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    You stroppy football lot

    Earlier this week I was watching a rerun of Michael Palin's "Ripping Yarns" where a women has to hide all the breakables before her husband comes home from yet another football match where his awful home team loses. Thought it was just comedic invention until a BBC TV news item tonight about the increased threat of domestic violence during the World Cup. Can't find a link to that but an article from last year is here:

    World Cup football is a risk factor for domestic violence | Lancaster University

    So come on you footy fans. Who punches the wife, kicks the cat and smashes the place up when England lose?
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    It's only a game
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      #3
      It's only a game
      Which one, punching the wife, kicking the cat or smashing the place up?
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        #4
        Originally posted by xoggoth View Post
        Which one, punching the wife, kicking the cat or smashing the place up?
        We haven't got a cat.
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          #5
          I sometimes lose my temper when I bang my head on things. I learnt my lesson (not to hit things in anger) many years ago when I punched a kitchen cupboard and the whole thing fell off the wall.
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            #6
            Originally posted by xoggoth View Post
            Earlier this week I was watching a rerun of Michael Palin's "Ripping Yarns" where a women has to hide all the breakables before her husband comes home from yet another football match where his awful home team loses. Thought it was just comedic invention until a BBC TV news item tonight about the increased threat of domestic violence during the World Cup. Can't find a link to that but an article from last year is here:

            World Cup football is a risk factor for domestic violence | Lancaster University

            So come on you footy fans. Who punches the wife, kicks the cat and smashes the place up when England lose?
            I think expectations are so low that when we inevitably go out with a whimper there will just be a collective sigh of relief that it's all over for another 4 years.

            By the way, I loved Ripping Yarns - I always remember the one about the boarding school and they sent the college puma after MP when he played truant.

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              #7
              Originally posted by TheFaQQer View Post
              We haven't got a cat .... anymore
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                #8
                Barstoneworth, Barnstoneworth!!!!!

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                  #9
                  8 bloody 1!!!!!!

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                    #10
                    I learnt my lesson (not to hit things in anger) many years ago when I punched a kitchen cupboard and the whole thing fell off the wall
                    I once slammed a door with an expensive safety glass panel and the whole thing exploded. Not over football though, something about the wife wanting the car when I needed it.
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