Working Class Football Identity

[brian green]

That the ACR should have a stance is a tortology.  He was never actually observed in stationary mode. Since he was moving in a backwards direction in Trinity Rd. one should describe his politics as a movement.

[The Edge]

Since the creation of the premiership

Bing! Bong! Dave to the thread please!

He was nearly ok.

It was 93/94 that it was renamed as the Premiership, 92/93 it started as the Premier League.

So he was a year out on being correct. About that small point, at least.

It hasn't been know as the Premiership since 06-07 season, so why do people still keep calling it that. Just a big point it's the PREMIER LEAGUE.

Or the Preemier league as old deadly calls it.

[Comrade Blitz]

If were taking back are game, can Manchester United stop being pronounced Manchess United?

[The Edge]

Since the creation of the premiership

Bing! Bong! Dave to the thread please!

He was nearly ok.

It was 93/94 that it was renamed as the Premiership, 92/93 it started as the Premier League.

So he was a year out on being correct. About that small point, at least.

It hasn't been know as the Premiership since 06-07 season, so why do people still keep calling it that. Just a big point it's the PREMIER LEAGUE.

Or the Preemier league as old deadly calls it.

Bollox. Just noticed Chicago beat me to it two pages ago. FML

[john e]

80k? Jesus. So much for me being upwardly mobile. Still in bottom bracket then.

I don’t really know mate
I just said that to get the ball rolling as i thought it was an interesting question

[Mister E]

80k? Jesus. So much for me being upwardly mobile. Still in bottom bracket then.

I don’t really know mate
I just said that to get the ball rolling as i thought it was an interesting question

27k is quoted as the annual gross salary, so maybe that helps as a benchmark.

[standing for rights]

Yes - I blame Thatcher.

  can't blame one individual for the loss of working class identity at football, the tories played their part people like Tracy crouch. Labour the worst and when the identity was destroyed the most. At least under thatcher we had maggies boot boys and war which was in Great Britains interest.

What did Tracey Crouch do to make football lose its working class identity? Was it her pushing for the FA to reform themselves, or her comments in support of gay footballers?

She is against safe standing  at football, as supporters standing is not the visual perception her and Scudamore want of the game. They think it will put sponsors and commercial investment off, to them standing at football is a sign of hooliganism and unity of working classes. Which goes against their vision of the preimship or Premier league or what ever your want to call it.

[Legion]

You're that former banned poster who continually went on about standing, aren't you?

[johnny from donny]

Well I tell you one thing that has changed dramatically in the last 30 years and that's music gigs. Not just the prices they charge but the people who go.  Back in the day people went to gigs to see a band they liked these days I seem to see so many people at them who aren't really interested in the band they are just there so that they could say they went. Particularly true of the O2 with there corporate 'fans ' there. Yes I know...off on a tangent

When Guns n Roses toured this year, I said to a women I work with that I would be interested in going if tickets were a similar price to what I paid last time I saw them.
I thought 22.50 including coach travel was a fair price in these times of austerity. (Donington 1988, they were 4th on the bill behind Iron Maiden, Kiss and David Lee Roth)

[pauliewalnuts]

Bring back that comedy Nazi poster.

[robbo1874]

I honestly struggle to understand whether the likes of stand up for rights and Glenn Peen are on the wind up or genuinely mental. Can we have a poll?

[Chris Jameson]

I honestly struggle to understand whether the likes of stand up for rights and Glenn Peen are on the wind up or genuinely mental. Can we have a poll?

No, it only encourages them.

[UK Redsox]

one should describe his politics as a movement.

The politics of dancing
The politics of ooo feeling good

[Brend'Watkins]

I honestly struggle to understand whether the likes of stand up for rights and Glenn Peen are on the wind up or genuinely mental. Can we have a poll?

One might be the other is an opportunist surrealist troll.   

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

I honestly struggle to understand whether the likes of stand up for rights and Glenn Peen are on the wind up or genuinely mental. Can we have a poll?

Lets get back on message about that great British debate, class.
If they are mentalists they are clearly not working class. Mentalness/perceived nuttiness is  for the middle and upper classes with their private counselling and rehab clinics. The working classes are much too busy leading nasty, brutish and short lives being exploited by mill and pit owners etc to have time for fruity loop depression/looniness stuff.