Can Someone Explain.

[teacake44]

I keep hearing on the media all this nonsense of football fans getting, and being frustrated about their clubs. What the hell they on about, if you want to go and see a match pay your money, see the match and go home, other than that don't go, or get involved.
I was watching these idiots running all over their football ground with their carrier bags full of cans of beer in one hand, while swilling one down their big gobs with the other.
They reminded me of little 5 year old's just let out of the classroom into the playground, running around with not really anywhere to go.

They do however all seem to be wearing the same uniform of dirty filthy jogging bottoms/ tops and smelly trainers that they have been drinking / eating and sleeping in for the last 6 months. May be they all need a short quick shower of a water cannon, and as an added bonus add some dye to that water and destroy their beloved joggers and trainers, they might think twice turning up again if they have to fork out for a new uniform for each riot.

Yet again, football is taking the headlines, over and above the real problems we have to deal with.

[Hopkirk]

There are better ways to protest, without putting people's lives and health at risk.

[Zacs-Master]

I’m afraid the time to protest about money taking over football is looooong gone. Gate / season ticket prices and Sky / BT subs to watch ‘your’ team must mean that some poorer families go without other things so that they (or one member of the fam) can support their team.

[teacake44]

Sunk not prejudiced to football at all, although I don't make it my life by being clued to it week in week out. I can't remember ever missing a world cup, why because most times the football is brilliant, and those footballers have to learn their skills from there home base. But there's a right and a wrong way of achieving anything, and this scum don't know the way forward.

[teacake44]

Mozz your not really up to speed are you, thinking that its only black footballers being abused, and how would you know that its not black supporters abusing black players?

[Peter Pedant]

the Glazers bought out Manchester United with an american wheeze - junk bonds - no backing and high pay rates (£500m smackers worth)

as far as I can see - - to themselves - so they get a high income from the junk

and altho there has been no income the Glazer family have paid themselves £30m dividends. The thieves and pimps say this is asset stripping

the junk bond level remains £450m

The Germans run their clubs better. and before anyone protests - the Glazers arent interested in the game they are interested in money - only.

[Mozz71]

Teacake, why on Earth would a black supporter racially abuse a black footballer? You're clutching at straws.

And just for the record, I never said it was only black players being abused, I just used them as the most obvious footballing victims of online abuse.

[Zacs-Master]

Mozz, when tea ale is rattled, their ‘logic’ becomes even fuzzier. It happens on just about every their they’re on. I surprised you hadn’t noticed.

[Zacs-Master]

Tea ale = teacake (of course).

[Mozz71]

Well, I don't tend to read Teacakes threads as they tend to be of little interest to me. He does seem to have run out of viable arguments in this one though.

[Sqad]

//////So they are making a noise about it and complaining. And good for them, I wish them success,/////

Fine if it was peaceful, but it was far from that and also intimidating.

[Sqad]

Roy Keane on air refused to condem it and condoned the episode.
He was a thug on the field, in management and now it appears on TV.

What message does that send ?

[royfromaus]

teacake44
Well for a start Roy why the hell is so much news time being given to this ruddy game of football when we have millions of people all over the word dying of covid. We are talking about riff raff drunken kids ruling and doing what they want.
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Because football (in case you haven't noticed) is absolutely massive in this country.
So the news should only be about COVID?
Kids ruling?

From your contributions, you are clearly clueless about what is going on and the issues the fans have.

[andy-hughes]

Teacake - you are clearly not a football fan - nor am I, but I live with one.

The present Mrs Hughes is a Stoke City fanatic, and still means at length and volume about the time they were cheated out of their FA Cup semi final against Arsenal, and that was in 1971!!

Fanaticism runs deep believe me!

[Ken4155]

Some have invested a lifetime to supporting their club, through good times and bad. We believe ourselves to be a part of 'our' club and when speaking to fellow supporters, we hardly ever use the club's name, we say 'we'.
Problem is, many of our clubs are now the playthings of filthy-rich foreigners who have no connection to the club, no sense of that club's history or the deep rooted passion with which we follow our clubs.
So when we feel we are being forced out of the equation, we respond. True, some of the United fans behaved despicably, but that is what happens with almost every protest that takes place - as we have discussed many times on these very pages.

[Bobbisox1]

They should have fat geezer Ashley who owns Newcastle but his support is for Spurs, what’s that all about?
Greed! It’s a business now, no longer the beautiful game

[douglas9401]

Jumpers for goalposts again?

[teacake44]

@9.04 Whats that all about? Making money, like House of Fraser,Sofa direct, Game, Sports Direct, Evans Cycles, Agent Provocateur. and may be many more. All Employing people. That's what that's about. When he stops making money, the jobs will stop also.

[Bobbisox1]

Oh Yes and all those zero hour contracts and none paid holidays, not forgetting the minimum wage,
some hero...NOT!

[emmie]

Perhaps it stopped being the Beautiful Game years ago, when the Premier League came about...

[teacake44]

13.25 He has to pay the minimum wage ( by law) and he does. What he's done in the past is no different to what other companies have tried and failed to do. How many people do you employ ( none) when you do, you can be in a position to be a critic of someone who is worth 2.5 billion and growing. Oh, he pays for his own decorating too.