http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/soccers-deadliest-fans-the-troubled-world-of-brazils-organizadas-20140528

>>67376090
but I'm serious. Why is this common in England? It seems like there's no passion at all

>>67376220
i'd guess about 350 of the 380 premier league games a season are like this.
>old fans who have had season tickets for decades
>expensive tickets keeping out the loud passionate youngsters
>no standing rules thanks to hillsborough (hopefully this gets reversed now that they proved it was the police's fault not standing's fault)
>bunch of emotionless foreigners playing each other means there's nobody to root for on a personal level

>>67376048
>sit quietly and civilised and watch the best players in the world
or
>jump around and make noise like monkeys with aids and watch monkeys with aids play a third world version of tiki taka

and slipperpoo ruining everything as usual

>>67376048
Yeah how embarrassing. They don't pee into bags and throw them at the opposing players.

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>>67376220
>Why is this common?

Hillsborough and the Taylor Report ended standing sections in English Stadiums. It also led to a conscious effort to make the top level a "middle class" sport, basically encouraging attendance of British people who treat going to a soccer game the way that ghetto/white trash people in America treat going to a movie: talk, play on your phone, and occasionally clap when something cool happens.

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>>67376220
because of 'illsbreh you're not allowed to stand at matches

Ive only ever been the a league 1 game, never higher than that. Is a big game the same in that you have some fat bloke near you with a pie going on about how they've gone down hill since the 80s and then you just Stan and cheer for 8 seconds during a goal?

>>67380704
TOPKEK

>>67382556
I don't understand that one. It wasn't because of standing, it was because they were caged in.