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<blockquote data-quote="RoosTah" data-source="post: 625500" data-attributes="member: 12207"><p>It's not complicated really; it's just little brother syndrome. Australians have always relished beating England at sports, and there's little more satisfying than beating their gentry at their most 'genteel' sport. That's how it started in any case - Australia and England have since turned cricket into an aggressive and bitter pursuit of threats, attempts at physical harm and just down right nasty name calling.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Not really... I would say that most of the Sydney FC fans are Anglo-celtic ethnically, whilst the WSW are more Lebanese than croats and greek. The common theme with your average white anglo Australian soccer fan however, is that they act like being a soccer fan is being a curator in a fine art museum that houses the works of all the greats around the world. That's why their hooliganism is so ridiculous; they're snobs through and through for the most part. In fact I'd argue they're much more like the cliche of a British Rugby fan.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RoosTah, post: 625500, member: 12207"] It's not complicated really; it's just little brother syndrome. Australians have always relished beating England at sports, and there's little more satisfying than beating their gentry at their most 'genteel' sport. That's how it started in any case - Australia and England have since turned cricket into an aggressive and bitter pursuit of threats, attempts at physical harm and just down right nasty name calling. Not really... I would say that most of the Sydney FC fans are Anglo-celtic ethnically, whilst the WSW are more Lebanese than croats and greek. The common theme with your average white anglo Australian soccer fan however, is that they act like being a soccer fan is being a curator in a fine art museum that houses the works of all the greats around the world. That's why their hooliganism is so ridiculous; they're snobs through and through for the most part. In fact I'd argue they're much more like the cliche of a British Rugby fan. [/QUOTE]
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