Football hooligan and proud

It's not a generation thing.

It's idiots then, idiots now.

 

Its not a generation thing Nudge, not at all. There are loads of fans on here from the 70's and the vast majority of us just find the behaviour of these thugs unacceptable and unjustifiable.

 

On your first point, most of the lads who go for that kind of behaviour are barely out of school, and some are probably still there. They are young lads who have watched too much Green Street and Football Factory and see carrying on in that way as a chance to feel some belonging and a sense of identity, something everyone looks for at that age. The ones who were around in the 70s and 80s have mostly grown up, with the exception of a few very sad men who still feel the need to act like they did as rebellious teenagers.

On your second point, I agree with you. What put the 'Great' in Great Britain and the Empire was believing we have a God-given right to power and superiority because of where we were born, blind aggression and destruction of anyone slightly different to us, and travelling far afield in an attempt to gain territory and show how much better we are than the natives wherever we go. So yes, that's exactly like football hooliganism. But personally, it's a mentality I am ashamed of, and is certainly not something I consider to be a strength of the British character.

Peace Out.