I don't give a shit about football.
I give a shit about my football team playing in European competitions enabling me and my mates to visit places we never would otherwise and have a laugh for three days. We'll never play in Europe again in my lifetime. Devastated isn't the word.
(Barry from Eastenders is, despite the words written above, not a woman, Wed 14 Dec 2011, 22:15, 1 reply, 14 years ago)

why not just book a holiday

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 14 Dec 2011, 22:18, Reply)

If you can get two thousand people (minimum)
to all book a holiday in the same far flung city on a Tuesday, you're a greater person than I am.
(Barry from Eastenders is, despite the words written above, not a woman, Wed 14 Dec 2011, 22:20, Reply)

But why do you need two thousand other people?
Surely just you and your mates could stick a pin in a map and say 'let's go there'!
Unless you like travelling with feeble-minded thugs who feel the need to have the rest of their tribe around them?
(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Wed 14 Dec 2011, 22:29, Reply)

The idea that Fulham is a club full of 'feeble-minded' thugs is quite hilarious.
We're the only club in the country that has a 'neutral' section because our fans are so placid.
(Barry from Eastenders is, despite the words written above, not a woman, Wed 14 Dec 2011, 22:31, Reply)

OK
'Thugs' may have been harsh (I stand by the 'feeble minded' though).However, the point still stands - why do you feel the need to have two thousand 'others' with you?
(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Wed 14 Dec 2011, 22:40, Reply)

It's hard to understand or even explain.
But when you see tons of people you recognise from back home on foreign soil, it's just an amazing feeling. And nothing with my group of mates would ever get organised if there wasn't a game on. The football is the reason people travel over, but it's (by far) the least important aspect of the trip.
(Barry from Eastenders is, despite the words written above, not a woman, Wed 14 Dec 2011, 22:48, Reply)

We'll have to agree to disagree
I've never felt the 'tribal' thing and never understood the whole football thing. If me and my mates want to go somewhere - we just go! On more than one occasion it really has been 'stick a pin in the map and go to the nearest city to the hole' and jolly good times were had.
(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Wed 14 Dec 2011, 23:11, Reply)

I'd do that, happily.
It's the fact that the others wouldn't.
(Barry from Eastenders is, despite the words written above, not a woman, Wed 14 Dec 2011, 23:30, Reply)