Also, I find that when a rugby player misbehaves, his own supporters tend to be critical: "he's really let himself down" or "yeah - he seems like a bit of a dick" whereas football is SO tribal that fans tend to blindly back their own players and find excuses, or worse still even look up to them in some way...
never really been a football fan, but recently started noticing chelsea , mate of mine is a proper true blue. tats, tracks the lot which is quite amusing living in the north west of Scotland, the hart of rangers and celtic. proper proddy - catholic country. he is also the cousin of kevin smith the bike tester (apologizes for name dropping).
