I know many Scotland (football) fans, I am 100% sure that none of them would attack someone for being in the Scotland 'end' and cheering for England. Scotland fans, aka the Tartan Army, seem to know that the team do not have a chance of winning any competition. It seems to me the fanatical devotion the supports have is for the fun of the national team taking part, and for the fans travelling to far off lands, drinking, singing silly songs and to return home. I am pretty sure that Scotland fans have earned a good reputation for their behaviour both in the UK and around the world. This is not to say that some 'playful banter' would be out of the equation between an England supporter and a Scotland supporter at a match.

Most major cities in Scotland have two (or more) football teams. Each seems to have an 'old rival'. Matches played between these teams have been known to resort in trouble between fans during and/or after the match. I believe this is also the case in England, though I have never been to an English football match.

There are people who use this as an excuse for violence (organised fights with other such minded people who claim to support a rival team). IMHO these people are not sports fans, but violence fans. If we had no sports such as Football/rugby would they start fights over which chess grandmaster would win a game? :P

Update: Post tirwhan update :D

To further confuse issues there is obviously cross over, since a large percentage of Scotland supporters will support a league team also. I am sure that there will be a number of these fans who support a league team and their national team who shout abuse (or worse) at fans who support a rival local team. I can't understand this mentality, or the mentality of someone who follows a team (league or otherwise) so I can not offer any more insight into that. Perhaps they are of the opinion that since the national team have a better chance of having a hit record than they do of wining anything then it is not worth bothering about. On the other hand, for some of these teams religion has a place in their origins. As we know people don't really need an excuse to start fighting with each other :D

<joke>If anyone says that Topalov is better than Kramnik there will be trouble</joke>

If I have used the wrong sporting terms in this post I apologise.

Martin

In reply to Re: OT Re^2: Consideration for obscenity by marto
in thread Consideration for obscenity by ptum

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