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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Swoop on October 22, 2007, 02:47:27 AM
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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.
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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.
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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:
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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! :aok
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'American pro football' is a business.
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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.