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Is it healthy to harbor such a resentment towards a sport because your games teacher 50 years ago was a prick?
Get Partridge on the case for one of his investigative reports.
“Double O fecking boll*cks”
Hope you don’t include me in that.
As I said, I played it eventually through choice and enjoy watching the game itself.
Doesn’t stop me being pissed off about my games teachers and their treatment of pupils who preferred other sports and that the attitude of a lot of rugby fans towards football and football supporters is ridiculous and hypocritical
The same could be said about football fans attitude to rugby I understand why people like yourself would feel resentment towards the way school treated sports we all went through the same thing some worse than others but it never really bothered me even knowing I enjoyed playing rugby (not as much as football) I should’ve been playing in the backs and my fecking teacher thought it best to play me in the second row with lads twice my size but I still don’t get the hatred towards it we should be celebrating that this amazing small country is good at something I want us to win even if it’s hopscotch and that’s what winds me up
Llanedeyrn High..1st year..Dennis Ellis PE teacher (Penarth scrum half)..1971
"Right lads, those who want to play rugby to the left...football to the right"..
Me and Jonathan Morgan walk to the right.
" Davies..I know your Dad..move over to the left."
."..and you can't play football on your own Morgan..move over"
Same in Basssaleg.
At the "welcome to parents of new pupils" thing, circa 1965, one dad asked if his son, who showed promise at football (soccer) , would get any coaching to help him develop.
The head's response was
"No, this is a grammar school - we play rugby here" !!
****ing snob.
Why do rugby fans call it ‘soccer’?
I can't believe so many Egg lovers get wound up that some Welsh football fans either dislike rugby or are just ambivalent to it.
It doesn't bother me that eggers hate football or call it Wendyball.
Everyone has a choice and I hate rugby .
I suppose the thing about not cheering is that you cannot hear it. So I suppose loads of people wouldn't have cheered but that wouldn't affect the fact that others did, so a person in the stadium would just hear cheering/chanting.
I say "I suppose".... what I really mean is, "I know", because I was there too. And as is so very obviously the case, a lot of Welsh people who support Cardiff City also support their national rugby team so I doubt those people would have cheered either. Even at Ninian Park, even in the 1990s.
I had a PE teacher who banned football too (take a bow, Mr Williams of St Cyres) and I hated playing rugby at school as a result of it being forced on me. But I still enjoyed the five nations and if City were playing away, I would go and watch the blue and blacks. I don't care about how the two sports are portrayed in the local media. I don't care whether people think rugby fans look down their noses at football or whatever else. They are probably wrong but I won't let that affect what I do. I come from Cardiff and I come from Wales, so those are the teams I support in any sport. And it so happens that we are bloody good at rugby and it also happens that rugby can be a fantastic game to watch.