#219

do the WWE still make money from a lot of the really dodgy racial stereotyping and stuff from the 80s/90s through DVD sales etc? I’d point to that as a bad thing for example.

#220

A bit of background on why people don’t like John Terry:

  • he’s racist
  • he shagged at least one of his teammates girlfriends
  • he played for Chelsea (whose fans are racist)
  • his dad was racist
  • he supports Man United (despite being from London)
  • he got done for assault or affray at least once
  • he was annoyingly good at football, in an annoyingly good team, owned by one of Putin’s cronies
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#221

it’s tough because that’s the sort of thing I would like to enjoy as just a nostalgia trip and remembering myself as a young kid doing fake moves on the sofa etc but I guess my view of it then isn’t valid really. Nostalgia is a powerful thing isn’t it

#222

Anonymous poll time.

How much do you judge someone who you discover doesn’t like / is indifferent to football.

  • Makes me like them a lot more.
  • Makes me like them more.
  • Makes no difference at all.
  • Try not to let it make a difference, but does make me think slightly less of them.
  • Makes me less enthusiastic to try and get to know them.
  • Think they’ve taken a contrarian stance and trust them less.
  • Is a deal breaker, and probably best to end the conversation there.
  • Other.

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#223

The older i get the more i appreciate that people who don’t like football tend to be a lot more interesting.

My default topics are sport, beer, food, telly and film - those things are all good, but they’re not interesting,

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#224

It is all on video on demand (9.99 a month) so I dunno if profiting strictly from that is the right term but it’s all there, yes and agree it’s very bad but they’re also making a conscious effort to change and have largely succeeded

#225

For full disclosure, I find that it’s one less thing that we could potentially have in common, so perhaps a little more difficult to find an icebreaker, but most of my closest friends have very different interests to me so doesn’t really matter in the long run.

#226

Gosh this really wasn’t what I was expecting this thread to evolve into some 200 posts ago.

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#227

Those are some convincing reasons

#228

Messi as Daniel Bryan
Ronaldo as The Miz
Mourinho as Paul Heyman
Rooney as the undertaker
Any others

#229

Neville Southall as the Big Show

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#230

Neville Neville as Neville

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#231

Roy Keane as Chris Benoit

#232

Do Manchester United fans ever say to Manchester City fans “You may represent the city, but your numbers are fragmented. You will never be united like we are.”?

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#233

Tim Weiss as, err, Tim Weiss

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#234

All the time.

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#235

It seems like the football fans are derailing the football noob thread :disappointed:

#236

Also bollocks is Messi Daniel Bryan he was never an underdog

#237

Fellaini hits the peoples elbow

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#238

Shaggy beard and liked.