Ratinho

Worth it? Doesn't take anything away from my life, what's it costing exactly? Not going to lose sleep over fans sitting with their own teams fans.

And Le Saux never played for a team that could be considered rivals to us btw.

Herman Bloom

Well there are various misconceptions about rivalry, and if people are even making comments linked to rivalry.

Your complete misunderstanding of FS's post being one such example.

cutterschoice

Friendly rivalry and banter, but I wouldn’t attack anyone over a football team.

Cilldara_2000

Indeed. Yet my points here are valid.

Francis Cole

No it's crap :thdn:

Herman Bloom

Well I'm disagreeing because I think that often this "hatred" of other players isn;t down to rivalries, it's down to individuals just hating certain players. People misconstrue that.

So my point is that your points aren't neccersarily valid. You'll get extreme cases ofc, but you get that in most aspects of society. Don't see it as a big issue for most.

Sir Bert Preast

In our case football is just another way of showing WE HATE POMPEY. Not just the team, but the city and everbody in it. See?

Ratinho

And surely people just said 'Why are those United fans wearing their shirts inside out? Do they think we can't tell now?' and went about watching the game.

Cilldara_2000

It appears to be a far bigger issue in football than most other sports. How many other sports have to segregate fans in stadia?

Herman Bloom

How many sports have as large crowds that involve a significant travelling support?