Comments on: Football or rugby? http://www.dexysden.co.uk/2009/12/football-or-rugby/ The UK's Number One Football Blog Tue, 22 May 2012 08:41:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: dexylongshot http://www.dexysden.co.uk/2009/12/football-or-rugby/comment-page-1/#comment-24707 dexylongshot Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:05:26 +0000 http://www.dexysden.com/?p=2782#comment-24707 Cricket, bore off! Cricket, bore off!

]]> By: Bakes http://www.dexysden.co.uk/2009/12/football-or-rugby/comment-page-1/#comment-24699 Bakes Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:18:06 +0000 http://www.dexysden.com/?p=2782#comment-24699 Both great sports. My heart will always be with football but the more and more I watch it, the more I am falling out of love with the game. The atmosphere of a good game of football is hard to beat and rugby will never match it when it comes to the club game. There is much more good natured banter between fans who can sit together at rugby and that is something special. I love being able to have a chat with the Kiwi, Aussie or whoever sitting next to me. You can go to the rugby and by the end of the game you can be drinking with your new found chum, even if he is the oppo. At the football, there is always a good bit of banter but there is also so much cringeworthy stuff. I cannot get passionate about one club when it comes to rugby. I like to see how all the London teams do and want all English teams to do well in Europe, something I cannot say about football. So tribalism is definitely more football related. However, it takes something to beat the atmosphere of a big international game of rugby. I have been to games at Twickenham, Murryfield and Stade de France and it can really make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. Just the singing of the anthems can be deeply emotional. Rugby stands for a lot of the morals that football seems to have forgotten. However, because of the money involved, rugby has started to tread the slippery slope of football. Both games are great and I struggle to pick a superior one. It's a good thing that cricket beats them both!!! Cue the abuse! Both great sports. My heart will always be with football but the more and more I watch it, the more I am falling out of love with the game. The atmosphere of a good game of football is hard to beat and rugby will never match it when it comes to the club game. There is much more good natured banter between fans who can sit together at rugby and that is something special. I love being able to have a chat with the Kiwi, Aussie or whoever sitting next to me. You can go to the rugby and by the end of the game you can be drinking with your new found chum, even if he is the oppo.

At the football, there is always a good bit of banter but there is also so much cringeworthy stuff. I cannot get passionate about one club when it comes to rugby. I like to see how all the London teams do and want all English teams to do well in Europe, something I cannot say about football. So tribalism is definitely more football related. However, it takes something to beat the atmosphere of a big international game of rugby. I have been to games at Twickenham, Murryfield and Stade de France and it can really make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. Just the singing of the anthems can be deeply emotional. Rugby stands for a lot of the morals that football seems to have forgotten. However, because of the money involved, rugby has started to tread the slippery slope of football.

Both games are great and I struggle to pick a superior one. It’s a good thing that cricket beats them both!!! Cue the abuse!

]]> By: dexylongshot http://www.dexysden.co.uk/2009/12/football-or-rugby/comment-page-1/#comment-24693 dexylongshot Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:19:34 +0000 http://www.dexysden.com/?p=2782#comment-24693 I am and will always be a football man but I do enjoy the rugby, especially the international arena. You can't knock the rugga bugga, it's a mans sport and if football had half the the discipline and respect that Rugby has, the world of footy would be a better place. I am and will always be a football man but I do enjoy the rugby, especially the international arena. You can’t knock the rugga bugga, it’s a mans sport and if football had half the the discipline and respect that Rugby has, the world of footy would be a better place.

]]> By: harry http://www.dexysden.co.uk/2009/12/football-or-rugby/comment-page-1/#comment-24660 harry Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:26:57 +0000 http://www.dexysden.com/?p=2782#comment-24660 THE FANS IN RUGBY ARE BETTER BEHAVED BUT THE SOCCER FANS CREATE MORE ATMOSPHERE AND ARE BETTER FUN AND SING MORE. I WUD PREFER TO BE A SOCCER FAN ITS MORE FUN CUS IM A FAN OF BOTH THE FANS IN RUGBY ARE BETTER BEHAVED BUT THE SOCCER FANS CREATE MORE ATMOSPHERE AND ARE BETTER FUN AND SING MORE. I WUD PREFER TO BE A SOCCER FAN ITS MORE FUN CUS IM A FAN OF BOTH

]]> By: Matt Quinn http://www.dexysden.co.uk/2009/12/football-or-rugby/comment-page-1/#comment-24657 Matt Quinn Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:16:25 +0000 http://www.dexysden.com/?p=2782#comment-24657 I hate Rugby. I hate how i can be watching a premiership game in a pub and then suddenly the TV gets turned over for the England rugger team. Rubbish. Its not a sport. I hate Rugby.

I hate how i can be watching a premiership game in a pub and then suddenly the TV gets turned over for the England rugger team. Rubbish. Its not a sport.

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