I can only imagine....
 

... what living next door to one of these types must be like.... hell basically!!!

Some England fans get a bit carried away

Anyway it will all be over in two weeks :thumb:

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Nice.

:facepalm: I HATE football, its not so much the game it self but everything that surrounds it.

You hate advertising hordings!?

Exactly!

Sadly football is generally seen as an avenue for testing masculinity. It tends to instill into people (mainly young men) a set of ideals that value and publicly reward openly aggressive and assertive tribal behaviour and tries to make that behaviour seem acceptable. These 'fans' are expected to be ‘manly’ and able to ‘look after themselves' in a physical encounter! What sort of sport is it that attracts this mentality? :cuckoo:

It's only a bit of fun! Stop whinging.... Go outside and enjoy your life!

Has your account been hacked by TdW? ;)

I have just the one flag flying, easily removed once they are eliminated:lol1:

Thank goodness us posh rugger types don't have to deal with these working class chavs :D

dl

It's the start of the World Cup today.
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Or as the Scottish like to call it "Thursday"

:lol1:


Now if Salmond promised to ban duty on Whisky then I reckon he would win independence like a shot.

Good for the spirits industry and tourism as well. Their NHS would be kept on their toes and not so many old people to drain their resources :thumb:

dl

Rugger, a game for toffs, a game for men! And people with more than one brain cell rattling round.

:thumb:

Got a point, why isn't Defoe in the squad?

I've never been less enthused about a world cup than this one.

It must be a function of getting older I think? Once the game was played by your heros, now it's over-paid brats with sleeve tatts.

Didn't even know it started today until this morning I read it.

Not special brew? :lol1:

You lucky b*****d :D

Last night's headline BBC news was that Hodgson was going to inspect the pitch or something.... jeez!!!! We then saw Hodgson describing how he was going to inspect it.... very very slowly as that is about as fast as he can think I reckon.... he looks like a doddering escapee from an old folks home! :Whatever_

at least england are prepared for the world cup after soccer aid. they already got beat by the rest of the world.

Awesome! :lol1:

Football - 90 minutes pretending you're injured.

Rugby - 80 minutes pretending you're NOT.

;)

That pub in the OP isn't far from where I live.

That's not a bad analogy, although I was on a stag weekend in Berlin with a rugger bugger (great guy actually)

He cheerily recounted a story how he wanted to join the new rugby club due to a recent house move - he went to a club night and was shown a video of the recent rugby club tour

2 mins in to the video and a bloke was drinking a pint of larger with a turd in it, to cheery clapping from the rest of the team

Certainly tough as old boots

You forgot to mention ears like dumbo.:thumb:

" a doddering escapee from an old folks home! " with a paunch

How the hell does he keep up with his players :wonder:

 R

Ahhh the good old "dirty pint" :D

indeed, those quaint rugby traditions - including, the "soggy biscuit", (last one to spunk over a hob nob eats it)

have never made it to the football world

Try four weeks.

I was referring to England's involvement! Two weeks!!!

I wouldn't say it's mainly the young men misbehaving on the name of football. Many 40+ thuggish looking men with beer bellies behave like savages over football sport. It's the nature of the beast that finds an outlet. Football is just a catalyst.