Swanaldo
Very well known Exeweb poster
- Joined
- May 3, 2005
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This sort of behaviour certainly predates both Trump and Brexit by some decades.
Let's try and have a football thread without some bore bringing politics into it.It’s not meant to help, it’s meant to belittle. Sadly the devaluing of education and facts (led by the media and embodied by Trump/Brexit) has encouraged the terminally stupid and inadequate to believe that their views are as valid as anyone else’s, and that they will feel better if they take their inadequacies out on someone else.
If it a pointless thread then just ignore it and it’ll go away!Let's try and have a football thread without some bore bringing politics into it.
Pointless thread though. Stockley misses and a fan gets frustrated. Big deal. Happens at every ground with a huge number of fans every week.
I called Logie a tosser once coz he scored in the last minute to put us 2 up and cost me £50. Didn't mean I actually thought he was a tosser. Football is about emotions, doesn't all have to be 'bravo nice shot there old sport'
Football stadiums are colosseums reborn. Crowd mentality, venting life's frustrations, bashing authority (the ref), excitement, boredom, love, hate, justice and injustice et al. Proper job.I'm guessing it's a crowd thing rather than specifically a sport thing. I don't know much about the psychology of crowds but I do know that being in one alters an individuals behaviour, sometimes quite drastically, from how it might be if they were on their own. Similar in some ways to how it happens on the internet perhaps.