[Football] Are we heading back to the "bad old days"?

[A1X]

Some are probably motivated by the likes of those accounts mentioned in the OP to become "internet famous" for a day. I don't follow those accounts myself but have seen a general uptick in football social media of a bit of glorification of poor fan behaviour across many different accounts.

 

[Weststander]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/60056492

 

[Crawley Dingo]

If the former, what's to blame? Gear?

I do not think chill out drugs are responsible. Hippygans?

 

[BN9 BHA]

Nah, when the old bill start taking me laces outta me Docs then I'll say we're back to the good ol days...

I think the hoolies these days would probably turn their noses up at wearing Docs, every though they cost about £150.

 

[BRIGHT ON Q]

Wasn't a Blackpool fan killed this season when Burnley fans attacked the pub they were in?
Terrible.

 

[Commander]

Wasn't a Blackpool fan killed this season when Burnley fans attacked the pub they were in?
Terrible.

I think it was the other way around, one of the fans who attacked the pub got killed himself.

 

[Chicken Run]

I understand why you and others think like this, but I'm an active member of personal finance communities, and you would not believe how common it is for people from low/no earners to high earning professionals to get themselves in tens of thousands of pounds worth of debt through spending on things they cannot afford - through credit cards, personal loans, pay day loans, overdrafts and private debts.... and it is an incredibly stressful experience being reminded of these debts, often leading into even more impulsive spending. Have you heard of Klarna? Any person with any credit history can buy a stone island jacket and not pay a penny for it... until the debt collecters come around for 10 times more than what they might have paid for it initially.

Judging people by what they have managed to buy is absolutely no indication of the health of their finances... in fact, the more financially stable people are, the more likely to have a considerably more modest wardrobe and lifestyle.

This forum full of home owning middle agers probably can't quite grasp how much people are being pushed economically, so frequently being forced into debt. Crime, violence and drug use is up, almost in direct correlation with personal debt... It is completely understandable why football fans will continue to spend money on this hightly emotive hobby, and why these things are becoming more prominant in football, just like they are everywhere else in society.

Yep there will be loads of people out and about tonight in Brighton sniffing bugle in nice clothes who secretly are on the bread line, thinking how shit life is

 

[Wrong-Direction]

Thousands of angry men need something to do at the weekend

 

[BN9 BHA]

Thousands of angry men need something to do at the weekend

I will be under a kitchen sink tomorrow morning

 

[BBassic]

I don't think it's that surprising. People generally I think are pretty angry these days.

Between seemingly interminable economic worries, a global pandemic reminding us all how terrifyingly fragile and fleeting all this is, people under 35 having almost no hope of owning their own home, endless divisions over Brexit, a country on its knees and the mystifying fact that Frank Lampard continues to get work no wonder people are f***ed off.

 

[keaton]

youngsters first reaction to anything is to film it.

Blokes have always been blokes . Same as any town centre at weekends up and down the country.

Nob heads everywhere

Not really massive issue

I think you mean "wankers have alway been wankers", I'm a bloke and have managed to not attack a stranger for number of years

 

[portlock seagull]

Yeah those naughty ‘poor people’ dressed in expensive clothes probably spending north of £100 on away days fighting each other….

As I recall, people stole the designer clothing and certainly didn’t pay for a rail tickets.

 

[portlock seagull]

I don't think it's that surprising. People generally I think are pretty angry these days.

Between seemingly interminable economic worries, a global pandemic reminding us all how terrifyingly fragile and fleeting all this is, people under 35 having almost no hope of owning their own home, endless divisions over Brexit, a country on its knees and the mystifying fact that Frank Lampard continues to get work no wonder people are f***ed off.

Vast majority of us don’t kick off even though we have same worries. There’s a level of entitlement IMO, a by product of / created-by consumerism. Hope is the keyword in what you wrote. Without that, dreams are destroyed and illness / anger manifests. Concentrated wealth and power cause this. Ironically politicians then exploit these conditions. And so the downward spiral continues, becoming ever more vicious with ever turn IMO.

It’ll end in enormous global violence. It always does.

 

[Wrong-Direction]

I will be under a kitchen sink tomorrow morning

I'll be at the Van Gogh museum..

 

[BN9 BHA]

I'll be at the Van Gogh museum..

Being under a kitchen sink suddenly sounds a good option.

 

[Whitechapel]

Of course I've heard of Klarna. If you know of a drug dealer that's partnered with them I reckon @Whitechapel will probably take their details via PM.

Wtf, no I won’t.

My credit is terrible so I doubt I’d qualify x

 

[carlzeiss]

Seems that no part of the country is safe from these feral scallywags now

 

[BBassic]

Seems that no part of the country is safe from these feral scallywags now

Ooooh big tough men being scary safely behind lines of police.

Still, nice to see some sensible big tough men in there pulling their mates away.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

The Football Factory just got added to UK Netflix on 5th May. Expect a whole new wave of twats to onboard as a result

 

[Algernon]

It's just thick people.