Football hooliganism is back in fashion

[Yossarian]

Football hooliganism is back in fashion? What happened, did video games get shit again?

 

[WouldBe]

No weapons allowed except for blunt cutlery.

Spoons at dawn.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

proper football

Things like this are why I fucking hate the vast majority of people.

 

[oryx]

how the fuck is a video of two men dressed as a wolf and a pig having a minor scuffle age restricted? madness.

I was looking forward to that!

 

[8ball]

Spoons at dawn.

Rusty spoons.

 

[danski]

Need a flood of really good pills.
Seemed to work previously.

 

[8ball]

Need a flood of really good pills.
Seemed to work previously.

Get ‘em loved up, you mean?

 

[8ball]

Am watching one of the vids now and am like “Ooh! Big fight outside my office!”, and “I know that copper!”…

 

[Pickman's model]

Things like this are why I fucking hate the vast majority of people.

Hell is other people
--Sartre

 

[krtek a houby]

There’s a lot of anger in society at the moment and very few sanctioned outlets.

A pressure valve is needed, men must release their inner warriors.

Are there any, dunno, major conflicts brewing abroad at the moment?

 

[Pickman's model]

A pressure valve is needed, men must release their inner warriors.

Are there any, dunno, major conflicts brewing abroad at the moment?

Why send people that far when they could simply deck a cop on the weekend?

 

[krtek a houby]

Why send people that far when they could simply deck a cop on the weekend?

Fair point, but remember, it's been a while since people been able to go abroad

 

[Pickman's model]

Fair point, but remember, it's been a while since people been able to go abroad

Two cops then

 

[Johnny Vodka]

A pressure valve is needed, men must release their inner warriors.

Are there any, dunno, major conflicts brewing abroad at the moment?

Geezers need excitement

 

[krtek a houby]

Geezers need excitement

and hard liquor

 

[Sue]

Geezers need excitement

Does everyone not need some excitement?

 

[two sheds]

Ladies just perspire

 

[Johnny Vodka]

Does everyone not need some excitement?

It's a song by The Streets, innit?

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

men must release their inner warriors.

Oh fuck off

 

[8ball]

Oh fuck off

Your inner warrior seems a little agitated.

 

[krtek a houby]

Does everyone not need some excitement?

Men above all others, though. You don't know what they go through.

 

[ice-is-forming]

I remember my best friends brother being a football hooligan in about 1968.

Then I was a teenage football hooligan in the mid 70s. I was underage, had 9 fucking lives & the luck of the devil.

 

[Athos]

As far as I can see, it's increasingly driven by cheap, shitty coke. I went away to Birmingham with Luton, yesterday, and saw fans of both teams openly indulging before, during, and after - including in front of coppers in the stands.

 

[Athos]

There's nothing revolutionary or anti-establishment about men being violent to each other.

There kinda is. The defining feature of the state is its monopoly on violence; non-state violence is a direct challenge to that.

But I agree that fat old men in Stone Island fuelled by Stella and shitty pub dust bouncing up and down in front of each other (which is about 99% of what actually passes for hooliganism) for apolitical reasons is pretty pathetic.

 

[planetgeli]

As far as I can see, it's increasingly driven by cheap, shitty coke.

It ain't cheap and it ain't shitty. Average purity is on the up and up and now stands close to 70%.

Bring back proper MDMA.

 

[Athos]

It ain't cheap and it ain't shitty. Average purity is on the up and up and now stands close to 70%.

Bring back proper MDMA.

I must admit, I'm not really up on the pricing. But it does seem to me to much more affordable than it was when I was a lad. I'd assumed that's because it's still cut so heavily - back then it was single digit purity a lot of the time.

But a quick Google tells me you're right; my (lack of) cocaine knowledge is showing my age!

Though I still think - just from what I see - that coke is fueling a lot of the recent rise in football lairyness.

 

[Sweet FA]

It ain't cheap and it ain't shitty. Average purity is on the up and up and now stands close to 70%.

Bring back proper MDMA.

Yep and darknet means it's easily available. 'Pub dust' might still be a thing but decent coke is easy to come by and buying by the oz brings the price down.

There's always been speed/coke around; I don't reckon it's caused anything, whatever its quality.

 

[Athos]

Yep and darknet means it's easily available. 'Pub dust' might still be a thing but decent coke is easy to come by and buying by the oz brings the price down.

There's always been speed/coke around; I don't reckon it's caused anything, whatever its quality.

It may have always been around, but it's suddenly exploded as a fairly mainstream football thing.

 

[hash tag]

When I was a lad going to footie regularly any trouble was driven by alcohol.
I would hope that a punch up at a footie match helps to reduce the incidence of domestic violence but I doubt it

 

[Badgers]

Coke/speed does enable extended heavy drinking.