mekonmcfc said:fuckin hell we have a lot of saints that go to our matches !! its like a christian prayer group in here.
shock horror working class men get drunk watching their football team... never saw that coming
Ok, you've said a few things there you might want to re-phrase:
Nobody is being sanctimonious (bar your own pinch of self-righteousness in the above post, if you're honest, possibly?). Anyway, if not going around punching random strangers is "like a Christian Prayer Group", then fine, I'll let you have that one. Do you honestly think it's acceptable to kick off with folk just because you're team lost a game of ball? Seriously? And no, before you or anybody else says it, it doesn't make it in any way understandable. It's my team that lost too. Me and about 50,000 of us. Yet the vast majority of us somehow managed to get back down Wembley Way, resisting the urge to clock the first misfortune that we didn't like the look of.
Getting drunk isn't a problem and nobody is horrified by the fact that there were drunk people at this or any other match. So stop suggesting that is the case on this thread. (Although, some people have condemned drink driving. If you've a problem with their stance, that's your business and I honestly still do hope that the horrible effects of drink driving never darken your door). It's being a twat and not being able to handle your beer, that's a problem. It doesn't make anyone a bigger man to drink one, 10 or a 100 pints. It's how you carry yourself and treat others - drunk or sober - that defines you. Do you disagree? Surely you're not suggesting that pouring a pint down your neck is a free pass to behaving like a dickhead?
Neither is this a Class issue. As a Working Class man who's sank more than my own body weight in pints over the last weekend (and may even do the same next weekend, if I feel like it and the wife let's me ff the leash again), I'd still be adamant that alcohol abuse is not a Class specific problem. Neither is it a defining attribute of the Working Class and it's insulting (and possibly self-depreciating of you?) to suggest so. I might be wrong but I suspect that you too see yourself as Working Class. If so, please (if only as a favour to a complete stranger on the interweb) re-consider how you define being Working Class. At it's best, it has nothing to getting pissed and everything to do with the finer qualities of decency, honesty, dignity, stoicism, everyday heroism and... okay, I'll stop now before I get all misty-eyed.
Anyway, that is all. Rant over. As you were.