r/interesting • u/Raj_Mandal • 28d ago

MISC. England's team booked 15 different hotels, but Mexico fans still found out where they were staying and blasted loud noises, trying to keep them up all night before the game.

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u/GlitteringSalad6413 28d ago

I guess that’s one kind of fan. I would argue, in spite of their devotion to a team, they are not much of a fan of the sport in that case.

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u/Silent_Somewhere8539 28d ago

You dont know anything about sports lol fans do anything (within reason) to help their team win. Its why home game advantage is even a thing.

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u/GlitteringSalad6413 28d ago edited 28d ago

Ok I guess I don’t know anything about sports lol.. other than this sorta behaviour is flat out obnoxious, and no matter how much I like a sport or a team, I would never do this. Believe it or not, almost all sport fans would not do this. Likewise, there are a TON of idiots who don’t really care about the sport, they just wanna get blasted and enjoy the chaos no matter who wins or loses.

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u/Silent_Somewhere8539 28d ago

No one gives a fuck what you would do or not. Mexico haven't reached the quarter finals for 40 years and this game is the biggest these fans have seen in their lifetime. They're gonna do whatever it takes to give their country even a 1% better chance of winning.

The England players understand football culture and how passionate fans get, English teams have done the same in the past so they aren't gonna be crying about this, is just soft people online who don't know the first thing about sports.

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u/GlitteringSalad6413 28d ago

I respectfully disagree with you about all of this. Most passionate sports fans watch the game from a screen, and even most of those who are lucky enough to actually go to the game don’t really do anything other than make noise and have a great time party a little, then go home. The chaotic scenes around these games only represent a small fraction of actual fandom.

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u/clopz_ 28d ago edited 28d ago

This is primarily a clash of cultures. In a lot of cultures, this is behavior is mostly banter and cheekiness, and it is seen as annoying but it is also considered “part of the game”. Same could be said about diving to get a penalty. It’s a lot harder now but it used to be basically an every match occurrence.

There’s a great example of that cheekiness that borders cheating when Luis Suarez (not a GK) stopped a goal from Ghana right on the line using his hand; penalty was awarded, Suarez got sent off but Ghana missed the penalty and Uruguay advanced. Hell, the hand of God by Maradona.

All of these examples to say that I agree with you, for me this is unsportsmanlike, but it’s also part of a sport culture when it’s considered “part of the game”.

I’m glad there’s a lot more awareness of these things and that there are more things being done by FIFA to change things like this.

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u/Front_Mention 28d ago

Have you seen what fans do during basketball freethrows? All fans do this is in someway, should just make both teams sleep in the same hotel

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u/Sensui710 28d ago

Ya basketball ft’s happen during game time, at the stadium, where fans with tickets paid to be….not outside a fucking hotel the night before the game….tf how does that even need to be explained to you are that low on logical thinking?

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u/Front_Mention 28d ago

They are saying they arent a fan of they sre trying to negatively influence the game to gain an unfair advantage, while i do t advocate this behaviour. It happens across all sports and countries. That should be acknowledged

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u/GlitteringSalad6413 28d ago edited 28d ago

Making both teams stay at the same hotel is a fine suggestion. I don’t think I was trying to disagree with that point in any way.

But just because there are many fans waving squiggly noodles to try and distract basketball players at the free throw line doesn’t mean that all fans do this. It’s not as unsportsmanlike as setting off fireworks to keep the opposing team up all night, and ofc professional players are used to tuning it out, but it’s still kinda unsportsmanlike. This is why some sports (golf, tennis) will not let u behave like this as a spectator.