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"Can you smell the fear?", do the other football codes in Australia (AFL,NRL), genuinely fear football?

I suspect Fitzy's public-dislike of ⚽ is (at least partly)an act, albeit informed by his own code's waning relevance in this country since its WC here 23 years ago, plus the need to throw a bone for the culturally-conservative section of his fanbase; good ol'-fashioned sokkah-bashing never fails to deliver in that regard. At least he has some redeeming qualities eg. his republicanism and blunt-indifference towards AFL.

The point is, his particular anti-sokkah schtick I can live with - it's that of his AFL-counterparts* which boils my blood and then some:mad:

* 'honourable'-mention goes to the long-retired NRL journo Ray Chesterton(may he rot in Hell when his time finally comes)
 
melbcityguy said:
Why does he write about football if he doesn't like it? I don't like Star wars I'm not gonna write about it just stay in your land son
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I agrre, but....

FitzSimons doesn’t approach football as a fan trying to understand its beauty or its tactical subtleties. He approaches it as someone who finds large parts of the elite version of the game culturally and aesthetically off-key, so the columns become a regular exercise in pointing out what he sees as its flaws...

Of course, you can dress it up as “outsider perspective,” “columnist persona,” or “aesthetic disagreement,” but the practical effect is regular, recognisable "soccer-bashing" from a high-profile sporting media voice.

And when people call his columns "soccer-bashing", they’re not just describing one man’s disdain. They’re pointing at a recognisable mainstream Australian sporting media cultural habit that has been well, maybe a bit slow to die.
 
Football us life said:
I agrre, but....

FitzSimons doesn’t approach football as a fan trying to understand its beauty or its tactical subtleties. He approaches it as someone who finds large parts of the elite version of the game culturally and aesthetically off-key, so the columns become a regular exercise in pointing out what he sees as its flaws...

Of course, you can dress it up as “outsider perspective,” “columnist persona,” or “aesthetic disagreement,” but the practical effect is regular, recognisable "soccer-bashing" from a high-profile sporting media voice.

And when people call his columns "soccer-bashing", they’re not just describing one man’s disdain. They’re pointing at a recognisable mainstream Australian sporting media cultural habit that has been well, maybe a bit slow to die.
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Exactly this. Well put FUL!
 


Good thing a Sokkah player didn't do it.
 
I was talking to one of my niece's new boyfriend, an Irish fellow, been over here about 3 years, he went to the Panthers v Raiders game in Mudgee, first game of NRL (he has been to SOO before). He came back from the toilet prior to game starting, he was surprise by the quietness (10K crowd) to his surprise the game had started & apart from the odd grunt of good tackle the crowd was silent.

Go Panthers, clap, clap clap
Go Carlton clap clap, clap

This is our sport in this country.
 
Robbos said:
I was talking to one of my niece's new boyfriend, an Irish fellow, been over here about 3 years, he went to the Panthers v Raiders game in Mudgee, first game of NRL (he has been to SOO before). He came back from the toilet prior to game starting, he was surprise by the quietness (10K crowd) to his surprise the game had started & apart from the odd grunt of good tackle the crowd was silent.

Go Panthers, clap, clap clap
Go Carlton clap clap, clap

This is our sport in this country.
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yep, the conservative DNA here forever and a day.
Hence one of the reasons they have attacked the real football passionate supporter here - they can't grasp the out pour of passion and use it as a negative towards it.
 
Football us life said:
I agrre, but....

FitzSimons doesn’t approach football as a fan trying to understand its beauty or its tactical subtleties. He approaches it as someone who finds large parts of the elite version of the game culturally and aesthetically off-key, so the columns become a regular exercise in pointing out what he sees as its flaws...

Of course, you can dress it up as “outsider perspective,” “columnist persona,” or “aesthetic disagreement,” but the practical effect is regular, recognisable "soccer-bashing" from a high-profile sporting media voice.

And when people call his columns "soccer-bashing", they’re not just describing one man’s disdain. They’re pointing at a recognisable mainstream Australian sporting media cultural habit that has been well, maybe a bit slow to die.
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Well - articulated!
 
Sadly, in local ABC TV media, we've returned to the the status quo after the WC - all AFL and basketball.

Whilst in FNQ for most of June, it was league and AFL in ABC TV news, apart from the WC. An old mate of mine, who was the football columnist in the local Murdoch tabloid, claimed that some of the other sports staff were fanatical about loving their EPL clubs, whilst they were dismissive of any domestic Aus football.
 
Football us life said:
I agrre, but....

FitzSimons doesn’t approach football as a fan trying to understand its beauty or its tactical subtleties. He approaches it as someone who finds large parts of the elite version of the game culturally and aesthetically off-key, so the columns become a regular exercise in pointing out what he sees as its flaws...

Of course, you can dress it up as “outsider perspective,” “columnist persona,” or “aesthetic disagreement,” but the practical effect is regular, recognisable "soccer-bashing" from a high-profile sporting media voice.

And when people call his columns "soccer-bashing", they’re not just describing one man’s disdain. They’re pointing at a recognisable mainstream Australian sporting media cultural habit that has been well, maybe a bit slow to die.
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He's a massive elitist wanker

Always has a book ready for anzac day to cash in too
 
Peter Fitz seems to have an idea that football( soccer) is unAustralian and therefore worthy of contempt.He does really think that RU embodies all the ideals of Australian mateship and the Anzac spirit.He did play Rugby in France but somewhere deep in his soul he is xenophobic.
 
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