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!