Dec 01, 2015

Football

A-League fans will destroy us all

80 Comments

Let me be very clear up front, it is not possible to overplay the threat A-League fans present to not only Australia but the entire world.

While our politicians foolishly focus on perceived security threats such as ISIS and the escalating tensions between Russia and Turkey, A-League fans are lighting flares across our great nation with gay abandon.

The recent release of a list of 198 fans banned from A-League games, shows Australia is being overrun by soccer hooligans, intent on destroying our way of life and plunging us into a post-apocalyptic world that makes The Walking Dead look like a paradise of heart breaking beauty.

In case you haven’t been paying attention, Melbourne Victory fans and Western Sydney Wanderers fans staged mass walkouts from their matches last weekend as a protest against a lack of an appeal process for banned fans.

It led to both games suddenly having the attendance and atmosphere of a GWS Giants’ game.

As a Melbourne Football Club supporter, I would usually support anyone’s right to walk out of a game but these A-League fans are not like AFL fans, they’re all dangerous. Every single one.

They have no right to justice. When Alan Jones likened them to terrorist all I could think is, ‘Alan, does that go far enough?’

It’s typical of Alan, always trying to calm the situation and adopt a nuanced position but frankly this isn’t the time.

This stuff never happens in other sports. Name one incidence of bad crowd behaviour at a cricket One Day International.

OK, fair point, name five of them then.

Wow, so quick with the response but a lot of those incidences involved white guys.

As for other codes, NRL fans have never caused a disturbance and I am completely unaware of any instance of an AFL fan recently being sent to prison for eight months for punching a woman in the face, just as a hypothetical example.

To me the answer is simple. We need to ban soccer in Australia and deport anyone who likes it.

Except for Tim Cahill, he’s a true Aussie hero.

COMMENTS

terry_legg

Dec 01, 2015

TitusOReily thank goodness these guys are here to help ?!! http://twitter.com/terry_legg/status/671498780185747456/photo/1

cavershamAFC

Dec 01, 2015

TitusOReily I'm much more afraid of sharing the same roads as Rebecca Wilson during the upcoming festive period U0001f37aU0001f37a

25MMCC

Dec 01, 2015

TitusOReily Sovereign Soccer Fans... Truly terrifying

tgywyw86

Dec 01, 2015

TitusOReily nailed it.

FN343

Dec 01, 2015

TitusOReily tgywyw86 send all this sokkah loving fans back to their own country .... Oh wait they are!!

TheRealNZ

Dec 01, 2015

DeanRosario very good indeed. U0001f44d

dabenn16

Dec 01, 2015

TitusOReily josephbattanta good read lol

jjliveson

Dec 01, 2015

TitusOReily just lols ..

JohnBiddle

Dec 01, 2015

Reasoned and proportional.

Mr Wisdoms Whopper

Dec 01, 2015

Titus, on the ball again

SSouthy_SFC

Dec 01, 2015

TitusOReily I am part of ISIS Insane Supporters of Independent Sydney

Wsw87

Dec 01, 2015

@TitusOReily how can you say that all their fans are dangerous can you prove that??? How about i pull a 6 or 7 year old kid from the crowd and take him or her up to you so i can really see how dangerous they are, you and the other dud journalists have nothing constructive to write about because you have no stories at all so you think that treating all soccer fans like grubs and thugs because of a minority is a good head line. Let me just remind you that there are over 100000 members of the a league in Australia and there are only 198 banned that most likely a fair few are not even guilty but can't appeal it because of people like you, grow a brain and talk or write about something that you are actually knowledgeable about because this is not a topic for you....

Lemmiwinks

Dec 01, 2015

Wsw87 An A-League fan ladies and gentlemen....

pgoog59

Dec 01, 2015

Wsw87  Wow mate - I was sympathetic to the walk-out fans but now thanks to you I'm glad people who've had a total irony bypass have been panned from football matches around our irony loving nation.

felquer

Dec 01, 2015

TitusOReily Some of your best work mate. Great read.

daryladair

Dec 01, 2015

Wsw87 You have completely misunderstood the satire and irony in this article. Goodness me.

DarylAdair

Dec 01, 2015

DeanRosario Loved it. Satire like this is great defence. Shame that one respondent didn't realise it was a joke. Still fuming, I think.

TitusOReily

Dec 01, 2015

felquer Thank you sir.

Wsw87

Dec 01, 2015

Forever Red & Black

Glenn_Anderson_

Dec 01, 2015

SimonTOverall TitusOReily You do realise Satire SimonTOverall?

SimonTOverall

Dec 01, 2015

Glenn_Anderson_ TitusOReily Exactly my point

robvad10

Dec 01, 2015

SimonTOverall TitusOReily surely a gee up?

SimonTOverall

Dec 01, 2015

robvad10 TitusOReily 100% ;)

robvad10

Dec 01, 2015

SimonTOverall TitusOReily no words!

Mr Wisdoms Whopper

Dec 01, 2015

Wsw87 Do you have any idea what Titus is all about? Have you read any other postings?
Very strange or is it a set up?

Troy N

Dec 01, 2015

Wsw87  It's satire. Google satire and you may realise what Titus O'Reily has done. Let me know when you realised that he was backing up not putting down A-league supporters.

VillaJohn01

Dec 01, 2015

TitusOReily Ha, very good! Don't want to pile on the anxiety but I'm currently preparing my dees protest banner ;) http://twitter.com/VillaJohn01/status/671551082980491265/photo/1

samlindros

Dec 01, 2015

TitusOReily EJ_CR7 read this

josephbattanta

Dec 01, 2015

dabenn16 TitusOReily excellent stuff

sheppo

Dec 01, 2015

Make no mistake, Soccer Australia would like nothing more than to see Aussie rules relegated to the back streets of suburban Australia, and soccer be like it is in Europe in this country. Given half a chance, they would be telling mums that soccer is the sport of the future, and no one ever gets hurt playing soccer, well, they just pretend they do. Soccer can go back to Europe for all I care, we have the greatest game in the world, and we invented it.

Robert McKenna

Dec 01, 2015

One of the more balanced articles on the topic.

Jack Soward

Dec 01, 2015

Dion Genovesi Nick Brinna hahaha

Bernard O'Dwyer

Dec 01, 2015

A very accurate summation Matt Pocock

Cameron Payne

Dec 01, 2015

Yeah I'm going off soccer this year
Nfl is more my thing ha

Matt Schofield

Dec 01, 2015

This is amazing.

Liam Harkin

Dec 01, 2015

I'm making my goal to get you banned

Chanz Crowley

Dec 01, 2015

Titus right on the money - Luke, Karen & Ryan

Matt Fenwick

Dec 01, 2015

Stephen Black, something satirical to get you through lunch. He is worth a follow for aus sporting satire

Wayne Ginger

Dec 01, 2015

Best one yet mate

Wayne Ginger

Dec 01, 2015

Ralston Drieberg Classic!

Andy Cass

Dec 01, 2015

still has more credibility than Rebecca Wilson

Matt Schofield

Dec 01, 2015

It's not that hard, just send the ffa a letter and they'll ban me without any evidence and then tell me if I can prove I'm not guilty I can get off. What a world.

Liam Harkin

Dec 01, 2015

Just give the evidence then

Stuart Ainge

Dec 01, 2015

David David Hards

Will Gannon

Dec 01, 2015

Who cares it's only soccer

Joel Urban

Dec 01, 2015

Always good to support Alan if you want to further your own career

Matt Schofield

Dec 01, 2015

Where do I get this evidence? It's hard to make a defence if you don't even know what you've done. Etihad stadium sure won't hand over any video footage.

Matthew Blashki

Dec 01, 2015

Euan McDonald-Madden, raises some great points

Liam Harkin

Dec 01, 2015

Can't help ya there. I've never been in a situation where I'd be worried about getting banned from a sport

Matt Schofield

Dec 01, 2015

Well that's the point.

Liam Harkin

Dec 01, 2015

I'd ban everyone if I could

Liam Harkin

Dec 01, 2015

This has gone well off topic for me stirring you about bosnich

Karen Patricia Griffiths

Dec 01, 2015

And then were us...

Sean Brown

Dec 01, 2015

Alex Plant great banter

Steven Frankie Lanfranca

Dec 01, 2015

Kirk Billy Josh Craven Keegan have a read of this

Michael Savage

Dec 01, 2015

2 bays of fans walk out whoopty doo.

Matt Schofield

Dec 01, 2015

I know, this argument would be taking place all over Australia with soccer fans vs non-soccer fans lol

Liam Harkin

Dec 01, 2015

Na I think non-soccer fans are on same page.
Just the 10% who assume all you do is throw flares and assault each other

Matt Schofield

Dec 01, 2015

Just let the bad ones kill each other with violence and flares then they won't have to worry about them U0001f44dU0001f3fb

Liam Harkin

Dec 01, 2015

Section them together. Worked with Israel and Palestine

Keegan James

Dec 01, 2015

Hehe Jonesy the voice of reason as always..

Damien Drake-Brockman

Dec 01, 2015

Got to read this Peter Kavanagh

Peter Kavanagh

Dec 01, 2015

haha, yes I did. Lol

Richard Witbreuk

Dec 01, 2015

bit of gold. doesn't go far enough bar the game fro oceania

Andrew Caire

Dec 01, 2015

Jake Carrick-Smith "hypothetically"

Jake Carrick-Smith

Dec 01, 2015

Titus is the man!

Stej Bosnjak

Dec 01, 2015

Add to that 198 the fans who received bans from Soccer Australia during the NSL days

Andrew Smith

Dec 01, 2015

The less dipshits congregating in public areas the better.

Gunnadownunda

Dec 01, 2015

TitusOReily Surely we should be punishing these thugs, not rewarding them by banning them from A League thugs.

Gunnadownunda

Dec 01, 2015

TitusOReily We should be punishing these thugs, not rewarding them by bans from A-League games.

Wandererdude88

Dec 01, 2015

TitusOReily wswnick is this even real? Wtf lol

JorgeKni

Dec 01, 2015

TitusOReily what about round ball makers? They should be prosecuted as drug dealers, what kind of person give a round ball to a kid?#tiasr

Matt Booth

Dec 01, 2015

Neil Joseph quality

Dean Wishart

Dec 01, 2015

Sarcasm... It's a gift

Furzey78

Dec 01, 2015

I prefer the good old days of the NSL. It was so much easier to vilify soccer fans when they had dirty terms like "Croatia"generously tagged to the team names. If the A League is serious about stamping out this nonsense they should just publicly print the massive death toll that flare-lighting has caused. It's a huge number, right up there with Marijuana overdoses and drop-bear attacks. Worst than ISIS indeed...

Furzey78

Dec 01, 2015

Wsw87 You're so right. Who the hell does this Titus guy think he is? You should read his atrocious attacks on the Carlton football club... Unforgivable! The quality of serious, non-comedic sports journalism has really dived (like a Sydney forward) in the last few years. If you have your pitchfork handy let's form an angry mob and get those darn kids of our lawns once and for all.

Peter Catton

Dec 01, 2015

Are they serious or just taking a dive?

Luan Nguyen

Dec 02, 2015

send them back to oceania.. that'll learn em..

Callum Stacy

Dec 02, 2015

So original. Let's all be chav's!

Timothy Linnell

Dec 02, 2015

Jack Sharlassian thanks jack