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A classic case of easy being wrong :lolol: ( in MY opinion)

Rugby Union as far as playing is concerned may be largely founded in universities in England and Scotland (not elsewhere) but with wider access for some decades and a universal audience it would be hard to describe it as a predominantly middle class spectator sport. Crowds simply behave more...

I think you have largely repeated what I was saying about hooligan mentalities and I agree. I didn't say it was new and I had the misfortune to follow its path throughout the 70's and early 80's in particular. As for "banta" I understand your analogy but my point is it's modern usage to "get...

Agree with large parts of that. But other sports have large crowds and don't need to segregate fans. Other areas in society don't don't permit foul and abusive language and aggression on anything like the scale with few serious repercussions. It was football that invented "banter" which seems...

The Derby Fans Forum have had to pull one thread which degenerated into a racist/homophobic binfest and the second thread is headed the same way. In truth I think most football forums would be quite similar (some worse) in the circumstances. We are hardly immune ourselves. Football seems to...

Dear DR Mostly you are tolerably amusing in a vaguely 1970's sort of way but when you post something that by implication celebrates racist comments made to one of our players you cross a line that goes from borderline to plain unacceptable. Time to grow up. :nono: Regards SG