Swearing

Should it be acceptable to swear at a football match?

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toffeeblue9 said:
There was a lad behind me in the Park End, who seems to have disappeared this season, and TBF he was over the top with it. Not sure I've ever been bothered by swearing at the match at any other time, but every other word from him was "see you next tuesday". Literally every insult he shouted out was something about the player as the target of his ire followed by that word. So someone was a "bald see you next tuesday", a "Scottish see you next tuesday", or a "cockney see you next tuesday" - you get the picture. Reckon he genuinely did it 20 to 30 times every game. Nobody ever said anything, but it was the only time I've ever thought someone was crossing the line with how acceptable it was. Having he said that, he screamed "Food bank see you next tuesday" at Marcus Rashford and I nearly spat my Bovril everywhere
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Ooooh, that brings back a memory for me - one of my first ever games at Goodison was against the rs, they were in the 2nd Division and it was a Liverpool Senior Cup-Tie, (I think that's what the comp was called). Roger Hunt was playing for the rs and my Dad (a kopite) had taken me - I was about 8 or 9 and decided to shout out "Roger Hunt is a ....!" Somehow I got away with it. *shame really, Hunt was a decent bloke, just that he played for 'them'.
 

I grew up in a family that didn't swear, or at least when I wasn't around but even now in conversation they don't. I was surprised at going to mates houses to hear their parents swear like it was normal and as a kid I heard it all the time when we played football or hung around. I don't swear a lot myself and do it every now and again, mostly at the game or if I'm annoyed at something but I never swear in front of kids.

At the end of the day, you can't protect kids from it, at some point they'll hear it and will choose whether they use it or not.
 

The Penalty Box Dancer said:
I grew up in a family that didn't swear, or at least when I wasn't around but even now in conversation they don't. I was surprised at going to mates houses to hear their parents swear like it was normal and as a kid I heard it all the time when we played football or hung around. I don't swear a lot myself and do it every now and again, mostly at the game or if I'm annoyed at something but I never swear in front of kids.

At the end of the day, you can't protect kids from it, at some point they'll hear it and will choose whether they use it or not.
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True mate...

It all depends on how you were raised.
 
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NeilMorepies said:
Loads of people swear at the football. There are swearwords in some of the songs.
Is it acceptable to do it with women and children in the stadium?
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It's a time and place thing, most get it - so e never do*

*what does need stamping out is the kind of richard cranium who spout continually vitriol all through the game.


One of the first things kids learn at school after where their class room is and where to line up - is how to swear, they learn it from older kids, or kids with older siblings, it's passed down, along the decades, with the no snitching rule.
They (mostly) instinctively know not to say ffs to the teacher...or hopefully, Nana.

If your kids are out of what they think of as - can 'the grown ups' hear me - range, they will Eff and Jeff at each other.

As for women; If you're the sort who wouldnt say shiz if you had a mouthful - then maybe the football is not the place for you.

I took a girlfriend to a Derby game at anfield, we were in the annie rd end obvs, she looked 'posh' (degsy could turn on his 'A game' back in the day like ringing a bell) as these Aigburth girls sometimes do...her dad was a headmaster somewhere - top bloke)...anyway, early into the game I heard a few comments behind me... steady the buffs lads, ladies present, etc.

Cue dirty Tommy Smith on Howard Kendall - well she let rip a right gob full.
Normal Service was resumed,


NeilMorepies said:
Do you think it has a positive or negative effect...
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Neither
 
Told my son off today for using a variant of bum today in front of his motherin the house today, he is 13. Swearing is acceptable at the game, it is expected, and anyone attending should expect it.

That said, a certain amount of decorum in front of the ladies in non masculine sett8ngs is nothing more than gallantry, which society needs more of, uf you ask me. Will it be appreciated? Probably not, but we should all be doing our parts for a better society. It's not that the words are hurtful...its that standards are important.
 

NeilMorepies said:
Loads of people swear at the football. There are swearwords in some of the songs.
Is it acceptable to do it with women and children in the stadium?

Do you think it has a positive or negative effect on the players/coaching staff?
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I cringe at a lot of the swearing. Most of it is unnecessary. Particularly painful to listen to when I take my daughter..
 

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