Football (soccer) v rugby

[Swoop]

So the England rugby fans apparently managed to find their way out of Paris without wrecking a single bar, overturning a single car or bottling a single South African supporter – let alone waging a pitched battle on the Champs-Elysées with a squad of armoured police.

Even those who arrived without tickets, drank with abandon and were reduced to sleeping rough in the streets – a sure-fire prescription for carnage if this had been a football World Cup – made no trouble for the authorities.

There are a few commentators who staunchly insist that this is not about class: that the difference between what Dave Tattoo and his mates would have done to Paris after losing a football World Cup final, and what the sad but non-violent rugby fans did, is nothing to do with the ugly social divide that still pervades Britain.



Shamelessly quoted from the Telegraph.


My opinon:  Football is a gentlemans game played by hooligans, rugby is a hooligans game played by gentlemen.

[thrila]

Originally posted by Swoop
Football is a gentlemans game played by hooligans, rugby is a hooligans game played by gentlemen.

Not including rugby league of course.

Personally i enjoy rugby and football, i always try and watch a game or two of football when i'm back in plymouth.   At full time when england lost, the whole pub applauded and again when the South Africans received the cup.  I can't imagine that happening if it was football match.

[cpxxx]

Football is a gentlemans game played by hooligans, rugby is a hooligans game played by gentlemen.

Here in Ireland we add an extra line.

Football is a gentlemans game played by hooligans, rugby is a hooligans game played by gentlemen.  
Gaelic football is a game for hooligans played by hooligans.

Of course you could replace 'Gaelic football with 'American football'...........................runs for the door:eek:

[Ripsnort]

Originally posted by Swoop


My opinon:  Football is a gentlemans game played by hooligans, rugby is a hooligans game played by gentlemen.

Could not have been stated more accurately!

[john9001]

'American pro football' is a business.

[Curval]

What in the heck were those maxi-pad things the players has stiched into their clothes?  Padding?  In rugby?  Something is not right in the world...there is a major force disturbance.