Swearing in football

[Wowbagger]

http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2013/oct/18/paul-ince-swearing-blackpool

That's beautifully-written article very much in the good Grauniad tradition of Cardus and Arlott. I hope they would have approved, but something tells me perhaps not.

[Jakob]

That's what really puzzled me at the whole John Terry/Ferdinand thing. They were shouting all kinds of abuse as each other, which was deemed perfectly normal and it was only the insertion of the word 'black' that made it a Very Bad Thing.
So, it's perfectly acceptable to abuse others, as long a it's not racists/sexist....

[Jaded]

I remain to be convinced that in the pre-Derek and Clive Watershed times, that the C word was used at football matches as an energy gel or clarion call.

Are there any old people here that can disabuse me?

[hillbilly]

Cunt is used very infrequently in all walks of life.  Even in sports.  That's why it is so powerful when used.  I made the mistake of shouting it at a referee and got told off by another supporter.  I was probably 16 at the time (late 80s).  This was in Dundee, where fuck was used like punctuation, on the pitch as well as off it.

[Wowbagger]

We just call people "Jeremies" these days.

[Gaston Lagaffe]

We just call people "Jeremies" these days.

I had no idea the word Clarkson was so abusive in certain circles.  I'll take more care in future.

[Wowbagger]

For you, GL, "berk" is a reserved word.

[Wowbagger]

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2013/nov/06/shane-warne-sledging-ashes

And swearing in cricket. Marina Hyde has a lovely turn of phrase:

And so with cricket sledging, where – within the Center Parcs of on-pitch idiocy – someone offering a variant on someone's wife's post-coital generosity with the biscuits is regarded as having out-Twained Twain.