[milkytea]

(Original post by Fusion)
Man City spent over 100% of their income on wages, other clubs like Chelsea pay ridiculous amounts, so yes they are overpaid.

If a group of traders are paid 35m and deliver 15m in profits then similarly they're being paid more than their worth.

Man City and Chelsea are exceptional cases, though. The majority of footballers are not overpaid, otherwise their clubs would go out of business. The same applies with every other industry so why single out footballers for criticism?

[bhogs001]

(Original post by clarusblue)
fellaini wasn't playing in the euros!

Leave it yeah?

[That Friday Feelin]

I immediately thought about of the African and Asian people on the Manchester United facebook page (and probably all other premier league team pages for that matter) who just say in really bad English things like "hw dare man u lose game. i never support them again!"

etc. etc. It just makes me rage every time I see the glory seekers

[madders94]

"Why don't England buy Torres/Balotelli/Casillas/Buffon/other foreign player"

[rockrunride]

OP, you do realise "casual fan" and "casual" refers to two completely different breeds of football fan, quite possibly at the very opposite of the spectrum from one another? Adding the word "fan" really makes all the difference. "Casual" on its own originally referred [in the 1980s] to the clothes a fan would wear when attending games, allowing him to infiltrate groups of rival football fans and cause trouble right under the noses of the police without the latter knowing. Casuals nowadays wear clothes from a more or less select group of brands, the most famous of which being Stone Island. They probably form the most hardcore members of an English team's regular support.

Answering the actual question, it's probably me in my pre-matchgoing days. I was a pseudo-socialist crusader bemused at why footballers couldn't be taxed at 80%.

[That Bearded Man]

Non-fan - why do they have to have more than one team per city?

OR when they say "square ball" do they bring on a different ball?

OR what's the point? You kick a ball.....into a goal....why?

[That Bearded Man]

(Original post by That Friday Feelin)
I immediately thought about of the African and Asian people on the Manchester United facebook page (and probably all other premier league team pages for that matter) who just say in really bad English things like "hw dare man u lose game. i never support them again!"

etc. etc. It just makes me rage every time I see the glory seekers

The same ones going "hu da **** is Nck Powel"

[hbk4894]

i read from a another Bolton fan the other day that Bolton were going to become the Spain of the Championship next season.

[TomDixie]

From my girlfriend's best friend: "Are Everton a band?"

Made me want to cry into a bowl of scouse.

[minimarshmallow]

I once had a guy say to me 'Yeah love, but I bet you don't know the offside rule.' Then when I explained it, he had to turn to his mate to see if I was right.

[skibur]

When a second ball rolled onto the pitch accidentally in one of the euro games; I had my cousin convinced that it was part of a 5 minute 'power play' in which a team can choose to play with two balls

[rachelkeira]

Outside the ground at a home game... a home 'fan' who I suspect was just dragged along by her son/husband/whatever... 'Oh look, there's the Chesterfield coach with all the players arriving.' She seemed to genuinely think the home team got a coach to their own ground

[Musester]

(Original post by rachelkeira)
Outside the ground at a home game... a home 'fan' who I suspect was just dragged along by her son/husband/whatever... 'Oh look, there's the Chesterfield coach with all the players arriving.' She seemed to genuinely think the home team got a coach to their own ground

Awkward.

[IanDangerously]

(Original post by Whitechapel)
I have to say the downright stupidest thing I heard was from a Manchester United fan outside Old Trafford. Now I support Man Utd too but this comment was ridiculous. It was to do with the half and half football scarfs (on this occasion it was the Man Utd vs Man City game)

"Why the hell would someone want to have a scarf which has the other teams names on it, they aren't proper fans those people"

Then he said something racist but his IQ before even that was clearly very, very poor.

Why the hell would anyone want to wear one of those stupid things? We normally have a good laugh at people wearing those at Old Trafford, or green and gold scarfs with the replica shirt, because you can tell they're daytrippers from a mile off and they haven't got a clue.

Hence the song "We know the words, you're not sure, now **** off back to the Megastore!"

(Original post by DaveSmith99)
Not really, if you're a united fan why would you want a scarf with a city badge on?

To look like a clueless buffoon, be ridiculed by the majority of your own support that actually possess a clue and have a souvenir to show your friends back in China/India/Korea/Wherever that you went to "The Theatre of Dreams" even if for a somewhat meaningless game whilst the rest of them are confined to staying up late and watching it on some crappy TV station back home.

They're United fans, but not United supporters. Anyone can buy into a franchise and like it as a consumer but that isn't supporting a team.

(Original post by rockrunride)
OP, you do realise "casual fan" and "casual" refers to two completely different breeds of football fan, quite possibly at the very opposite of the spectrum from one another? Adding the word "fan" really makes all the difference. "Casual" on its own originally referred [in the 1980s] to the clothes a fan would wear when attending games, allowing him to infiltrate groups of rival football fans and cause trouble right under the noses of the police without the latter knowing. Casuals nowadays wear clothes from a more or less select group of brands, the most famous of which being Stone Island. They probably form the most hardcore members of an English team's regular support.

I'm glad somebody pointed that out! Not all casuals actually cause trouble these days though of course, some of us stay on the periphery of it and engage in all the other parts of that world without necessarily going and fighting all the time.

[rockrunride]

Just remembered one funny incident at the Lane. Playing Blackburn in the penultimate game of last season, was sat up in Park Lane Upper with my uncle to my right, and to my left was this woman who had clearly never been before, ie taking pictures every time Modric/whoever was on the ball and generally being excessively enthusiastic about the play.

Cue the free kick Kyle Walker scored, and right before I was my usual po-faced self watching Spurs try and score a free kick, muttering "we never score from free kicks, ever, not seen a single one go in all the games I've been to this season" (17). So Walker scored and this woman shouts to me "wooooooow what are the chances of that, you said it wouldn't go in and it did!" Proceeds to text someone, nosy me notices "this bloke said we wouldn't score and we did!" She obviously didn't realise that I, and many other attendees to that game had seen many, many more scuffed and bad free kicks last season, too many to not be pessimistic about them. To her, she's just turned up for her first game on the right day, and she probably thought we're all like that.

[IanDangerously]

(Original post by rockrunride)
Just remembered one funny incident at the Lane. Playing Blackburn in the penultimate game of last season, was sat up in Park Lane Upper with my uncle to my right, and to my left was this woman who had clearly never been before, ie taking pictures every time Modric/whoever was on the ball and generally being excessively enthusiastic about the play.

Cue the free kick Kyle Walker scored, and right before I was my usual po-faced self watching Spurs try and score a free kick, muttering "we never score from free kicks, ever, not seen a single one go in all the games I've been to this season" (17). So Walker scored and this woman shouts to me "wooooooow what are the chances of that, you said it wouldn't go in and it did!" Proceeds to text someone, nosy me notices "this bloke said we wouldn't score and we did!" She obviously didn't realise that I, and many other attendees to that game had seen many, many more scuffed and bad free kicks last season, too many to not be pessimistic about them. To her, she's just turned up for her first game on the right day, and she probably thought we're all like that.

I had a similar experience this season but thankfully there was nobody like that sat next to me! I cant remember which game it was but we won a corner and Young (I think) came over to take it and I said to the lad that sits next to me something along the lines of "Why do we still cheer when we win a corner? They never clear the first man now!". A few seconds later the ball had sailed over all the defenders heads and was headed in to the back of the net! I looked like a right tit on that one.

[TRS-T]

Who do you support?

"Man United."

[monk_keys]

My girlfriend asked me if the goalie stands in between the goal for penalty shoot-outs

[hajinator]

Non-fan: Tottenham have the potential to be a top three team, but Harry Redknapp isn't a good manager, so let them down.
Casual: Gareth Bale is a Scottish Messi.

[ConnorB]

My Mum: So how can this Mario guy play for Manchester City if he plays for Italy aswell? He doesn't even look Italian.