Why is it? - Page 2

poprock · 15th May 2008, 3:25pm

Good answer, there.

¡Punk! · 15th May 2008, 3:26pm

Can't be that regular. I've been to hundreds of football matches and only ever saw one fight in that whole time. Between two friends and it had nothing to do with football.

But, hey, let's generalise. It can be just as fun as being rational.

poprock · 15th May 2008, 3:29pm

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But, hey, let's generalise. It can be just as fun as being rational.

I’m no expert, but I’d be willing to wager a fair amount on almost all football-related violent assaults being perpetrated nowhere near a football ground. Pubs and the streets around them are far more likely locations.

slicer · 15th May 2008, 3:36pm

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I’m no expert, but I’d be willing to wager a fair amount on almost all football-related violent assaults being perpetrated nowhere near a football ground. Pubs and the streets around them are far more likely locations.

Perhaps so, but doesn't make that kind of generalisation any more right, does it?

MarkMono · 15th May 2008, 3:40pm

Wasn't a generalisation.

poprock · 15th May 2008, 3:42pm

I don’t believe that football causes violence. I do believe that a lot of the most vocal and/or visible football fans in Glasgow cause violence though. Sad but true.

MarkMono · 15th May 2008, 3:44pm

Hmm, yeah, I'd agree with that.

Don't blame the football, blame the fans.

slicer · 15th May 2008, 3:46pm

But man, there are so many thousands of this kinda fan. You can easily be a vocal/visible football fan without being threatening or whatever in the slightest. It really is a minority that cause trouble.

Bunnylingus · 15th May 2008, 3:47pm

I was arguing with a bunch of pompous engish folk last night, about how there wouldnt be any trouble in Manchester, or at least no much.

Seems I was wrong, if the radios anything to go by. Le sigh.

Dec · 15th May 2008, 3:50pm

You argued against barbarians rampaging through the city of Manchester? More fool you.

**Ghostsuit** · 15th May 2008, 3:50pm

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I'd be very, very concerned if yesterdays scenes of violence reminded me of children.

I should have been clearer I suppose. The last few weeks of people going...he did this, he did that, waah waah wah wah, the sted fast refusual to stop using hun/tim. Trying to get round banned words by changing the language and writing things on a group of supporters then wondering why it get's removed.

A group of people on the footy forum who most of the time I think are alright people but when I see them posting in here I wonder what the hell is wrong with them.

Your right I don't understand football "fans" and what makes them tick.

Zippy · 15th May 2008, 4:09pm

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I should have been clearer I suppose. The last few weeks of people going...he did this, he did that, waah waah wah wah, the sted fast refusual to stop using hun/tim. Trying to get round banned words by changing the language and writing things on a group of supporters then wondering why it get's removed.

A group of people on the footy forum who most of the time I think are alright people but when I see them posting in here I wonder what the hell is wrong with them.

Your right I don't understand football "fans" and what makes them tick.

I don't get Alt Nation and it's stance on the football forum - how much traffic through your site does it generate, i.e. how many of the total daily posts on average are in the football forum? Probably quite a lot yet some of the mod decisions border on the stupid, the one yesterday was fair enough but Hammer's going about editting things and not offering any kind of explanation as to why. Mibbe Watty just thinks Rangers fans are scum, much like Rev Skateboard thinks everyone is scum but you're not editting his posts. I reported a post about the removal of the word hun (which was a complete turnaround from what you said in your thread where you made a poll about it) and instead of getting an explanation the only folk that seemed to offer any kind of feedback was DJToast and GKR and then a few days later my reported post was closed and I'm still none the wiser on AN's stance on the word!

The football forum has always had a bit of back and forward, away back in the day of SportBilly and Lars it was the same so don't act as if it's a new thing - it's only more prominent near the end of an exciting season. 90% of the posters on the football forum know each other, have spoken to each other IRL and there's no bad feeling so instead of trying to alienate a section of the site which brings in more traffic than most try and understand it a bit.

Draven · 15th May 2008, 4:21pm

Ghostie, get oot our footie forum!

Rosco · 15th May 2008, 4:22pm

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90% of football fans seem to act like 5 year olds when it comes to footy?

**Ghostsuit** · 15th May 2008, 4:27pm

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Originally Posted by Zippy

I don't get Alt Nation and it's stance on the football forum - how much traffic through your site does it generate, i.e. how many of the total daily posts on average are in the football forum? Probably quite a lot yet some of the mod decisions border on the stupid, the one yesterday was fair enough but Hammer's going about editting things and not offering any kind of explanation as to why. Mibbe Watty just thinks Rangers fans are scum, much like Rev Skateboard thinks everyone is scum but you're not editting his posts. I reported a post about the removal of the word hun (which was a complete turnaround from what you said in your thread where you made a poll about it) and instead of getting an explanation the only folk that seemed to offer any kind of feedback was DJToast and GKR and then a few days later my reported post was closed and I'm still none the wiser on AN's stance on the word!

Oh I forgot I'm not allow a personal opinion nor allowed to express it.

When it comes to Rev he's been moderated a good few times when we knew his post was "just to piss people off" and no other reason. I don't really take a huge active roll in moderating so Toast and GKR and Les are the main mods who would previously have delt with it. Now though it's Foxglove.

Basic stance on HUN and TIM is still they arn't allowed.

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Originally Posted by Zippy

The football forum has always had a bit of back and forward, away back in the day of SportBilly and Lars it was the same so don't act as if it's a new thing - it's only more prominent near the end of an exciting season. 90% of the posters on the football forum know each other, have spoken to each other IRL and there's no bad feeling so instead of trying to alienate a section of the site which brings in more traffic than most try and understand it a bit.

I thought the same back then and still feel the same. That you all spend most of your time trying to get one up on each other and the rest of the time dicking us about because the other bunch have tried to get one up on you.

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Ghostie, get oot our footie forum!

With pleasure

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