@Nebbuchadnezza@Chaz_CFC Billionaires and oligarchs in the same sentence as counter culture is an oxymoron. Chelsea, and no other Prem team, should be considered counterculture - being disliked isn’t the same.
@Chaz_CFC I’m not really following what parameters you’re using to class Chelsea as counter culture. A club used as a sportswashing project for a Russian oligarch now owned by an American investment consortium sounds like the opposite.
@Max1886AFC@benphyperss@okkHyfa But it’s not about ‘not putting in the effort’ is it. If you’re not given the opportunity to be able to do it then what are you supposed to do? Not taking anything away from those who have been loyal over years and years but it’s a closed shop now
Brighton are out of every competition, no hopes of Europe, no prospects, mid table mediocrity again. This game has made absolutely no difference to your season. It does not matter this much.
@shafatrains @Mick_Birchall No, I understand perfectly. Are you trying to tell me we aren’t allowed to sing “who are ya” out of respect for your champions league win?
This is what Maccabi Tel Aviv fans were doing last time they played in Europe:
“Let the IDF win… f*** the Arabs…”
And incidentally, Sky News published - then deleted - this report.
1,600 English football hooligans were banned from attending the 2024 Euros.
Banning hooligans from attending football matches abroad is neither unusual nor a bad thing.
Don't remember politicians saying that was wrong ... Quite the opposite.
If you want to understand what racism, dehumanization, & double standards look like, I have seen more outraged tweets from British centrists & conservatives today over racist Israeli football hooligans being banned from a game in the UK than I ever did from these same people over the UK’s support for Israel’s killing of 70,000 Palestinian men, women, and children, and the total destruction of Gaza.
Politicians when English football fans abroad lift a plastic chair 10cm off the ground
Politicians when football hooligans smash a city centre to bits, sing racist chants and attack locals but they happen to be Israeli