Sunday league thug

Guys......with the greatest respect........this is a football Forum!, Can we please leave the politics discussions out please!!
As for the hooligan that stamped on the guys leg. I think he got off light. Personally I do not think it is indicative of the age we live, This kind of thing has been going on for donkeys years. The difference today perhaps is things like this are more highlighted in the press.

 

Come on, Beddy. Surely you know that life is only a pale reflection of football!

 

Do you have proof?

 

Unbe-f***ing-lievable ............... He should get more than that and be banned for life .......... Thug is too polite a term ........

 

No I don't but I'm pretty sure he didn't go the whole hog.

 

A good mate of mine had his football 'career' ended on a Sunday league pitch in the team I played in with him, with a knee height two-footed challenge snapping his bone in half and puncturing the skin and sticking right out of his leg. It was a vengeful tackle on the halfway line in time added on after the 90. Was on crutches for two years, but thankfully wasn't a self-employed manual labourer, nor did he have a family at the time. Incidentally, Labour were in power at the time.

Also during Labour's reign of terror we also had a game shortly before that where a team we beat jumped on and attacked the referee immediately after the game. They were biting and punching, and we had to get him free and escort him by car away from the pitch. They were banned for life from playing Sunday league. I gave up Sunday League shortly after all that. Why give up your Sundays to witness thuggery you'd be shocked to witness on a Saturday night in the dodgiest pub in town?

Also, in a non-Sunday league game, with an organised, refereed Tuesday night 5-a-side league I play in, two kids refused to get off the pitch, cycling their bikes around the centre circle etc. One of my teammates eventually just went and grabbed one of the kids and started leading him off the pitch, and about 10 of his older mates came out from nowhere and swarmed the pitch with bottles etc. Our teammate got stabbed in the leg with a screwdriver amongst all that, and bottles were being smashed and wielded by these guys. It went to court and the attacker got prosecuted.

The Sunday League stuff was in Battersea, and the 5-a-side was in Islington. Obviously that latter one wasn't really football-related - just some guys blatantly looking for a fight. But still, some serious thugs out there.

 

Islington?

Corbyn is entirely to blame, then.

 

What has Cameron got to do with a bunch of psychopathic lunatics?

 

Erm...he leads them?...*joke*

 

So many Sunday League terror tales. Mine doesn't involve any broken limbs, but is still horrible. Our captain (21 years old, 5'7 tall) slightly missed timed a tackle. The other guy (at least 30 years old and over 6foot tall) stood up and head butted him, breaking his nose.

I don't think it's political, but more a problem with the culture of football in this country. It's about hooliganism and thuggery. I don't know, but I suspect in Europe its more about athleticism and artistry.

 

Football - a game for gentlemen played by thugs.
Rugby - a game for thugs played by gentlemen

Well, almost ........................

 

There was this one time that i was playing football, and i kicked the ball so bloody hard that my leg fell off. ****ing Tory scum bastards.

 

I could add a load more examples from my twenty years of Sunday League but I will just say that, over the last five years, it has actually seemed to be getting a bit better.

 

During the 80s my team's local rivals were a bunch of Pompey supporters, they knew I was a 'scummer'. Ten mins into the game I was looking at my broken tibia sticking out of my leg. I remember both the manical laughter of the bloke who "tackled" me plus the screams of our manager on the touchline to "run it off". I then got told off at A&E for bleeding everywhere.

Sunday League was great though. A few mins before the end of our first ever win (after about 20 attempts) our opponents captain picked the ball up and left the pitch saying he wasn't going to lose to this load of ****, and it was his ball anyway. The ref let us finish, and win, with a plastic thing. The captain was of course censored and fined, by himself, as it turned out he was the local league's secretary.

 

Great story Black

 

Blame the bloody Vikings. We were a timid lot until they rocked up. Probably.

 

Would be interested in hearing a story from the point of view of one of Sunday League's hardmen, FLT...

 

No Sunday league football for me, until veterans football came along and then were too old to kick or fight.

 

where's Tom? He must have some stories.

 

Played most of my footer in the old Hampshire Leagues, but I remember turning out for as a favour for a mates Sunday league team in what was then called the Commercial Houses league and I remember never being so happy for the ref. to blew for full time. From memory they fell out of the pub and onto the pitch and then kicked out at anything that moved.
Nothing much has changed as far as I can see?