all this arguing,and remonstrating with the ref,

just fuckin get on with it eh?

It's footage in video games, Eric. What chance does anyone have when EA Sports are showing kids that dissent is the norm?

interesting perspective there bert.
wich came first?
dissent or the games?
but it IS funny how computer games,
it seems to me,
flout every notion of fairness,goodwill and decency.
like it's something to be ashamed of.

The dissent. It doesn't appear in any other sport or if it does, it gets clamped down on good and proper.

You never see a 7 foot tall, 18 stone forward come out of a scrum and intimidate a 5' 8", 10 stone ref. You have informed challenges in tennis that are stripped from you if deemed frivolous. Cricket disciplines you blind if you fuck about and jockeys get banned forever (Dettori is back on 19 May after six months for drugs which he took on the chin. M Al Zarooni just got eight years. Lester Piggott once got 20 days and disqualified from 3rd place in the French Oaks for dropping his whip and at 45mph, leaning across to Alain Lequeux and stealing his, doing him for third in the process - that's worth a fucking prize, FFS, just for the sheer front).

Football you don't even get a yellow card.

i remember the whip thing.
all those years ago.
only piggott would have dared.

but yes,
you're right.


why football should be deemed so special,
or rather exponents of the sport,
if you'd call it that,
is beyond me.

Because they're all overpaid useless cunts who, off the back of a dissent culture, now maintain that they are bigger than both the game and than wider society.

The first day Phil Neal joined Liverpool he walked across Stanley Park with his boots in a brown paper bag to get to the ground. Forty years before that, Tommy Lawton used to get the fucking tram to Goodison with the other fans. Forty (yes, it is nearly another forty) years after Neal, the cunts are a hairsbreadth away from being teleported in or coming in in sanitized bubbles of oxygen in the back of a Popemobile. Driven by the fucking Pope.

it's not good is it.