Mr Spangle
can't play nicely with the other children
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| Coops wrote on 10-05-2011 06:53 PM
Banter between fans is all good. Fighting is so last century.
If 2 groups of people want to fight let them get on with it but the trouble is the few dick heads spoil it for the majority of people who want to have a beer, some banter and most importantly watch some football. The old tribalism makes no sense in todays society. People never used to venture out of their community and the the club was part of that community, that isn't the case any more. Football hooligans are either dinosaurs or Danny Dyer wannabes.
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Over that past 15 years following my club has been a pleasant experience, home and away (even though I don't go as much as I'd like to). A few times I've sat in the pub before and after a game drinking with opposing fans. But mostly I've been able to walk to and home from a match along side opposing fans. I've been able to sit on a train in among opposing fans and not felt threatened by them. In the ground I'll sing my heart out for my club and call the opposing team's players wankers and sing songs about how the other fans aren't sing anymore and so on... but it hasn't spilled over into violence.
This is the exprience the modern supporter enjoys.
It wasn't always like this. 25 years ago when I started going to matches with my mates we often had to run for our lives down back streets. Even before when I'd go with my Dad we used to have to cower from milk bottles full of piss raining down on us over the wall as we were being held in the away end after a match by the police for our own safety. These days are mostly gone tahnk God.
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