Football, just a working class cult?

nydryl · 10 Mar 2011 at 22:36

shifty_uk said:
On a side note: Never try to argue with a football fan, they're delusions are so utterly deep rooted it will send you into a coma and possibly an early death!

The same goes for arguing with someone who doesn't like football. They assume a morally superior stance and bore you to hell.

Psycho Sonny · 10 Mar 2011 at 22:38

Morba said:
Sometimes you come out with such rubbish. Have you ever left your own village?!

theres at least 3 people on here that agreed with that comment, maybe its different down in england but not up here.

LeJosh · 10 Mar 2011 at 22:38

Morgoth said:
Aw aye? Mon ye!

hahaha

Haw yoo, aye yoo, mon then.

shifty_uk · 10 Mar 2011 at 22:39

Perhaps but someone completely detached from any following or cult like view, who can look at things form outside the box doesn't have the narrow minded views and arguments many football fans will toss about again and again?

LeJosh · 10 Mar 2011 at 22:40

Psycho Sonny said:
Glasgow is Scotland,

Edinburgh is really the only other city of note and its posh.

what are the population stats like?

5 million in scotland, 4 million of them living in glasgow? something like that?

No not four million according to this. Although it doesn't add up with Major Cities. lol

http://www.scotland.org/facts/population/

Edit - haha Edinburgh is only 100k less than Glasgow, blows your point away.

[FnG]magnolia · 10 Mar 2011 at 22:41

Psycho Sonny said:
Glasgow is Scotland,

Edinburgh is really the only other city of note and its posh.

what are the population stats like?

5 million in scotland, 4 million of them living in glasgow? something like that?

Are you ... is this a joke? No city in Scotland has a population of over 1 million, let alone 4 million. When we lived there I think Glasgow was on about 600,000 and was the most populated place in Scotland.

Glasgow has more posh suburbs than Edinburgh anyway.

Wait, am I being trolled?

nydryl · 10 Mar 2011 at 22:43

Psycho Sonny said:
Glasgow is Scotland,

Edinburgh is really the only other city of note and its posh.

what are the population stats like?

5 million in scotland, 4 million of them living in glasgow? something like that?

EDIT: Glasgow isn't anything like that - plus Aberdeen, Dundee, Perth etc might resent being forgotten about!

Psycho Sonny · 10 Mar 2011 at 22:45

shifty_uk said:
Perhaps but someone completely detached from any following or cult like view, who can look at things form outside the box doesn't have the narrow minded views and arguments many football fans will toss about again and again?

most of the guys your talking about, probably dont have anything going for them, there was friendly banter in the office i used to work in, but im guessing everyone in that office had a degree, so like i say, the people who cause trouble and take it too far tend to be from rougher backgrounds.

i doubt you would see as much idiots if you went to a high school in milngavie, bearsden, lenzie, newton mearns, etc. or from people at a university. you may get the odd one or two, but not as many as the likes of paisley.

Xinn · 10 Mar 2011 at 22:46

Psycho Sonny said:
rugby only gets played in private/posh schools

Complete tripe

LeJosh · 10 Mar 2011 at 22:47

[FnG]magnolia;18645692 said:
Are you ... is this a joke? No city in Scotland has a population of over 1 million, let alone 4 million. When we lived there I think Glasgow was on about 600,000 and was the most populated place in Scotland.

Glasgow has more posh suburbs than Edinburgh anyway.

Wait, am I being trolled?

It has more and is the larger city but I still wholy prefer Edinburgh as a city. Edinburgh fanboy!

nydryl · 10 Mar 2011 at 22:51

R34P3R said:
Complete tripe

In his defense it isn't far from the truth in Scotland. Fair enough you get rugby at some normal schools but it's nowhere near as accessible or popular.

shifty_uk · 10 Mar 2011 at 22:52

Edinburgh is the home of anoraks, tourists and those comical tartan hats with ginger hair.

bitslice · 10 Mar 2011 at 22:52

I had a boss who loved football,
it used to irritate me that he had no other point of conversation and that we therefore didn't really get on (it bores the living **** out of me :rolleyes:

)

I can't help feeling that if some people didn't obsess about a stupid game all the time, then their relationships with normal people would be much more rewarding.

Rexton · 10 Mar 2011 at 22:52

People I know who watch football follow it to such an extent that it almost seems like if their favoured team wins, it will be of a benefit to their lives, and if they don't, it will have a negative effect on their lives. The truth is each football team is a business without any real resemblance to the place they're supposedly representing.

But it is jolly entertaining to watch millionaires fall over at the slightest gust of wind

LeJosh · 10 Mar 2011 at 22:52

Yeah it is primarily like that up here.

Psycho Sonny · 10 Mar 2011 at 22:53

nydryl said:
In his defense it isn't far from the truth in Scotland. Fair enough you get rugby at some normal schools but it's nowhere near as accessible or popular.

exactly, all those people in england dont know how far advanced they are from scotland, i had never seen anyone play rugby until i moved schools to the north side of glasgow.

LeJosh · 10 Mar 2011 at 22:53

shifty_uk said:
Edinburgh is the home of anoraks, tourists and those comical tartan hats with ginger hair.

And Glasgow is home to a lot worse.

It's always a nice feeling seeing a shop in the city centre with Bullet Proof Glass infront of their counter because they sell alcohol.

nydryl · 10 Mar 2011 at 22:54

Rexton said:
People I know who watch football follow it to such an extent that it almost seems like if their favoured team wins, it will be of a benefit to their lives, and if they don't, it will have a negative effect on their lives. The truth is each football team is a business without any real resemblance to the place they're supposedly representing.

Spoken like someone who has never supported a team. Try coming up to Dundee on Saturday and telling that to the 5000 odd that will be watching the team try to beat the clubs unbeaten record.

shifty_uk · 10 Mar 2011 at 22:56

LeJosh said:
And Glasgow is home to a lot worse.

It's always a nice feeling seeing a shop in the city centre with Bullet Proof Glass infront of their counter because they sell alcohol.

Calm down dear, was only mocking the stereotype. Edinburgh is a nice city.

LeJosh · 10 Mar 2011 at 22:57

shifty_uk said:
Calm down dear, was only mocking the stereotype. Edinburgh is a nice city.

I'm perfectly calm honey.