Welcome back Dave, I am exhausted after reading that but a good read all the same. The thing is football fans become different people once they get onto the terraces. This can be minimal change like Swearing and shouting more than usual or major change like Inciting violence and taunting other fans or even a going over the edge change of actually fighting and causing wilful damage. It’s the tribal aspect of the game and I for one have never agreed with it and so I come under the first category of change ! Football fans when together are heartless in their chants whether it be making hissing noises to Spurs fans or Making plane gestures to Utd fans. Sick bastards but they feel it is part of the culture and so therefore I honestly believe that they don’t feel any remorse at all when “With the lads down the match” Sat at home on their own watching the news I am pretty sure that they feel empathy for victims of disasters and the like but that empathy pales into insignificance when “with the lads down the match”.I am just glad that the fighting isn’t as bad as it used to be years ago because that used to knock me sick !
