Sunday Smiling moments

[polski sklep]

Football is a spectator sport, an entertainment. If the sole purpose of my visits to the Lane was to encourage the team to win I'd be training for my Uefa badges instead to have something to show for it. I don't boo, I will them on and I sing in support of our players. The fact that I can also, dare I say it, have a bit of fun for my £700+ a year after a week of work where for some reason I don't earn £30,000-40,000 a week should at no point be questioned, it is not mutually exclusive to the kind of support you mention and in fact, having a crowd in such good humour can only be beneficial to the team.

A crowd can be mostly beneficial when the players are aware they have their full backing. Unfortunately, aside from turning up (now, we never used to fill up 10 years or so ago), I do not believe the general actions of some of the more vocal lend itself to inspiring the team. Although, this is more evident in the ease of which players regularly receive a tirade of abuse.

There is nothing perversely wrong with terrace witticisms but they should not be more prominent than any notion of helping the team. Placing your focus away from the game for personal enjoyment is selfish.

The cost should not dictate your behaviour. Just because we spend a relatively large amount of money on attending should not entitle us to have a possibly adverse effect on the team.

Due to the very nature of fans, their mere presence can have profound impacts on how the team performs. Encouraging the team is not your sole purpose, it is your priority as this is the most viable method to galvanise a win.

 

[Dougal]

Dude, the Defoe song was sung for about 30 seconds

I'm leaving it there :adios:

 

[polski sklep]

30 seconds more than Jenas! :wink:

 

[Deathrod]

I defo think some people need perspective here. I played several games of Football (back in the day) at that delightful estate in Kidbrooke, where a wonderful bunch of chaps stood displaying metal bars and blades, whilst chanting how they were going to gut my team if we had the audacity to beat their team...

A few mild, slightly amusing chants directed at/or not, at (as the case may be) our players/ex-palyers that we pay considerable money, and spend hours discussing over at such places as this, should not offend anyone.

Their is too many new-age PC fans around... geez, some of em wouldn't have lasted 5 mins in the 70's & 80's!

Either way, embrace the games you go to, don't try and find things to upset yourself about, lifes too bloody short.

Anyway, back to the matter in hand, I really enjoyed seeing Modric perform the way that he has for Croatia of late, gives us greater hope I guess going forward. I also really enjoyed seeing a striker chase the ball down from the front (in a similar way to Kyut), it's been ages since we had a player up top that shows passion.

Benny had a good game, he has a nice turn of pace (seems quicker going forward than back - much like my old sunday team)... but also showed a few decent through balls that were unfotunate not to get through to Pavy.

And last but not least, I think Jenas had a very good game. Sadly a player who's contribution is largely unnoticed. I'm not saying he's great by the way, but that I thought he did very little wrong.....

That's all...!

 

[polski sklep]

Great to hear the Defoe song, again, tonight. :clap:

Especially considering it was, once again, more prominent than any song for our own (was there any?) plus his replacement scored a hat-trick.

Keep up the tremendous support, lads!

:dance:

 

[General Levy]

we really do have some mind numbing ****s as our supporters.

this is to anyone who sang the Defoe song - you are a ****.

 

[bomberH]

Great to hear the Defoe song, again, tonight. :clap:

Especially considering it was, once again, more prominent than any song for our own (was there any?) plus his replacement scored a hat-trick.

Keep up the tremendous support, lads!

:dance:

we really do have some mind numbing ****s as our supporters.

this is to anyone who sang the Defoe song - you are a ****.

Just to put it into a bit more perspective, it was sung right after 'Harry, give us a wave' and was more of a 'We've got Harry and we can get our player back if we want' type song. I personally didn't sing it tonight, but we need a song for Bent really.

 

[SpurSince57]

what was this defoe song?

We don't need you,
We don't need you,
We don't need you any more
We don't need you any more

Or:

Defoe is a Gooner
Defoe is a Gooner
La-la-la
La-la-la

 

[Dougal]

Great to hear the Defoe song, again, tonight. :clap:

Especially considering it was, once again, more prominent than any song for our own (was there any?) plus his replacement scored a hat-trick.

Keep up the tremendous support, lads!

:dance:

As soon as I heard it I knew you'd be rushing home to bump this thread

And last night I agreed with you! Bent was on 2 goals at that point and the original humour of the song was lost.

 

[Chris12345]

Shouldn't Berbatov be above Pav in your sig Dougal? :wink:

And yeah, it seemed odd... I thought we were singing it at Defoe, who'd been spotted in the ground... then I realised Pompey were playing (i think?) and it didn't make much sense...

O well, it was followed by a "Darren Bent, He's a Yiddo"... but it doesn't really work aswell!

I thought a surprising amount of 'player' songs got sung last night... and not one single fucking "stand up if you hate arsenal" :beer:

Why we still insist on singing that Aderbayor song I don't know... its not even a good song!?