Football – it’s just a bit pants really, isn’t it?

Rugby is a complex game

Rugby under increasing pressure to come up with set of rules

Binners – rugby has laws thats why it does not have rules 🙂

I like both. So I’ll suggest that one thing that both football have in common is…. An outstanding tackle can bring a teams fans to life .
We’ve all been there it looks like there’s no hope and then the last gasp perfect thunderous tackle brings the crowd to their feet

I played football obsessively as a kid and rugby from high school onwards, continued both into my 20s. I always watched them too, but that never came close to as satisfying as participating.

One of the main reasons I stopped watching football in particular was the commercialism. The constant distracting advertising and the ludicrous money spoilt it. Given I had trials for a professional team when i was a teenager I think it’s quite funny that today I don’t think i’d recognise a single England team player. I could probably only name a handful of current footballers.

Rugby is a working class game in Wales and Scottish borders.  In Edinburgh its a posh boys game as it is in much of England

In the East Midlands where I played most of my rugby in the Notts, Lincs, Derby league it was a classless game. I regularly played with a sheep farmer, NFU rep, solicitor, doctor, roofer, footpaths officer, lots more farmers. We played against prison teams (Worksop and Lincoln) as well as the rest of the league. I never experienced anything like the camaraderie of a rugby team. Some football teams were friendlier than others, and in London at Uni, multicultural too.

Bin bins on European public relations mission.

Who r ya. I reckon it’s the unrepentant celebration of the Great British beer belly that draws Binners in 😉

Bunch of Ollys. There’s just no tribalism in Rugby.

I remember as an 8-year-old being told by a steward at Watford that we weren’t allowed to wear another club’s scarf at the Panini family stand game because Graham Taylor would lose his rag with us.

Football is good solid salt of the earth working class muckers.

to answer the title thread question….

not last night!