Life on Mars s1e5
Apr 1st, 2007 by Ashley
“United.” He turned, “Well, whoever did it, at least he has a decent motive.”
A very touching episode, if you have a passion for football.
I watched it with tears in my eyes. The true football spirit; it is watching matches with your fellow supporters; it is enjoying a game shouting healthy rant with the opposed fan. It is to love your team when your team plays like crap, when your own winger acts if he’s a defender on the other side, even when your gaffer is a wenger wanker.
Sometimes people go from passionate to extreme and it’s never a good thing. You tend to lose focus and forget what’s really important.
Sam Tyler: You know nothing about football! I used to go to football with my dad. United and City fans used to walk to the match together. Our next door neighbour, he had a City flag up in his window. Kids used to play together in the street – red and blue. But then people like you came along and you took it away from us.
Peter Bond: A good punch up’s all part of the game! It’s about pride. Pride in your team. Being the best!
Sam Tyler: No it isn’t! This is how it starts and then it escalates. It gets on the telly and in the press, and then other fans from other clubs start trying to out do each other. And then it becomes about hate! And then it’s nothing to do with football any more! It’s about gangs and scumbags like you roaming the country seeing who can cause the most trouble. And then we overreact, and we have to put up perimeter fences and we treat the fans like animals! Forty, fifty thousand people herded into pens! And then how long before something happens, eh? How long before something terrible happens and we are dragging bodies out?
nah… I shouldn’t use bad words like that, even if it’s British english… will not do that next time!