LFC said:

nah it is because you're a old fart and they are shit scared of you
Thankfully reads like they have manners importantly give you respect till you threaten them haha

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Not too far from the truth

Sharkman84 said:

It'd be a safe bet the bloke's colleagues are boomers.

I've never had an issue in my workplace being a football fan and most know I am.

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Yeah, ss I said I've only ever had light hearted piss taking for following football. Girls game, poofs game and that.

I remember you never really got that in the UK. You'd have rugby union, league and football fans working together but not much snearing at each other’s game. Although the Irish could be a little indifferent about football. You know straight away because they would call it "soccer" and usually they'd have been Gaelic Football fans.

Sharkman84 said:

It'd be a safe bet the bloke's colleagues are boomers.

I've never had an issue in my workplace being a football fan and most know I am.

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friggin boomers, I hear that alot in these modern times haha.....
I'll have to tell my very mature boomer dad he's to blame for so many things in this life and his grandkids will never forgive him being a racist/capitilist/politically incorrect/and a out and out dinausor, well he is but with out those boomer roots we'd be no where go figure

Sharky, your from SA I see but from the barbour city ? Pauline asks please explain ?

Well it no matter boomer or otherwise the media here on the east coast brain washed the east coasters AGAINST football, I mean sokha was sissy/poofters/Australia is football/eggball codes/meat pies kangaroo and holden cars. IE Warrens book example.
All about the brawn - you mentioned your a soccer player they thought you soft cock - didn't consider them boomers just your average normal people like you and me.
Those days it was simple, you were either a young un or a old fart now your a Boom a X a M and xyz + 100 more genders.

Work I don' think I had much issue back in my young days, it was more when a kid to teens you were frowned on.
Travelling to Vic/Melb alot in my early working days thats where alot of banter/angst being a real football devotee far far more.
When they asked my did I watch the "footy" < now thats sounded soft as to me but I'd say yep, I watched APIA or SMH or LFC, did you see how good it was ??? haha - they'd knock it and I ust say - your game is nothing but played here, its aminnow F off.

Sharkman84 said:

Good article but South Africa wasn't really touched on.

Even 30 years since the end of apartheid, sport in South Africa is still largely seen along racial lines.

It's changed a little but not too much.

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In South Africa, cricket and union were White sports while soccer and basketball were Black sports.

For soccer the teams are actually getting Blacker, and a lack of diversity is a problem. This is something that has been criticised in South Africa’s Parliament. In June this year, Patriotic Alliance (a party that claims to represent Coloured interests) MP Marlon Daniels asked the SAFA why Ronwen Williams was the only Coloured (mixed race) player for Bafana Bafana and accused SAFA of being controlled by the ANC.

He had a point about 1996, the squad was way more multiracial then. The only Coloured player in the current Banyana Banyana (South Africa Women) squad is Kaylin Swart.

Football us life said:

A guy I know who is right into watching the Brisbane Roar and spends the rest of the year watching Wynumn Wolves up the road from me, in the Queensland NPL and has his two boys playing junior football, told me once when he was working at Brisbane City Council, in their plumbing and drainage services department was pretty much ostracised by his work colleagues for admitting he loved 'soccer'....

He reckoned they weren't bogan types either, they were engineers and surveyors...reasonably sensible and well-educated.

This fella isn't an ethnic, although he is a second generation pommy and it was his dad who got him into football. Where he works now as a maintenance supervisor in a food processing facility which is like the United Nations in terms of it's employees nobody bats an eye-lid if he mentions football.


Not just the mainstream sports media that hate on football....

I must admit I have had the occasional light hearted piss taking for following the "soccer" but never been given the nasty's at all!!

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Imo that's less of a football and just people being dicks or at least a company with shite culture

Sharkman84 said:

Why do you ask?

If you must know, I'm a Sydneysider but moved to SA a decade ago after meeting an Adelaide girl and marrying a year later.

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I was just trying to understand your info gliding over your nickname and seeing how much sydney outlook you had - no prob mate sorry to ask but thanks for sharing - belated congrats may I say

Sharkman84 said:

The nickname is NRL related. Lifelong Cronulla-Sutherland fan since the late 1980's.

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I bet you were a big Olympic Sharks fan when they were playing out of Shark Park for a while.

Also, I'm old school, I still call it Endeavour Field much to my kids amusement.

Sharkman84 said:

The nickname is NRL related. Lifelong Cronulla-Sutherland fan since the late 1980's.

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ah - post Tommy Bishop days.
Rogers x 2 ET Pierce Sorenson
I recall the Manly Sharks GF !

Sharkman84 said:

6 years before I was born, lol.

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haha - yer well what can I say but - you've missed the Sharks last biggest high in the NRL and still waiting

LFC said:

haha - yer well what can I say but - you've missed the Sharks last biggest high in the NRL and still waiting

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The Sharks players were also on a high after that game too.

erogenouszone said:

The Sharks players were also on a high after that game too.

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ah yes stand corrected Sharky, that was a blimp of the last 30 odd years that totally escaped my mind.
How could I forget the celebrating as mentioned above - something to be never brought up thinking of the children haha

NoMates said:

That's bullshit! Football has always ignored Aboriginals in the game except a minimal few. I even remember at school wanting to play soccer only for all the ethnics to tell me to go play rugby. Even being a %100 Aussie you will always find it hard to get into a club unless you have half the alphabet or Vich in your last name. Also Football has priced it self out of cheaps sports for kids to play, AFL is only a few bucks where as soccer is over $1000 a year or more.

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We finally found the root cause, thats why '100% true blue Aussies' didnt play sokkah in this country their lack of effnik surnames and clubs checking credentials at the doors!

Must of been some trauma, it even led to you having to move to supporting a NZ side! Feeling of belonging must be stronger there, hey?! Haha

My dad must have been in some Sydney microcosm in the 70s. Growing up in Dundas, he was the only one with a European parent in his football side while the rest were all Smiths etc without a strong British influence.

I certainly have seen the vast, strong migrant communities playing the round ball game but my dad and then myself as a kid on the Central Coast didn't see it. Depends where you lived I guess.