But worth fighting over, risking killing somebody cos the team you support got beat?
Sport in its purest essence is amazing and can give people some of the best times of their lives, but not to the point where you think I know that person disagrees with me so I’m going to hurt them.
Maybe I’m not passionate enough cos those sort of thoughts never enter my head
Spot on. There aren't many (if any?) sports like football for that sort of thing. Most you can mix in no problem at all.
It's absolutely bonkers. If football hadn't been invented and someone came up with it and set out how crowds would be segregated and behave, with away fans often having to be escorted by police to matches, you'd think it was something out of a black mirror episode.
People who are otherwise sane, fairly ordinary members of society suddenly lose their minds once they enter a football ground. You wouldn't scream obscenities at someone for supporting another team in the office would you?
Some of my best experiences are where fans have mixed perfectly amicably before and after matches. Interesting to meet other people and get different perspectives.
Mingling with the Sevilla fans before Eindhoven was brilliant.
Who in their right mind wouldn't want that as the "normal" match day experience rather than the, by any other standards, weird dystopian type set up there is now?
Not going to happen, but if the people running the game had anything about them they'd be looking to tackle it and change the culture over time so eventually opposing fans can sit together (if they want to). Not easy, and not a quick fix. But don't think it's impossible either.
