100% agree, it's not so much "Welcome to Hell, prepare to die" as "Welcome to Sussex, have a cream tea." Sadly I think the move to turn a football match into something between a tennis match and a Cliff Richard concert is too far advanced to stop, but we can but try. What I'd like to see us do is before the match we should ritually slaughter the other team's mascot or emblem in from of their fans. For instance if we were playing Palace we'd kill and eagle, for Mansfied a stag, Hereford a bull, and so on. We might might have to get a bit inventive for teams that haven't got an immediate animal connection, but as long as their fans get upset, outraged and nauseated, well, job done.
It's embarrassing when your team gets spanked and your fans think they can even the score by picking a fight.
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Liverpool were sitting Champions at the time. If indeed Anfield is no longer friendly, 24 years without winning the league proves my theory LOL
I can't afford to go to the games and can't afford £3 for coffee Bonecrusher. Posh people would probably say 'footy'. 'Soccer' was a word commonly used by all football fans until some trendy people made it uncool because they were annoyed that's what Americans called it. Of course the Americans understandably say the English word 'soccer' for obvious reasons.
That's not strictly true. Whist the term 'soccer' is British and almost as old as the game itself it was seen as a more middle/upper class name as it was constructed in the same way as 'rugger' and by the same class. It never had much traction amongst working class fans, i.e. the people who actually went to the matches.
