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Originally Posted by Hip Priest
Exactly. We legitimised the yob's behaviour by not condemning it.
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I think Mr L and Mr Priest and Mr 'Johnny foreigner' Marras are all correct, to an extent. I met a chap recently, only 16, who was getting excited about going to his first football ruckus. He wasn't a fan of the team concerned, and came from an entirely different area, but was going down with his uncle to join in with the fighting. I happen to know, in a casual, be-nice-to-them-because-they're-mental way a few thugs for the team concerned, and they are really not very nice people. I tried to warn said 16-yr-old chap about how I know some of them will start on thugs who seem to be fighting for 'their' team but are actually not from the area/ not 'real' fans. So I warned him of this. And the 16-yr-old started on me. Now, bear in mind that, anyone who's met me, I am not a terrible well-built or hardcore fighter, I managed to dismiss him quite quickly, with a combination of deflections and words. I was astonished that someone so feeble was actively excited about fighting with actual proper hard fuckers.