Saturdays World Cup Game?

[elias]

Are you so naive as to think the entire glastonbury audience are saints?

[Cardboard Box City]

Ooh I don't know that one...how does it go just so I;m fully prepared?! I'll have a 7 month belly full of baby as well so I'll teach it to my unborn so he/she can join in too!

[Langdale Wolf]

They should show The Germans episode of Fawlty Towers beforehand, just to get the atmopshere right.

Then wheel out Bert Trautmann in chains.

[ampersand]

Anyway, this is all academic- England will win their group and so will the Germans

[Cardboard Box City]

so let's not play the tournament at all, shall we?

[russycarps]

Oh yes thats right, acts that make the news regarding football fans are the complete and universal norm. You've never been to a match have you?

I'm also fairly sure that a crowd at Glastonbury wouldn't muster too many songs, let alone a round of Ten German Bombers or something like that

[ampersand]

I'd rather not risk a repeat at Glastonbury, thanks all the same.

[Cardboard Box City]

Yes I have been to a game actually. England v Turkey.

Edited April 16, 2010 by Cardboard Box City

[MissJoJo]

well the only guy that matters does. so why you getting sand in your vagina?

[russycarps]

well the only guy that matters does. so why you getting sand in your vagina?

[Rufus Gwertigan]

It depends what time it's on. And therefore what it clashes with. But I'm prepared to miss it, yes.

No matter what happens, I wouldn't leave the site. It'd be a bit of a shitter, but I'm going to Glastonbury, and from a personal point of view, I'm going to a Glastonbury with the strongest line up I've ever experienced.

It means I'm going to have to make the sacrifice and forget about the football. I know it's not the same as watching it live, but I'll catch up with ALL the football when I get home.

[russycarps]

So this happened in 2004 as well then did it? Dont remember it myself

[Tugger2k]

So you dont think there is a chance there might be different people in the crowd in 2010? Or do exactly the same people go every single year?

Once again I ask, why risk the reputation and license of the festival just for a football game?

[Langdale Wolf]

Once again I ask, why risk the reputation and license of the festival just for a football game?

[russycarps]

because it is no risk.

why risk the reputation of the festival by having someone strung out on stage friday night?

[Cardboard Box City]

Once again I ask, why risk the reputation and license of the festival just for a football game?

[Cardboard Box City]

When football and england fans are involved there is always a risk. That is why thousands of extra police are required in wembley on match days.

[Langdale Wolf]

When football and england fans are involved there is always a risk. That is why thousands of extra police are required in wembley on match days.

[Tugger2k]

When festivals and festival crowds are involved there is always a risk.

You're not making sense because you're not understanding the difference between match-going footy fans and a crowd watching it at Glastonbury.

I ask again - if there was any extra risk, why would the organisers allow it to be shown?

[MEGABOWL]

I'm having a headache trying to figure out their plans. The TBA's on the Saturday seem to suggest a plan if Ingerlund win the group, but what if they come second?

[russycarps]

There's always thousands of extra police in the village of Pilton when there's a festival involved, does that mean when festival go-ers are involved there's always a risk?

[Langdale Wolf]

spot on. the idiots will be in the pubs and in south africa!! not at glasto!

[Tugger2k]

so you are saying there is just as much chance of fighting and racist chanting at a festival as at a football game? You seem to be deluded.

Racism and violence are commonplace at england football matches. Can anyone deny this? Bear in mind I witnessed the racism first hand.

I love glastonbury festival, and would hate it's reputation to be tarnished by some brainless idiots. The football game increases the chances of this happening, so for the good of the festival I would rather the football was not shown to eliminate this risk.

Do you see?

I am sorry it is unpleasant for you to have to accept that the england football team has a racist, violent element but it is an undeniable truth.

Or are you denying this?

[russycarps]

When festivals and festival crowds are involved there is always a risk.

You're not making sense because you're not understanding the difference between match-going footy fans and a crowd watching it at Glastonbury.

I ask again - if there was any extra risk, why would the organisers allow it to be shown?

[Tugger2k]

Exactly.

A lot of my mates aren't coming this year because they don't want to miss the footy - especially England games. And they're not foul mouthed, racist, xenophobic lager louts - they just love their footy.

The people who ARE foul mouthed, racist, xenophobic lager louts will think the same. Except they wouldn't have even thought about Glastonbury in the first place.