Rising aggression at football
I have noticed that the aggressive element is rising at Wycombe Wanderers.
Very noticeable at the Sunderland and Oxford games, but also evident at several games both home and away since the lifting of the lockdown restrictions on fans attending live football.
Fans waiting for opposition to bait and taunt, a big shock to me was the age range of the aggressor's mid teens to 50+.
I wont pretend I know why, or how to resolve, but the youtube clip may be a way forward.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/60056492
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04clpd7h0b
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Ecstasy and acid house killed hooliganism before. Let's bring them both back.
Cocaine use at footy is off the fucking scale and people aren't even subtle about it
I’ve just never understood the appeal of snorting something that’s very likely been smuggled in up someone’s arse and has likely been cut with talcum powder or worse
Same. But then I've never understood swilling copious amounts of foul tasting drinks that intoxicate you, cost loads, and swell your belly either.
Talcum powder, cat litter, all sorts. And it was probably a very bloody process to get it out of its country of origin in the first place.
And when I say 'at the footy', I mean more in the pubs beforehand, but you do tend to see some remnants in the stadium toilets.
This is a ridiculous exaggeration
Say what you like about the state of the toilets in AP but they don’t encourage breathing anything in deeply
When did you start watching football @Fit2drop
This is the kind of ridiculous post that fuels Daily Mail types
I don’t remember seeing any cocaine remnants in the family stand toilets
But I do think a few a Wycombe fans are off their face at away games, think Charlton for example.
Tbf I don't remember seeing any at Wycombe (in Wycombe is another matter, but that's just a UK thing...)
Same... but I always do
@Fit2drop where was this aggression v Sunderland? Post match in the Vere it was blokes in brown cardigans supping Christmas ale
1st Wycombe game 1968 v Bromley.
Just outside the main gates, walking down Hillbottom Road.
@Fit2drop fair play. I mean no disrespect. There was the
Usual kids v Oxford, and some unpleasantness. Imho we are lucky to have a great club of fans
Cocaine is far more widespread now than it was when things were just booze fuelled so hardly a surprise that we might have a few pre-match snorters and it increases aggression. As I posted the other day Millwall CEO pointed out booing the knee, general abuse amd aggression and obvious signs of drug taking in the ground is starting to put off families going to The Den again.
Well perhaps a little, no?
Ah right, not good
Sorry to the Millwall supporter about the upsetting post above.
I'd love to know where I might view this scale. Intrigued to know how it might be calibrated.
Playing and competing against bigger clubs, who no longer see us as a friendly small club that they will take guaranteed points off, but a genuine league rival. Bigger clubs like Sunderland have larger more established away groups = more aggression.
Coke use is pretty common, but it always has been from my viewpoint. It's less socially unacceptable to a lot of people now so people are less worried about getting caught.
I'm of the generation where getting hold of weed was a (sometimes dangerous ) sweat never mind the marching powder and now you cannot walk down the street without smelling it on someone but yes, I still am quite surprised how commonplace coke use is across the board. As we sit on the brink of WW3, people claiming incompetents are 'doing a good job' and people are still marching against life saving medicine, it is easy to feel completely out of step with that modern life. Wankers threatening to ruin the football again just one more nail in the coffin!
Nothing has ever made me feel older and more out of touch than this latest revelation about Cocaine use at football.
I genuinely had no idea. Would it enhance the experience?
(In certain years gone by I could imagine Heroin to dull the senses may have helped…)
It's arguably more of an England fan problem than a club fan problem, but it exists on some level pretty much everywhere
Would say you're right, it's the same people at both... Those that follow England tend to be either a) the hardcore football fans or b) richer football fans, which both have a higher % of cocaine use than average, so the problem is concentrated at England games. Also it's a bigger occasion so more casual users are likely to get involved, the toilets at Wembley for the later rounds were comical.