Sports Tourists

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 rugby, tennis and cricket all draw different types of fan. These sports are used to seeing daytrippers and tourists turn up for maybe one annual event and make a big party of it with the sports secondary. Things like Henman Hill, having a conga during the Ashes and chatting about life with a few other snobby rugby fans looking down on football.

Football is someone’s life as the great man once said, so don’t come with your parade of nobhead mates and girlfriends who have no clue about what this club is about or have no interest in keeping the traditions and reputation alive.
You all know exactly who I’m talking about as well, the fans who only pay attention to Henman at Wimbledon, the fans who only started to watch Rugby when England won the World Cup, and now have switched allegiance to watch the Irish or Welsh, the cricket bandwagon jumpers who ‘watch’ the Ashes and even worse the golf nobs who see players like Justin Rose and suddenly watch every major tournament. Basically they tune into the big games without showing any interest in the smaller tournaments or games, just like they turn up to Anfield for Liverpool v Arsenal/Chelsea/Everton in their jester hats and whoppa ghoulashes, scoffing their packed lunches and stuff. Can these fat bastards seriously not go without food for 2 hours?

So is it any wonder when hardened, pure blooded fans get angry? You’re ruining football and turning into another generic friendly day out. If it’s not about the football don’t bother lads.

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