Most definitely this. **** them when they are in the ground singing for their team. I met up with some Fulham friends beforehand but once the game starts they are the enemy. That's what separates football from rugby..... The tribalism.
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Most definitely this. **** them when they are in the ground singing for their team. I met up with some Fulham friends beforehand but once the game starts they are the enemy. That's what separates football from rugby..... The tribalism.
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This and any trip north of London. Especially if their bottom half of league.
I agree, we should make The Amex as imtimindating as we can for the away team and fans, It should be a ground where away teams do not like coming because the roar of the Home crowd. But maybe I am being thuggish and we could invite a few around our houses for Tiffin after the game.
Spot on! Too friendly IMO. Needing a proper canvass rather than this community stadium nonsense.
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Spot on.
It IS true. It was used by all classes but all the media people had posh accents then whereas they don't now so that is why you have the perception of it being posh.
No, it really wasn't. The word was invented by the upper classes soon after the Football Association was formed, if you google it you can probably come up with the accepted story that it was an Oxford undergraduate who first said he'd rather play 'soccer' than 'rugger'. (The word comes from a diminutive of 'Association') Don't forget it was originally codfied by ex-public school boys, and until the arrival of the Football League they dominated the game.
....Uh, oh, here we go again! - "I know best, 'cos i've 13,000 posts(but no life!)...." type-post. Oh, and reactionary & insensitive, 'ukip-esque' avatar. Next.
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Nope , I know best because I know loads of Fulham fans from south west London , I know ONE who lives in Haywards heath.
Soccerama was Alan Ball's favourite game.
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100% this, but Barber would say otherwise.
Ha Ha. He shouted 'soccer!' once for comic effect but throughout all the sketches the posh people were saying 'football'. Anyway as I said, I can't afford to go. Trust me on this one, in previous decades prior to metrosexuals trying to discard their middle class credentials it was quite normal for a normal working class bloke to say 'soccer'. Having said that the text books might be right about the words origins but then it used to be a gentleman's game in the 19th century.
You surely jest, have you looked at your own avatar.
zxtwinturbo
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Yep 100% this,my best mate is palace but when we play them i fuxking hate the sxum,and go a bit nutty.After the game il have a beer with him.Oh except the play offs and the first home defeat where my mate was a cxnt for weeks afterwoods!!!
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Trust me, in my lifetime its never been normal for working class football fans to refer to it as soccer .
I believe you. I never said they did, in your lifetime. However if you are over say 60. I'd say you have a selective memory.
Yep,...& very attractive he looks too! you should see his policy on dealing with 'white van man'.....
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So when Millwall come down in a couple of weeks and give us loads of homophobic abuse before and during the game will they get a clap for making a fantastic effort to come down on a Friday night or booed cos their scum.
...Now...they ARE scum! - the most hated team in british football(sorry p*lace) .....I'll get the guns, lads!
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...Now...they ARE scum! - the most hated team in british football(sorry p*lace) .....I'll get the guns, lads!
They are pussy cats now compared to the supporters when I first watched the Albion,words are nothing compared to the rain of beer bottles when you cheered a good move.