football fans.
I hate that their hobby affects my life. I live near Old Trafford, so I have to schedule when I go food shopping around whether or not there's a match on. And when I used to get the tram home, on a match day you can just forget it. The tram is filled to capacity with yobbish chanting football fans, all flouting the street drinking rules, leaving no room for commuters who just want to go home after working all day. I know it should be up to the transport department to sort this particular problem, but it just grates that when you do actually get a space on the tram, they make the journey a living hell by chanting and stamping their feet, stinking of beer and sweat.

I hate that football takes over everyone's lives so much. If a match is on, it can't just be on, it has to have people talking about what might happen for an hour beforehand. And then they play the inevitably tedious match, someone wins, someone loses. Then they talk about what happened and what could have happened for another hour and a half. Football matches themselves are rarely that exciting in themselves and really it's utterly pointless. Ok, so some people see it as an enjoyable pasttime, but the levels of pure obsession that most fans reach is just ridiculous.

Now that the world cup is on again, it's being rammed down our throatst once more. Every billboard, magazine and television advert is sponsoring, advertising or supporting the World Cup. You cannot avoid it.

Football fans en masse are usually the most thuggish louts you can encounter. They drink, spit and piss on the streets, they start fights with opposing supporters and they just generally cause a noise nuisance wherever they go. Look what happened to Manchester when the fucking Glaswegian fans came to watch a match. Football fans are re everything I hate about England and far from the World Cup bringing nations together, all it does is highlight how embarrassed our nation should be when it comes to the fans that supposedly represent it.

EDIT: man that was ranty, sorry.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 16:57, 8 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

My bezzie's going to be living in Bermonsey next year.
Yeah. Millwall.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 16:58, Reply)

at least there won't be any traffic.

(I tried to make a football joke, did it work?)
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 17:01, Reply)

I don't understand
She's going to get KILLED.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 17:02, Reply)

oh, ok I didn't get what you were saying
Is Millwall rough then?
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 17:05, Reply)

Eheheheheh...
Millwall fans are terrifying.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 17:07, Reply)

Especially if you're a yiddy spurs fan.

(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Fri 11 Jun 2010, 18:00, Reply)

Millwall fans are known as the 'hardest', I think.
At least, according to films and stuff.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 17:21, Reply)

I used to work in Charlton and their football fights with Millwall were legendary. I used to swap shifts with other nurses when their games were on as getting back home was a nightmare.

( fuck shit up the best you never had, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 17:27, Reply)

Not getting yourself tooled up and joining in then?

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 17:30, Reply)

My friend went to see Millwall play at the Millwall ground a couple of years ago
As a supporter of the away side, he found himself in a crowd surrounded by police at all times up until they were safely ensconced in the away side seating. Fences separated them from the home side. After the match had finished, the Milwall fans were literally locked into the stadium while the police led all the away fans down a high-fenced walkway that led them straight to a tube station, and made sure all the away fans were on a train before they let any of the Millwall fans out.

Kind of justifies your rant, really.
(LongJohnBaldry, Sat 12 Jun 2010, 10:31, Reply)

So one all in the first match eh?
I wonder how that group will look next week.
(PsychoChomp, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 16:59, Reply)

I don't get this

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 17:00, Reply)

The world cup has started
the first match just finished, South africa 1: Mexico 1
So the group is still wide open.
(PsychoChomp, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 17:01, Reply)

oh.
ok.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 17:03, Reply)

I had an American ask me at the final whistle
'How much over time will they play now?'
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 17:03, Reply)

The reason the trams are full
Is because they are all desperate to get back to Manchester Piccadilly so they can return to their homes in Surrey.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 16:59, Reply)

I think this is a joke about Man U fans not being from Manchester
did I get it?
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 17:02, Reply)

Yay!

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 17:03, Reply)

*beams*

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 17:05, Reply)

My ex used to live in Old Trafford and she feared match days.

( Undulating Tentacles of Love getting fun down to acceptable levels, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 17:00, Reply)

It's just annoying.
I'll be like "ooh I need milk, I'll just nip to Sainsburys", which is just over a mile away. This will take me 40 minutes. It's actually quicker to walk.

Plus I hate people who spit on the street, it's disgusting. The road outside my flat is en route to the grounds so it's just covered in spit by the time they've all been and gone, it's foul.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 17:02, Reply)

I love football and agree with pretty much every word.

(Cave Duck, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 17:01, Reply)

that's the thing, I'm really not opposed to people enjoying football
I quite like rugby. And formula 1, which loads of people find mind numbingly dull. But the difference is that they don't take over the country quite like football, which has such a low class of fans and they've forced it onto the country as the nation's sport just by being loud enough about it.

It's no gentleman's sport, like croquet. Or yachting. Yars.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 17:04, Reply)

I once heard a quote:
Football is a game for gentlemen, played and watched by ruffians.
Rugby is a game for ruffians, played and watched by gentlemen.
I've yet to see it disproved.
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Fri 11 Jun 2010, 18:08, Reply)

Yes

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 17:01, Reply)

That's the sort of thing I wanted to see.
Yeah', totally agree, a lot of north london is a nightmare with two major teams playing, I think they organize it so both teams aren't playing at home on the same day or something, unless they're playing each other, I donno.

I can sit back and if a mate is 'round mine watching the footie, I'll watch it with him, occasnaionally glancing at the screen. But my ex flatmate was mad on football, watched at least 10 games a week, totally took over the living room, and god help you if your telivision show clashes. He was a cunt, but when football came on, he was so much worst.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 17:25, Reply)

i object
to the grouping of all football fans in Glasgow under that "fucking glaswegians" banner. you'll find it was those scummy Rangers fans who are to blame*. (I realise that there is a know element to every support, but those guys blow)



*may be biased against scummy Rangers fans
(bamboozled Can hear you getting fatter, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 17:25, Reply)

Fully agree
from a fellow Tim
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 17:52, Reply)