| The Modern Football Fan - What went wrong 07:46 - Sep 23 with 11985 views | WokingR |
Sitting on the overground Saturday morning on the way to the Millwall game. On comes a mid twenties lad wearing a very nice Guinness home top, we nod to each other and he sits opposite. He pulls out his phone, at which point even my wife spotted the problem.
His phone had a Chelsea case with a picture of Ngolo Kante!
Now, unless there was a Chelsea fan on the platform, crying that some big Qpr boy had taken his phone off him, I am struggling to understand how this can be? |  | | |  |
| The Modern Football Fan - What went wrong on 02:43 - Sep 24 with 1753 views | SydneyRs |
Defo social media. In general the internet is slowly making everything the same and social media only expedites this. Remember when you could go overseas and see different fashions, music etc? Now everyone copies everyone else. Girls with the same hair, eyebrows, lips, instagram poses etc, regardless of country. What a time to be alive.
At football we now have identikit "ultras" groups with black shirts, flares, identical tunes for chants etc. Everyone just tries to copy what the genuinely passionate fanbases in Argentina and other places do but with middle class, touristy type participants who cannot possibly recreate the same type of atmosphere.
Photos of train beers, "lads" group shots, "limbs", etc, etc, etc. Online clowns from Asia, Nigeria etc making out they are the most devoted fans of Chelsea, Arsenal etc despite the fact they will never set foot in the grounds of those clubs.
Can fully understand why some prefer non league and the lower divisions. |  | | |
| The Modern Football Fan - What went wrong on 11:28 - Sep 24 with 1490 views | izlingtonhoop |
Not that modern, perhaps.
Earlier:
The clock has beaten you,
sunshine,
and I'm struggling
with a prior engagement. Ta-ta.
No, no. Hang on.
Just a minute, Terry.
Just, just a minute!
What is this prior engagement?
- Chelsea are at home.
- Yeah, the best place for 'em.
- I thought you were a Fulham man.
- They're away, ain't they? |  | | |
| The Modern Football Fan - What went wrong on 12:07 - Sep 24 with 1421 views | slmrstid |
| The Modern Football Fan - What went wrong on 19:57 - Sep 23 by ted_hendrix |
Work colleague of mine Is a ST holder at Eastleigh, he used to love talking about our great players from the 70's and 80's.
The modern football fan loves to be seen wearing His half and half scarf, what stupid SOB come up with half and half football scarfs' ? |
I can actually understand the half and half scarves for special occasions like cup finals and so on, be a good memento of a huge occasion.
Those handful of years we had in the Prem where hawkers were turning up with them for every league game - absolutely not. |  | | |
| The Modern Football Fan - What went wrong on 13:07 - Sep 24 with 1319 views | DannyPaddox |
| The Modern Football Fan - What went wrong on 11:28 - Sep 24 by izlingtonhoop |
Not that modern, perhaps.
Earlier:
The clock has beaten you,
sunshine,
and I'm struggling
with a prior engagement. Ta-ta.
No, no. Hang on.
Just a minute, Terry.
Just, just a minute!
What is this prior engagement?
- Chelsea are at home.
- Yeah, the best place for 'em.
- I thought you were a Fulham man.
- They're away, ain't they? |
Dennis Waterman was a Chelsea fan. Apparently in pre-production meetings with the writer Leon Griffiths (a northerner btw - Sheffield) Waterman was forever asking him to rewrite Terry McCann’s character from a Fulham fan to a Chelsea fan. It’s said that Griffiths finally snapped and said “For fcuk’s sake Dennis, Terry is not going to be a Chelsea supporter, we want the audience to like him” [Post edited 24 Sep 13:24]
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| The Modern Football Fan - What went wrong on 13:28 - Sep 24 with 1275 views | Ghost_on_the_Westway |
| The Modern Football Fan - What went wrong on 16:35 - Sep 23 by Konk |
In 1994, I got a club coach midweek to Bradford to watch Fulham, as we were earning buttons and couldn't afford to do a hotel overnight. I've only done club coaches in emergencies, and there are generally a fair few oddbods, but this coach had a bloke who loudly announced that he was a Chelsea fan who liked Fulham too - going to watch Bradford v Fulham midweek in division 3 - and unsurprisingly, everyone on the coach told him to fu ck-off. He seemed genuinely surprised that everyone else thought Chelsea were a bunch of cu nts. At the services, for some reason he said to me and my mate, "Lads, I'm going to get a porn mag and have a wa nk - see you in a bit". And ten minutes later, we saw him leaving the bogs and putting a jazz mag in a bin. Absolute wrong un. |
Dare I mention Matthew Simmons, Konk? 😂 |  | | |
| The Modern Football Fan - What went wrong on 14:02 - Sep 24 with 1185 views | derbyhoop |
| The Modern Football Fan - What went wrong on 18:55 - Sep 23 by kensalriser |
Women are allowed to make their own decisions these days, you know. |
When did that happen? I make all my own decisions. Just have to run them past the wife first. |  |
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| The Modern Football Fan - What went wrong on 16:04 - Sep 24 with 1007 views | joe90 |
Not strictly on the topic of the 'modern football fan'...
I was on my way back from Sheffield a few weeks ago and at Doncaster I was joined by a load of Chelsea fans commuting down for a game. None of them were from London, all Yorkshire men. They were also talking about going to watch Rangers (the Glasgow variety) I am aware of this 'Blues Brothers' connection, but what I find strange is that they were from Doncaster. How do you end up supporting Chelsea?! They weren't even young, probably 50+.
Most people I know and have met from Yorkshire are proud of where they're from and I could never imagine them supporting a London football club. |  | | |
| The Modern Football Fan - What went wrong on 16:07 - Sep 24 with 961 views | TheChef |
| The Modern Football Fan - What went wrong on 16:04 - Sep 24 by joe90 |
Not strictly on the topic of the 'modern football fan'...
I was on my way back from Sheffield a few weeks ago and at Doncaster I was joined by a load of Chelsea fans commuting down for a game. None of them were from London, all Yorkshire men. They were also talking about going to watch Rangers (the Glasgow variety) I am aware of this 'Blues Brothers' connection, but what I find strange is that they were from Doncaster. How do you end up supporting Chelsea?! They weren't even young, probably 50+.
Most people I know and have met from Yorkshire are proud of where they're from and I could never imagine them supporting a London football club. |
If they're Chelscum fans with a fondness for Glasgow Rangers, then I can only assume they are of a certain political persuasion...
Although why they don't support a Yorkshire club is rather odd. |  |
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| The Modern Football Fan - What went wrong on 16:12 - Sep 24 with 915 views | joe90 |
| The Modern Football Fan - What went wrong on 16:07 - Sep 24 by TheChef |
If they're Chelscum fans with a fondness for Glasgow Rangers, then I can only assume they are of a certain political persuasion...
Although why they don't support a Yorkshire club is rather odd. |
This is it. I'm aware of the politics, but surely there's a club closer to home they can wave their tiny Union Jacks?
They were also quite friendly which was also very strange. To be fair, I was just minding my own business eating carrot sticks and hummus whilst reading the G2 film and music supplement. [Post edited 24 Sep 16:18]
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