GREAT DAY

Bechet said:
Aha! a fair weather fan, eh?
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Oh no ! Southampton born and bread. Season ticket holder for many a year. I've stood both at The Dell and at St Mary's soaking wet watching us be beaten time and time again. But I've also been there for the highs. Don't get to go much now as we opted for the quite life in North Devon. Southampton just ain't the place it was when I was growing up, too busy now for my liking.
 
MPH said:
Yes, every time Norwich lose!!!!
I get over it next time we win!!!
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I really can't be doing with waiting that long to get over a loss. The only game I've been to this season was against Norwich. We were dreadful, my mate had to drive over to Preston for a wedding so left at half time, I've seen it too many times to let it get to me now. For the OP I support Sunderland.
 
I don't dislike football, but I do find the coverage of it tedious and overbearing. I also cannot comprehend the hatred between fans. It is anathema to me. It is possible to be passionate about a team but not wish all manner of ills on those who support a different shirt. The whoile game is so bloated these days it's difficult to love.
 
The coverage is definitely bloated but the hatred thing is a little overblown. I've had a pint or two with fans of rival clubs on matchday and it's always been friendly - there's obviously a few nobheads out there but by and large it's fine.

Maybe it's because Everton aren't good enough to annoy people though.
 
LeeBot said:
The coverage is definitely bloated but the hatred thing is a little overblown. I've had a pint or two with fans of rival clubs on matchday and it's always been friendly - there's obviously a few nobheads out there but by and large it's fine.

Maybe it's because Everton aren't good enough to annoy people though.
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I get what you say but my experiences of watching football seem to be so negative. To me the very fact that fans can't be trusted to sit next to each other (and I know that the few make that the case, not the many) is so sad. I used to live in North London and the vitriol between Spurs and Arsenal fans was appalling. I just don't get it.
 
I buy a single ticket to watch Quins vs Tigers so I usually sit somewhere in the middle of the Quins season ticket holders in the centre line block - all by my Tigers self, no red, white and green within hailing distance. We always have great fun taking the mick and congratulate each other for a win. Their favourite is a chorus of "Meaow" every time I bellow for Tigers. Really violent and vitriolic stuff!

Hm! all that should be in the past tense. Damn!
 
jds said:
I get what you say but my experiences of watching football seem to be so negative. To me the very fact that fans can't be trusted to sit next to each other (and I know that the few make that the case, not the many) is so sad. I used to live in North London and the vitriol between Spurs and Arsenal fans was appalling. I just don't get it.
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Some of the worse football supporters I've experienced were Arsenal. Throwing coins and open coke bottle full of urine.
 
eduardo fandango said:
In my time, I've rubbed shoulders with some people on the fringes of Leicester's Baby Squad, Forest Executive Crew, Derby Lunatic Fringe and the Leeds Service Crew. I've also managed to find myself in the thick of things here and there, mainly abroad with England.

It just is what it is. I could write an essay on the whys and what-nots ... but won't.

I also go to my fair share of Rugby matches (Tigers at home, mostly).

Apples and Oranges.
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I've never mixed with that sort, but I've seen and heard fistycuffs being arranged for after a game. If two sets of "Fans" want to kick hell out of each other, up to them. But picking out random supporters and causing trouble, well NO !!!
 
Long suffering Sheffield United fan here.

I agree with what others have said about egg chasing though. As I now live in South Devon I've been to see Exeter Chiefs a few times.

The difference between that and a football match (especially a derby game) is eye-opening. The last Sheffield derby I went to the Wednesday fans (several of my mates amongst them) had a police escort to the ground and we weren't allowed into the pub they were in (even though I and they had no colours on).

When I went to see Chiefs vs Bath (a derby of sorts) all the supporters mixed together and there was good natured banter.

My wife won't go to another football match, but will go and watch the rugby any time.
 
Policing a Tigers match takes a WPC to help us across a busy road. When Foxes are at home at the same time, they need dozens and dozens of PCs, horses, helicopters, cameras.

Even against Saints - that other East Midlands team - we use the same pubs. Women, children and babies are perfectly safe. Sit mingled together and chat happily-ish.

Nearest I've been to feeling unwelcome was at a Sarries match, which is one reason I don't like 'em. Would never go to a Sarries home game again. Are they still at Vicarage Road?
 
Electrif said:
I hate football, anyone with me?
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Not a fan, although I like to see Saints do well. Football does seem a bit of an ill-disciplined handbag fight among drama queens most of the time. Lawrence Dallaglio's quote that football in general and the Premiership in particular is regarded within rugby circles as "The Andrex Challenge" - soft and unnecessarily expensive - summed it up well for me.

Regards,
Chris
 
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