One law for football fans?

I could describe the benefits that both my sons gained from football, understanding of teamwork, cooperation, better health, friends etc, the issue of fans congregating is a seperate issue, but the disdain for football is very interesting to watch.

The Scotland fans virtually took over London yesterday, they outnumbered the Police.

But politicians know it keeps the proles happy

You sound very snooty, and up yourself.

It is ridiculous that, in the midst of a pandemic, mass gatherings are allowed. Football seems to be a law unto itself.

You could describe any sport or indeed any activity in that kind of way. GN a load of people tapping away on keyboards chasing each other round the internet. Football is not in itself a bad thing.

As she is well aware, I share DW Ashcombe's distaste for the entire football culture. 22 overpaid prima-donna yobs chasing a bag of wind round a field. And now I believe there is far more interest worldwide in female teams too. Talk about lowering themselves! But politicians know it keeps the proles happy, and Scots fans in London have always been drunk and disorderly. Decades ago I was in Trafalgar Square and there were kilted ones in the fountains, inevitably rewarding (?) the onlookers with full detail of what they wore under the kilt.

Here in France the website I use for news is no better. At present every third item is headed 'Euro' which to me is a currency, but no it's some football competition.

As for London policing, this week a report said the Met has institutional corruption, and predictably Ms Dick denies this. Who polices the police? There seems to be a general confusion between upholding the law and being above it.......

BigBertha1: my predictive text changed red to read in my post!! Grrh!

The stick with a flag on it! Flippin' predictive text on my Kindle.

Slapstick!

I agree with all of the above. All I want us to be able to take the slapstick out in golf so my ball will go down the hole but that is considered too risky to allow but congregating in drunken thousands is ok apparently. Appalling.

I think you’ve answered your question. Football is king, it seems, in this country. I was shocked to see the scenes on London streets on the News last night and saddened to see that some schools had turned the whole of yesterday into some kind of football fest, with pupils wearing read and white clothes and face paints.
TV schedules have bowed to its importance, too, with regular programmes being cancelled or moved. The reports and results are the headline news when we do get any bulletins, rarely at usual times.
Women are regarded as soft targets at demonstrations and there was a desire to minimise attention being drawn to a heinous crime committed by a member of the police force.