You stroppy football lot

[xoggoth]

Earlier this week I was watching a rerun of Michael Palin's "Ripping Yarns" where a women has to hide all the breakables before her husband comes home from yet another football match where his awful home team loses. Thought it was just comedic invention until a BBC TV news item tonight about the increased threat of domestic violence during the World Cup. Can't find a link to that but an article from last year is here:

World Cup football is a risk factor for domestic violence | Lancaster University

So come on you footy fans. Who punches the wife, kicks the cat and smashes the place up when England lose?

[TheFaQQer]

It's only a game

[xoggoth]

It's only a game

Which one, punching the wife, kicking the cat or smashing the place up?

[TheFaQQer]

Which one, punching the wife, kicking the cat or smashing the place up?

We haven't got a cat.

[doodab]

I sometimes lose my temper when I bang my head on things. I learnt my lesson (not to hit things in anger) many years ago when I punched a kitchen cupboard and the whole thing fell off the wall.

[Gittins Gal]

Earlier this week I was watching a rerun of Michael Palin's "Ripping Yarns" where a women has to hide all the breakables before her husband comes home from yet another football match where his awful home team loses. Thought it was just comedic invention until a BBC TV news item tonight about the increased threat of domestic violence during the World Cup. Can't find a link to that but an article from last year is here:

World Cup football is a risk factor for domestic violence | Lancaster University

So come on you footy fans. Who punches the wife, kicks the cat and smashes the place up when England lose?

I think expectations are so low that when we inevitably go out with a whimper there will just be a collective sigh of relief that it's all over for another 4 years.

By the way, I loved Ripping Yarns - I always remember the one about the boarding school and they sent the college puma after MP when he played truant.

[MyUserName]

We haven't got a cat .... anymore

FTFY

[TykeMerc]

Barstoneworth, Barnstoneworth!!!!!

[cojak]

8 bloody 1!!!!!!

(I stayed in Barnstoneworth last year for my previous contract.)

[xoggoth]

I learnt my lesson (not to hit things in anger) many years ago when I punched a kitchen cupboard and the whole thing fell off the wall

I once slammed a door with an expensive safety glass panel and the whole thing exploded. Not over football though, something about the wife wanting the car when I needed it.