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[Football] Why are English football grounds so boring (compared to Europe)??
- Thread starter JonnyComeEarly
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Cheeky Monkey
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- Jul 17, 2003
- 23,047
Absolutely bo, unique chants, original to each club:
‘We’ve got super (insert manager), He knows exactly what we need...’
or
‘You’ve seen (insert club) now f**k off home’
or
‘(Insert score) and you f**ked it up’
or
‘We all follow (insert club) over land and sea...’
etc etc
Pinkie Brown
I'll look after the skirt
The Australian support in England looks like Merv Hughes has gone around the RSL's, emptied a few hundred pensioners out and given them matching green or yellow T Shirts.
Or it's actually just a mural.....
I wish we would sing this more now that it is factually true, about "over land and sea". As I don't remember us playing a competitive game in another land before this season.
Cardiff, Swansea, Wrexham and Newport
fairy snuff! but they were in the same division as us and the head office of my company in the UK is in Newport, so trips down the M4 are too plentiful for me to think of them as a foreign land, even if the signs look like the words have been constructed by getting a cat to walk over a computer keyboard.Cardiff, Swansea, Wrexham and Newport
Ⓩ-Ⓐ-Ⓜ-Ⓞ-Ⓡ-Ⓐ
Hove / Παρος
And it's (insert club) , its (insert club) FC, we're by far the greatest team, the world has ever seen.
This chant is absolutely SH!TE and I cringe everytime our fans sing it.
Tracing paper bog roll always helpfully supplied by British rail on the way to the game. And thank goodness, as Andratx rolls from home would never have made it over the northstand fence!
- Oct 17, 2008
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Really loaded question. I’ve seen loads of boring games of average quality in “Europe”, try watching AGF vs Horsens in Denmark, or Almeria vs Rayo Vallecano in Spain.
There’s good and bad games, atmospheres, leagues and stadiums in every top league in Europe.
To answer your question - my answer is simply they aren’t. I find English football the most exciting and best to visit.
There’s good and bad games, atmospheres, leagues and stadiums in every top league in Europe.
To answer your question - my answer is simply they aren’t. I find English football the most exciting and best to visit.
So basically, your "thing" is attracting foreign regimes' money so they buy big players for you, without any cascading effect onto your National team?
"Watching on the telly".
First attend the game in person, then comment.
Based on what evidence you say that?
The non stop droning noise on the television and at the games I've been to.
I see.
London Irish
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There is just less organisation and collectivity among English football fans. The stuff that happens on the continent doesn't happen by itself, it's the result of the work by various fans clubs and associations, in that impressive behind the goal display at Roma, there were numerous little fan clubs banding together to do that. We used to have Bisa when the club was threatened - the supporters club have low membership of mostly quite elderly folk. It would take something like the work of NSK to really take off and lots of other groups like that to spring up. Not impossible but kind of unlikely as the move from Withdean to the Amex tapped into quite a consumerist, family leisure market who now fill a lot of the stadium. Never say never tho, things can change over time
It's been coming slowly buy surely for quite some time . . . . .
RandyWanger
Je suis rôti de boeuf
English people are too precious
BN41Albion
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- Oct 1, 2017
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To be fair I thought that but then read the book A Season With Verona by Tim Parks (brilliant read) and realised that's not the case - there's plenty of wit and humour (often far more crass than here) in Italian football at least, where city rivalries are much more heated in general life let alone football
I do think the atmosphere overall over here isn't as bad as its made out - we are just very reactive to what's going on on the pitch, how it's always been. When its good it can still be brilliant. You can't deny though that unfortunately there has been a sterilisation here compared to other countries, which is great in some respects (far more safe and family friendly etc), but shit in others (more expensive and restricted, more tourists etc = a drop off in overall atmosphere)
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I’ve read it and agree it’s a good read. Yes there’s a lot of wit and vicious put downs in it. He also talks about internet / message board wind ups and a couple of the away trip stories are very similar to away days here.
My point was merely that all of that gets lost in the ultras need for constant noise no matter what.
It’s not just Italy though. I’ve been to Barcelona home games and although there’s reaction it’s mostly just whistling opposition players or the ref. Their ultras are as much performance artists as fans. Marseille over here let off pyro in the middle of the move we scored from and just carried on with the same song when it went in. Legia Warsaw ultras kicked ordinary fans out of their main stand to send a message to URFA about closing their section. It’s always all about them.
I don’t disagree with your final points at all. Premier League football is becoming ever more sterilised, ever more tourist focused, ever more a business and it does harm the atmosphere. As a result, though, non league crowds are way higher than 20 years ago and the atmosphere at Worthing and Whitehawk, for example, is excellent.
Peacehaven Wild Kids
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You cringe when you hear that?
You wouldn’t have like to have been with me then when I shit myself in Tesco’s