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Originally posted by sasguru View PostAh you're back SB. Although "back" to what is a moot point, given the turgid, yet feeble electric impulses that you fondly pass off as thoughts.
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Originally posted by shaunbhoy View PostYes sg, you and some other lightweights have all agreed that you can pigeonhole the tens of millions around the world who follow football as thick-headed violent hooligans. Nothing like a balanced judgment..........and that is exactly what your statement and conclusion was.
You must find the real world a difficult place to operate in with your need for black and white answers that seldom exist. Most would put that rather simplistic outlook down to a limited intellect, and most would be right to do so. Jog on jellyhead!
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Originally posted by shaunbhoy View PostYes sg, you and some other lightweights have all agreed that you can pigeonhole the tens of millions around the world who follow football as thick-headed violent hooligans. Nothing like a balanced judgment..........and that is exactly what your statement and conclusion was.
You must find the real world a difficult place to operate in with your need for black and white answers that seldom exist. Most would put that rather simplistic outlook down to a limited intellect, and most would be right to do so. Jog on jellyhead!
You're going home in a Devonshire ambulance!
You're going home in a Devonshire ambulance!
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Originally posted by sasguru View PostSo we're agreed that football fans are the rump end of society.
You must find the real world a difficult place to operate in with your need for black and white answers that seldom exist. Most would put that rather simplistic outlook down to a limited intellect, and most would be right to do so. Jog on jellyhead!
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Originally posted by bogeyman View PostBut it is something about the game itself, too.
Actually - here's a good link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...ents_in_sports
Actually, look at the last few years: Basketball, AFL, American Football, NHL, Baseball, Cricket, Rugby League ...
I think we're propagating a myth here by the looks of it.
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Originally posted by Mich the Tester View PostWell yes, that’s what it became when the footy club played play-offs for promotion to the Dutch premier division (they lost and remain in Jupiler league). It’s a shame; I know a few of the players and they’re generally quite a good crowd, not the pumped up egos you read about in the press, but good professional sportsmen, earning a respectable living but no more than that, who feel let down when the ‘fans’ go on the rampage. On the one hand, I saw their disappointment at failing to get promotion, but heaven knows what kind of trouble it would have brought if the Feyenoord neo-Nazis came to town every year.
Football just gives thugs and hooligans something to focus on. But it is something about the game itself, too.
Why does this not happen with rugby or cricket or whatever sport, where the fans and players are merely friendly rivals, who will share a pint or ten after the match, and all go home in good company?
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With rugby, the vicious hooligans are on the pitch. Except Alan Quinlan of course.
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It is a cultural mindset that is associated with football that I find so disgusting. I know rugby players and rugby supporters who are not tribal or aggressive about who they support. But these same people change abruptly when conversations change to football; the fists become clenched and the word hate is used extensively when references are made to other teams.
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Originally posted by The Lone Gunman View PostIf you will live in a violent 3rd world tribal back water!
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