Quote: Scatterbrained Floozy @ August 9 2008, 6:06 PM BSTHow do they ban people from a ground? Do they photograph them to allow future reference?
I'm not sure. I think it's probably a system like that. I hope it works. >_<
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I've got a much better idea. Abolish football!
Quote: Aaron @ August 9 2008, 6:17 PM BSTAbolish football in England!
As far as I'm aware the infrastructure surrounding German football is far better than in England. Standing sections, cheaper prices and so on. Shame about the quality of the football. 
Quote: Aaron @ August 9 2008, 6:17 PM BSTI've got a much better idea. Abolish football!
Yes please! My dad's got the Man City game on. Apparently it's 1-0 to City, but I missed the goal completely.
Quote: Finck @ August 9 2008, 6:20 PM BST
The world over!
Are football fans in other countries ridiculously racist too? Or is it just here?
(yes, yes, I know, not ALL English football fans are.)
Quote: zooo @ August 9 2008, 6:50 PM BSTAre football fans in other countries ridiculously racist too? Or is it just here?
(yes, yes, I know, not ALL English football fans are.)
I don't even think the majority of English football fans are racist. I've only ever heard of one incident of racism in my three years of regularly attending matches. There's no point being racist at a football ground, the majority of players are foreign.
Quote: zooo @ August 9 2008, 6:50 PM BSTAre football fans in other countries ridiculously racist too? Or is it just here?
(yes, yes, I know, not ALL English football fans are.)
But all of them are retarded. 
I agree there's no point. 
I've never actually been to a match so I don't speak from personal experience, just that most people I know who do attend say that they hear stuff aaall the time (mostly anti black type stuff) and that they would never take their kids there.
I'm glad if it's not as widespread as I think though.
Quote: zooo @ August 9 2008, 6:56 PM BSTI agree there's no point.
Oh. Yeah. I just mean there really isn't any point, like more so than normal. I wouldn't condone racism elsewhere.
I actually think football helped to break down racial barriers. Most people's attachment to there football club probably outstrips any political view they hold. So when foreigners, especially those of a different racial background, succeed within a team it probably opened some people's eyes.
Quote: PhQnix @ August 9 2008, 7:00 PM BSTOh. Yeah. I just mean there really isn't any point, like more so than normal. I wouldn't condone racism elsewhere.
I knew what you meant. Don't worry!
Quote: zooo @ August 9 2008, 6:50 PM BSTAre football fans in other countries ridiculously racist too? Or is it just here?
Depends on the region. Here in Stuttgart not. But Stuttgart is a tricky terrain for racists anyway, because most foreign looking Football players (or people, for that matter) with foreign sounding names have been born here and have Swabian accents. Looks foreign, sounds German, that's just too much to process for the average racist.
In the new states in the East however, where they haven't let anyone in for 50 years and where the unemployment rate is high, Football Clubs and fanclubs increasingly get hijacked by racists and neonazis. Doesn't have anything to do with football, though, but rather with there not being anywhere else to go.
Yes, the neo nazi football fans aren't there for the football here either.
They're the ones I'm on about, I suppose. It just seems that football attracts them more than any other sport.
You don't get them at rugby matches for example. Which is just as laddish and violent a sport. More so even.
But football is more for the poor. And the poor tend to be the uneducated - hence their being poor. And lack of education means lack of understanding, which follows through to 'intriguing' reasoning and logic.
To put it bluntly.