If anyone is "screwing you over" then its the league and Sky TV by moving games to Sundays where work is already planned.
I reckon the football fans are the victims here, for allowing themselves to be screwed over by paying so much money to get into a game that clubs can afford to pay their players more money in a week than a lot of working people in this country earn in a year. Football didnt used to be like that, in the same way that back in the day, league players didnt need and couldnt afford a Ferrari, and were happy enough and safe enough to use public transport, and indeed many of them actually still considered themselves to be members of the public.
Like all groups there are good and bad. Would you have made the same sweeping generalisation (like the OP did in the first place) about people because of their race, colour etc ? I think had you said something like 'My experience with Somalis is not a pleasant one' it would be deemed as unacceptable.
Fair point. Fortunately, and despite suggestions that a liking of football should be considered a religion, it is not a protected characteristic, as defined by the
Equality Act 2010.
Being a Greater Anglia employee isn't a protected characteristic either, otherwise several posts in this thread would be deemed as unacceptable. Anyone for political correctness ?
Football fans often destroy the trains around me. So yes thousands of people create revenue but by taking a train out of service for the next day, and the repair costs. This makes up more then the extra revenue especially if the revenue missed is peak time. WHy should people who act like this deserve a service for them.
Speaking as a lifelong football fan who has caught the train to many matches around the country.
This is the sad reality. I'm sure it's the minority who mess things up for the well behaved majority, but this is always the way, whether it be in football, or anything else. The writing is on the wall for a ban on ordinary members of the public being able to buy and set off fireworks. This is because too many people are irresponsible and misuse them. There are lots of examples of idiots spoiling things for the decent people, and they reduce other people's impression of them and their kind, to the lowest common denominator. The rotten apple which spoils the otherwise good barrel could be a group of drunk soldiers who smash up a pub, and get their whole regiment banned from a town, supporters of a football club who drink more than they can handle and vandalise a train, a traffic warden with a power trip, a bent copper, a gobby or otherwise unhelpful revenue protection officer, a BMW driver who doesn't indicate, a financial institution which rips off it's customers, the list is endless. But what these examples illustrate is that it's the bad examples which are easier to remember than the good. If they mess up, they drag the reputation of others down with them.
So people who have been on a night out they should not travel people have been to a concert they should not travel commuters they should not travel because they might damage a train what a load of rubbish.so who is going to use the railways just church going folk.
Anyone who is going to behave in a decent and civilised manner should travel. Anyone who isn't, should stay at home, or otherwise keep away from law abiding civilised people who don't want their lives and routines messed up by muppets.
........I think the worst people for wrecking trains are the people who go out binge drinking come back on the last train from London, vomit all over the floor, chuck their McDonalds all over the place and sit in first class with a standard ticket (if they have a ticket at all).
Irrespective of who these miscreants are, they need to be stopped. Because if they are not, then the rules might as well not exist. On the basis of cause and effect, if I commit a crime and get caught and punished, I am less likely to do it again. But if I don't get caught, and I repeat the behaviour, and again don't get caught, or challenged or punished, this reinforces my belief that it's ok to indulge in whatever degenerate behaviour I was involved in. Which is why I think these people do what they do. They will continue to do it unless or until they are stopped. I struggle to understand why those involved in the legal system and so called crime prevention seem not to understand this concept.
