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[Music] Reasonble punishment for anyone playing or singing a long with "Freed from Desire"?



Han Solo

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….and yet you started a thread on it….i’m not sure you will ever get the feeling of being a supporter at a game and the joy of your team winning the match…especially yesterdays circumstances and the other home win against MU
I made a thread of it because I thought the subject could be fun and twisted and a possible way to express your worst and best means of torture.
The rest of the whole "you don't know what it feels like to be alive until you've had a Freed from Desire sing-a-long" and all that other overdramatical "I barely had any fun with sports before this song came along"-sentiments... as I said: lets go with that, and I'll go with the sentiment that none of you have ever experienced football culture aside from last seasons trips to Europe. We're all different.

Again, mods can feel free to remove/lock this incredibly sensitive subject as it clearly is the core and soul of English football culture. Its my bad, I romanticised English football as more than that and thought it was possible to take a dig at this silly tune, but I was wrong and admit my mistake. I make some of those sometimes. I watched three seasons of Sunderland fan crying about the importance of football and then I see them go home ten minutes before the end in a top game which they trail 2-1. Maybe they were playing "Freed from Desire" at some pub in the surroundings so they all had to go?

That said... When I go to England, I will give my perception of English football a fair shot. I refuse to believe it can be this shallow. In my brain English football culture is going to some village in North Umptington and watching Worcesterstershire Sauce FC beat Buntham Rovers while having a chat or five with the people around, drinking out of a thermos bottle with coffee and liquor and tagging along in clever or sarcastic chants or other improvisations.

Premier League? Freed from Desire? VAR, Sky Sports, billionaire clubs, players and fans, entitled fans who can't be arsed to sing or even stick around if their team isn't providing "eNteRtAinment!!" (as if football isn't bigger than that)... sorry. Not for me. I like the football, the team and the talk around it, but to me there's way too many plastic ultra-commercialised soulless elements for me in English top flight football and "Freed from Desire" suits that development like a glove: "no need for you to be arsed to sing or make up chants or anything, we'll just play some songs from the radio after the game, force feeding you with the entertainment you can't create for yourselves". f*** it, honestly.

Imho - f*** goal music, cheerleaders, 90s tunes in the PAs, Graham Potter and Thierry Henrys fake white fake smiles in the studios, f*** sitting around waiting for Sky Sports to deliver the VAR drama, f*** paying 100 kr for a dry hamburger made by underpaid hungover students who dont give a shit, f*** not being allowed to bring in a bottle of water, f*** having a life scheduled according to what the TV viewers in China or USA wants.
f*** modern football.

And thats the final thing I have to say on this thread :shrug: Keep the goddamn culture/song.
 




Oh_aye

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Jul 8, 2022
1,983
I made a thread of it because I thought the subject could be fun and twisted and a possible way to express your worst and best means of torture.
The rest of the whole "you don't know what it feels like to be alive until you've had a Freed from Desire sing-a-long" and all that other overdramatical "I barely had any fun with sports before this song came along"-sentiments... as I said: lets go with that, and I'll go with the sentiment that none of you have ever experienced football culture aside from last seasons trips to Europe. We're all different.

Again, mods can feel free to remove/lock this incredibly sensitive subject as it clearly is the core and soul of English football culture. Its my bad, I romanticised English football as more than that and thought it was possible to take a dig at this silly tune, but I was wrong and admit my mistake. I make some of those sometimes. I watched three seasons of Sunderland fan crying about the importance of football and then I see them go home ten minutes before the end in a top game which they trail 2-1. Maybe they were playing "Freed from Desire" at some pub in the surroundings so they all had to go?

That said... When I go to England, I will give my perception of English football a fair shot. I refuse to believe it can be this shallow. In my brain English football culture is going to some village in North Umptington and watching Worcesterstershire Sauce FC beat Buntham Rovers while having a chat or five with the people around, drinking out of a thermos bottle with coffee and liquor and tagging along in clever or sarcastic chants or other improvisations.

Premier League? Freed from Desire? VAR, Sky Sports, billionaire clubs, players and fans, entitled fans who can't be arsed to sing or even stick around if their team isn't providing "eNteRtAinment!!" (as if football isn't bigger than that)... sorry. Not for me. I like the football, the team and the talk around it, but to me there's way too many plastic ultra-commercialised soulless elements for me in English top flight football and "Freed from Desire" suits that development like a glove: "no need for you to be arsed to sing or make up chants or anything, we'll just play some songs from the radio after the game, force feeding you with the entertainment you can't create for yourselves". f*** it, honestly.

Imho - f*** goal music, cheerleaders, 90s tunes in the PAs, Graham Potter and Thierry Henrys fake white fake smiles in the studios, f*** sitting around waiting for Sky Sports to deliver the VAR drama, f*** paying 100 kr for a dry hamburger made by underpaid hungover students who dont give a shit, f*** not being allowed to bring in a bottle of water, f*** having a life scheduled according to what the TV viewers in China or USA wants.
f*** modern football.

And thats the final thing I have to say on this thread :shrug: Keep the goddamn culture/song.
The Premier League may be all glitz and glamour, But, can we do it, on a wet Tuesday Night in North Umptington?
 


Guinness Boy

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I made a thread of it because I thought the subject could be fun and twisted and a possible way to express your worst and best means of torture.
The rest of the whole "you don't know what it feels like to be alive until you've had a Freed from Desire sing-a-long" and all that other overdramatical "I barely had any fun with sports before this song came along"-sentiments... as I said: lets go with that, and I'll go with the sentiment that none of you have ever experienced football culture aside from last seasons trips to Europe. We're all different.

Again, mods can feel free to remove/lock this incredibly sensitive subject as it clearly is the core and soul of English football culture. Its my bad, I romanticised English football as more than that and thought it was possible to take a dig at this silly tune, but I was wrong and admit my mistake. I make some of those sometimes. I watched three seasons of Sunderland fan crying about the importance of football and then I see them go home ten minutes before the end in a top game which they trail 2-1. Maybe they were playing "Freed from Desire" at some pub in the surroundings so they all had to go?

That said... When I go to England, I will give my perception of English football a fair shot. I refuse to believe it can be this shallow. In my brain English football culture is going to some village in North Umptington and watching Worcesterstershire Sauce FC beat Buntham Rovers while having a chat or five with the people around, drinking out of a thermos bottle with coffee and liquor and tagging along in clever or sarcastic chants or other improvisations.

Premier League? Freed from Desire? VAR, Sky Sports, billionaire clubs, players and fans, entitled fans who can't be arsed to sing or even stick around if their team isn't providing "eNteRtAinment!!" (as if football isn't bigger than that)... sorry. Not for me. I like the football, the team and the talk around it, but to me there's way too many plastic ultra-commercialised soulless elements for me in English top flight football and "Freed from Desire" suits that development like a glove: "no need for you to be arsed to sing or make up chants or anything, we'll just play some songs from the radio after the game, force feeding you with the entertainment you can't create for yourselves". f*** it, honestly.

Imho - f*** goal music, cheerleaders, 90s tunes in the PAs, Graham Potter and Thierry Henrys fake white fake smiles in the studios, f*** sitting around waiting for Sky Sports to deliver the VAR drama, f*** paying 100 kr for a dry hamburger made by underpaid hungover students who dont give a shit, f*** not being allowed to bring in a bottle of water, f*** having a life scheduled according to what the TV viewers in China or USA wants.
f*** modern football.

And thats the final thing I have to say on this thread :shrug: Keep the goddamn culture/song.
Slow day Swanny?

British football is mostly about your mates, self deprecating humour and taking the piss out of the other team’s fans. Alcohol is often involved. Sometimes the young ones or the fat old ones who haven’t learned hit each other.

It’s the same whether you’re watching the Premier League or Worthing unless you’re a Japanese tourist who’s paid a fortune to watch one player.

All the razzle and messed up kick off times come from the media, without whom you’d be watching xHamster when we were playing.
 
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trueblue

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Jul 5, 2003
10,881
Hove
I enjoyed the added bonus of the Joel Veltman song after Freed from Desire yesterday
One national paper actually cited this (and praised it) as shithousery of the highest order on the club’s part. The reporter assumed it was a pop at Maddison’s darts celebration. Think they read a bit too much into it!
 


Oh_aye

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Jul 8, 2022
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Slow day Swanny?

British football is mostly about your mates, self deprecating humour and taking the piss out of the other team’s fans. Alcohol is often involved. Sometimes the young ones or the fat old ones who haven’t learned hit each other.

It’s the same whether you’re watching the Premier League or Worthing unless you’re a Japanese tourist who’s paid a fortune to watch one player.

All the razzle and messed up kick off times come from the media, without whom you’d be watching xHamster when we were playing.
No need for XHamster. Anyone tuning into yesterday's second half would have been able to witness a load of over-manicured fannies getting pumped.
 




LamieRobertson

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Feb 3, 2008
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SHOREHAM BY SEA
I made a thread of it because I thought the subject could be fun and twisted and a possible way to express your worst and best means of torture.
The rest of the whole "you don't know what it feels like to be alive until you've had a Freed from Desire sing-a-long" and all that other overdramatical "I barely had any fun with sports before this song came along"-sentiments... as I said: lets go with that, and I'll go with the sentiment that none of you have ever experienced football culture aside from last seasons trips to Europe. We're all different.

Again, mods can feel free to remove/lock this incredibly sensitive subject as it clearly is the core and soul of English football culture. Its my bad, I romanticised English football as more than that and thought it was possible to take a dig at this silly tune, but I was wrong and admit my mistake. I make some of those sometimes. I watched three seasons of Sunderland fan crying about the importance of football and then I see them go home ten minutes before the end in a top game which they trail 2-1. Maybe they were playing "Freed from Desire" at some pub in the surroundings so they all had to go?

That said... When I go to England, I will give my perception of English football a fair shot. I refuse to believe it can be this shallow. In my brain English football culture is going to some village in North Umptington and watching Worcesterstershire Sauce FC beat Buntham Rovers while having a chat or five with the people around, drinking out of a thermos bottle with coffee and liquor and tagging along in clever or sarcastic chants or other improvisations.

Premier League? Freed from Desire? VAR, Sky Sports, billionaire clubs, players and fans, entitled fans who can't be arsed to sing or even stick around if their team isn't providing "eNteRtAinment!!" (as if football isn't bigger than that)... sorry. Not for me. I like the football, the team and the talk around it, but to me there's way too many plastic ultra-commercialised soulless elements for me in English top flight football and "Freed from Desire" suits that development like a glove: "no need for you to be arsed to sing or make up chants or anything, we'll just play some songs from the radio after the game, force feeding you with the entertainment you can't create for yourselves". f*** it, honestly.

Imho - f*** goal music, cheerleaders, 90s tunes in the PAs, Graham Potter and Thierry Henrys fake white fake smiles in the studios, f*** sitting around waiting for Sky Sports to deliver the VAR drama, f*** paying 100 kr for a dry hamburger made by underpaid hungover students who dont give a shit, f*** not being allowed to bring in a bottle of water, f*** having a life scheduled according to what the TV viewers in China or USA wants.
f*** modern football.

And thats the final thing I have to say on this thread :shrug: Keep the goddamn culture/song.
…zzzzz

😉

…right now I’ve read some of it ..would you like jumpers for goal posts as well?

Some of the ‘modern’ stuff ..I sure don’t care about ..I have been watching the Albion since 1968 so I think I qualify for a person that’s seen a bit of chance …but really hanging my hat on using this song as all that’s wrong about football today ..seriously! See the vids …old and young were living it

Oh and this “Mods delete or block this thread” rubbish ..that’s a couple of times you’ve quoted it ..what’s that all about? They are hardly going to do that ..come on u r better than this
 
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I made a thread of it because I thought the subject could be fun and twisted and a possible way to express your worst and best means of torture.
The rest of the whole "you don't know what it feels like to be alive until you've had a Freed from Desire sing-a-long" and all that other overdramatical "I barely had any fun with sports before this song came along"-sentiments... as I said: lets go with that, and I'll go with the sentiment that none of you have ever experienced football culture aside from last seasons trips to Europe. We're all different.

Again, mods can feel free to remove/lock this incredibly sensitive subject as it clearly is the core and soul of English football culture. Its my bad, I romanticised English football as more than that and thought it was possible to take a dig at this silly tune, but I was wrong and admit my mistake. I make some of those sometimes. I watched three seasons of Sunderland fan crying about the importance of football and then I see them go home ten minutes before the end in a top game which they trail 2-1. Maybe they were playing "Freed from Desire" at some pub in the surroundings so they all had to go?

That said... When I go to England, I will give my perception of English football a fair shot. I refuse to believe it can be this shallow. In my brain English football culture is going to some village in North Umptington and watching Worcesterstershire Sauce FC beat Buntham Rovers while having a chat or five with the people around, drinking out of a thermos bottle with coffee and liquor and tagging along in clever or sarcastic chants or other improvisations.

Premier League? Freed from Desire? VAR, Sky Sports, billionaire clubs, players and fans, entitled fans who can't be arsed to sing or even stick around if their team isn't providing "eNteRtAinment!!" (as if football isn't bigger than that)... sorry. Not for me. I like the football, the team and the talk around it, but to me there's way too many plastic ultra-commercialised soulless elements for me in English top flight football and "Freed from Desire" suits that development like a glove: "no need for you to be arsed to sing or make up chants or anything, we'll just play some songs from the radio after the game, force feeding you with the entertainment you can't create for yourselves". f*** it, honestly.

Imho - f*** goal music, cheerleaders, 90s tunes in the PAs, Graham Potter and Thierry Henrys fake white fake smiles in the studios, f*** sitting around waiting for Sky Sports to deliver the VAR drama, f*** paying 100 kr for a dry hamburger made by underpaid hungover students who dont give a shit, f*** not being allowed to bring in a bottle of water, f*** having a life scheduled according to what the TV viewers in China or USA wants.
f*** modern football.

And thats the final thing I have to say on this thread :shrug: Keep the goddamn culture/song.
A huge rant about how much you hate English football because it's over-commercialised from a guy who lives in Sweden and seems to love following, reading and writing about English football? My brain is failing to compute the irony of the whole situation.
 


Bozza

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I made a thread of it because I thought the subject could be fun and twisted and a possible way to express your worst and best means of torture.
The rest of the whole "you don't know what it feels like to be alive until you've had a Freed from Desire sing-a-long" and all that other overdramatical "I barely had any fun with sports before this song came along"-sentiments... as I said: lets go with that, and I'll go with the sentiment that none of you have ever experienced football culture aside from last seasons trips to Europe. We're all different.

Again, mods can feel free to remove/lock this incredibly sensitive subject as it clearly is the core and soul of English football culture. Its my bad, I romanticised English football as more than that and thought it was possible to take a dig at this silly tune, but I was wrong and admit my mistake. I make some of those sometimes. I watched three seasons of Sunderland fan crying about the importance of football and then I see them go home ten minutes before the end in a top game which they trail 2-1. Maybe they were playing "Freed from Desire" at some pub in the surroundings so they all had to go?

That said... When I go to England, I will give my perception of English football a fair shot. I refuse to believe it can be this shallow. In my brain English football culture is going to some village in North Umptington and watching Worcesterstershire Sauce FC beat Buntham Rovers while having a chat or five with the people around, drinking out of a thermos bottle with coffee and liquor and tagging along in clever or sarcastic chants or other improvisations.

Premier League? Freed from Desire? VAR, Sky Sports, billionaire clubs, players and fans, entitled fans who can't be arsed to sing or even stick around if their team isn't providing "eNteRtAinment!!" (as if football isn't bigger than that)... sorry. Not for me. I like the football, the team and the talk around it, but to me there's way too many plastic ultra-commercialised soulless elements for me in English top flight football and "Freed from Desire" suits that development like a glove: "no need for you to be arsed to sing or make up chants or anything, we'll just play some songs from the radio after the game, force feeding you with the entertainment you can't create for yourselves". f*** it, honestly.

Imho - f*** goal music, cheerleaders, 90s tunes in the PAs, Graham Potter and Thierry Henrys fake white fake smiles in the studios, f*** sitting around waiting for Sky Sports to deliver the VAR drama, f*** paying 100 kr for a dry hamburger made by underpaid hungover students who dont give a shit, f*** not being allowed to bring in a bottle of water, f*** having a life scheduled according to what the TV viewers in China or USA wants.
f*** modern football.

And thats the final thing I have to say on this thread :shrug: Keep the goddamn culture/song.
Whilst I agree with much of what you say, yesterday afternoon I had my Trombolese and it was bloody fantastic!
 








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