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This is a question I don't understand the attraction

Smaug says: Ricky Gervais. Lesbian pr0n. Going into a crowded bar, purely because it's crowded. All these things seem to be popular with everybody else, but I just can't work out why. What leaves you cold just as much as it turns everyone else on?

(, Thu 15 Oct 2009, 14:54)
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"I dont understand the hatred"
Human beings are social animals and by and large they have an instinctive need to belong.

Football offers a convenient arena for the expression of this tribal mentality: identification is simple since the teams each have easily-distinguished colours and emblems; the football matches themselves create direct conflict that (hopefully) establishes superiority over another group; the minutiae of match events, team selection, player performance and so forth establish a shared history that can be discussed and debated.

The same can be said of pretty much any other sport and even pretty much any leisure activity, it just so happens that football is very high-profile and tends to attract a particularly aggressive form of partisanship.

Lecture over.
(, Fri 16 Oct 2009, 11:37, 2 replies)
^this
But the wage figures involved -- particularly in football -- are stratospheric, offensive and a great many people would be delighted if they could be capped.

And, whilst diverting the funds to hospitals sounds altruistic, it's not really viable. Surely it would be better to keep the wages down (although not easy to implement), thus keeping the gate prices down, and letting the money wend its way into the economy from the fan's pocket.
(, Fri 16 Oct 2009, 12:09, closed)
Keeping the wage down is impossible to implement
For example, say the English Premiership decided that 25% of all wages were to goto a charitable cause.

You would soon find all the best players, in fact almost all the players finding work elsewhere because foreign clubs would be able to simply offer more money.

The compromise is for football clubs to do what they can to help charities - which they do, in the thousands of pounds!
(, Fri 16 Oct 2009, 12:36, closed)
What I don't get...
...is how one can have any loyalty to a team that's composed of players in it for the money, and not necessarily born in the area of the club or whatever.
(, Fri 16 Oct 2009, 12:46, closed)
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Yeah i was just about to say that, ladyfingers.
If, for example, I'd watched my son and his friends play in a local team, and they gradually won more and more games, until eventually they were in the FA cup final or whatever, I would most likely shell out £50 to go and watch the match. But why get excited about some strangers who couldn't give a fuck about your town, and fly off somewhere hot at the soonest opportunity.

And in any case, why is it YOUR team? All you do is stand there in the cold watching them, whilst eat a pie. You fat loser.
(, Fri 16 Oct 2009, 13:05, closed)

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