???? Posted August 29, 2009 Share Posted August 29, 2009 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8229073.stmPosh twats and colonials with hideous fashion sense...but at least they listen to the referee, or sumfink.... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/7743-rugby-vs-football/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
annaj Posted August 29, 2009 Share Posted August 29, 2009 As a student I had a housemate who claimed that rugby was posh and classy and football was common. He also said that cutting sandwiches straight across was common and triangles were posh...He killed the house hamster and ran away in the middle of the night leaving several student accounts in the red and a padlocked room full of personal possessions that he'd stolen from other people in the house....There's a message in there somewhere. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/7743-rugby-vs-football/#findComment-242407 Share on other sites More sharing options...
daizie Posted August 29, 2009 Share Posted August 29, 2009 Lol annaj, very very true ! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/7743-rugby-vs-football/#findComment-242408 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annasfield Posted August 30, 2009 Share Posted August 30, 2009 Football. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/7743-rugby-vs-football/#findComment-242414 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bignumber5 Posted August 30, 2009 Share Posted August 30, 2009 Rugby Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/7743-rugby-vs-football/#findComment-242415 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jah Lush Posted August 30, 2009 Share Posted August 30, 2009 Rugby is a game for thugs played by gentlemen and football is a game for gentlemen played by thugs. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/7743-rugby-vs-football/#findComment-242417 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratty Posted August 30, 2009 Share Posted August 30, 2009 Don't understand the rules of Rugby. Having said that, all football players are wankers. So hard to decide.Tiddlywinks? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/7743-rugby-vs-football/#findComment-242424 Share on other sites More sharing options...
EDKiwi Posted August 30, 2009 Share Posted August 30, 2009 It's funny how Rugby is deemed as 'posh' over here (and I understand why, looking at the history and where it is traditionally played, etc, etc), whereas back in NZ it's the opposite, it's really an 'average mans' sport (although we don't really have a traditional class system), some of the past great All Blacks (in the days before they started getting paid to play) were farmers and the likes who spent their time in between tours back on the farms earning a living.Personally I'd sooner watch a game of Rugby than Football, but I'm biased, and it seemed that either game has it's fair share of idiots both on and off the pitch. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/7743-rugby-vs-football/#findComment-242442 Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthew123 Posted August 30, 2009 Share Posted August 30, 2009 I think in some countries Rugby is a noble sport Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/7743-rugby-vs-football/#findComment-242451 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendan Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 They?re both essentially one dimensional games for troglodytes. They can both however be good entertainment and quite fun to play. Soccer is however just a downright fucking embarrassment. The behaviour of people who watch it, the spirit in which it is played and the examples it sets are disgusting. This is not to say that bad and unsporting things don?t happen in rugby too but to a far lesser degree.When last did anything even vaguely sporting, which would set a good example for a youngster on how they should conduct themselves as a decent human being, happen in a professional soccer match? What do you think the chances of rival soccer fans sharing the stand again are? Ever? That in itself is enough to make any person with an even vaguely decent moral framework feel sceptical of the whole thing. It is in no uncertain terms a foul, national fucking embarrassment. I will still watch international games but I have no inclination to have anything to do with the slurry pit of professional club football. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/7743-rugby-vs-football/#findComment-242531 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony.London Suburbs Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 Both Parties "use" each other...Clubs "use" troglodytes.....troglodytes "use" Clubs.....Thats one answer... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/7743-rugby-vs-football/#findComment-242540 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keef Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 Enjoy both. Probably prefer watching football, definitely prefer playing rugby. Beating Australia in the world cup final, watching in a packed CPT at some stupid hour of the morning, was one of the best sporting viewing moments of my life, and no one football moment has topped it, not even Liverpool in the champs league final, although that comes a very close second. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/7743-rugby-vs-football/#findComment-242570 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony.London Suburbs Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 Here's another answer:Football.The very utterance of the word conjures up such indescribable emotions within millions of people worldwide. The game is all things to all people. It reduces people to tears, laughter, elation, anger, pride, the whole gamut of emotions ( often during the same game!)(tu) Undoubtedly, music and cinema and literature are all wonderful but they are not a patch on the "Beautiful game". Football is spontaneous. If a film reduces you to tears, someone has deliberately intended to move you in some way. Likewise with albums and books. With sport there is no script. And football is as good as sport gets.Football is a wonderful parent. In an age where all television, music and cinema encountered is saccharine-soaked almost to the extent of inducing vomit, football teaches all the major life-lessons in one fell swoop. It prepares a child for failure and profoundly warns that, in life, there isn?t always a happy ending.Not only does the sport teach one about life, it also acts as a kind of microcosm of life itself. It can be funny (the entire career of Jason Lee), unjust (the 2005 FA Cup Final), sad (the life of George Best), infuriating (the existence of Sven Goran Eriksson) and profound (Eric Cantona). Clearly, though, its unpredictability is what makes football great.Football is all about passion, commitment, loyalty, athleticism and, of course, sometimes this does go beyond acceptable perimetres but its easy to play and learn and is the predominant Sport in most Nations and, easily, the most popular.Anyone who refers to this marvellous Sport as "Soccer" outside North America, should be set free into a combined "Irons"/"Lions" Den of West Ham and Millwall Fans who have just heard that their Teams are going to be joined at the hip and called West Millwall...Its major problem is that it is a "Common Mans Sport" and for that, in some peoples eyes, it will never be forgiven...B)?Football?bloody heaven.?p.s Apart from the obvious removal of any animosity between fans, what other gestures could be made, publicly, to set a good example by those involved ( on the pitch, especially)??p.p.s. With thanks to a lil plagirism... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/7743-rugby-vs-football/#findComment-242575 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narnia Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 Frankly rugby is my preferred game (since Georgie Best gave up) though I like both a lot. However, in answer to your question TLS, what football needs is to get rid of all the wimps playing it. We need a good 22 man fight during the course of a match to settle things down. The ref can't send everyone off. This form of entertainment on the pitch will have commentators muttering for a while but will act to defuse off field tensions as at last people will have something worth watching. Perhaps the ultimate answer is to cross breed the games of rugby and football or play a half of each! West Ham v Millwall might be a rugby match worth watching. Squads would be restricted in numbers so that some would be required to play both codes.Do you like this idea or does it need more work? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/7743-rugby-vs-football/#findComment-242635 Share on other sites More sharing options...
???? Posted August 31, 2009 Author Share Posted August 31, 2009 I actually like both sports - but put two aliens in a room watching foorball and rugby and they's sort football out after a few games rugby they'd still be scratching their heads. Football's simplicity is its strength and universal appeal.Although the atmosphere isn't often as good in rugby - generally it is a far more civilised atmosphere and certainly more friendly.On field the difference between respect for the referee is incomparable...and generally rugby players aren't paid the obscene amounts of money that young often not as well educated and very young men are in football... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/7743-rugby-vs-football/#findComment-242651 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narnia Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 I've always enjoyed going to rugby matches in Dublin,Edinburgh,Paris,Cardiff and Twickers as there is never the threat of violence and there is always good craic (as they say). The atmosphere in Cardiff is something else when the Welsh are singing, though I've been lucky enough as an Irishman to have gone there about 6 times and never seen Ireland lose. The singing does die off a bit eventually. They are sore losers IMO but don't resort to violence. Just sip their drinks quietly and talk of bad luck or some such.As for football, I've been to a fair few grounds mostly in London, though I have been as far North as Dundee.I've felt threatened at Chelsea, West Ham, Spurs without opening my mouth but not so at Arsenal or QPR for example.I suggest they change rules of rugby to allow anything but death on the pitch, introduce a round ball for the football fans and Bob's yer Uncle. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/7743-rugby-vs-football/#findComment-242654 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keef Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 Just for the record, when I say rugby, I mean Union. League is shit. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/7743-rugby-vs-football/#findComment-242658 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narnia Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 Have to agree with you there Keef. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/7743-rugby-vs-football/#findComment-242669 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annasfield Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 I stopped reading that at soccer. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/7743-rugby-vs-football/#findComment-242692 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendan Posted September 1, 2009 Share Posted September 1, 2009 soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/7743-rugby-vs-football/#findComment-242757 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendan Posted September 1, 2009 Share Posted September 1, 2009 soccer. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/7743-rugby-vs-football/#findComment-242759 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jah Lush Posted September 1, 2009 Share Posted September 1, 2009 Association football. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/7743-rugby-vs-football/#findComment-242766 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peckhamgatecrasher Posted September 1, 2009 Share Posted September 1, 2009 You seem to have acquired Tourette's Syndrome, Brendan. Go to a doctor, there's a good chap. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/7743-rugby-vs-football/#findComment-242769 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendan Posted September 1, 2009 Share Posted September 1, 2009 I love the word soccer. It?s the best way to offend a pom. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/7743-rugby-vs-football/#findComment-242771 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony.London Suburbs Posted September 1, 2009 Share Posted September 1, 2009 Brendan Wrote:I love the word soccer. It?s the best way to offend a pom.One finds the term and your attitude MOST offensive.We do not need your sort at Association Football.:X Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/7743-rugby-vs-football/#findComment-242773 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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