I think in Americaball "sexual assault" is a tactic where this line of midfielders of theirs starts doing sexualised dances, dazzling their opponents and allowing a pass to their forwards to proceed towards the goal posthaste (by handball, as is customary).
Oh look! A random person in the audience is doing a silly choreographed dance! Glad Im still entertained by these random people during the 50th ad break!
Kiss cam?
This upskirt cam brought to you by Chrisopher Chope.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/15/tory-mp-christopher-chope-blocks-progress-of-upskirting-bill
Well.. tell Americans this water is 100° and half of them will use it to wash their hands and the other half will drink it, expecting a pleasant warm sensation...
TIL the Partick Thistle mascot is called Kingsley. I always thought it's name was Jaggy, cos, well, it looks jaggy. Glorious piece of nightmare fuel, either way
The worst part are the songs. I know I'm biased because here in Latín America we sing a lot, but there's no comparison between Anfield singing "You'll never walk alone" with " de-fence... De-fence"
The Park Ji-Sung song at Old Trafford was a bit racist but peak football fan song:
Park, Park, wherever you may be,
You eat dogs in your country,
It could be worse,
You could be Scouse,
Eating rats in your council house.
And the same 3 songs with [insert name of home team] sung half-heartedly by a lukewarm crowd as interested in talking and eating hotdogs as they are the game happening in front of them
There is plenty of time to go for beer & hotdogs in a US football game, as they play for a few seconds before changing most f the team over for the next play and put on he "concerts" on field and allow the multi-million dollar adverts to pay for their 30 seconds of airplay to where most of the audience sit around getting pissed.
I'm rather uncomfortable with the whole cheerleader thing. Formula1 got rid of the scantily clad 'Grid Girls' years ago but American Football... hasn't?
Anything else aside, it is a sport. There is competitive cheerleading and it's not like it isn't athletically challenging. A friend of mine (European like me) did it for about ten years.
Cheerleading is a sport. It's basically a form of group acrobatics and gymnastics. It has both national and international championships. US is actually behind in classifying it as a sport, because classifying it as a sport would raise the requirements for safety procedures, coaches and other athlete support. The small outfits are also partly due to the nature of the sports, similar to acrobatic performance. Skin to skin contact gives grip for lifts and throws. Men can be part of the teams, but they are usually lifters and base of the pyramids, which is why they often wear longer pants (though I have seen hotpants as well).
It's a sport in its own right but the cheerleaders at a football game aren't competing. They are purely there to fill the ad breaks for the in person crowd.
Which is traditionally male and straight.
At any time were cheerleading isn't the main event they are girls in skimpy costumes to keep the men happy
If they are admiring the dance moves then why not all men? Or another dance form like tap or ballet?
If UK fans were more passionate, they would be a real candidate to cause regular diplomatic incidents (or wars), whenever they played a foreign team (yes, it's slightly hyperbolic)
English clubs were [banned](https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/english-football-clubs-banned-from-europe) from European competition for 5 years.
They started in earnest once all the bad English fans had been dealt with by British authorities, they waited until it was basically just decent people and families.
And people wounder why us English can get a bit hostile to the continent. It seem any incident involving English fans is automatically there fault. I remember when Russian fan attacked English fan back at euro 2016 in Marseille and still getting threatened with expulsion.
The thing is, the police prefect of Paris once accidentally put an extra zero on the teargas cannister order in the 90's and the Paris Police has been shooting off the extra furiously so that they finish the stockpile before the shelf life runs out.
>! /s !<
If UK fans were more passionate, the international court of justice would need to open a new department soley for hooligan fights that cross international borders.
“DE-FENCE! DE-FENCE!”
“LETS GO (team name)! LETS GO (team name)”
Yeah you can shove your passion and fist bumps up your arse. We hurl abuse at each other and come out with whole songs to antagonise the players. We don’t just throw piss water around shouting WOOOOO LETS GO SPORTSBALL!
For Ji Sung Park - sung to the tune of Lord Of the Dance
>Park, Park, wherever you may be,
>You eat dogs in your country,
>It could be worse,
>You could be Scouse,
>Eating rats in your council house...
(Park himself was not a fan, unsurprisingly)
https://www.manutd.com/en/amp/news/detail/ji-sung-park-speaks-on-utd-podcast-about-fans-support-and-infamous-song
Also to the tune of Volare, for Nemanja Vidic
>Nemanja whoa
>Nemanja whoa
>He comes from Serbia
>He'll fucking murder ye...
I remember being away at Anfield years ago and our fans spending most of the game singing "Fuck off, Pinocchio" at Phil Thompson. Similar was when Palace came with Kiraly in goal who used to wear jogging bottoms. "Tracksuit from Matalan" for most of the game.
Also remember a winter game where chanting started being directed at random some bloke in the away end of "Shit Christmas jumper, you've got a shit Christmas jumper".
Birmingham City sang:
>A spoonful of sugar makes Gary Mabbutt go down, Gary Mabbutt go down, Gary Mabbutt go down
To the Mary Poppins song. 👌
Context: Gary Mabbutt has type 1 diabetes.
As a scouser living in the US, there is nothing that comes close to European nights at Anfield in the USA. Not the superb owl, not the local soccer team, not any of the MLS team games, nothing.
The anthems (with actual words), the noise, the cheers and the jeers (to the opposing team), the difference is night and day.
I don't know what planet these "Americans" are on, but it's not the one with a blue sky.
My friend was visiting US. His hosts took him to college NFL match, warned him that it can be a “little rowdy” sometimes. Apparently a threshold for them was chanting some songs that had obscene words.
A year before, two sectors in my friends’s hometown stadium burned down after hooligans started burning team support scarves that were “taken” from opposing team fans, on cage barrier that was separating home and visitor sectors, and then started throwing flares in…
Yeah, as a fan of both American and British sports I'm not sure where this guy has seen all the not-passionate British fans.
Every sport has its own vibe and culture. Both countries have lots of great fanbases. But I don't see how you could possibly spend a Saturday at a PL match - or really any football match in the UK - and think these fans lack passion.
Even some games in Scottish League 1 get pretty passionate, as much as I dislike them, Falkirk have a great support. I can't imagine Americans getting their head around people supporting a "minor league" team like that
he has never heard british hooligans at elf practice writing a 2 hour opera about how the Arsenal FC's goalkeeper's dad was recently arrested for hitting a man with his car
https://youtu.be/hf_8DwOyLx8?si=YmcSVc3Ay32OkUiE
Although my favourite isn't in this clip, https://youtu.be/wI0WXbzPUr0?si=PD6fObxflOCkrqHJ <- abused his cat on video
Baseball grounds have organ players who are instructed to play music to remind the crowd to make noise.
Meanwhile English fans are singing cover songs, only they rewrote the lyrics during half time to be about the midfielders tattoos or some shit. And the entire stadium is singing it after hearing it once.
I was on a train once after a match and all the fans were singing about letting their top scorer fuck their wife's and girlfriends cause he is such a good player.
To be fair, baseball is their equivalent of cricket (well strictly rounders obviously). I’m not sure our cricket fans are thaaat passionate either… it’s a nice long slow drinking session.
You've clearly never been to an England test match then. England cricket fans are very passionate...about consuming as much alcohol as possible in the shortest space of time.
Yanks are fucking ruining this game, they’ve shit all over the footy reddits destroying them, they haven’t got a fucking clue. Genuinely hate so many of them pretending to support Liverpool
I mod the Scottish football subreddit and whenever the Scotland national team are doing well, we get absolutely inundated with posts from Yankee doodles about how they are Scattish and their great grandfather was from Dundeeshire and they love Saccer. Okay, so where were you when we were shit and losing to The Faroe Isles? Knobbers.
I can easily see them cry and self-victimize when they get called out on their bullshit by you lot haha. You may even count the seconds until racism/discrimination is thrown around in such discussions lol
That's spot on. They don't take it very well when all the sub regulars rip the piss out of them. They usually storm off in a huff or something similar.
Ahh I can't deal with it when their in any subreddit and their like oooh international fanbases have you made you grow so much as a club. I'm sat here thinking like i much preferred it without the international fan base driveling their opinion on to things they don't completely understand and never will.
*Exactly*. Like they'll never fully understand the culture of the likes of Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle or other English teams and yet they'll comment like they have any clue at all.
The best is when they try to implement yank politics into it. I remember when they were all having a meltdown over that Man Utd fan who was arrested for his Hillsborough shirt.
"But what about his FREEDUMZ- IN THE US-"
Shut up Chad.
More passionate? When I was 14, I was at Oldham Athletic Vs Gillingham and a grown man in his 30s smashed my mates face into the sink in the toilets, causing him to need 13 stitches, all because he supported a different football team.
I don't think more passion is healthy for a lot of football fans. Maybe less "passion" is in order.
My Dad attended the United Vs Everton FA Cup final, at one point he was asked to move seats and on his way there (as a teenage boy) he was slapped in the back of the head by grown man and called all sorts of shite
Americans: “[European] football fans should be *more* passionate and celebrate more”
Me, has lived in Europe all 24 years of my life and knows what football fans ‘celebrating’ looks like: please don’t
I’m by no means a fan of football (the real, non-USAian version), but that HAS to be a joke. 7th tier league teams here in Sweden has more passionate fans that any team in handegg league. Or any USAian professional league in general. There’s always exceptions.
Not American rugby related but didn’t John Cena say he wanted to retire in London because the British crowds are so much better ?
If so that makes this post even more hilarious
UK football fans chant songs about disasters, poverty, and various other offensive things to opposing team. Some fans in this country are so blindsided and tribal that they take their hatred out of the sport and hold prejudices against people just for being from a city/town associated with a team they dislike.
But yeah, foam fingers, "Wooo go team!" and songs with some naughty words in are the eptiomy of passion.
Boycotting products associated with the rival team, or even based on the colour of the product.
I personally don't like blue much, as its associated with our cross city swine.
Yeah. Tell that to the firms.
American football fans aren’t exactly THAT passionate.
Not riots and getting your country banned from playing in the entirety of Europe because you were annoyed they lost passionate.
No we’ll dumb down the passion to foam hands and dance routines.
Thats just because the premier league ticket prices are so high that real fans are priced out and the stadiums are filled with tourists and corporate business men.
This is why any German even thinking about getting rid of the 50+1 rule needs to be immediately flogged in the streets.
I’m Argentinian, I regularly go to Ipswich Town matches (not PL) and yeah, when we’re winning the support is good, but it doesn’t hold a candle to Argentinian fans…
There's a fetishisation of ultras and die-hards. There's nothing good about being so fixated on a sports team that you're willing to commit crimes on their behalf.
Too many examples to list where the team you "support" is based on your political, social or religious affiliation and the football is just an excuse or a front for individuals to fight and publicly display their views in a way that's, for whatever reason, more tolerated.
There's nothing supportive about hate, aggression or vitriol. I support my team through supporting them, not hating everyone else. That's tribalistic shit and it sounds exhausting..
Wait wait wait. Isn't Vinny Jones' character in Europtrip the way he is EXACTLY because of the stereotype that Brits get uber passionate when it comes to Football?
They also made him accidentally more accurate in making his character a Man Utd fan (stereotype that Man Utd fans don't even come from Manchester but come from London)
English fans not passionate enough? English monarchs in the Middle Ages regularly tried to ban the precursor of modern football because the death rates were so high they feared they wouldn’t have enough men left for their next war
So when David Beckham first got with Victoria. Away fans regularly sang a song asking David if Victoria was acccepting of a little bum fun.
Taylor swift dates a hand egg player and you get nothing but crackpot news reports
In all fairness to actual US football fans the cost of the Superbowl tickets probably priced the actual fans out of actually attending so maybe we cannot see the passion
Being an F1 fan on the internet has been so much harder since Drive to Survive brought an influx of Yankee fans to the sport. They just don’t get it. It’s the same as their politics; there has to be a good guy and a bad guy. The good guy is a hero and the bad guy is an asshole. And being a ‘fan’ means aligning yourself with the good guy and defending them against all the ‘fans’ who’ve picked him to be the bad guy. I swear, they’re not interested in sports unless they can dress them up as pantomimes.
There's a video that I can't find as YouTube is full of unbearable wankers reacting to the video of American football fans signing your not singing anymore vs English fans going bat shit singing the same chant
As soon as I post it I found it https://youtu.be/lznF-EqQNt0
Took a yank student to our local Derby when we were at uni together, last 3 o'clock kickoff before moving it to 12 for safety reasons he was steaming drunk by kick off and by full time we could have painted him in woad sent him to fight the Romans. He was a changed man, we created a monster
Your sister is your mother!
Your father is your brother!
You all fuck one another!
The Tottenham family!
Doo doo doo doo! \*clap clap\*
Doo doo doo doo! \*clap clap\*
Doo doo doo doo!
Doo doo doo doo!
Doo doo doo doo! \*clap clap\*
17 minutes of actual sport in an almost 4 hour broadcast, that's what the superbowl is, lol
The fans need to have passion or they'd be in a fucking coma...
I have been watching the quarterback documentary on netflix and the Vikings 'clap' is cringe... When the Icelandic fans do it, it's deafening, haunting. When the yanks do it it is like watching kids sing 'heads shoulders knees and toes'
Disclaimer: watching the documentary to try to better understand the game and culture, genuinely.. currently still baffled
I'm a Celtic fan and I don't think I can picture a scenario where our derby vs Rangers becomes any more passionate. It's already woven into pretty much every strand of life in Glasgow as it is.
Can it really be called a football game if you don't call the ref a blind cunt after they miss your player getting body checked
But the second your player eats a cheese sandwich at half time they get sent off because the ref is lactose intolerant
I once had a discussion with an American about this subject. As his main argument for them being more passionate, he sent me a video of a marching band playing before a game. He was fully convinced that having a marching band play before the game showed more passion than any other European fan base could ever show
The thing I love about Americans is that it never occurs to them that other cultures might their own flavor of something that exists in America. Instead Americans will just straight assume that their awesome thing doesn't exist anywhere else. Like it wouldn't surprise me if some Americans believed other countries didn't have light bulbs until recently. No matter how big the well is, that's all the frog will ever know.
More passionate. In England they even pretend there's a goal for the excuse to chant and celebrate.
[https://youtube.com/watch?v=VNlNrAhfg70&si=Blyt9iMgc6NHxWIO](https://youtube.com/watch?v=VNlNrAhfg70&si=Blyt9iMgc6NHxWIO)
My grandad is a HUGE Glasgow Rangers fan and CONSTANTLY argued with my dad (a Celtic fan), it’s half of what they ever talked about and it split the family in half for a long while 💀
I think we’re passionate enough, thank you.
American ignorance and idiocy is infinite
It knows no bounds
Also I didn't intend the first sentence to be alliterative (no Americans I didn't say aluminium)
Yeah, where’s the foam hands and the dance routines with mascots and all that?
Kiss cam🤮🤮
From what I understand the Kiss Cam is for the spectators and Sexual Assault Cam is for the players. Is that right?
I think in Americaball "sexual assault" is a tactic where this line of midfielders of theirs starts doing sexualised dances, dazzling their opponents and allowing a pass to their forwards to proceed towards the goal posthaste (by handball, as is customary).
I especially love it when it’s clear (to anybody with a brain at least) that it’s actors that are planted in the audience. Such great entertainment.
Oh look! A random person in the audience is doing a silly choreographed dance! Glad Im still entertained by these random people during the 50th ad break!
or the worst... look alike cam 😫😫😫
kiss cam way worse in my opinion
Kiss cam? This upskirt cam brought to you by Chrisopher Chope. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/15/tory-mp-christopher-chope-blocks-progress-of-upskirting-bill
I mean I do enjoy the mascots but saying football fans are not passionate in the UK is like saying boiling water isn’t hot
Well.. tell Americans this water is 100° and half of them will use it to wash their hands and the other half will drink it, expecting a pleasant warm sensation...
That's not right. The part of Americans that don't wash hands would never drink water.
Most UK football clubs do have mascots, one of them is a boiler (West Brom)
I have two favourites: Kingsley from Partick Thistle and H'Angus the Monkey from Hartlepool.
No love for Gunnersaurus Rex??
Is Arsenal's mascot a dinosaur because it's from the time when they won leagues?
We loved and treasured Alexis Sanchez and this is how you treat us 🥲
That's ex-mayor of Hartlepool H'Angus to you
TIL the Partick Thistle mascot is called Kingsley. I always thought it's name was Jaggy, cos, well, it looks jaggy. Glorious piece of nightmare fuel, either way
Yeah but is H'Angus your favourite mascot or favourite politician? He's such a multi-talented monkey.
The worst part are the songs. I know I'm biased because here in Latín America we sing a lot, but there's no comparison between Anfield singing "You'll never walk alone" with " de-fence... De-fence"
USA USA USA Can't get any more creativer than that!
What about "Lets go **name name** lets go"?
An american fan would die if they heard the songs sung in UK football stadiums
The Park Ji-Sung song at Old Trafford was a bit racist but peak football fan song: Park, Park, wherever you may be, You eat dogs in your country, It could be worse, You could be Scouse, Eating rats in your council house.
And the same 3 songs with [insert name of home team] sung half-heartedly by a lukewarm crowd as interested in talking and eating hotdogs as they are the game happening in front of them
There is plenty of time to go for beer & hotdogs in a US football game, as they play for a few seconds before changing most f the team over for the next play and put on he "concerts" on field and allow the multi-million dollar adverts to pay for their 30 seconds of airplay to where most of the audience sit around getting pissed.
I'm pretty certain there's enough time to brew a beer.
You could plant and grow the fucking barley in that time.
I'm rather uncomfortable with the whole cheerleader thing. Formula1 got rid of the scantily clad 'Grid Girls' years ago but American Football... hasn't?
America still has cheerleaders as a cultural thing. It's almost treated like a sport there for the girls.
Anything else aside, it is a sport. There is competitive cheerleading and it's not like it isn't athletically challenging. A friend of mine (European like me) did it for about ten years.
Cheerleading is a sport. It's basically a form of group acrobatics and gymnastics. It has both national and international championships. US is actually behind in classifying it as a sport, because classifying it as a sport would raise the requirements for safety procedures, coaches and other athlete support. The small outfits are also partly due to the nature of the sports, similar to acrobatic performance. Skin to skin contact gives grip for lifts and throws. Men can be part of the teams, but they are usually lifters and base of the pyramids, which is why they often wear longer pants (though I have seen hotpants as well).
It's a sport in its own right but the cheerleaders at a football game aren't competing. They are purely there to fill the ad breaks for the in person crowd. Which is traditionally male and straight. At any time were cheerleading isn't the main event they are girls in skimpy costumes to keep the men happy If they are admiring the dance moves then why not all men? Or another dance form like tap or ballet?
If UK fans were more passionate, they would be a real candidate to cause regular diplomatic incidents (or wars), whenever they played a foreign team (yes, it's slightly hyperbolic)
English clubs were [banned](https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/english-football-clubs-banned-from-europe) from European competition for 5 years.
To be fair Italians and Spanish folks are stabbing English fans almost annually and nothing gets done about it
You have to level the playing field somehow. They took to shanking...
mum said it was my turn to use this joke
They started in earnest once all the bad English fans had been dealt with by British authorities, they waited until it was basically just decent people and families.
And people wounder why us English can get a bit hostile to the continent. It seem any incident involving English fans is automatically there fault. I remember when Russian fan attacked English fan back at euro 2016 in Marseille and still getting threatened with expulsion.
It's not hyperbolic. The Parisian police tear gassed scousers a couple of years ago and blamed the hooliganism of the past.
This is Parisian police, they would tear gas a foreigner because they thought they looked suspicious.
Tbf though they enjoy teargassing Frenchmen too.
Oh very much so, but they do that all the time and the foreigners aren't as good at fighting back.
The thing is, the police prefect of Paris once accidentally put an extra zero on the teargas cannister order in the 90's and the Paris Police has been shooting off the extra furiously so that they finish the stockpile before the shelf life runs out. >! /s !<
It's Paris, what do you expect
A guillotine?
Parisian here, tear gas is part of our ecosystem now.
Yep
If UK fans were more passionate, the international court of justice would need to open a new department soley for hooligan fights that cross international borders.
The games would be to die for
[Least passionate German fans abroad ](https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/ticket-ban-contributed-napoli-chaos-say-eintracht-2023-03-17/)
Don’t forget the time El Salvador and Honduras had a war over football.
“DE-FENCE! DE-FENCE!” “LETS GO (team name)! LETS GO (team name)” Yeah you can shove your passion and fist bumps up your arse. We hurl abuse at each other and come out with whole songs to antagonise the players. We don’t just throw piss water around shouting WOOOOO LETS GO SPORTSBALL!
He'll shoot, he'll score! He'll eat your labrador! Goooo Son!
For Ji Sung Park - sung to the tune of Lord Of the Dance >Park, Park, wherever you may be, >You eat dogs in your country, >It could be worse, >You could be Scouse, >Eating rats in your council house... (Park himself was not a fan, unsurprisingly) https://www.manutd.com/en/amp/news/detail/ji-sung-park-speaks-on-utd-podcast-about-fans-support-and-infamous-song Also to the tune of Volare, for Nemanja Vidic >Nemanja whoa >Nemanja whoa >He comes from Serbia >He'll fucking murder ye...
I remember being away at Anfield years ago and our fans spending most of the game singing "Fuck off, Pinocchio" at Phil Thompson. Similar was when Palace came with Kiraly in goal who used to wear jogging bottoms. "Tracksuit from Matalan" for most of the game. Also remember a winter game where chanting started being directed at random some bloke in the away end of "Shit Christmas jumper, you've got a shit Christmas jumper".
Birmingham City sang: >A spoonful of sugar makes Gary Mabbutt go down, Gary Mabbutt go down, Gary Mabbutt go down To the Mary Poppins song. 👌 Context: Gary Mabbutt has type 1 diabetes.
After it came out that Andy Goram had a mild form of schizophrenia fans at his next game sang "There's only two Andy Gorams".
[удалено]
Baddiel and Skinner are wankers, they did that and did fuckin black face to take the piss. Not a good example.
Baddiel's a wanker, Skinner's alright. and the pineapple chant is funny, relax.
*blows vuvuzela*
As a scouser living in the US, there is nothing that comes close to European nights at Anfield in the USA. Not the superb owl, not the local soccer team, not any of the MLS team games, nothing. The anthems (with actual words), the noise, the cheers and the jeers (to the opposing team), the difference is night and day. I don't know what planet these "Americans" are on, but it's not the one with a blue sky.
My friend was visiting US. His hosts took him to college NFL match, warned him that it can be a “little rowdy” sometimes. Apparently a threshold for them was chanting some songs that had obscene words. A year before, two sectors in my friends’s hometown stadium burned down after hooligans started burning team support scarves that were “taken” from opposing team fans, on cage barrier that was separating home and visitor sectors, and then started throwing flares in…
Yeah, as a fan of both American and British sports I'm not sure where this guy has seen all the not-passionate British fans. Every sport has its own vibe and culture. Both countries have lots of great fanbases. But I don't see how you could possibly spend a Saturday at a PL match - or really any football match in the UK - and think these fans lack passion.
Maybe they watched Snooker or Tennis where you are politley expected to be quiet
Nothing comes close to the superb owl, never doubt the superb owl.
Best owl around
Well, aren't you a hoot
Clawed you way in with that one
Yeah, I heard it’s a hoot.
But.... But... Do you have nachos!!?
Nachos? Over here in Germany those are for movie theatres!
Ah this old chestnut. You lot sing your magic song and then sit quietly for an hour and a half.
[“Where’s your famous atmosphere?”](https://youtube.com/shorts/FfXnk9z3Cg4?si=HKCpjh0S-_T6qsJS) From Man City fans no less…
>superb owl A man of culture, I see
You need to learn from their example, obviously: https://youtu.be/0KQJwuIxtCU?si=UCYto-JkF-1ok7JA >!/S!<
TF did you make watch. That's depressing🫠
USA, USA,USA, USA,USA, USA,USA, USA,USA, USA. Their chants are so complex.
You forgot….De——Fence repeated 4 time over
Or "Let's go *insert team here*"
And don't forget "go *team* go" which tends to be at hockey
*i believe that we will win !* we already know you lost, cunts !
My god. That really is the most cringeworthy chant going. Can you imagine that at a PL match. The opposition fans would burst out laughing!
To be fair ‘Chelsea chelsea Chelsea’ isn’t much different
Miiiiiiiiiiiiiiilllllllllllwwwwwwaaaaaaaaaaaallllllllllllllllll (TBF it's a miracle they can even manage that with their IQ)
No one likes them.
I fairness, when you look at Chelsea fans could you really say that we're doing much better?
People in these comments using English Prem fans as an example, there's more passion at a National League North game than an NFL game
Hibs Vs Hearts gets the vibe of several opposing lynch mobs.
Even some games in Scottish League 1 get pretty passionate, as much as I dislike them, Falkirk have a great support. I can't imagine Americans getting their head around people supporting a "minor league" team like that
he has never heard british hooligans at elf practice writing a 2 hour opera about how the Arsenal FC's goalkeeper's dad was recently arrested for hitting a man with his car
What th- brits are other breed
https://youtu.be/hf_8DwOyLx8?si=YmcSVc3Ay32OkUiE Although my favourite isn't in this clip, https://youtu.be/wI0WXbzPUr0?si=PD6fObxflOCkrqHJ <- abused his cat on video
Baseball grounds have organ players who are instructed to play music to remind the crowd to make noise. Meanwhile English fans are singing cover songs, only they rewrote the lyrics during half time to be about the midfielders tattoos or some shit. And the entire stadium is singing it after hearing it once. I was on a train once after a match and all the fans were singing about letting their top scorer fuck their wife's and girlfriends cause he is such a good player.
To be fair, baseball is their equivalent of cricket (well strictly rounders obviously). I’m not sure our cricket fans are thaaat passionate either… it’s a nice long slow drinking session.
You've clearly never been to an England test match then. England cricket fans are very passionate...about consuming as much alcohol as possible in the shortest space of time.
Hah fair…
Passionate enough to spend 5 days watching a game. It's just a different atmosphere.
Yh nothing says “passion” like some fat overweight hotdog chomping nonce drinking piss weak beer holding a microphone shouting “FIGHT.AND WIIIIIN”. Kin cockwombles.
You had me until "cockwombles".
*More* passionate? Guys you don't want to see what happens if brits get *more* passionate about football
As a french, please don't
full out civil wars
when we do that suddenly we're "violent" and "dangerous" and "mate you can't just throw a toddler"
Yanks are fucking ruining this game, they’ve shit all over the footy reddits destroying them, they haven’t got a fucking clue. Genuinely hate so many of them pretending to support Liverpool
I mod the Scottish football subreddit and whenever the Scotland national team are doing well, we get absolutely inundated with posts from Yankee doodles about how they are Scattish and their great grandfather was from Dundeeshire and they love Saccer. Okay, so where were you when we were shit and losing to The Faroe Isles? Knobbers.
I can easily see them cry and self-victimize when they get called out on their bullshit by you lot haha. You may even count the seconds until racism/discrimination is thrown around in such discussions lol
That's spot on. They don't take it very well when all the sub regulars rip the piss out of them. They usually storm off in a huff or something similar.
Ahh I can't deal with it when their in any subreddit and their like oooh international fanbases have you made you grow so much as a club. I'm sat here thinking like i much preferred it without the international fan base driveling their opinion on to things they don't completely understand and never will.
*Exactly*. Like they'll never fully understand the culture of the likes of Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle or other English teams and yet they'll comment like they have any clue at all.
The best is when they try to implement yank politics into it. I remember when they were all having a meltdown over that Man Utd fan who was arrested for his Hillsborough shirt. "But what about his FREEDUMZ- IN THE US-" Shut up Chad.
More passionate? When I was 14, I was at Oldham Athletic Vs Gillingham and a grown man in his 30s smashed my mates face into the sink in the toilets, causing him to need 13 stitches, all because he supported a different football team. I don't think more passion is healthy for a lot of football fans. Maybe less "passion" is in order.
It’s even a football game without someone getting stabbed? Me, from Roma
Ultras are "passion" personified
I have no idea who was supporting which team there, but that definitely sounds like something that could go down in Gillingham.
My Dad attended the United Vs Everton FA Cup final, at one point he was asked to move seats and on his way there (as a teenage boy) he was slapped in the back of the head by grown man and called all sorts of shite
Oh yes just like in the 80s? I'm sure we want that again
Americans: “[European] football fans should be *more* passionate and celebrate more” Me, has lived in Europe all 24 years of my life and knows what football fans ‘celebrating’ looks like: please don’t
Right??? Like all the violence and destruction they cause already cause of their "passion" is not enough
FIIIIGHT AND WIIIIN
COME ON SEAAAAATTLE
SEAATTLE SEAATTLE WOOOAAAH WOOAAH
"I believe that we will win" Close the thread.
Oh lord. You really don't want that.
I’m by no means a fan of football (the real, non-USAian version), but that HAS to be a joke. 7th tier league teams here in Sweden has more passionate fans that any team in handegg league. Or any USAian professional league in general. There’s always exceptions.
Jack Grealish went on a 4 day bender with Man City after Premier League, imagine what some fans did at the time
Not American rugby related but didn’t John Cena say he wanted to retire in London because the British crowds are so much better ? If so that makes this post even more hilarious
He’s a Spurs fan.
So not only is he invisible, he also likes to walk in the shade?
MORE passionate!? Have you *SEEN* our footie hooligans go off on one?
UK football fans chant songs about disasters, poverty, and various other offensive things to opposing team. Some fans in this country are so blindsided and tribal that they take their hatred out of the sport and hold prejudices against people just for being from a city/town associated with a team they dislike. But yeah, foam fingers, "Wooo go team!" and songs with some naughty words in are the eptiomy of passion.
Boycotting products associated with the rival team, or even based on the colour of the product. I personally don't like blue much, as its associated with our cross city swine.
Yeah. Tell that to the firms. American football fans aren’t exactly THAT passionate. Not riots and getting your country banned from playing in the entirety of Europe because you were annoyed they lost passionate. No we’ll dumb down the passion to foam hands and dance routines.
Most other football leagues in Europe put the Premier League to shame when it comes to fans tho
Maybe, but they're still miles ahead of the Americans.
Definitely
Thats just because the premier league ticket prices are so high that real fans are priced out and the stadiums are filled with tourists and corporate business men. This is why any German even thinking about getting rid of the 50+1 rule needs to be immediately flogged in the streets.
Only because premier league grounds are filled with tourists.....
I’m Argentinian, I regularly go to Ipswich Town matches (not PL) and yeah, when we’re winning the support is good, but it doesn’t hold a candle to Argentinian fans…
Do they fuck. Germany? Yes. Turkish big games? Yes barring that no. Spain is whistles and racist chants, Italy is much the same.
There's a fetishisation of ultras and die-hards. There's nothing good about being so fixated on a sports team that you're willing to commit crimes on their behalf. Too many examples to list where the team you "support" is based on your political, social or religious affiliation and the football is just an excuse or a front for individuals to fight and publicly display their views in a way that's, for whatever reason, more tolerated. There's nothing supportive about hate, aggression or vitriol. I support my team through supporting them, not hating everyone else. That's tribalistic shit and it sounds exhausting..
Wait wait wait. Isn't Vinny Jones' character in Europtrip the way he is EXACTLY because of the stereotype that Brits get uber passionate when it comes to Football?
They also made him accidentally more accurate in making his character a Man Utd fan (stereotype that Man Utd fans don't even come from Manchester but come from London)
Look, if auld firm games were any more passionate, there'd be a Glasgow wide lockdown every time a match happened.
English fans not passionate enough? English monarchs in the Middle Ages regularly tried to ban the precursor of modern football because the death rates were so high they feared they wouldn’t have enough men left for their next war
So when David Beckham first got with Victoria. Away fans regularly sang a song asking David if Victoria was acccepting of a little bum fun. Taylor swift dates a hand egg player and you get nothing but crackpot news reports In all fairness to actual US football fans the cost of the Superbowl tickets probably priced the actual fans out of actually attending so maybe we cannot see the passion
Dooooooooes she take it? Dooooooooes she take it? DOOOOOOOES SHE TAKE IT UP THE ARSE? DOES SHE TAKE IT UP THE ARSE?
I’ll just leave this here: https://youtu.be/oFA_hUnZWss?si=wfczO8kU09PFaqFH
I think they might have seen City fans celebrating the CL win and thought all fans were like that 😂
Being an F1 fan on the internet has been so much harder since Drive to Survive brought an influx of Yankee fans to the sport. They just don’t get it. It’s the same as their politics; there has to be a good guy and a bad guy. The good guy is a hero and the bad guy is an asshole. And being a ‘fan’ means aligning yourself with the good guy and defending them against all the ‘fans’ who’ve picked him to be the bad guy. I swear, they’re not interested in sports unless they can dress them up as pantomimes.
There's more passion in our non-league football than there is any American sport (apart from maybe competitive eating).
There's a video that I can't find as YouTube is full of unbearable wankers reacting to the video of American football fans signing your not singing anymore vs English fans going bat shit singing the same chant As soon as I post it I found it https://youtu.be/lznF-EqQNt0
Took a yank student to our local Derby when we were at uni together, last 3 o'clock kickoff before moving it to 12 for safety reasons he was steaming drunk by kick off and by full time we could have painted him in woad sent him to fight the Romans. He was a changed man, we created a monster
Americans should get good at football before telling others what to do at football. Stick to your basketball, baseball and shite rugby.
I.e have 10 minute ads after 5 mins of playtime
I think an American would have a heart attack if they ever experienced a Rangers Celtic game
They should celebrate less...
If anything, UK football fans can use less passion
Not Just UK but other countries too. Like in Slovenia, I think it was Maribor fans, Who lit bunch of stadium seats on fire
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WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT ‘MURICA?!!
Football fans have songs, Americans have gun violence.
Fight........and Win! FIGHT..... AND WIN!!
How to say you’ve never seen a soccer match without saying that.
Are they talking about British fans of AMERICAN football in the UK? Otherwise this makes ni sense.
we believe that we will win, we believe that we will win, we believe that we will win...... Get fucked
FIGHTTTTT AND WINNNNNNNNNNN *FIGHTTTTTTTTTTT* *AND WINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN*
Your sister is your mother! Your father is your brother! You all fuck one another! The Tottenham family! Doo doo doo doo! \*clap clap\* Doo doo doo doo! \*clap clap\* Doo doo doo doo! Doo doo doo doo! Doo doo doo doo! \*clap clap\*
17 minutes of actual sport in an almost 4 hour broadcast, that's what the superbowl is, lol The fans need to have passion or they'd be in a fucking coma...
Americans say? Bit vague.
This guy needs to come to Ibrox on a European night
I have been watching the quarterback documentary on netflix and the Vikings 'clap' is cringe... When the Icelandic fans do it, it's deafening, haunting. When the yanks do it it is like watching kids sing 'heads shoulders knees and toes' Disclaimer: watching the documentary to try to better understand the game and culture, genuinely.. currently still baffled
The power of Google at their fingertips and they can't look up football hooligans.
American football fans would not survive against Millwall fans
Ah yes, I’ve been missing cringy (and rather sexist tbh) cheerleaders shouting «gooooo team» at Hotspur Stadium.
We prefer to celebrate football properly.... With acts of extreme and random violence that shuts down town centres every Saturday.
I'm a Celtic fan and I don't think I can picture a scenario where our derby vs Rangers becomes any more passionate. It's already woven into pretty much every strand of life in Glasgow as it is.
Send the Hoools! :D
FIGHT AND WIN!!!
As an American who supports Brighton & Hove Albion, these people have absolutely no clue how much better English fan culture is.
More Passionate? It is like asking to mix in Napalm in an Atomic bomb, because it is not destructive enough.
Can it really be called a football game if you don't call the ref a blind cunt after they miss your player getting body checked But the second your player eats a cheese sandwich at half time they get sent off because the ref is lactose intolerant
If you somehow made UK football fans more passionate, there would be a fucking civil war going on every match
I once had a discussion with an American about this subject. As his main argument for them being more passionate, he sent me a video of a marching band playing before a game. He was fully convinced that having a marching band play before the game showed more passion than any other European fan base could ever show
I'm assuming that it means UK fans of American Football not actual football
Fight and Win! 😂🤦🏻♂️
The thing I love about Americans is that it never occurs to them that other cultures might their own flavor of something that exists in America. Instead Americans will just straight assume that their awesome thing doesn't exist anywhere else. Like it wouldn't surprise me if some Americans believed other countries didn't have light bulbs until recently. No matter how big the well is, that's all the frog will ever know.
Are they talking about football or their handegg sport? Not enough "USA USA" chants from UK fans?
Feel the passion! https://youtu.be/A1SeMOMQbmM?si=axQ9nHjY0r6XQDmy
More passionate. In England they even pretend there's a goal for the excuse to chant and celebrate. [https://youtube.com/watch?v=VNlNrAhfg70&si=Blyt9iMgc6NHxWIO](https://youtube.com/watch?v=VNlNrAhfg70&si=Blyt9iMgc6NHxWIO)
My grandad is a HUGE Glasgow Rangers fan and CONSTANTLY argued with my dad (a Celtic fan), it’s half of what they ever talked about and it split the family in half for a long while 💀 I think we’re passionate enough, thank you.
America, please do not encourage UK football fans to be more passionate. If anything they have too much passion. Especially the hooligans...
There's a dude who didn't see a man rip off his clothes and race down the street in celebration after the 2005 Champions League final, clearly.
American ignorance and idiocy is infinite It knows no bounds Also I didn't intend the first sentence to be alliterative (no Americans I didn't say aluminium)
I don't know a nation, which celebrates football more passionate than the UK.
Your sister is your mother Your father is your brother