Football fans

[catherine at cator-manor.demon.co.uk]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Benjamin" <jaffa276 at y...> wrote:
> 
> Does talking about football count as inflammatory?
> 
> Just in case some of the English on the list have missed this (and 
it 
> isn't on the BBC), I think it only fair to point out that the 
recent 
> Scottish Old Firm match caused riots in Ireland (Dublin's O'Connell 
> Street)...  And not an English hooligan in sight.
> 
> Well it struck me as slightly ironic anyway.
> 
> -Ben.

Considering one of the delights of these lists for me is that they 
give me an escape route when Husband is glued to the television, 
watching football (or the Grand Prix, or the Snooker or any other 
sport which so often intrudes into my life at the weekend) I would 
consider that talking about football on this list as something which 
could potentially be inflammatory!

BTW - did the other Brits out there notice on the main list about 
Italian translations that Argus Filch's sirname is Gazza?!  Somehow I 
can't see Filch with a beer belly, badly peroxided hair, geordie 
accent etc.  The crybaby element doesn't do it for me either!

Catherine