Comments on: Do football fans simply expect too much?

By: Essexian76

Essexian76 — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 15:36:36 +0000

You couldn’t be more wrong in your generalization of football fans as opposed to those in the minority who go to rugby, and that my friend makes you as bigoted and uneducated as those you’re trying to critise.
What you’re confusing are social issues, and as those who attend football matches far out number the egg-chasing fraternity, how can you possibly make comparisons?

By: Alan T Hedley

Alan T Hedley — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 14:38:49 +0000

Many football fans are either children, who gain vestigial pleasure from a form of foul mouthed neolithic tribalism, or, childish adults who still consider they need to display a hardness which, due to their own inadequacy, never actually formed part of their character in their youth, other than in a crowd.

There are clearly a majority of soccer fans with more than two brain cells to rub together, however, they have not just had the benefit of an education but also the good manners not to feel the need to abuse others, in the vain hope that it might reflect well on them, in the eyes of their peers.

Until the day when football supporters can, as adults, share stands with the opposition’s supporters and enjoy the quality of football and banter from both sides, even if wanting one’s own side to win, as they do at rugby matches, you will continue to have bigoted, irrational, demands from supporters, incapable of thinking rationally for themselves. In such circumstances irrationality will always ensure expectations exceed reality.

By: Essexian76

Essexian76 — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 12:17:43 +0000

You’re absolutely right as the ridiculous expectations fans expect from their respective clubs. On the one hand they’ll moan about the game being money driven, but have no qualms about their clubs spending the family silver to secure the latest big-name player. One idiot supporting my club (Spurs), actually asked why we can’t get rid of Daniel Levy and find someone who’ll make us Chelsea? He actually believed that we the fans owned the club-where the reality is we’re only paying customers, and the club have to buy within their means-which makes what Spurs have achieved nothing short of miraculous when compared to clubs of a similar stature and resources namely Everton, Newcastle etc? I’ve seen many changes over the years, but the biggest by far is the stupidity and lack of realism among football fans themselves-many likened to children on Christmas morning berating their parents for not getting the latest toy-when the circumstances dictate the parents simply couldn’t afford it!