Fucking boss point raised the other day by someone on the official forums about plastic fans like. Got the ole cogs in me swede turning.Sports tourists appear in every sport, it’s just that they appear more in football, and it is raised as an issue in football because it’s entirely tribal and passionate. Things like [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Culture’
September 13, 2007
Merchandise and buying
Right, heard this loads of fucking times and it’s insulting to me frankly.
“Without wools/daytrippers, Liverpool couldn’t survive. They would be a mid table team”
“We need people to go to Liverworld and max their credit cards out”
Before I go into this, I should say that some people now have found this little Eden of a site [...]
August 29, 2007
Football in the public eye
Why is football now being used as a media tool to generate awareness of events unrelated to football?
Black armbands, minutes silences, minutes applause, and this is still just in its infancy. Yesterday set a precedent with Z-Cars blasting out of Anfields PA system for the death of little Rhys Jones. Now, who’s to argue against [...]
August 16, 2007
Drink and drugs at the games
Well, Chelsea game is nearly upon us and I did eventually get a ticket from a scouser who sorted fellow brethren out. You wouldn’t mind if these people who were going were actually bothered about the game, but these are the same fans who get sorted by their ‘coroprate contacts’, or only go the match [...]
