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Can you have a pretentious pleb?
I have a feeling they follow rugby
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maybe i'm pretentious. i don't follow rugby, cycling, tennis or any other sport.
the only sport events that get in the way of my daily life are footballing ones. not the event itself, but the thousands of moronic cheering, mostly over-weight, scarf wearing plebs that converge on Munich of a weekend. shit loads more old bill about every where keeping an eye on the drunken fans and keeping the more passionate elements apart (German (or maybe it's just the Bavarian) old bill form columns of riot gear cops giving the place a bit of an armegeddon feel).
brilliant.
I love football, it's a great game and I take my 2 year old to play every Sunday morning but I have little time for the professional game and would question my kid getting into football too much because of the conduct of players, fans and the way the sport is portrayed in the press.
I played 11-a-side from when I was 8 until I was 23 but the modern game has put me off.
This thread is definitely running the risk of disappearing up its own precious, sanctimonious, pretentious, achingly middle class, preachy and amply-upholstered arse!
I do love it when the Hackett-wearing, upturned-collar brigade feel the need to comment on 'wendyball' threads to espouse their apparent superiority to the 'yobs and hooligans' who watch football. 😆
mostly over-weight
*rubs belly*
Step back a couple of steps Binners and ask how many professions would allow a manager of one "firm" to physically assault an employee of another "firm". What is so "special" about football that means we have to make excuses for this kind of behaviour? There's nothing precious etc about that.....
Can you find me the post where anyone has tried to excuse his behaviour? Because I can't find one.
His behaviour was absolutely ridiculous, and he'll be punished for it. I'll be gob smacked if Newcastle start next season with Pardew at the helm. But to try and say this kind of thing is exclusive to premiership football is ludicrous!
I find it hilarious that rugby is always held up as some virtuous model of sporting perfection. Talk about delusional! 🙄
Binners - never thought I'd see you using such class stereotypes!! 😯
alexandersupertramp - nope, so are you suggesting that this morning's interview was an aberration?
Also, am assuming the rugby point was aimed elsewhere as I have not commented or compared the two.
Rugby point was not directed at you. My comment about Suarez was meant to have a smiley attached 🙂
If rugby had anywhere near the exposure, fans or money that football has there would be lots more incidents like the Non head butt for haters to get excited about. Really can't understand the comparison between the two.
And I'm not a huge football fan, BTW
I'm working class, Northern & live not far from Binners.
I follow Rugby (not League) because its an infinitely better game. I can go to a game, buy a drink pitch-side, mingle with the oppo fans, go to a pub near the ground & not see a police officer all day.
I find football dull, but its the fans and their nasty tribalism that really puts me off the game as an entirety.
Hahaha! Defending football by saying rugby (or any other sport!) is just as bad.
Where's that img of the Simpson's character pointing and laughing?
ps. Leeds game yesterday - player goes off injured - crowd [i]laugh and jeer[/i] at him. I can't think of another team sport where that would happen.
Every rugby game ive been to where a player - from either team - goes off injured, he's been applauded off the pitch by the crowd.
rugby may be a thugs game, but football is played and followed by plebs. just look at wrightyson's vidoe post of the Sky commentators... clear, well thought out prose flowing from their mouths. not.
That is very true. The vast majority of players and supporters are common people and not members of the Royalty. I would imagine the same is true of rugby.
I can't think of any sport where the plebs are in the minority? Possibly polo? As not being a commoner yourself perhaps you could tell us where you and the other Royals have there fun away from us.
mid 17th century: originally as plural plebs, from Latin plebs 'the common people'. Later a shortened form of plebeian.
Where's that img of the Simpson's character pointing and laughing?
That's the kind of grown up thing that football fans do.
[i]Every rugby game ive been to where a player - from either team - goes off injured, he's been applauded off the pitch by the crowd.
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Of course. - it was the Leeds Utd game to which I was referring.
I think the Pardew incident says more about our media than it does about football:From the clip I've seen I think it has all been a massive over reaction. Yes, it was wrong, and he should be punished. Did he try and hurt the player? No. Was the player injured because of it? No. Should he be sacked? No, that would be going too far IMO. Once again the media goes wild over a relatively mild incident.
The other guy clearly had a go at him so he had every right to stand up for himself. Because of where the managers are located, they are as much part of what happens on the pitch as the players and sometimes get embroiled in situations with the players. The alternative is to make the two management teams sit up in a special booth in the stands, like rugby. To be honest, I wouldn't mind that.
I've seen egg chasers doing a bit of forehead jousting recently too. Weren't there some suspended because of it?
@ winston....
indeed, the majority of rugby players and supporters are also plebs, but their attitude on the pitch as players and off it as spectators is much more mature and respectable.
go to a pub near the ground & not see a police officer all day.
+1 same can be said for cricket, snooker, darts, cycling, ultimate frisbee.... just about any other sport.
why can the same not be said at a football match?
Of course. - it was the Leeds Utd game to which I was referring.
I know 😉
DD - wasn't a French player red-carded then dropped from the French 6N squad for that last weekend?
mikewsmith - Member
at least the football threads let us know who the pretentious cocks are.
Takes one, etc
I often refer to the game as Wendyball, purely because it seems to be populated by a bunch of overpaid, preening, posturing primadonnas.
And if you were to see my washing out on the line, all my socks are plain black M&S ones.
So there.
"Hackett-wearing, upturned-collar brigade"
Chelsea fans? 😀
Not [u]everything[/u] that's wrong because the player didn't throw himself to the ground clutching his face and rolling over and over like a landed haddock. £300k per week is more representative of the ills that afflict professional football.
Can you have a pretentious pleb?
Drinks Carling out of a crystal stein? Has his butler iron his copy of the Sport?
Actually, what's the name of the guy that owns the Sport and c5, and he's very aggressive and ignorant? He might be a pretentious pleb.
I think football at amateur level is even worse the 5 a side league I play in sometimes more resembles Fight Club. Only this year one of my team was punched in the face putting him in hospital over night, the offender got a whole 3 game ban, absolute joke. It's clear that from top to bottom there is no control in football.
As for Scholes a dirty, dirty player only a swivel eyed Man U fan could think otherwise.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_violent_spectator_incidents_in_sports
An interesting read, Aussie Rules doesn't come out that well...
It surprises me, the hate towards sportsmen.