How is it that soccer fans are such yobs?? The rugby fans have a good level of respect for all opponents anthems no matter who they are which definitely influences which sport I value - and watch!
In the main, football in the UK is the sport of the bottom of society. Conversely Rugby started off at a public school. Whether you get yobbish supporters at rugby league I do not know.
For many in the UK the people they mix with and relate to are overwhelmingly the same social class as themselves. I was like that and it was only when I started to manage a factory with a blue collar workforce including contractors recruited from the output of the local jail, that I got an idea of how , both good and bad, those at the bottom of society behaved. The racism based on fear and insecurity for example. The class hatred. The attitude towards plod.
Sure this is a sweeping generalisation and there are lots of exceptions. But there are even more who fit the above and the tribalism of soccer supporters is a part of it..
Dont forget, by the way, that the UK anthem is often booed in Scotland.
