Football Hipster Behaviour

[The Woolster]

Reads Spielverlagerung

 

Do you read Spielverlagerung Hades?

 

EDIT: Sorry, I hadn't got to this page to see your question, just saw the neg.

 

In case its not been clear, I've been a bit self deprecating on this thread, and have read Spielverlagerung on occasion myself! It can be very insightful, although a bit heavy, but there is no doubt that it is required hipster reading material though.

[Pureblood]

They are whoppers not hipsters

 

Whopsters. 

[The Woolster]

Woolsters

[Moctezuma]

Isn't this an inevitability of footballs appeal becoming broader and to a certain extent more middle class? In that people are looking for something that takes them away from the norms of the vast majority so they can feel unique.

 

I remember as a kid Rugby being far more vaunted in middle class circles (still is in the higher echelons) and football still being seen as some dreadful enterprise, only enjoyed by the mob/hooligans, now every middle management type has a team; Man Utd, Arsenal, Chelsea etc.

 

I find now that I have no immediate access to football on TV at home, that my support of Liverpool is a weird blend of highlights, podcasts, this forum, going to the game but virtually never watching them on TV outwith when I go back to see the auld man. This state of affairs also means that my only other source of football is Scottish premier league highlights (as provided by the BBC) and the occasional lower league game around London (normally involving Tranmere). Does that make me a hipster or just a poor cunt, I'm nae sure?

[thegreatelephant]

not all ponces watch Serie A and La Liga and bang on about it, but ponces do watch Serie A and La Liga and bang on about it. something like that

[an tha]

Whopsters.

I like it, could catch on.

[an tha]

Woolsters

Those are much worse than these lads!

[cloggypop]

Anyone who watches footy from a country they are neither from nor live in.

[Trumo]

Someone who buys t-shirts with obscure football quotes on them.

[deiseach]

Anyone who watches footy from a country they are neither from nor live in.

Wait, that means...oh. Right.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

I was a football hipster before it was cool.

[Section_31]

Anyone who says they're above the trivialities of football rivalry because they can appreciate the beauty of the game for it's own sake.

 

Anyone who doesn't feel at least some kind of rivalry is missing the point. May as well just all have the same fucking team then.

 

Used to know this lad in college, Scouser, Liverpool fan, dad was a Liverpool fan, used to say things like 'I do like watching 'United' though you've got to admit they play entertaining football'.

 

Yeah maybe I can come round your house and fuck your sister and you can watch that too. Heinrich Himmler could play the honky tonk piano but I wouldn't want to watch that either. You prized, man without a country fifth column Judas goat grade A cunt.

[Oh Buoy]

Those who claim they're a Liverpool fan and live on the Wirral. 

 

Except me. I have immigrated here. 

[Grinch]

Pretending you watch enough football to suggest Liverpool sign players from 17 different leagues around the world.

[Tony Moanero]

Being "against modern football" but still going the match.

[Harry Squatter]

Going to watch Belenenses when you go away on holiday to Lisbon because Sporting or Benfica are too mainstream.

 

Sitting in a large open concrete bowl with 700 fans is cooler because their fans are probably dock workers and the ground backs onto a monastery.

[stringvest]

6 and 8

[Pureblood]

Being interested in Subbuteo in any capacity. 

[Tony Moanero]

Being interested in Subbuteo in any capacity. 

 

 

Nah, not having that, TK. Subbuteo was/is for old school footy geeks, who were/are miles better than these newfangled football hipster blerts.

[Russ Atmosphere]

Beard dubbin.

[Pureblood]

Nah, not having that, TK. Subbuteo was/is for old school footy geeks, who were/are miles better than these newfangled football hipster blerts.

 

Being into Subbuteo if you're university age or younger?

[Pureblood]

Watching the Zidane movie, marveling at his close control and mentioning how the Mogwai soundtrack captures his broody style perfectly. 

[Tony Moanero]

Being into Subbuteo if you're university age or younger?

 

 

Depends, they're dads may have got them into it.

[s(k)aturation]

Nah, not having that, TK. Subbuteo was/is for old school footy geeks, who were/are miles better than these newfangled football hipster blerts.

 

 

Not having Subbuteo being a kid growing up in Australia was I'd say the thing that made me most envious about not being in England - even more so perhaps than not being able to go to actual Liverpool matches.

 

It seemed so exotic.  The grandstands and all the accoutrements.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Someone who buys t-shirts with obscure football quotes on them.

"Bronca is my fuel"

 

(I've never actually seen that on a T-shirt, but if I did I might just be cunt enough to buy it.)