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Weber (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 194.176.105.55
| | Posted on Monday, December 13, 2010 - 06:06 pm: | |
I was discussing football with a colleague last week and I made the comment that I don't have it in me to be as much of a sheep as you need to be to follow a football team.
Then on Sunday, I went to the Taste of Chaos gig in manchester. There I was, in a crowd of 10,000 plus people dressed pretty much the same as everyone else and doing the same as they all were.
Then i realised. I was as much of a sheep as I was accusing my football following colleagues of being.
I just run with a different flock. |
Johnny_mains (Johnny_mains)
Username: Johnny_mains
Registered: 04-2010
Posted From: 86.31.118.252
| | Posted on Monday, December 13, 2010 - 07:26 pm: | |
My wife was rather taken aback by how many people were wearing black and sporting beards (some of the women were too! ) at the World Horror Con this year. |
Hubert (Hubert)
Username: Hubert
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 78.22.227.181
| | Posted on Monday, December 13, 2010 - 09:16 pm: | |
"And so with gods and men
The sheep remain inside their pen
Though many times they've seen the way to leave" |
Zed (Gary_mc)
Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 81.96.253.77
| | Posted on Monday, December 13, 2010 - 11:37 pm: | |
Weber - you misunderstand the motivating factor in supporting a football team. It's more tribal than sheep-like. Also, certainly in the northeast, where I'm from, there's the link to the industrial heritage of a place (ie. shipbuilding in Sunderland and Newcastle). It's a very complex and fascinating social topic. |
Weber (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 194.176.105.55
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 14, 2010 - 11:31 am: | |
There is no link between the workling classes and the overpaid divas who run round a field for 90 minutes twice a week any more. You can't get more removed from reality and heritage than those idiots. It may have once been a tribal link - (I'd claim a primal influence in the music on Sunday night if I was feeling that way inclined) but that's gone by the wayside and football followers tend to be sheeplike these days.
Remember I'm a geordie by birth and I live in Manchester... I work at MUFC most matches. The behaviour I see from every set of fans is more "Beehhh!" than "Ooga chaka ooga chaka - dance round the tribal fire". |
Zed (Gary_mc)
Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 195.166.117.210
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 14, 2010 - 12:00 pm: | |
It's still that way at Sunderland, mate (and Newcastle, I grudgingly admit). The old ways die hard in the northeast. Man U is a commodity now; there are no real fans of that club left.
The nickname for my club's supporters - Mackems - is even drived from shipbuilding: "You mack 'em, and we'll tack 'em."
Football is stronger than religion in the area I grew up... |