Why Do Some People Get Like This Over Football?

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Some England fans racially abusing non-white players onlne

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/57800431

hundreds tried to break into wembley last night, set off flares outside king's cross, and beat each other senseless on Trafalgar Square:

https://metro.co.uk/2021/07/12/violence-and-disorder-at-euro-2020-final-leads-to-dozens-of-arrests-14912118/

Why on earth do some people get like this over football?

[naomi24]

Bet he's going to have trouble getting a new job. Serves him right.

[royfromaus]

Apparently, Andrew Lawrence has also committed career suicide.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E6GEpq-XIAAEv0J?format=jpg&name=small

[Mozz71]

I really wish one of the white giys had missed, so we could see what the reaction to that would be.

All Naomi is saying (to my thinking), are that these people are bullies first, and racists second. They reach for the easiest thing to bully the players about, and in this case, it's their ethnicity. If a whote player had missed, they'd have found something else to use against them. Yes they're bullies, yes they're racists.

I'm not sure why this has taken 100+ posts.to "discuss" this fact, when outright condemnation would've been quocker and easier.

[burlyshirley]

What does it matter how many posts there are Mozz, it's what keeps the site going !

[naomi24]

I told him that a couple of days ago, Shirley.

[fcc]

When david beckham got sent off playing for england in the 1998 world cup he got loads of abuse and death threats,when you make a mistake and you are on the big stage it's very likely that you will get abused.

[jno]

he didn't make a mistake, though, he deliberately kicked an opponent. All anyone did yesterday was miss a penalty.

[burlyshirley]

17:16 Ah ! Is it a regular complaint of his then ?

[naomi24]

Just the once before as far as I know, Shirley.

[Mamyalynne]

//Why Do Some People Get Like This Over Football?//

Some lack self control.

[royfromaus]

jno
he didn't make a mistake, though, he deliberately kicked an opponent. All anyone did yesterday was miss a penalty.
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How easily jno dismisses the death threats to Beckham...is it cos he is white, jno?

[Mozz71]

Roy - //How easily jno dismisses the death threats to Beckham...is it cos he is white, jno?//

Nothing like putting words in someone's mouth eh Roy?

[Peter Pedant]

// naomi24I told him that a couple of days ago, Shirley.//

um no I recollect a little birdie wondering why anyone was obsessed with numbers - one of Thelands reaching 300.

oh lah dee dah - one thing one day and the exact opposite the next. That is what keeps AB going !

DId I really read AB thought of the day - it doesnt matter if you are a racist so long as you are a bully first - - -righto!

[Peter Pedant]

// I think you are deliberately skewing what Naomi I saying. // the great thinker TTT

no TTT - she is quite capable of doing that herself ! ter daahh !

[Peter Pedant]

// Those three men have been attacked because they missed penalties..//

none so blind as the er blind - - - oh well there's AB for you

I hope there is a rash of deletions so that Naomi's thoughts can stand as a beacon of - er something to ( other deluded) readers

[Mozz71]

Peter, Naomi did mention it to me a couple of days back. If it is something I say habitually, it's subconscious. I think it's just coincidence that these two occurrences happened within a few days of one another. I have no issue with being pulled up on it, as neither time was it done maliciously.

[naomi24]

Mozz, indulge him please. Three naomi-bashing posts on the trot ... the poor man obviously feels he's on a roll. :o)

[Mozz71]

Hehe I'm always up for a little Naomi bashing, but only when it's deserved ☺

[webbo3]

It could be worse.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/9346379/colombia-escobar-executed-own-goal-1994-world-cup/

[William51]

The people who make racist remarks and the yobs who cause trouble and thuggery are just airheads who have no respect for other people.