Quote Originally Posted by BuyingManCityTickets View Post
If you compare the actual people in the grounds there is no comparison.

Some cardiff city fans are ****ing scum. There is a difference I feel as at the football it is genuine anger. At the rugby it is just drunken fools sometimes tipping drinks

Outside and behaviour in the centre with the rugby, no doubt. People are like animals. But then again if cardiff attracted 70k & thousands more to watch on TV lets see what would happen then
None of which answers my question. Yes, there is misbehaviour at City matches, but, maybe I'm lucky in where I sit in the ground, I don't see as many pissed out their minds at matches as I used to - I don't get to many away matches these days, but, not really surprisingly, the percentage of people who are pissed at them seems to be higher than in home games.

Fifteen years ago and more, there were more drunks at home games as a percentage than there is now, whereas I feel that over the past quarter of a century the opposite has happened at rugby internationals. I went to a fair few rugby internationals in the 80s mainly with people I worked with in Companies House and drink always played a big part in the day with some we'd see in such a state that they didn't remember, or sometimes didn't even make, the game, but, in my experience, more people saw the game itself as the most important part of their day than do now - you'd be there waiting for the pubs to open at eleven, but the "serious" drinking went on after the match.

So, I'd say that personal experience when it comes to football games and anecdotal experience in rugby games tells me that these days behaviour at City games has improved, while it's as bad as it ever was or, possibly, worse at rugby internationals, yet it's the football fans who continue to be the victims when it comes to the different standards I mentioned in my first message.