It makes you think
22/10/01 | by Alastair Gunn

There are things that make me think. News of bombings, anthrax, and alien cultures where women get wrapped up, used and generally treated a bit crap is one. Witnessing violence, hatred and urban hell is another. It makes you wonder why we get so hacked off about making love to sheep, when some git who is 'probably a decent bloke when you get to know him' is only a couple of armed police barriers away from beating you shitless.

Millwall fans, Derby fans and Islamic militant terrorists are all different to us, so much is true. But why try to do us harm just because we either play good football, are not so desperate we take to the fields whenever we need a quick screw, or because we know what's good for us and don't fly planes into big fuck-off buildings? Stupid pricks.

Everyone needs an identity of some sort. Some try religion. I just find 90 minutes of attractive football on Saturdays better than an hour of church. And I have me lie in Sundays, dont want to mess up my drinking habits now do we? Hooliganism as was seen on Saturday, some at dangerously close quarters, is no better than the religiously driven terrorism that is currently fucking up the world as we knew and, generally speaking, liked it. Thank God that those Millwall idiots dont have missiles and bio-chemicals, though I would not mind knowing exactly what's being made in them power plant things round the ground. I'll take a gas mask next time.

Why are these people so wierd though? Why do they take it upon themselves to hate the opposition fans? A little banter and abusive language yes but bricks at buses and whatever other Sarf Landon delights they had planned for us is just not on. It's not civilised behaviour, and it's shameful. Have these people got complexes about supporting a crap team? Is it the fact that even Satan would feel ashamed to live in such a shite part of London? Or are they taking their role of supporting their club the wrong way? Have they mis-understood what sport is about in the way the Osama bin Laden has taken religion out of context to justify his own megalomaniac ways? Maybe they all have small nobs? Whatever it is, it does them no favours, and if they do have any self respect, they will be a little more welcoming the next time a set of lads trying to play football bless their park, which is what we all want to see, and are seeing Forest doing at the moment.

That's all the thinking I've done of course. Any more and I'll start thinking about world peace and setting up sex parlours in Derby, with real women. Then of course I'll start up on how to make the world a better place, and no-one who's tried to that seems to have gotten anywhere, except parliment. I'm too young for that. I can just thank God, my parents and Nottingham for having been brought up supporting a club who have no firms and hyped up wierdos following them (or sheep shaggers for that matter). And thank God I don't support Leicester City. Give me Jack Lester over Ade Akinbiyi any day!