![]() ![]() While the column inches declined the threat remained. It’s part of the game you don’t see on Sky TV, the Uberthug, his misplaced sense of loyalty clinging on to the last bastion of identity he has to fight for. ![]() Dangerous mix The football thug, tattooed up, lagered up and spoiling for a fight, is no more a threat to the armchair fan than the Pied Piper, but turn up and he’s there if you go looking. Watching the action from the comfort of a sofa, with tea and biscuits instead of pie and pint, ensures a PG version of the game. The middle class families have been priced out, a second mortgage to watch two also rans in the least technically proficient of all Europe’s top leagues can’t really be justified, though it was never really their thing anyway. The pisspots are now golden latrines, the terraces sanitised auditoriums, but for all the gentrification the yobs remain. ![]() ![]() FOOTBALL hooliganism is one the rise again and that means it’s fashionable again.įrom television moneymen through to billionaire benefactors, the fat cats continue to throw their dollar bills at the people’s game. ![]()
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