Football Nation by Andrew Ward

Author:Andrew Ward
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Hewer Text UK Ltd http://www.hewertext.com
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2010-06-14T16:00:00+00:00

26

Task Force

‘With football, right, it’s like countries fighting over

territory, you know what I mean,’ said a man in an East London pub

in the early 1980s.

‘Or religion,’ another fan responded.

‘Yeah. Or religion. Whatever. Like the Communists are fighting these because they’re not Communists, and they’re Communists, like, and they’re at war because of them two things. They’re at war over politics, right? Well, it ain’t a war with us. You wanna be the tops in life, whatever it is, and our thing’s been football. We’ve been involved in violence and it’s there. It’s never gonna go. There’s always gonna be that rivalry. There’s always rivalry in life. There’s you, and then there’s us.’

‘We never said to the government, “Why’d you sink the Belgrano?” I mean, they went and murdered all them geezers on the ship. We didn’t slag them off for doing that. And they wanna electrocute fences now [at football grounds], so people can’t touch the fences, know what I mean?’

‘It’s still wrong, though.’

‘There’s always been football violence.’

‘English supporters are the worst.’

‘As soon as an English supporter goes abroad he is the worst thing ever to set foot in that country.’

‘The police was just trying to batter us silly because we was British supporters out there supporting our team, and they do not like it. They don’t like yer. The British are a hated race.’

‘No one actually clumped anyone, out of all the people who went out there. But when we come home, in the papers we was scum, thugs, everything was . . .’

‘The British race are violent people.’

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