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re: Bedoya and I believe
Posted on 7/22/14 at 4:07 pm to rdw1690
Posted on 7/22/14 at 4:07 pm to rdw1690
RDW - I think you have a point. Football culture is similar in almost all countries world wide. Everyone puts their own slant on it, which is a good thing - wouldn't it be boring if we all sung and did the same things - but from what I gather (and I hold my hand up I hardly watch any American sport so I could be completely wrong here) American style sport support is the kind of thing that football culture turns it's nose up at. Stuff like cheerleaders, goal music, face paint, foam hands and such. There are one or two clubs in England who use these methods (namely Crystal palace) and they get ridiculed for it.
I read a bit from an English journo during the World Cup who said (trying to quote from memory) "and along comes team usa in it's usual pompous bombastic fashion, strutting about with a giant eagle on it's chest". When we over here saw that "I believe we will win" it was pretty much what we all thought, it was a head in hands moment thinking "what the feck are these lot doing" not knowing whether to laugh or cry.
I think he's right that you need to be more English but less English, as ridiculous as that sounds. You need to have your own style of support, it's no good just copying us, but it should be less foam hands, face paint, army recruitment style chants, because in doing those things you'll never really fit in.
Not sure that makes a great deal of sense. Don't really know how to explain it.
I read a bit from an English journo during the World Cup who said (trying to quote from memory) "and along comes team usa in it's usual pompous bombastic fashion, strutting about with a giant eagle on it's chest". When we over here saw that "I believe we will win" it was pretty much what we all thought, it was a head in hands moment thinking "what the feck are these lot doing" not knowing whether to laugh or cry.
I think he's right that you need to be more English but less English, as ridiculous as that sounds. You need to have your own style of support, it's no good just copying us, but it should be less foam hands, face paint, army recruitment style chants, because in doing those things you'll never really fit in.
Not sure that makes a great deal of sense. Don't really know how to explain it.
Posted on 7/22/14 at 4:10 pm to Footballnotsoccer
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because in doing those things you'll never really fit in.
Yeah... we couldnt give 2 fricks. Also, are we supposed to accept that English, or even European soccer culture is the "true and proper" culture. Latin America watches the game and cheers very different than Brits.
This post was edited on 7/22/14 at 4:12 pm
Posted on 7/22/14 at 6:40 pm to Footballnotsoccer
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I think he's right that you need to be more English but less English, as ridiculous as that sounds. You need to have your own style of support, it's no good just copying us, but it should be less foam hands, face paint, army recruitment style chants, because in doing those things you'll never really fit in.
Well I think we're just done trying to "fit in." American players are used to having their fans cheer in a particular way. So as fans, we have a responsibility to do whatever it takes to get our guys to play to their best of their abilities and if the rest of the world doesn't like then that's their problem.
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