Different culture

Pearlie 2021-11-18 08:01:29

Football is not just a sport, it is more like an art, a culture, and fans constitute the most unique scenery in this culture.
Actually let Matt be a fan at the beginning, he refused, because you can't let a Harvard journalism student like football for no reason, but when he saw a home team goal at West Ham United, duang, he He fell in love with football immediately. Although he was surrounded by extreme fans, so-called football hooligans, these football hooligans did not love their team less than any normal fan. They could do more for their team and away fans. Fighting, and even giving life. They are extreme but they are passionate, they are violent but they are loyal, and it is because of the experience in this environment that Matt has the courage to return to Harvard, but from then on, West Ham United will be his love.
My hometown is a province without a top-level league team. Whether it’s the Super League or the CBA, although China’s football culture has not yet reached the European atmosphere, it is now improving. Take Beijing as an example. Marbury will see Guoan games are commonplace, and Guoan players still watch the CBA finals in Beijing and Liaoning in the lounge after the game is also a manifestation of sports culture. In fact, I really admire the provinces with top-level league teams, and I am even more envious of the unique European football culture. Football is like a part of the life of Europeans. A considerable number of their fans are long-term supporters of their local clubs. You can see the stadium. People often watch football with their babies or children, and let them accept the influence of a good football atmosphere from an early age. Watching the games of the teams they support has become an indispensable part of their lives. They may also like other giants. Team, but they love their own local team more, and the history of the local club is often their most unique memory. I also hope to experience the unique culture in such an environment, whether through studying abroad or traveling. After all, the ancient and majestic San Siro has always been quietly located there, and she is always waiting for the visit of every Rosenner.

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Green Street Hooligans quotes

  • Pete Dunham: [Matt and Pete are sitting at a food vendor stall, reading a newspaper the morning after the Birmingham game/fight] Fuckin' journos. Look at this.

    [he slaps the paper]

    Pete Dunham: West Ham wins 3-nil in a blindin' performance, and our little scrap makes the headline. Bloody muckrakers.

    Matt Buckner: So, what is this?

    Pete Dunham: Bollocks journo bullshit.

    Matt Buckner: No, no, this, the GSE.

    Pete Dunham: [whispering] Shhh! Lower it, son!

    Matt Buckner: What are you guys, like, an organized political movement or something?

    Pete Dunham: No, mate. We're a firm. You never heard of a firm in the States?

    Matt Buckner: No.

    Pete Dunham: All right. Every football team in Europe's got a firm. Some have two.

    [Matt gives him a blank look]

    Pete Dunham: Christ, I forgot how clueless you Yanks are. All you've seen of us is the stadium riots on TV, innit? Come on.

    [they get up and walk away from the stall]

    Pete Dunham: See, West Ham football is mediocre. But our firm is top-notch, and everyone knows it. The GSE: Green Street Elite. Arsenal... great football, shit firm... the Gooners. Tottenham... shit football, and a shit firm... the Yids, they're called. I actually put their main lad through a phone box window the other day.

    Matt Buckner: [Matt looks down at the newspaper] What about Millwall?

    Pete Dunham: Ah, Millwall. Where to even fucking begin with Millwall. Millwall and West Ham firms hate each other, more than any other firms by far.

    Matt Buckner: Sorta like the Yankees and the Red Sox.

    Pete Dunham: More like the Israelis and the Palestinians.

    [Matt laughs]

    Pete Dunham: We haven't played Millwall in ten years. Their top boy's this geezer named Tommy Hatcher. 'Orrible ol' cunt. Back in the Major's day, Tommy's son was killed in a scrap. After that, he went completely mental. Lost the plot.

    Matt Buckner: Well, who's the Major?

    Pete Dunham: Ah, the Major. Quite a legend 'round here. He ran the GSE in the Nineties, when I was comin' up. Hardest bastard you ever saw. They say we kinda lost our way when he left. But believe me, my boys are bringin' the ol' GSE reputation right back.

  • Matt Buckner: So basically, firms are gangs?

    Pete Dunham: Kind of... but we're a far cry from all that Bloods and Crips bullshit. I mean shootin' a machine gun out of a movin' car at an 8 year old girl, that's just cowardly. See, we might be into fightin' an all that... but it's more about reputation. Humiliatin' another mob in a row, doin' somethin' the other firms get to hear and talk about - like a Yank in his first fight battering one of Birmingham's main lads.