Yet another moronic 'I Was A Football Hooligan' book

[tbaldwin]

Just when you thought they couldn't possibly be any more knucklehead 40-something fuckwits left to bore us shitless with dull, wildly exaggerated celebrations of their brainless hooligan past, up pops this latest piece of shit:
I've (skim) read about five of these books over the years (all but one borrowed, not bought) and they're all shit.

How many more pathetic old men glorifying the violence of their moronic past can there be left?

Now where did i put my typewriter....

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I bet if we tracked serious incidents at UK football matches over the last 5 years - stabbings etc - it wouldn't be any greater a number.

The last stabbing I can remember offhand was a Gillingham-Fulham match, in about 2000

Sure - nobody has denied that hooliganism was a big problem in the UK a good 25 years or so ago, it's now we're talking about. I don't know why you find that so difficult to grasp.

As to legislation, UK governments tend to be extremely kneejerk in their reaction to just about everything ever.

Fine. It's not a problem; never was.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

What you should know is the penalties for football hooliganism are very strong. As well as unlimited bans recently after a fight between Charlton Athletic & Southampton supporters jail sentences of seven years were handed down. A Charlton supporting maths teacher who was not even involved in the fight got something like five years for setting it up on his website.

Why would they need strong legislation like that?

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Fine. It's not a problem; never was.

I didn't say it never was - in the very post you quoted I said it was a problem 25 years ago. Christ, can you actually read?

 

[Augie March]

Christ, can you actually read?

Well, he did totally miss the point about how American authorites never actually report any fan violence as sports-related, thus leaving everyone in the dark about whether such violence is a common occurence or not, so maybe so.

Or perhaps though, he just can't read the bits that don't back up his own argument.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I didn't say it never was - in the very post you quoted I said it was a problem 25 years ago. Christ, can you actually read?

So then what's your point?

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Well, he did totally miss the point about how American authorites never actually report any fan violence as sports-related, thus leaving everyone in the dark about whether such violence is a common occurence or not, so maybe so. )

I read it; I just don't believe it.

 

[Augie March]

I read it; I just don't believe it.

Why not?

 

[Ted Striker]

The Cardiff Soul Crew book had two stories, endlessly repeated:

1. We went there and gave their boys a good kicking in a totally even fight and, fair play, they fought well and respected our boys.
2. We were hopeless outnumbered and, fair play, we gave a good account of ourselves but got battered. But we'll kick shit out of them next time in an even fight.

Etc etc etc ad nauseum

Kindly of course, forgetting that

3. Any non-hoolie fans could walk around with complete immunity from even so much as a harsh word from any of 'our gang' (just like The Krays etc )

 

[William of Walworth]

And the one-man Canuck Crew is steaming in, hitting out right left and centre there on the Urban terraces, the boy's taking some serious hits, but fair dos,. he's landing a few as well ....

<tools up woth South Midlands Boys* to take on allcomers ... >

*Pisstaking only. They were right twats in the day, from what I've heard

 

[William of Walworth]

I've heard 'retired' middle aged 'nostalgia' mechants from both Millwall and Oxford 'reminisce' in pubs about long gone 'meet ups'

Boring twunts.

As I didn't call them at the time ...

 

[Onket]

<tools up woth South Midlands Boys* to take on allcomers ... >

They were right twats in the day, from what I've heard

Well yes, they are O*ford supporters.