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Zzippy

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Zzippy

mfceiling wrote: »

I hope they get relegated and go bankrupt and their stadium falls down and all their fans get the runs and all their players leave and that Gary Neville loses his voice and that Steve Bruce's wife leaves him for another woman.

Get off the fence and tell us how you really feel!

stephen_n

mfceiling wrote: »

Wolves.

Strange for a Wolves fan to have so much dislike for United. That’s a bit like a mouse being angry with a dog for being bigger than the cat.

mfceiling

stephen_n wrote: »

Strange for a Wolves fan to have so much dislike for United. That’s a bit like a mouse being angry with a dog for being bigger than the cat.

It's the fans. More so the idiots I had to put up with during the Fergie era. I know all clubs have idiot fans but some of the lads I knew took it to a whole new level.

b.gud

Speaking of Man Utd fans

https://twitter.com/AccidentalP/status/1103552956446715905

jr86

mfceiling wrote: »

It's the fans. More so the idiots I had to put up with during the Fergie era. I know all clubs have idiot fans but some of the lads I knew took it to a whole new level.

Can definitely vouch for this, from growing up and attending school in the 90s/early 00s, where 95% of the football fans followed United

I personally find it quite funny seeing guys in my own peer group who are quite visibly distraught at the thought of Liverpool winning the league. And I mean seriously distraight, to the point of almost unhealthy levels.

A lot of these would have maybe attended a United match once or twice in their lives, if even, and literally only started following them because they were successful when they were growing up. Zero ties to manchester or indeed Liverpool

A quick glance at Social Media during a match like last night portrays quite a sobering view of what football can actually do to adults. And its not unique to United fans, as Irish people we're more exposed to themselves and Liverpool supporters than any other

In 10/15 years' time are we looking at a new generation of Chelsea and City fans in Ireland?

stephen_n

mfceiling wrote: »

It's the fans. More so the idiots I had to put up with during the Fergie era. I know all clubs have idiot fans but some of the lads I knew took it to a whole new level.

I’m a Spurs fan so learned along time to ignore fans of other teams. Oddly enough Liverpool fans annoy me far more than United fans ever did.

Zzippy

jr86 wrote: »

Can definitely vouch for this, from growing up and attending school in the 90s/early 00s, where 95% of the football fans followed United

I grew up in the 80s, when 80% were on the Liverpool bandwagon. It's all cyclical. Never met a City fan til the last 10 years or so, now they're all over the place. Was at a Manchester derby years ago on a stag weekend, sitting among the City fans in their ground. A lot of the people around us spent the match pointing and chanting abuse at the away fans who were at least 60 yards away. Crazy stuff, couldn't wait to get out of there.

OldRio

All this chat about soccer reminds me I have a kitchen to paint.
Then I watch the paint, slowly, ever so slowly dry.

errlloyd

Do you ever question why you watch sport. I started cutting down on my sports podcasts this year because they're a blackhole of time. But I really think sports are just entertainment soaps aimed at men instead of women. Rivalries add to the drama, but the drama is all fake. Manchester City v Leicster city is just Qatari billionaire v Thai billionaire. We're all way too emotionally linked to sports tbh.

Zzippy

errlloyd wrote: »

Do you ever question why you watch sport. I started cutting down on my sports podcasts this year because they're a blackhole of time. But I really think sports are just entertainment soaps aimed at men instead of women. Rivalries add to the drama, but the drama is all fake. Manchester City v Leicster city is just Qatari billionaire v Thai billionaire. We're all way too emotionally linked to sports tbh.

It's the new religion. Sport is the opiate of the people. It stops us rising up and overthrowing governments. Football tribalism/hooliganism in England has been a release valve for decades.

Buer

To be honest, I find myself giving far less of a f*ck about sports now than I did 10 years ago. I don't think that will ever go back to how it was, either. It's only a game; no Leinster win will ever match Edinburgh in 2009 for me regardless of how impressive or dramatic. That's largely down to personal circumstances but I suppose there's an element of becoming somewhat disconnected from the whole thing. I imagine this can only be magnified in football.

I'm not sure that sports fans are ever going to be quite as fervent as they were in previous decades. The whole product has become too sanitised at this stage. The very fact that I refer to it as a product supports the idea that the average punter will be far more detached from the team he follows than he once was.

troyzer

Buer wrote: »

To be honest, I find myself giving far less of a f*ck about sports now than I did 10 years ago. I don't think that will ever go back to how it was, either. It's only a game; no Leinster win will ever match Edinburgh in 2009 for me regardless of how impressive or dramatic. That's largely down to personal circumstances but I suppose there's an element of becoming somewhat disconnected from the whole thing. I imagine this can only be magnified in football.

I'm not sure that sports fans are ever going to be quite as fervent as they were in previous decades. The whole product has become too sanitised at this stage. The very fact that I refer to it as a product supports the idea that the average punter will be far more detached from the team he follows than he once was.

I think this is why people move to harder edged, upcoming sports before they too get sanitised.

Boxing to MMA would be a good example.

mfceiling

b.gud wrote: »

Speaking of Man Utd fans

https://twitter.com/AccidentalP/status/1103552956446715905

Case closed.

Diabhal Beag

mfceiling wrote: »

Case closed.

He's a Forest fan that makes decent money off being a gimmick

Neil3030

You're just not following the right sports Buer:

https://twitter.com/Urban_Pictures/status/1103193802850922496

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atherstone_Ball_Game

"The game itself has few rules, two being that play is restricted to Long Street and participants are not allowed to kill anyone."

irishbucsfan

Jaysus I never thought I'd see a tweet get 1500 likes for just putting up a video of the last 2 minutes of a night in Coppers

[Deleted User]

In retrospect, maybe we should be welcoming Brexit.

Neil3030

Women live longer than men, would you believe. Can't for the life of me understand why...

pickarooney

I've just discovered the (Paris) Dakar rally has been held in South America for ten years

I don't know how I feel about this

CatFromHue

Neil3030 wrote: »

You're just not following the right sports Buer:

https://twitter.com/Urban_Pictures/status/1103193802850922496

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atherstone_Ball_Game

"The game itself has few rules, two being that play is restricted to Long Street and participants are not allowed to kill anyone."

FFS Billy!!

Neil3030

Aye Billy got a little carried away there. Very unlike him. Top lad.

troyzer

Just rewatching Master and Commander. I haven't seen it in years.

Absolutely ****ing excellent movie. They don't make them like that anymore.

errlloyd

troyzer wrote: »

Just rewatching Master and Commander. I haven't seen it in years.

Absolutely ****ing excellent movie. They don't make them like that anymore.

Man I was reading up on it recently. It was meant to be the start of a franchise as such but it didn't quite get the commercial success needed. It opened the same year as Pirates of the Caribbean and people sort of had a limited appetite for ship movies

troyzer

errlloyd wrote: »

troyzer wrote: »

Just rewatching Master and Commander. I haven't seen it in years.

Absolutely ****ing excellent movie. They don't make them like that anymore.

Man I was reading up on it recently. It was meant to be the start of a franchise as such but it didn't quite get the commercial success needed. It opened the same year as Pirates of the Caribbean and people sort of had a limited appetite for ship movies

I can see why. It's incredibly nerdy and technical. They spend half the movie using impenetrable English talking about various parts of the ship.

I tried to read the books but the sheer number of them is really intimidating and you need a nautical dictionary at all times.

The Lost Sheep

One of best weeks in the year.... cheltenham....
Many backed anything?

irishbucsfan

The Lost Sheep wrote: »

One of best weeks in the year.... cheltenham....
Many backed anything?

I have backed myself into a corner by agreeing to be on-call this weekend

mfceiling

The Lost Sheep wrote: »

One of best weeks in the year.... cheltenham....
Many backed anything?

Not yet. Delighted to be working a bit away from a bookies....Other years I've seen myself in the hole for up to €11...Those 50 cent bets don't be long adding up.

troyzer

Brexit.
Is.
****ed.

Zzippy

troyzer wrote: »

Brexit.
Is.
****ed.

I haven't time to read everything that's happening. Care to give us a synopsis?

Mike Oxlong

Zzippy wrote: »

I haven't time to read everything that's happening. Care to give us a synopsis?

Brexit is proper fcked