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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"I don’t mind the highlights on MOTD but I struggle to watch a whole match. It’s a bit dull.
Whereas I find rugby entertaining through the whole game. "
Yes very true! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Millionaire mercenaries playing for billionaire foreign owners. "
That’s a bit of lazy generalisation innit, Tame?
At the very top of the game the yes, that’s might be the case. But that only represents less than 1% of the people who play and enjoy it, and is definitely not the case for the 99%+ of people involved in the sport from grassroots level upwards! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I don’t mind the highlights on MOTD but I struggle to watch a whole match. It’s a bit dull.
Whereas I find rugby entertaining through the whole game.
Yes very true! "
Ah got it! This is a ‘Wendyball’ thread .. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"I don’t mind the highlights on MOTD but I struggle to watch a whole match. It’s a bit dull.
Whereas I find rugby entertaining through the whole game.
Yes very true!
Ah got it! This is a ‘Wendyball’ thread .."
A what? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I don’t mind the highlights on MOTD but I struggle to watch a whole match. It’s a bit dull.
Whereas I find rugby entertaining through the whole game.
Yes very true!
Ah got it! This is a ‘Wendyball’ thread ..
A what?"
Wendyball : a generic insult used by rugby fans against football. You know, the “footballers are all soft, not real men not like us rugby types!” sort of thing!
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Football. A gentlemen's game played by thugs.
Rugby. A thugs game played by gentlemen.
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Played by thugs? Lol those footballers are a bunch of panseys |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"I don’t mind the highlights on MOTD but I struggle to watch a whole match. It’s a bit dull.
Whereas I find rugby entertaining through the whole game.
Yes very true!
Ah got it! This is a ‘Wendyball’ thread ..
A what?
Wendyball : a generic insult used by rugby fans against football. You know, the “footballers are all soft, not real men not like us rugby types!” sort of thing!
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Although I think that is true that wasn't the intention of the thread. I just think it's shite |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I don’t mind the highlights on MOTD but I struggle to watch a whole match. It’s a bit dull.
Whereas I find rugby entertaining through the whole game. "
Im the opposite. I cant watch even 5 mins of rugby without looking for something else to do. Whereas football keeps me entertained easily. Mind you i am a STH  |
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By *VineMan
over a year ago
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"I don’t mind the highlights on MOTD but I struggle to watch a whole match. It’s a bit dull.
Whereas I find rugby entertaining through the whole game.
Yes very true!
Ah got it! This is a ‘Wendyball’ thread ..
A what?
Wendyball : a generic insult used by rugby fans against football. You know, the “footballers are all soft, not real men not like us rugby types!” sort of thing!
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Dan, for me it’s not really about soft vs hard etc.
I just prefer rugby as a game to watch and also having been around both local rugby and football clubs, I just prefer the rugby culture. I hate to say it but it’s just less yobbish. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Football. A gentlemen's game played by thugs.
Rugby. A thugs game played by gentlemen.
Played by thugs? Lol those footballers are a bunch of panseys "
Ah the rugby is played by men nonsense whereas football is played by thugs....and what exactly is a pansey?
Football is a fantastic sport |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Football. A gentlemen's game played by thugs.
Rugby. A thugs game played by gentlemen.
Played by thugs? Lol those footballers are a bunch of panseys
Ah the rugby is played by men nonsense whereas football is played by thugs....and what exactly is a pansey?
Football is a fantastic sport "
Pansy sorry. Did I touch a nerve? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Football. A gentlemen's game played by thugs.
Rugby. A thugs game played by gentlemen.
Played by thugs? Lol those footballers are a bunch of panseys
Ah the rugby is played by men nonsense whereas football is played by thugs....and what exactly is a pansey?
Football is a fantastic sport
Pansy sorry. Did I touch a nerve?"
No, I’m just wondering what you mean by that term? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I actually like both sports, been to many ‘live’ games of both (well Rugby Union being a Southerner anyway, not done a live Rugby League game) so can appreciate them both, but football will always be the much more engaging for me.
It’s the Rugby (Union) World Cup soon. Let’s see if the country comes to a standstill when that’s on like with the football one (actually, in Wales it probably will, as Rugby is like a religion) but elsewhere it’ll just be ‘meh’. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Football. A gentlemen's game played by thugs.
Rugby. A thugs game played by gentlemen.
Played by thugs? Lol those footballers are a bunch of panseys
Ah the rugby is played by men nonsense whereas football is played by thugs....and what exactly is a pansey?
Football is a fantastic sport
Pansy sorry. Did I touch a nerve?"
How childish ! |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Oh a pansy is a delicate flower which I think footballers are. A little tap to their foot and they're on the floor in agony until they get a free kick and they're fine again! |
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My interest in football reduces every year. I still go and see my team but that’s now as much of a social thing as anything, a chance to catch up with mates etc.
The sport that keeps me interested and I really love to watch and play is cricket. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I actually like both sports, been to many ‘live’ games of both (well Rugby Union being a Southerner anyway, not done a live Rugby League game) so can appreciate them both, but football will always be the much more engaging for me.
It’s the Rugby (Union) World Cup soon. Let’s see if the country comes to a standstill when that’s on like with the football one (actually, in Wales it probably will, as Rugby is like a religion) but elsewhere it’ll just be ‘meh’. "
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Well.... it just is!
Not as shite as Newport "
I hope you're not trying to wind me coz I totally agree with you there. Zooport is I fucking shitehole!! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Oh a pansy is a delicate flower which I think footballers are. A little tap to their foot and they're on the floor in agony until they get a free kick and they're fine again! "
Ah so all footballers are like this. Good to see you have such a balanced view of football and footballers and can put it so eloquently that you don’t infer any other negative context.
Keep going with the small mindedness OP, you’re doing a great job. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I personally hate what sky has done to the real fans..
The premiershit is for money making and armchair fans.
It's bad enough having to do a 500 mile round trip on a Saturday when your an away fan but on a Monday or Friday needing to take two days off work is a piss take etc.
Against modern football. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Oh a pansy is a delicate flower which I think footballers are. A little tap to their foot and they're on the floor in agony until they get a free kick and they're fine again! "
Where as rugby players will play on with injuries and covered in blood. Footballers are overpaid, overgrown boys, rugby players are real men. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"I personally hate what sky has done to the real fans..
The premiershit is for money making and armchair fans.
It's bad enough having to do a 500 mile round trip on a Saturday when your an away fan but on a Monday or Friday needing to take two days off work is a piss take etc.
Against modern football. "
Please can I steal your word for premiership!! |
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"Well.... it just is! "
And yet it's the most popular sport in the world and is still growing, globally.
Even the video side of it is growing.
I can only watch so much of it myself but it's a great sport |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Oh a pansy is a delicate flower which I think footballers are. A little tap to their foot and they're on the floor in agony until they get a free kick and they're fine again!
Ah so all footballers are like this. Good to see you have such a balanced view of football and footballers and can put it so eloquently that you don’t infer any other negative context.
Keep going with the small mindedness OP, you’re doing a great job. "
Oh so you want to know what else ok
Overpaid
Boring
Not Patriotic
Footballers are just.....idiots
Football violence
Expensive for the fans
Takes up a hell of a lot of police time whereas rugby doesn't
Football talk!!! I just walk away if a group I'm in start to talk about football.
I can go on.... |
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"Oh a pansy is a delicate flower which I think footballers are. A little tap to their foot and they're on the floor in agony until they get a free kick and they're fine again!
Where as rugby players will play on with injuries and covered in blood. Footballers are overpaid, overgrown boys, rugby players are real men."
99.9% of footballers don't.
Your on about the ones at the top of the game. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"‘Football is shite’. Yet it is the most popular sport in the world. "
People tend to jump on the bandwagon when it comes to football. The Spice Girls were very popular, still are.. says it all about.... Something that is Shite can be popular |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Oh a pansy is a delicate flower which I think footballers are. A little tap to their foot and they're on the floor in agony until they get a free kick and they're fine again!
Ah so all footballers are like this. Good to see you have such a balanced view of football and footballers and can put it so eloquently that you don’t infer any other negative context.
Keep going with the small mindedness OP, you’re doing a great job.
Oh so you want to know what else ok
Overpaid
Boring
Not Patriotic
Footballers are just.....idiots
Football violence
Expensive for the fans
Takes up a hell of a lot of police time whereas rugby doesn't
Football talk!!! I just walk away if a group I'm in start to talk about football.
I can go on...."
https://www.joe.co.uk/sport/welsh-police-rant-about-nightmare-rugby-fans-being-worse-than-football-supporters-42765 |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Living close to a football ground, all I can say is that I look forward to the season ending
Why did you move there?"
It wasn't there when I moved here |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Tbf I tried to work in football to increase my experience and cv ... lasted 3 games and went back to rugby
Pouring pints? Steward? Ball boy?"
Sports physio |
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"Living close to a football ground, all I can say is that I look forward to the season ending
Why did you move there?
It wasn't there when I moved here "
Oh well. Huge investment in the area. Property prices increased.
Shouldn't have a problem to sell and make a profit on your house |
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I have no interest in watching football, I don't mind playing it every now and again but watching it is shit, and I hate all those wanky football chants that have to be sung in that moron voice, or those blokes who are never seen without a football shirt on, usually with beer belly hanging out of the bottom of it. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Oh a pansy is a delicate flower which I think footballers are. A little tap to their foot and they're on the floor in agony until they get a free kick and they're fine again!
Ah so all footballers are like this. Good to see you have such a balanced view of football and footballers and can put it so eloquently that you don’t infer any other negative context.
Keep going with the small mindedness OP, you’re doing a great job.
Oh so you want to know what else ok
Overpaid
Boring
Not Patriotic
Footballers are just.....idiots
Football violence
Expensive for the fans
Takes up a hell of a lot of police time whereas rugby doesn't
Football talk!!! I just walk away if a group I'm in start to talk about football.
I can go on....
https://www.joe.co.uk/sport/welsh-police-rant-about-nightmare-rugby-fans-being-worse-than-football-supporters-42765"
Ok your point has been taken. But reading it it sounds more like an alcohol problem not the sport. Pissheads causing a problem. Where as football hooligans go just to fight. |
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By *ensualbicockMan
over a year ago
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"‘Football is shite’. Yet it is the most popular sport in the world.
People tend to jump on the bandwagon when it comes to football. The Spice Girls were very popular, still are.. says it all about.... Something that is Shite can be popular"
I ain't jumped on no bandwagon , I was born into it ....Everton is like family especially when surrounded by Liverpool fans , I'm sure it's like that the world over |
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"Oh a pansy is a delicate flower which I think footballers are. A little tap to their foot and they're on the floor in agony until they get a free kick and they're fine again!
Ah so all footballers are like this. Good to see you have such a balanced view of football and footballers and can put it so eloquently that you don’t infer any other negative context.
Keep going with the small mindedness OP, you’re doing a great job.
Oh so you want to know what else ok
Overpaid
Boring
Not Patriotic
Footballers are just.....idiots
Football violence
Expensive for the fans
Takes up a hell of a lot of police time whereas rugby doesn't
Football talk!!! I just walk away if a group I'm in start to talk about football.
I can go on...."
Following the game less and less than I used to, but it still means an awful lot to a massive amount of people - and if they want to be passionate about it then who I am to say they shouldn't be!
Could you explain the non patriotic bit? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Oh a pansy is a delicate flower which I think footballers are. A little tap to their foot and they're on the floor in agony until they get a free kick and they're fine again!
Ah so all footballers are like this. Good to see you have such a balanced view of football and footballers and can put it so eloquently that you don’t infer any other negative context.
Keep going with the small mindedness OP, you’re doing a great job.
Oh so you want to know what else ok
Overpaid
Boring
Not Patriotic
Footballers are just.....idiots
Football violence
Expensive for the fans
Takes up a hell of a lot of police time whereas rugby doesn't
Football talk!!! I just walk away if a group I'm in start to talk about football.
I can go on...."
Thank goodness we are all different and like different things. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Oh a pansy is a delicate flower which I think footballers are. A little tap to their foot and they're on the floor in agony until they get a free kick and they're fine again!
Ah so all footballers are like this. Good to see you have such a balanced view of football and footballers and can put it so eloquently that you don’t infer any other negative context.
Keep going with the small mindedness OP, you’re doing a great job.
Oh so you want to know what else ok
Overpaid
Boring
Not Patriotic
Footballers are just.....idiots
Football violence
Expensive for the fans
Takes up a hell of a lot of police time whereas rugby doesn't
Football talk!!! I just walk away if a group I'm in start to talk about football.
I can go on...."
For someone who just walks away when football is being doscussed, you clearly know an awful lot.
Overpaid... at all levels it’s not all at
Not Patriotic... ridiculous statement
Idiots... yes as the multi lingual footballers clearly have no learning capacity
Violence... really? You should look up the stats on this
Expensive for fans... not at all levels
Police time... down to safety and crowd sizes, not the sport |
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"Oh a pansy is a delicate flower which I think footballers are. A little tap to their foot and they're on the floor in agony until they get a free kick and they're fine again!
Ah so all footballers are like this. Good to see you have such a balanced view of football and footballers and can put it so eloquently that you don’t infer any other negative context.
Keep going with the small mindedness OP, you’re doing a great job.
Oh so you want to know what else ok
Overpaid
Boring
Not Patriotic
Footballers are just.....idiots
Football violence
Expensive for the fans
Takes up a hell of a lot of police time whereas rugby doesn't
Football talk!!! I just walk away if a group I'm in start to talk about football.
I can go on....
https://www.joe.co.uk/sport/welsh-police-rant-about-nightmare-rugby-fans-being-worse-than-football-supporters-42765
Ok your point has been taken. But reading it it sounds more like an alcohol problem not the sport. Pissheads causing a problem. Where as football hooligans go just to fight. "
and get pissed.
Same as Cardiff 2am any rugby Saturday. Oh, like tonight. |
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By *NN23Woman
over a year ago
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"Oh a pansy is a delicate flower which I think footballers are. A little tap to their foot and they're on the floor in agony until they get a free kick and they're fine again!
Ah so all footballers are like this. Good to see you have such a balanced view of football and footballers and can put it so eloquently that you don’t infer any other negative context.
Keep going with the small mindedness OP, you’re doing a great job.
Oh so you want to know what else ok
Overpaid
Boring
Not Patriotic
Footballers are just.....idiots
Football violence
Expensive for the fans
Takes up a hell of a lot of police time whereas rugby doesn't
Football talk!!! I just walk away if a group I'm in start to talk about football.
I can go on...."
You've kinda just proved his point about being small minded  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Sounds like someone is a bit resentful towards the sport - must off always been picked last when he was younger!"
I didn't play football when I was a kid. We was all up the mountain with plastic bottles, Glass milk bottle tops etc |
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If a homeless man started taking the pissed out my curtains I'd be like 'yeah mate, whatever, well done, your wrong'.
This reminds me of that. I like the sound of this, I said it, so yeah its true.
So yeah OP, yeah mate, whatever. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Living close to a football ground, all I can say is that I look forward to the season ending
Why did you move there?
It wasn't there when I moved here
Oh well. Huge investment in the area. Property prices increased.
Shouldn't have a problem to sell and make a profit on your house"
You'd have thought so wouldn't you?
The regeneration hasn't stretched this far yet
One postcode away from the right side of the Inner Ring Road |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I really don't like sports - and now I live alone I don't have to watch or be a part of any of it - it's a beautiful thing
Obsessive football fans are really unattractive  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"If a homeless man started taking the pissed out my curtains I'd be like 'yeah mate, whatever, well done, your wrong'.
This reminds me of that. I like the sound of this, I said it, so yeah its true.
So yeah OP, yeah mate, whatever."
Lmfao! I love winding up football fans! Does make me smile! You take it sooo seriously and if anyone puts wonderful football down you get so defensive. Tell me rugby is Shite and if say. Ok. |
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By *abioMan
over a year ago
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so when you talk about footballers being overpaid... rememebr all those scottish, welsh, irish, and those southern hemisphere rugby players who have taken the "French euro" to go and play for toulon, or racing, or montpellier, or toulouse ect ect ect......... |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"so when you talk about footballers being overpaid... rememebr all those scottish, welsh, irish, and those southern hemisphere rugby players who have taken the "French euro" to go and play for toulon, or racing, or montpellier, or toulouse ect ect ect........."
Yeah well you get what you pay for. You want quality you to pay for it |
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The top musicians get millions and I think most of them are awful
What about bankers , politicians CEO’s
They all get ludicrous pay packets .
Would you turn it down if you were offered it.
They aren’t all bad , overpaid foreigners.
Look at what Juan Mata does
He’s a humble guy set up a charity .
There are plenty of decent players who give back to community and are thankful
I love football and it’s by far the best sport in my opinion .
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The top musicians get millions and I think most of them are awful
What about bankers , politicians CEO’s
They all get ludicrous pay packets .
Would you turn it down if you were offered it.
They aren’t all bad , overpaid foreigners.
Look at what Juan Mata does
He’s a humble guy set up a charity .
There are plenty of decent players who give back to community and are thankful
I love football and it’s by far the best sport in my opinion .
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Hey get back on the page! This is a lazy generalisations thread, stop being objective! |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"The top musicians get millions and I think most of them are awful
What about bankers , politicians CEO’s
They all get ludicrous pay packets .
Would you turn it down if you were offered it.
They aren’t all bad , overpaid foreigners.
Look at what Juan Mata does
He’s a humble guy set up a charity .
There are plenty of decent players who give back to community and are thankful
I love football and it’s by far the best sport in my opinion .
Hey get back on the page! This is a lazy generalisations thread, stop being objective! "
Yes we got to think like footballers so stop overthinking! |
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"If a homeless man started taking the pissed out my curtains I'd be like 'yeah mate, whatever, well done, your wrong'.
This reminds me of that. I like the sound of this, I said it, so yeah its true.
So yeah OP, yeah mate, whatever.
Lmfao! I love winding up football fans! Does make me smile! You take it sooo seriously and if anyone puts wonderful football down you get so defensive. Tell me rugby is Shite and if say. Ok. "
Is this your first forum membership of any kind?
You do know how they work don't you?
I enjoy football and Welsh Rugby. Just the international team. I don't like club rugby. This doesn't mean it's Shite just because I don't like it. |
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By *abioMan
over a year ago
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"so when you talk about footballers being overpaid... rememebr all those scottish, welsh, irish, and those southern hemisphere rugby players who have taken the "French euro" to go and play for toulon, or racing, or montpellier, or toulouse ect ect ect.........
Yeah well you get what you pay for. You want quality you to pay for it "
and the same isn't for footballers because..........
or is this just a hypocritical one way attack! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Unfortunately Rugby fans will just have to accept that their sport takes a backseat to Football.
I wouldn’t say I hate rugby, I can maybe watch 15 minutes or so of a game before I get a bit fed up, however I do appreciate the physicality of the sport and the conditioning that is required to play.
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By *abioMan
over a year ago
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i don't hate rugby at all...
I don't begrudge any sportsman earning as much as they can over the period they can because their lifespan to do it is a lot shorter.........
they can only earn what they can because sponsors and people are prepared to pay them......
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"If a homeless man started taking the pissed out my curtains I'd be like 'yeah mate, whatever, well done, your wrong'.
This reminds me of that. I like the sound of this, I said it, so yeah its true.
So yeah OP, yeah mate, whatever.
Lmfao! I love winding up football fans! Does make me smile! You take it sooo seriously and if anyone puts wonderful football down you get so defensive. Tell me rugby is Shite and if say. Ok.
Is this your first forum membership of any kind?
You do know how they work don't you?
I enjoy football and Welsh Rugby. Just the international team. I don't like club rugby. This doesn't mean it's Shite just because I don't like it."
No not my first account. And yeah I know how a forum works. It's about provoking a response. About getting people talking and thinking. Getting different views across even if people don't agree, especially if people don't agree. Nothing worse than a debate or discussion where everyone agrees. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Well.... it just is! "
A few years ago I would have agreed with you on this.
However.
Just under a year ago, I stood on the side of the pitch at my father's memorial game at his local club and watched my brother play, in his honour.
My 5 year old plays it with the other kids that live nearby and in this act, it cuts across race, sex and cultural divides from this level, right up to world cup level.
I think that the money involved at the top of the game is obscene, but it's similar to the top of a pyramid, there's an awful lot below that level that is really really good x |
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"Oh a pansy is a delicate flower which I think footballers are. A little tap to their foot and they're on the floor in agony until they get a free kick and they're fine again!
Ah so all footballers are like this. Good to see you have such a balanced view of football and footballers and can put it so eloquently that you don’t infer any other negative context.
Keep going with the small mindedness OP, you’re doing a great job.
Oh so you want to know what else ok
Overpaid
Boring
Not Patriotic
Footballers are just.....idiots
Football violence
Expensive for the fans
Takes up a hell of a lot of police time whereas rugby doesn't
Football talk!!! I just walk away if a group I'm in start to talk about football.
I can go on....
Following the game less and less than I used to, but it still means an awful lot to a massive amount of people - and if they want to be passionate about it then who I am to say they shouldn't be!
Could you explain the non patriotic bit?"
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"Well.... it just is!
A few years ago I would have agreed with you on this.
However.
Just under a year ago, I stood on the side of the pitch at my father's memorial game at his local club and watched my brother play, in his honour.
My 5 year old plays it with the other kids that live nearby and in this act, it cuts across race, sex and cultural divides from this level, right up to world cup level.
I think that the money involved at the top of the game is obscene, but it's similar to the top of a pyramid, there's an awful lot below that level that is really really good x"
I was actually talking about premiershit football. Maybe I should have mentioned that?  |
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"Oh a pansy is a delicate flower which I think footballers are. A little tap to their foot and they're on the floor in agony until they get a free kick and they're fine again!
Ah so all footballers are like this. Good to see you have such a balanced view of football and footballers and can put it so eloquently that you don’t infer any other negative context.
Keep going with the small mindedness OP, you’re doing a great job.
Oh so you want to know what else ok
Overpaid
Boring
Not Patriotic
Footballers are just.....idiots
Football violence
Expensive for the fans
Takes up a hell of a lot of police time whereas rugby doesn't
Football talk!!! I just walk away if a group I'm in start to talk about football.
I can go on....
Following the game less and less than I used to, but it still means an awful lot to a massive amount of people - and if they want to be passionate about it then who I am to say they shouldn't be!
Could you explain the non patriotic bit?
Awaiting answer on non patriotic please! "
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"If a homeless man started taking the pissed out my curtains I'd be like 'yeah mate, whatever, well done, your wrong'.
This reminds me of that. I like the sound of this, I said it, so yeah its true.
So yeah OP, yeah mate, whatever.
Lmfao! I love winding up football fans! Does make me smile! You take it sooo seriously and if anyone puts wonderful football down you get so defensive. Tell me rugby is Shite and if say. Ok.
Is this your first forum membership of any kind?
You do know how they work don't you?
I enjoy football and Welsh Rugby. Just the international team. I don't like club rugby. This doesn't mean it's Shite just because I don't like it.
No not my first account. And yeah I know how a forum works. It's about provoking a response. About getting people talking and thinking. Getting different views across even if people don't agree, especially if people don't agree. Nothing worse than a debate or discussion where everyone agrees. "
That's right. People reply wether they enjoy the subject or not.
That's not 'winding people up'. The flip side of this is people don't reply, no one gets wound up (again) and the thread dies. Some people do reply but the thread do sent last long.
Eventually you find a subject that engages people. You might have to do a few but you get there in the end.
You know exactly what I mean don't you?
So yeah, as mentioned due to its huge success and popularity football is far from Shite.
You don't like football. Totally fine and acceptable.
Football and it's fans don't mind this at all, they don't need you to like it. It's growing without you. |
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"Oh a pansy is a delicate flower which I think footballers are. A little tap to their foot and they're on the floor in agony until they get a free kick and they're fine again!
Ah so all footballers are like this. Good to see you have such a balanced view of football and footballers and can put it so eloquently that you don’t infer any other negative context.
Keep going with the small mindedness OP, you’re doing a great job.
Oh so you want to know what else ok
Overpaid
Boring
Not Patriotic
Footballers are just.....idiots
Football violence
Expensive for the fans
Takes up a hell of a lot of police time whereas rugby doesn't
Football talk!!! I just walk away if a group I'm in start to talk about football.
I can go on....
Following the game less and less than I used to, but it still means an awful lot to a massive amount of people - and if they want to be passionate about it then who I am to say they shouldn't be!
Could you explain the non patriotic bit?
Awaiting answer on non patriotic please!
Oh. Too many Foreigners "
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By *abioMan
over a year ago
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I was actually talking about premiershit football. Maybe I should have mentioned that? "
so again the difference between top flight football and top flight rugby is what????
as you said, if you want the quality you pay for it! so i don't see the different between people flocking to england for football, just like being flock to france for rugby!
there are saffers, kiwis and aussies playing in the pro 14... and i am guessing they aren't doing it for love... i am guessing they are getting paid very well for it! |
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"Ruined by money and the wholesale cheating by the players on the pitch.  "
I think the millions of amateur players and junior footballers around the world who play for the love of the game would disagree.
Later on today I'll be coaching juniors and in total there will over 100 kids of all ages from 5yo upwards, no money no cheating just lots of smiles and laughter.
Please don't tar the whole game with the same brush |
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By *abioMan
over a year ago
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"Ruined by money and the wholesale cheating by the players on the pitch. "
two words for you then.... dean richards
and next time you look at a rugby box kick... look at the way that people try to jump into their opponent....
some of the stuff you dont like is more subtle than others..... |
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"Ruined by money and the wholesale cheating by the players on the pitch.
I think the millions of amateur players and junior footballers around the world who play for the love of the game would disagree.
Later on today I'll be coaching juniors and in total there will over 100 kids of all ages from 5yo upwards, no money no cheating just lots of smiles and laughter.
Please don't tar the whole game with the same brush"
just go for a drive now around your local town past the parks etc. Hundreds, nay thousands of kids and volunteers having a great time! It’s often hard thankless work but the Premier League as I said right at the outset is less than 1% of the game in this country! |
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"Ruined by money and the wholesale cheating by the players on the pitch.
two words for you then.... dean richards
and next time you look at a rugby box kick... look at the way that people try to jump into their opponent....
some of the stuff you dont like is more subtle than others....."
Two more words.
Jon Hopoate, well it's a name but Google him.
Why did rugby feel the need to bring that system in where you can ban players by video, after the final whistle?
Glad they did, something had to happen to cut out all the foul play (cheating) |
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"I actually like both sports, been to many ‘live’ games of both (well Rugby Union being a Southerner anyway, not done a live Rugby League game) so can appreciate them both, but football will always be the much more engaging for me.
It’s the Rugby (Union) World Cup soon. Let’s see if the country comes to a standstill when that’s on like with the football one (actually, in Wales it probably will, as Rugby is like a religion) but elsewhere it’ll just be ‘meh’. "
The ironic part of this situation is the whole country comes to a standstill for a sport we're shit at and have no chance of winning,whereas it's 'meh' when it comes to a sport we're actually half-decent at and stand more than an outside chance of actually winning |
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"I actually like both sports, been to many ‘live’ games of both (well Rugby Union being a Southerner anyway, not done a live Rugby League game) so can appreciate them both, but football will always be the much more engaging for me.
It’s the Rugby (Union) World Cup soon. Let’s see if the country comes to a standstill when that’s on like with the football one (actually, in Wales it probably will, as Rugby is like a religion) but elsewhere it’ll just be ‘meh’.
The ironic part of this situation is the whole country comes to a standstill for a sport we're shit at and have no chance of winning,whereas it's 'meh' when it comes to a sport we're actually half-decent at and stand more than an outside chance of actually winning "
Down to popularity surely? |
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"I actually like both sports, been to many ‘live’ games of both (well Rugby Union being a Southerner anyway, not done a live Rugby League game) so can appreciate them both, but football will always be the much more engaging for me.
It’s the Rugby (Union) World Cup soon. Let’s see if the country comes to a standstill when that’s on like with the football one (actually, in Wales it probably will, as Rugby is like a religion) but elsewhere it’ll just be ‘meh’.
The ironic part of this situation is the whole country comes to a standstill for a sport we're shit at and have no chance of winning,whereas it's 'meh' when it comes to a sport we're actually half-decent at and stand more than an outside chance of actually winning "
Got to the last 4 in the football world cup in the summer,how did we do in the last rugby world cup?which we had home advantage in? |
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there are saffers, kiwis and aussies playing in the pro 14... and i am guessing they aren't doing it for love... i am guessing they are getting paid very well for it!"
No guessing needed,the Pro14 is where the money is at,hence why most top players go to France for a couple of years,coin it in on their astronomical wages,then bugger off back to their home nation when the run-up to the RWC begins |
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People who don't like football, for some reason love telling football fans this.
Football fans who don't enjoy rugby don't tend to say anything to rugby fans.
I'm only on about here and I know many of us like both.
Is this because people who only like rugby are jealous of what football has? I can't work it out.
Football is not at all in envy of what rugby has and from what I can see it's fans are quite happy for Rugby to achieve every success it aims for. |
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By *eeBee67Man
over a year ago
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"People who don't like football, for some reason love telling football fans this.
Football fans who don't enjoy rugby don't tend to say anything to rugby fans.
I'm only on about here and I know many of us like both.
Is this because people who only like rugby are jealous of what football has? I can't work it out.
Football is not at all in envy of what rugby has and from what I can see it's fans are quite happy for Rugby to achieve every success it aims for."
I only watch international rugby games as well.
If someone likes to go and watch / support a team (whatever sport) then that's fine by me. It's just not my thing.
Have worked next to stadiums when big European football games were being played, never even entered my head to go and watch. |
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"People who don't like football, for some reason love telling football fans this.
Football fans who don't enjoy rugby don't tend to say anything to rugby fans.
I'm only on about here and I know many of us like both.
Is this because people who only like rugby are jealous of what football has? I can't work it out.
Football is not at all in envy of what rugby has and from what I can see it's fans are quite happy for Rugby to achieve every success it aims for.
I only watch international rugby games as well.
If someone likes to go and watch / support a team (whatever sport) then that's fine by me. It's just not my thing.
Have worked next to stadiums when big European football games were being played, never even entered my head to go and watch."
I've never been to a Welsh Rugby game. I've never seen Cardiff in the premiership and yet have supported them in every other league.
I'm a weirdo in these parts |
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By *abioMan
over a year ago
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"Ruined by money and the wholesale cheating by the players on the pitch.
two words for you then.... dean richards
and next time you look at a rugby box kick... look at the way that people try to jump into their opponent....
some of the stuff you dont like is more subtle than others.....
Two more words.
Jon Hopoate, well it's a name but Google him.
Why did rugby feel the need to bring that system in where you can ban players by video, after the final whistle?
Glad they did, something had to happen to cut out all the foul play (cheating)"
hopo is a legend!!!!! lol
3 different players is what makes it superb!!!.. you can't use the "oops my fingers slipped" defence....... |
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By *eeBee67Man
over a year ago
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I'm a weirdo in these parts"
I have friends who go to all local team games, I always ask how the match went as I know it is one of their interests.
In my whole life I have only ever been to 2 1/2 football matches. |
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Op, insert the word American at the front of the thread then we are all in agreement.
Over 4 hours to play 1 hour worth of sport where the ball is thrown, not kicked, and they have to wear padding, bunch of tarts. |
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I'm a weirdo in these parts
I have friends who go to all local team games, I always ask how the match went as I know it is one of their interests.
In my whole life I have only ever been to 2 1/2 football matches."
I've been to one rugby game. I loved it. Was Bath v Northampton. You could drink in the stands, no segregation. Banter with no hard feelings.
A different atmosphere but not quite as good as the one I feel at football.
As I wasn't pitch level I could work out what was going on |
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Why do these threads always turn i to football vs rugby ?
Surely, there is space for both ?
Like them or loathe them, they are part of our culture
I don't enjoy sport and listening to those that do can be boring as hell
Then again, me parroting on about some of the things I enjoy is probably mind numbing for others too
Find space for others
It adds rather than detracts |
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By *abioMan
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I've never been to a Welsh Rugby game. I've never seen Cardiff in the premiership and yet have supported them in every other league.
I'm a weirdo in these parts"
when i was at uni i have the "pleasure" of driving a couple hundred miles from leicester to watch neath vs south africa (in the days when neath were arguably the best team in europe)... wet wednesday afternoon
dirtiest game of rugby i have ever seen and 10,000 of us absolutley loved every second of it! still have my neath rugby shirt actually..... |
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"Op, insert the word American at the front of the thread then we are all in agreement.
Over 4 hours to play 1 hour worth of sport where the ball is thrown, not kicked, and they have to wear padding, bunch of tarts."
Yeah take the padding away! Due to the nature of the sport and head clashing it would cause life changing injuries and maybe death...but wouldn't be called tarts anymore.
And I urge you to go to a game at Wembley...it's an absolute event, always something happening - the 4hrs fly by! |
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"Op, insert the word American at the front of the thread then we are all in agreement.
Over 4 hours to play 1 hour worth of sport where the ball is thrown, not kicked, and they have to wear padding, bunch of tarts.
Yeah take the padding away! Due to the nature of the sport and head clashing it would cause life changing injuries and maybe death...but wouldn't be called tarts anymore.
And I urge you to go to a game at Wembley...it's an absolute event, always something happening - the 4hrs fly by! "
Take the padding away and they have to learn to tackle properly. Both forms of rugby are far tougher and padding is not required.
In fairness my kids play a form of American football, but they call it Piggie In The Middle. Chuck a ball over someone's head for someone else to catch then do nothing for 15 minutes |
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As a ex rugby player, I still watch would love to play still, I do watch football as well difference
Would take my grandson to rugby, but never to a football match. |
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"As a ex rugby player, I still watch would love to play still, I do watch football as well difference
Would take my grandson to rugby, but never to a football match. "
Why wouldn't you take your grandson to a football match ?
Please don't say crowd trouble as you can avoid that and it's totally different to what it was a few decades ago.
Yes there's trouble at certain games but they're not interested in you and your grandson.
It's a great part of a child's growing up and don't let him join the couch supporter generation |
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"Well.... it just is!
It probably is in Newport its not exactly a football mecca is it. "
I don't follow football but I think I've seen on the local news newport were quite good? |
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"As a ex rugby player, I still watch would love to play still, I do watch football as well difference
Would take my grandson to rugby, but never to a football match. "
I used to think like that, having only recently started taking my son to football now he's as tall as i am. However, i now realise that id been a dick, and i had nothing to worry about. |
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"People that generally played rugby at school were just the fat kids that couldn't play football."
We were forced to play rugby, football was banned, detested the game ever since. Boring and the social behaviour of rugby players on tour is WAY worse than football players. |
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"Well.... it just is! "
Its not even that good.
I do like to wind up the macho knuckle dragging fanatic types at work by asking them if they enjoyed getting excited watching other men running round and getting sweaty in skimpy outfits |
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"Well.... it just is!
Its not even that good.
I do like to wind up the macho knuckle dragging fanatic types at work by asking them if they enjoyed getting excited watching other men running round and getting sweaty in skimpy outfits "
My best one was when I worked in pubs in London. I always supported the minority side. Well it was just me.. they knew I was fucking around but it was funny. I don't work in pubs now but I do like to shout in when I walk past. Whoever is playing against man u or liverpoool normally |
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"Ruined by money and the wholesale cheating by the players on the pitch.
I think the millions of amateur players and junior footballers around the world who play for the love of the game would disagree.
Later on today I'll be coaching juniors and in total there will over 100 kids of all ages from 5yo upwards, no money no cheating just lots of smiles and laughter.
Please don't tar the whole game with the same brush"
Must admit that I made the assumption OP was referring to the professional game and specifically the premiership, no offense meant. |
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"Ruined by money and the wholesale cheating by the players on the pitch.
I think the millions of amateur players and junior footballers around the world who play for the love of the game would disagree.
Later on today I'll be coaching juniors and in total there will over 100 kids of all ages from 5yo upwards, no money no cheating just lots of smiles and laughter.
Please don't tar the whole game with the same brush
Must admit that I made the assumption OP was referring to the professional game and specifically the premiership, no offense meant. "
None taken |
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"As a ex rugby player, I still watch would love to play still, I do watch football as well difference
Would take my grandson to rugby, but never to a football match. "
Can you explain why? I support a lower leagues team and LOADS of kids go and have a great time, there are family stands, kids zones etc.
The days of mass riots are long gone and even if there is any disorder (which can also happen anywhere!) you and your grandson won’t be targeted. It’s chav on chav! |
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"As a ex rugby player, I still watch would love to play still, I do watch football as well difference
Would take my grandson to rugby, but never to a football match.
I used to think like that, having only recently started taking my son to football now he's as tall as i am. However, i now realise that id been a dick, and i had nothing to worry about. "
I took my daughter to her first match aged 4. No chew whatsoever and despite it being nippy she loved it.
Though I did bring her a hot water bottle just in case ha! |
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When we were at school the only people who played rugby were the ones that were shit at football !! As for it being pansies who play football, if you look in to it there are far more serious injuries than there are in rugby. When was the last time you saw anyone being carried off with a broken leg at a rugby match ?
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"When we were at school the only people who played rugby were the ones that were shit at football !! As for it being pansies who play football, if you look in to it there are far more serious injuries than there are in rugby. When was the last time you saw anyone being carried off with a broken leg at a rugby match ?
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Rugby player would play on with a broken leg, no need to be carried off for such a small injury. |
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"When we were at school the only people who played rugby were the ones that were shit at football !! As for it being pansies who play football, if you look in to it there are far more serious injuries than there are in rugby. When was the last time you saw anyone being carried off with a broken leg at a rugby match ?
Rugby player would play on with a broken leg, no need to be carried off for such a small injury."
No he wouldn't. And trautman played on with a broken neck, in goal! Next? |
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