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Beasley Hutton wrote: It has me beat as well freeze the only conclusion I can think of being the sport has been around so long that they dont know any better & is almost forced onto the kids from they time they can crawl (I see it with all the pommy fathers up here in the northern suburbs kitting their kids out in pommy soccer gear from babies) ..how you could watch 2 hours of that game just to end up watching a nil-all draw although most get so plastered at the pub before the actual game they wouldnt know whats actually going on (maybe a link to the violence) ..a special kind of people indeed!!

that is sport in a nutshell, our kids are generally "told" who they follow or barrack for. Or at least many just follow their dads automatically.

but the issue is the charades being displayed here in Australia. Having a mob type mentality with idiots walking down public streets sprouting banners and with blood coming from their foreheads, as was the case in Melbourne recently is just ludicrous.

I want someone to explain how this NEVER happens in AFL,NRL, NBL or BBL.
But it thrives in the A-League. Its got nothing to do with passion, it more to do with being pathetic.

Dickhead soccer fans....the heavy price we have to pay for adopting multiculturalism in our nation

jardine wrote:

Beasley Hutton wrote: It has me beat as well freeze the only conclusion I can think of being the sport has been around so long that they dont know any better & is almost forced onto the kids from they time they can crawl (I see it with all the pommy fathers up here in the northern suburbs kitting their kids out in pommy soccer gear from babies) ..how you could watch 2 hours of that game just to end up watching a nil-all draw although most get so plastered at the pub before the actual game they wouldnt know whats actually going on (maybe a link to the violence) ..a special kind of people indeed!!

that is sport in a nutshell, our kids are generally "told" who they follow or barrack for. Or at least many just follow their dads automatically.

but the issue is the charades being displayed here in Australia. Having a mob type mentality with idiots walking down public streets sprouting banners and with blood coming from their foreheads, as was the case in Melbourne recently is just ludicrous.

I want someone to explain how this NEVER happens in AFL,NRL, NBL or BBL.
But it thrives in the A-League. Its got nothing to do with passion, it more to do with being pathetic.

Not sure about that, I have witnessed some big brawls at WAFL and VFL days, I remember a 1982 derby, there was a ,massive brawl on the hospital end hill at fremantle oval, i also remember brawls on the hill at subi, i went to melbourne in the 80s and saw a massive brawl after a collingwood v carlton game at the mcg.

I guess the difference is bazza that the WAFL/AFL brawls are very seldom hence you can remember incidents way back in the 80's. These soccer yo yo's are getting stuck in almost on a weekly basis which to me suggests there's something inherently wrong with the culture of the sport and those who follow it.

MikeXU1 wrote:

58shark wrote: It would seem that the majority of soccer supporters are ethnics. Poms love a stoush, middle easterners and a lot of the Euros are very hot headed and have volatile tempers - look what's happening around the world. Plus the fact that the game is so slow the cockheads of the world create diversions to get over the boredom of the game. Is this considered a racist post? Don't really give a flying frek.

Racist, no. Its a cultural thing, and I think it is culturally acceptable around the world to be a tool at a soccer game. I'm sure there are Aussies there who are just as stupid.

I don't agree Mike. I'm sure it's not culturally acceptable in other countries. Only by the idiots of the world that just want a bit of 'bovver'.

58shark wrote:

MikeXU1 wrote:

58shark wrote: It would seem that the majority of soccer supporters are ethnics. Poms love a stoush, middle easterners and a lot of the Euros are very hot headed and have volatile tempers - look what's happening around the world. Plus the fact that the game is so slow the cockheads of the world create diversions to get over the boredom of the game. Is this considered a racist post? Don't really give a flying frek.

Racist, no. Its a cultural thing, and I think it is culturally acceptable around the world to be a tool at a soccer game. I'm sure there are Aussies there who are just as stupid.

I don't agree Mike. I'm sure it's not culturally acceptable in other countries. Only by the idiots of the world that just want a bit of 'bovver'.

Agree, with thagazillion of soccer games played every weekin major leagues, yes there are d***heads for sure, but perhaps not that many when against how many games are played.
Now without trying to start a debate, i wouldbe surprised if the afl matched the passion and devotion (no not the d***head ones)of soccer fans. Spain and argentina are 2 that come to mind.

When I was backpacking through Europe back in 2011 I went to a soccer game in Croatia between Split and Zagreb. Was told it would be worth going to because they are fierce rivals.

Get to the ground and its covered in Police armed with Sub Machine Guns. Had its own fenced off area just for opposition fans and the number of flares and black powder that was let off at the ground was unbelievable.

Luckily the game was a 0-0 draw because if Zagreb had won apparently it would have got ugly.

jardine wrote:

Beasley Hutton wrote: It has me beat as well freeze the only conclusion I can think of being the sport has been around so long that they dont know any better & is almost forced onto the kids from they time they can crawl (I see it with all the pommy fathers up here in the northern suburbs kitting their kids out in pommy soccer gear from babies) ..how you could watch 2 hours of that game just to end up watching a nil-all draw although most get so plastered at the pub before the actual game they wouldnt know whats actually going on (maybe a link to the violence) ..a special kind of people indeed!!

that is sport in a nutshell, our kids are generally "told" who they follow or barrack for. Or at least many just follow their dads automatically.

but the issue is the charades being displayed here in Australia. Having a mob type mentality with idiots walking down public streets sprouting banners and with blood coming from their foreheads, as was the case in Melbourne recently is just ludicrous.

I want someone to explain how this NEVER happens in AFL,NRL, NBL or BBL.
But it thrives in the A-League. Its got nothing to do with passion, it more to do with being pathetic.

Im not sure it doesnt happen in NRL as well Jars as a few years ago one of those Western Sydney (Canterbury?) sides fans were found to be taking knives and other weapons to matches ..hmmm come to think of it could it be just a Western Sydney thing!!