Originally Posted by
upthemaggies
Bond was another one who became a TV pundit. They have a lot to answer for in ruining this game as a contact sport. They resorted to equating the bad behaviour on the pitch with the bad behaviour off it, which was BS. Most of the trouble between fans occurred before or after a match, trouble during was almost always because one team was being humiliated or the ref had wound one side up with a series of howlers or one particularly bad decision. If rough play caused trouble on the terraces then Rugby grounds would have been a bloodbath, but they made that link in people's minds and took the game away from the people that made it great (the working class) and effectively handed it over to middle class wet wipes.
I hope I live to see the day when the PL bubble bursts and the pendulum begins to swing back the other way, which will happen, there's already a growing dissatisfaction with what this game has been turned into and that will boil over eventually.