I'm sorry but that's self indulgent bollocks.
I went to Barcelona with my son 2 weeks ago so was a bit of a tourist. He's a big Barca fan though. He talked me through their squad, I went through some basic Catalan history and we both learned some basic local language and Barca songs. To not...
No we haven't! You don't think the middle class parents spunking in to a match-worn Hazard shirt this afternoon were there against Millwall for Sami's meltdown game do you? :facepalm:
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I'm not sure what that even means, I'd rather have (say) 24K fans vocally behind the team and prepared to throw opposition players' shirts back at them than 30K in the stadium with three or so thousand tourists and sycophants. The extra money these people bring in is TINY in comparison to the TV...
Football is a partisan sport. If you want to applaud the opposition then off you fvck to the rugger or cricket. This is frankly embarrassing.
I mean, I get it. I've had the lecture. We need these people because they pay the wages of our amazing players and finance our success. Only that's...