Admin1, its better for the not swearing rule - it would just be a swear fest - and the creative ways people get round it are amusing, as you know, is my favourite smiley - using the proper word would cheapen it for me

as for footy, i dont see how it would be policed or how it would make a difference

The complain thing works! I've done it!


As for the swearing ban
People know where swearing takes place, ie football, pubs, if you don't want your kids to hear it don't take them

Swearing is big and it's clever.

comment by Valencia's Right Foot (U11781)
I've never swore in my life
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I will nearly always swear when a complaint comes in. Go deal with 11,000 complaints and try and avoid it. It keeps me from madness.

j, edward delmonte (U3109)
posted 4 minutes ago
foul and abusive language has always quite rightly been a yellow or,sometimes a red card
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Do you watch football?

Swearing activates a bit of the brain that alleviates pain
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that is very interesting.

i actually went about 2 years without swearing up til about a year or so ago.

i swear like a trooper again now though (particularly on here ).

i wouldnt do it casually in public though, and i wouldnt swear like it's a badge of honour, and i wouldnt do it in front of kids

yes i do ,ive watched hundreds of games from the northern league
thanks for asking

Like admin1 rightly said, when you hurt yourself, it's a natural reaction to swear, for example, i stubbed my toe this morning and immediately shouted "b'stard", though some people take it to extremes, for example, a workmate of mine jammed a finger last week and screamed "$hit, pi$$ b'stard Feck"............that, imo, was uncalled for.

i broke my big toe in 6 places the other week. i think i said "bol_____" under my breath and just got on with it. i didnt sit there screaming this that and the other.

it's not just when theyre injured though, it's all the flippin time.

I will nearly always swear when a complaint comes in. Go deal with 11,000 complaints and try and avoid it. It keeps me from madness.


Make me Admin3 and I'll consider taking that challenge on

I swear a lot at home e.g. when i'm losing at fifa / other games, or when other things are frustrating e.g. dropping things etc, i don't really swear in public, find it embarassng to be honest, just makes you come across as an angry person and gives out the wrong impressions to people.

Although i must confess i did do a inbetweeners moment when i first started driving and went past my old bus stop and shouted " bus w....rs "

Go deal with 11,000 complaints and try and avoid it

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11,000! I see like the occasional maybe complaint worthy offence every couple of days, but no where near 11000!

j, edward delmonte (U3109)
posted 7 minutes ago
yes i do ,ive watched hundreds of games from the northern league
thanks for asking
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I'd assume you realise people swear, at every level off football and 99% of the time get away with it?

That law has been used to ban a footballer in the PL once, that was of course Rooney's rant at the camera man.

I actually swear more on this site than I do in real-life.

as for footy, i dont see how it would be policed or how it would make a difference
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if you introduced a rule which said that swearing is a yellow card offence, wont that stop people swearing ?

the more difficult problem i would have thought is how to deal with spectators and hangers on doing it.

i can see a number of benefits if it can be stamped out.

Chelsea - Always wanted to do that

11,000 complaints? Bloody hell!

Common sense has to apply. There will be circumstances where, whilst not ideal, swearing may occur in reaction to something (i e - if you miss a sitter and say 'oh for f... sake' However, if your swearing is aimed at someone, or is a complete over reaction, then it should be punished. If a player doesn't realise that he has gone too far, then there is seriously something wrong with that player.

I also hate the 'get-out clause' that people use that swearing is part and parcel of football and it should just be accepted. Why should it? There are so many sports where the passion and atmosphere is electric, but no-one needs to resort to abuse and swearing. It is just sheer lazyness on the part of fans who are unwilling to change their ways. And I say this as someone who unfortunately swears all too easily.

One thing I notice about sport in the US and in Asia is the family atmosphere at most sporting events - you would have no quibbles about taking kids to such events. But the abuse you hear at British grounds is very poor indeed - and shouting abuse at players is also condoned. People will say that players earn loads, and it's the fans right to shout abuse at them, and that they should just toughen up, but what's so tough about hundreds / thousands of people verbally abusing someone - are we not better than that?

an audible obscenity is at the discretion of the referee as to wether it should be penalised or not,its not pleasant for spectators watching ,often awful players, who also want to assault their lug holes with swearing

I don't think you could ban players from swearing as they would just learn to mime obscenities and some may even learn sign language and do it behind the referees back.

I don't think you could ban players from swearing as they would just learn to mime obscenities and some may even learn sign language and do it behind the referees back.
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what, adults ?

So if you make a bad tackle you get a yellow card and then you say to player, "Sh** sorry" you get another and get sent off???

maybe the ref needs to be given some discretion in assessing what he regards as wanton swearing.

When I fluffed a shot when I play football, I sometimes swear, not at anyone, not screaming it out, but to myself in frustration. Would that be a yellow card offence?

At 5s which I haven't player for about 3 years. 80-90% of my vocabulary is swearing.