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Hooliganism - the real sport behind football? |
| Date: |
03/03/03 (217 review reads) |
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Ok, just for start off i will give you my background. I come from a large Norv'en Market town from a family that when broken down decades come fr0om all over north and Ireland ( Unfortuantly). I was brought up in quite a well off part of this town, with my dad a chartered accountant, mum a nurse and my sister gaining many A-levels. I was always clothed and my mam and pap always did there best for us. I never did without anyhting and was sent all the way through school and very very well looked after. I am a well liked and respected person in and around and have many friends and am well known between young and old and many people think butter wouldnt melt in my mouth but it changes when it comes too football. I am now a Bricklayer and would be seen as a 'thug'. Im 6.2, 17 stone, shaven head. I follwoed my home team since i was 8 and england since i was 16. I travelled all over the country with my team gathering in over 90 differnt grounds gettting up at 2am in the morning to afford this and i plyed my trade as a bricklayer and am now able to follow England. Ok ok ok i know people are going to say your 18 this and your 18 that but if you put 89 and 134 together people will know that this hooligan crack is experience not age.
I started following my home team away on my own since 12, and as a young naive teenager i got in with a crowd who LOVED football but also loved to fight for there town/team, so anyone with the there "not true football fans" conclusion, all i can say is ROLLOX. I have been down to London, Bristol, Cardiff, Nottingham etc etc which are all well over 3 hours away on train, under some 25 year old wing looking after me Drinking beer, smoking, singing i was loving it, it was a massive ego for a 12 year old and i was buzzin. i would do this every other week and always looked forward, whether running riot with our local rivals when we crossed paths at Birmingham new street on our way abck to our native no
rth or rookign with police on Victoria or just going for glory in the middle of Chesterfeild with locals. However i was going to leave my homeland for the biggest proudest acheivemnet yet - ENG-ER-LUND!!!
As i left amatuer home hooliganism for the top league abroad fighting, i was full of pride, representing my country at last, treading foriegn soil with my English passport in my back pocket giving it large! The was England 1st fixture after world cup loss to Brazil in world cup quater finals 2002, it was Slovakia away, as i left Mancheste ron the friday i had geezers had it been a normal weekend i would be trading bottles of uriine of bricks with but it was different his like - "alreet kid, off wit' England"?. Anyway with a estimated 10,000 english off there people were obviously thinkign 10,000 england thugs as given by a certain swindon male who gave his veiw, but this is absoultly innacurate.to some england lads im just a little squabble what i do, they deal death. But off course this si england, who have never been indimated. while in Slovakia we were intimidated, security stealing money passports hiting people with batons, strip searching females before entering there hotle ( Come on please), massive police presence, closed bars, banned from entering shops, told or forced to move on when loitering, anyone coulkd see what was coming. But off course everyone else is perfect, they never get intimated. anyway on the saturday i was rung by my ole man toi find 2 england fans shot for little more than singing in a bar. at the ground bottles of urine flying over, coins lighters etc and the police are ahving giggle soon as someone realiates the police storm in. But so many of you seem to condone this that we should go 90 minutes of this and not retaliate, if you was in garden and someone was throwing bricks at you what would you do, react - exactly. same as england but the police hate us, we are hated and so of course its always our fault,
and the press obviousky have you brainless bints wrapped round there little finger who say england has a hooligan problem, because if we werent intimidated just like we are we woudlnt have crack back. wereas when these 250 out of 10,000 or call it 500 for tops have crack for no reasonothers would shake there ehad and not join in but its because its injustice that gets people wound up and go for it. just like people would wind me up with my home team, i would fight back. but if they didnt fight i would have no game. I love violnce and get a buzz because you fighting for somethign that means so much too me, but it dosent mean i dont like football, if it wasnt for football iw ouldnt fight, but because others are up for it i am.
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