities and get away with it?

I’ll tell you why; it’s all part of the show. It’s about encouraging the tribalism and giving the lowest common denominator of the ‘fans’ the hit that their addiction needs to keep them spending the money they could otherwise spend on giving their kids a chance in life on the umpteenth new shirt of the season and all the other overpriced carp that kids seem to need to have to avoid being beaten senseless by the school bully. Football companies don’t serve the working classes; they shaft them, week in, week out, and they enjoy it. Unfortunately they also allow their 'fans' to make life hell every saturday for anyone unfortunate enough to live near one of their corporate HQs.

Nothing wrong with the game itself, in fact I played it until I was 15 at a pretty fair standard, but chose other sports after my dad took me to a couple of professional matches.

[doodab]

I like to watch a good game of footie on the TV and I like a kickabout but the idea of being stuck in a stadium with 60,000 semi literate morons puts me off of going to games. That and the price of tickets.

[Doggy Styles]

Do I detect a bit of snobbery here?

• chavball fans
• semi literate morons
• low IQ idiots
• tits
• scumbag tulipepants

This is a minority, and you get such a minority in all walks of life.

Perhaps you authors of these terms believe they refer to the majority, in which case, that is because you don't go to many football matches.

[Mich the Tester]

Do I detect a bit of snobbery here?

yes

[doodab]

Do I detect a bit of snobbery here?

• chavball fans
• semi literate morons
• low IQ idiots
• tits
• scumbag tulipepants

This is a minority, and you get such a minority in all walks of life.

Perhaps you authors of these terms believe they refer to the majority, in which case, that is because you don't go to many football matches.

They may be a minority but there are enough of them to put me off going to a game. If not wanting to share my afternoon with them is snobbery then so be it.

[Mich the Tester]

They may be a minority but there are enough of them to put me off going to a game. If not wanting to share my afternoon with them is snobbery then so be it.

whs

[shaunbhoy]

They may be a minority but there are enough of them to put me off going to a game. If not wanting to share my afternoon with them is snobbery then so be it.

Too right. Wheezy-chested effeminate little geeks like you would be far better placed cosying up with fellow Trekkies anyway.

HTH

[Incognito]

Chavball.

Supported by low IQ idiots, who enjoy 'singing' a variety of 'amusing'/abusive chants in unison, whilst standing in a tuliphole stadium in the freezing cold.

Anyone who enjoys screaming 'WHOOOOOO ARRRREE YAAAAA??!?!?!?!' of an afternoon, is frankly a tit.

You just don't get it. A lot of it is a sense of belonging and camaraderie , football is not all what the news likes to make out, it is not about 90 minutes of senseless violence..

Vs France

Vs Italy

Now people like you may prefer to get tarted up with make-up on a weekend and you don't see us belittling you about it, so try and be a little bit more sympathetic to other peoples sense of enjoyment.