Football, just a working class cult?

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ive lost a job due to not liking football ,it was with a small nightshift crew and at meal time/tea break thats all they would discuss while i sat there blank ,never fitted in.
walk past the kids playing rugby down the road ,getting their heads kicked in while the proud dads grunt obscenitys ,yeah great stuff
 
moon man said:
ive lost a job due to not liking football ,it was with a small nightshift crew and at meal time/tea break thats all they would discuss while i sat there blank ,never fitted in.
walk past the kids playing rugby down the road ,getting their heads kicked in while the proud dads grunt obscenitys ,yeah great stuff
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if kids are getting their heads kicked in playing rugby, they're doing it wrong...
 
dmpoole said:
I find it amazing that this so called 'workingmans sport for thick buggers' can be seen in every corner of the Earth.
I like when Bruce Parry goes into the deepest jungles of Papua New Guinea or the Amazon that he will find kids kicking a ball with Arsenal & Man Utd shirts on.
This PROVES beyond doubt that football is part of evolution, in our genes and the one sport that unites the world every 4 years.
I truly believe that any male not into football must be a bit girly.
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Good post.

I am a football fan and I like to think of myself as a decent one. I am not a thug and I do not support a 'big' team. I was brought up in Reading and have feen following them since I was a kid. Seen the highs and lows. Never seen any trouble either.

I do occasionally go to rugby as well, but I find it a little boring.
 
Abraham said:
Rugby is played everywhere that has room. It's definitely not restricted to private schools, it just requires more than football.
In terms of school playing there is no difference in requirements really.
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In Scotland (or at least in Edinburgh) the general rule is that it is public schools that play rugby and state schools do not - there were a few exceptions but it had little to do with the amount of room that the schools had on their grounds.

Looking back I somewhat regret that I never had much of a chance to try rugby but at the time it didn't bother me in the least as football was the game that all my mates played.
 
There's more to football than just 90 minutes of kicking a ball.

It's part of the local community, a place for friends to meet up and socialise.

A place for people to create new acquaintances, amongst like minded people.

Somewhere where people can enjoy an afternoons entertainment. Even the biggest football hater would be hard pushed to now feel the excitement when 90,000 fans are cheering on their team and a classic match is unfolding in front of their eyes.

It's no different than people apart of any hobby or club.

Football welcomes people from all backgrounds and classes.

If anything Rugby is the more elitist sport.
 
I think football now is more than a working-class spectator sport nowadays. I can't be arsed with it these days and only have a vaguely passing interest, when the likes of Ashley Cole disappear from the game I might take more interest.

And to be completely politically incorrect - the majority of football fans are walking brain dead.
 
toshj said:
or that most football fans have little or no other interests is completely ridiulous and totally laughable.
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What's laughable is that you are about the sixth person to misread my post and I've already corrected two people FFS

I said "Maybe it's just the people I've met"

So that's not "most football fans", nor is it twenty seven, nor is it 14% of the population of Germany - it's just the people I've met - I really can't make that any clearer for you.

As for the "OMG, football haters gonna hate !!!111" comments by somebody else, nobody is hating anybody you berk. All I've seen in here is a few people sharing an opinion that Football is boring, the same way you'd probably find amplifier design boring, or Roman architecture boring.
Big deal, stop wetting your panties over nothing.

I think the other comment was that one of us said Football fans are morons? Well I'm not implying that nor have I seen anyone else say that either. I'll go back to the example of one of my bosses. A really clever guy, but I don't remember one single conversation with him that didn't somehow relate to football, either going to away games, or taking his son to a match or his teams chances in some cup or other. It was eat/work/sleep/gym/football. Oh and he once expressed a liking for a certain type of car once, that was about it :confused:

It's not just that they are incapable of discussing anything else, that would be daft, it's just that I've found them to be pretty much disinterested in discussing anything else but football.


dmpoole said:
I can also say that no stranger has ever spoke to me about football.
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So when I offer an opinion based on the people I've met, you say it's the biggest load of crap ever.
Yet when you do the same based on the people you've met, it's all somehow perfectly OK? (despite others disagreeing with you) :p

Besides, I think you live way over Castle end, I lived near the unofficial carpark for Stoke fans :)
Just to prove my point, today I had some random stranger telling me they were going to Scunthorpe for some match this weekend, so maybe people just like telling me stuff and maybe they think you are going to glass them :D
 
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I fully sympathise with the OP, sectarianism is horrible and the main reason im bailing on NI a bit early (living on a street where this years drunk chant is ra ra up de ra is just as annoying as having the orange order parade down the street).

Football its self is awesome though, just generally attracts idiots who take it too far (or havnt a clue).

Over the last few years iv become a much bigger Southampton fan and gotten to the point where the majority of fans are either people with social problems or utter idiots! Some are all right bit its harsh to put all football fans in the same boat...
 
godinman said:
I mean, you must be joking right? Rugby union is brilliant. I know it can get a bit complex for your average football supporter, so maybe that's your problem?
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Because it's awful to watch, and the game relies upon brute strength more than it does skill...

Football is a game that literally anyone of any size can play without risking getting completely crippled by a bad tackle, although it can happen in football it is just seemingly less likely.

Everyone i know who played rugby for littleborough or someone is now that inured that they can no longer participate in the sport.

Football is just awesome, its not only for the working classes but it can take a person from the working class to the millions a year earning potential.


Sure the scots and the irish are a bit nim when it comes to religion and somehow this gets confused during a football match with too many drinks. In general football is not like this. They just use the football as an event to get ****ed up and basically abuse each other at arms length and then try to get closer if they lost to get some form of payback. its absolutely nuts.
 
[TW]Fox;18645415 said:
Ah, a football thread in GD. The opportunity for me to ask a question I've always wanted to ask but would be considered trolling if I asked it in Sports Arena.

How come at a football match, the Home and Away fans are kept away from each other yet at a Rugby Match you can sit where you want they will happily serve you alcohol?
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Different types of people tbh... more people who can't behave themselves at football matches. That isn't to say that everyone attending football matches can't.

Similarly you don't need the same police presence an event such as say the BBC proms yet if a bunch of football fans charge forward and crush other fans its apparently totally the police's fault not other fans regardless of the fact there was no need for people to charge/push/shove etc.. in the first place.
 
I've enjoyed football since toddlerhood, Kicking a ball around my back garden is one of my earliest memories, I could do 100 foot to foot keep me ups before I could read!:o

Football is in my blood and I resent being labelled or pigeon-holed as a result. There are extremists and hooligans in all walks of life, the op'rs experiences are extreme and imo don't represent the majority of football supporters and the way they think about and follow the game.

Football unites people, classes and nations, I think there is a lot of jealousy in this thread from people who don't understand the game or have the necessary athletic ability to sample the game from a playing perspective.

If you hate the game then fair enough but it's pathetically narrow minded to tar all followers of the most widely supported sport on the planet with the same brush, and to have the audacity to suggest that only a certain type of person follows football. Followers of football are as varied a group as any.
 
Nothing beats the adrenaline rush of watching/playing football. For example I am a Tottenham fan, and watching the match against AC Milan on Wednesday was the most nerve-racking and exiting experience I've had this year, and nothing beats the feeling when you win a game like that.

I also play for a Sunday league side. Keeps the fitness up and the competitiveness of the whole thing is outstanding. Wouldn't change football for the world.
 
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