Prejudice is normally irrational.
And mine is no exception. If I am forced to converse with someone wearing a football shirt who is not actively engaged in a game of football, I will approach the dialogue with a heavy heart. I imagine that many people wearing said shirts will actually be lively, intelligent indivduals but I only ever seem to get to talk the ones who talk purely about football, and who use the term "we" as if they were actually on the field during the last match- a subject covered better by Mitchell and Webb than I will ever do so I leave it at that.

I don't hate football- I felt the Champions League game earlier this week was fantastic and neither do I hate other sports (except golf). I love motorsports but I don't feel the urge to wear a Nomex all in one when I watch it, let alone if I wander off down the shops or the pub.

I am simply driven by the subconcious feeling that if you approach me wearing a gaudy, synthetic rag with the name of some corporate giant swathed across the front of it, that I will enjoy the conversation about as much as I would pile surgery. Irrational but that's a prejudice in action.
(Leonard Hatred briefly did some work on, Fri 2 Apr 2010, 20:37, 6 replies)

Football shirts = for playing football in.
I never wear a white coat and stethoscope when going to the doctors, or a clerical shirt and white collar when attending a Christening.
(Cave Duck, Fri 2 Apr 2010, 21:08, closed)

you should!
would make for a good ice breaker
(DreddPirateBob has watched every scifi film ever on, Fri 2 Apr 2010, 21:13, closed)

But then..
where would I get a huge cunt costume, for when I go into the bank?

*Hopes dreddpiratebob isn't a banker*
(Cave Duck, Fri 2 Apr 2010, 21:28, closed)

I'm forever amused by people who will spend forty quid to advertise a company on a shirt.
I like football, but I don't pretend I am a footballer.
( Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Sat 3 Apr 2010, 0:38, closed)

The "we" thing
always makes me smirk in the pub as they chunder on about how "our" manager doesn't know what he's doing and they know folk who played in that school team they managed 25 years ago that would outplay "our" defenders.

I'd love to see a big, hairy arsed premier-leaguer scythe one of their 8 year old prodigy's legs off, just to hear them argue about how they wouldn't have given him a red card for it.
( baw__bag contains traces of nuts on, Sat 3 Apr 2010, 5:57, closed)

The case for the defence: The "we" thing...
As a die hard football fan I feel the urgent need to defend this action within fans. I think it stems from the fact that football (especially lower league football) is very tribal, in my league (Conference) most of the teams have about 2000-500 die hard season ticket holders who go to every game and traipse across the country following their team.

If you're one of those people (as I am) you experience every high and every low and, while it sounds very stupid to outsiders, it's very emotional, to the point where you see fans crying when their team's relegated. Not only this but as a fan and paying customer you're actually the club, if you all stopped going there wouldn't be a club, it wouldn't be able to survive.

I think that's where the "we" stuff comes from, after you've experienced a couple of seasons you're part of the whole thing and it's hard to escape it's grasp. My mood is based solely on whether we've won our previous game or where we are in the league and that's the very reason I'm currently bouncy and happy (4th in the league w00t!). It is stupid but it's also very, very fun.
(I Am Plague @Mistication92, Mon 5 Apr 2010, 4:38, closed)