Oxford United Why a 1pm KO

It's not my fault that Gorringe bought cheap plastic tat and didn't think through implementation. I never complained about the season cards and cashless turnstiles, it's many years overdue, I've complained bitterly about the pathetic way it's been done.

You are an apologist of the worst kind, why does it have to be serious disorder? One person being an arse and gesturing towards opposition supporters is one too many, one arrest is one too many, one chant containing a threat of violence is one too many, it's a game of football for goodness sake, not a war.

We all know why there are early kick offs, it's normally so that attendees have less time to consume alcohol prior to the match starting.

Never works. I was on the voddy by 9!

Managed not to barge, abuse, attack or threat anyone though. Much to Bamber’s disappointment, not quite fitting the hooligan profile.

I always understood.
I think.

Still unanswered question, because it clearly very did not work? And won't. Ever. You can't control a society, even as activist. It has to be free and allowed to express itself.


Sincerely,
Mr O2.
Society Activist.
Modern world.
Reality BS7.

So you are an anarchist?

I deal in reality as well, people don't like having the drinking culture in this country criticised, but it's all very childish, selfish and massively destructive on many levels.

Cost to the NHS of alcohol is circa £3.5 bn P/A.

Males are twice as likely to have alcohol related liver failure as females. This is actually a good question that resources should be allocated to rather than having to pay Police officers to separate groups of rival supporters at sporting events. What's happening in society which results in males being twice as likely to have limited life expectancy due to just this 1 disease?

Around 65% of hospital admissions related to alcohol are male patients, that figure rises to over 70% if you look at just mental health issues attributable to alcohol.

Around 1,000,000 (1 million) hospital admissions a year directly related to alcohol.

These monetary figures are easy to find, harder to find are nett figures, so adjusted for tax paid by businesses involved in the supply of alcohol. But still, the numbers get your attention, don't they?

It's nothing to do with class or intelligence, I saw the painful demise of one of the great minds of our time, a man born to a ranking military family and who would run rings around public speakers like Ben Shapiro, Jordan Peterson and Sam Harris. If Christopher Hitchens became a drunken wreck, it shows that the stuff truly doesn't discriminate.

Could we trust our shyster bunch of politicians to do anything sensible with the money saved if alcohol disappeared overnight? Nope, neither red nor blue, both would, to coin a phrase 'p1ss it up against a wall', but that's a different discussion.

I too agree with Bamber. In fact I found it profound, life changing post. So much so I have now decided to clean up my act and give up alcohol.

Only till the weekend. And I’ve no intention of giving up Nicotine, valium, vicodin, marijuana and ecstasy too. Nor the bacon butty followed by the cheeseboard. We don’t have to give up all our little vices for January do we?

And it’s not that I don’t have a few little issues with Bambers point of view. If violence at football matches is simply down to alcohol consumption on match days, surely preemptive decisions to take golf balls, darts, millwall bricks (all used against us during my time supporting rovers) and which pub to rumble and trash surely has a bit of sober planning in advance, before the alcohol was put in the system?

So if not the alcohol, where does it start? I have no intention of getting into a long philosophical discussion, but we don’t and we can’t live in a world founded simply on love and politeness. I won’t mention birds, but they can be angry vicious creatures, but think of yourself a bee, your little empty sack to put the pollen in inbuilt into you, and you scent down there a lovely freshly opened flower, make a bee line for it looking forward to a good, sexy sticky experience inside her, but coming in at 10 o’clock is another bee. You can’t politely say, oh what a fine morning, after you sir. Because he’ll go home with the full sack, and you’ll go home with empty one. In just the same way, down on the waterfront with Marlon Brando you find yourself in a scrum of fifty, with an empty belly and empty bellies at home to feed, the doors going to open any minute and only 6 or 7 are going through, you have got to make sure you are one of them. Just as 6 or 7 will go in, 3 will go go up, 4 down, football cannot be immune from the world of competition and rivalry it is set in. Love, hate, happy, bitter, rivalry’s, we have to embrace it all, with plenty of backbone, stiff upper lip, because we’ve been singing these songs for a thousand years for good reason, the song is our essential nature, freedom beyond any particular place or time, but a price to that freedom.    

What a load of nonsense.

All apart from the bit where you agreed with me.

We have enough of a nanny state as it is thanks. You do it your way, that’s fine but there are plenty of us that can and do drink sensibly. You really have an awfully slanted view of alcohol. Why not start on chem trails, fluoride and the plethora of meds , used in antidepressants, to control us ?

Tribalism has been mentioned and Oxford,reminded me of the Zoologist and (former ?) Oxford Utd board member Desmond Morris who wrote a book called 'The Soccer Tribe' very interesting it is too.
Oxford had hooligans in the past,I remember about 1970(ish) some of the city lads at school saying that a big mob of Oxford hoolies wearing Yellow hard hats had taken the East end,I went to Oxford with Rovers in 75 ? and there was lots of trouble as the London road end was split between home and away supporters with only one way in !