Let me be very clear up front, it is not possible to overplay the threat A-League fans present to not only Australia but the entire world.
While our politicians foolishly focus on perceived security threats such as ISIS and the escalating tensions between Russia and Turkey, A-League fans are lighting flares across our great nation with gay abandon.
The recent release of a list of 198 fans banned from A-League games, shows Australia is being overrun by soccer hooligans, intent on destroying our way of life and plunging us into a post-apocalyptic world that makes The Walking Dead look like a paradise of heart breaking beauty.
In case you haven’t been paying attention, Melbourne Victory fans and Western Sydney Wanderers fans staged mass walkouts from their matches last weekend as a protest against a lack of an appeal process for banned fans.
It led to both games suddenly having the attendance and atmosphere of a GWS Giants’ game.
As a Melbourne Football Club supporter, I would usually support anyone’s right to walk out of a game but these A-League fans are not like AFL fans, they’re all dangerous. Every single one.
They have no right to justice. When Alan Jones likened them to terrorist all I could think is, ‘Alan, does that go far enough?’
It’s typical of Alan, always trying to calm the situation and adopt a nuanced position but frankly this isn’t the time.
This stuff never happens in other sports. Name one incidence of bad crowd behaviour at a cricket One Day International.
OK, fair point, name five of them then.
Wow, so quick with the response but a lot of those incidences involved white guys.
As for other codes, NRL fans have never caused a disturbance and I am completely unaware of any instance of an AFL fan recently being sent to prison for eight months for punching a woman in the face, just as a hypothetical example.
To me the answer is simple. We need to ban soccer in Australia and deport anyone who likes it.
Except for Tim Cahill, he’s a true Aussie hero.
COMMENTS
terry_legg
Dec 01, 2015
TitusOReily thank goodness these guys are here to help ?!! http://twitter.com/terry_legg/status/671498780185747456/photo/1
cavershamAFC
Dec 01, 2015
TitusOReily I'm much more afraid of sharing the same roads as Rebecca Wilson during the upcoming festive period U0001f37aU0001f37a
25MMCC
Dec 01, 2015
TitusOReily Sovereign Soccer Fans... Truly terrifying
tgywyw86
Dec 01, 2015
TitusOReily nailed it.
FN343
Dec 01, 2015
TitusOReily tgywyw86 send all this sokkah loving fans back to their own country .... Oh wait they are!!
TheRealNZ
Dec 01, 2015
DeanRosario very good indeed. U0001f44d
dabenn16
Dec 01, 2015
TitusOReily josephbattanta good read lol
jjliveson
Dec 01, 2015
TitusOReily just lols ..
JohnBiddle
Dec 01, 2015
Reasoned and proportional.
Mr Wisdoms Whopper
Dec 01, 2015
Titus, on the ball again
SSouthy_SFC
Dec 01, 2015
TitusOReily I am part of ISIS Insane Supporters of Independent Sydney
Wsw87
Dec 01, 2015
@TitusOReily how can you say that all their fans are dangerous can you prove that??? How about i pull a 6 or 7 year old kid from the crowd and take him or her up to you so i can really see how dangerous they are, you and the other dud journalists have nothing constructive to write about because you have no stories at all so you think that treating all soccer fans like grubs and thugs because of a minority is a good head line. Let me just remind you that there are over 100000 members of the a league in Australia and there are only 198 banned that most likely a fair few are not even guilty but can't appeal it because of people like you, grow a brain and talk or write about something that you are actually knowledgeable about because this is not a topic for you....
Lemmiwinks
Dec 01, 2015
Wsw87 An A-League fan ladies and gentlemen....
pgoog59
Dec 01, 2015
Wsw87 Wow mate - I was sympathetic to the walk-out fans but now thanks to you I'm glad people who've had a total irony bypass have been panned from football matches around our irony loving nation.
felquer
Dec 01, 2015
TitusOReily Some of your best work mate. Great read.
daryladair
Dec 01, 2015
Wsw87 You have completely misunderstood the satire and irony in this article. Goodness me.
DarylAdair
Dec 01, 2015
DeanRosario Loved it. Satire like this is great defence. Shame that one respondent didn't realise it was a joke. Still fuming, I think.
TitusOReily
Dec 01, 2015
felquer Thank you sir.
Wsw87
Dec 01, 2015
Forever Red & Black
Glenn_Anderson_
Dec 01, 2015
SimonTOverall TitusOReily You do realise Satire SimonTOverall?
SimonTOverall
Dec 01, 2015
Glenn_Anderson_ TitusOReily Exactly my point
robvad10
Dec 01, 2015
SimonTOverall TitusOReily surely a gee up?
SimonTOverall
Dec 01, 2015
robvad10 TitusOReily 100% ;)
robvad10
Dec 01, 2015
SimonTOverall TitusOReily no words!
Mr Wisdoms Whopper
Dec 01, 2015
Wsw87 Do you have any idea what Titus is all about? Have you read any other postings?
Very strange or is it a set up?
Troy N
Dec 01, 2015
Wsw87 It's satire. Google satire and you may realise what Titus O'Reily has done. Let me know when you realised that he was backing up not putting down A-league supporters.
VillaJohn01
Dec 01, 2015
TitusOReily Ha, very good! Don't want to pile on the anxiety but I'm currently preparing my dees protest banner ;) http://twitter.com/VillaJohn01/status/671551082980491265/photo/1
samlindros
Dec 01, 2015
TitusOReily EJ_CR7 read this
josephbattanta
Dec 01, 2015
dabenn16 TitusOReily excellent stuff
sheppo
Dec 01, 2015
Make no mistake, Soccer Australia would like nothing more than to see Aussie rules relegated to the back streets of suburban Australia, and soccer be like it is in Europe in this country. Given half a chance, they would be telling mums that soccer is the sport of the future, and no one ever gets hurt playing soccer, well, they just pretend they do. Soccer can go back to Europe for all I care, we have the greatest game in the world, and we invented it.
Robert McKenna
Dec 01, 2015
One of the more balanced articles on the topic.
Jack Soward
Dec 01, 2015
Dion Genovesi Nick Brinna hahaha
Bernard O'Dwyer
Dec 01, 2015
A very accurate summation Matt Pocock
Cameron Payne
Dec 01, 2015
Yeah I'm going off soccer this year
Nfl is more my thing ha
Matt Schofield
Dec 01, 2015
This is amazing.
Liam Harkin
Dec 01, 2015
I'm making my goal to get you banned
Chanz Crowley
Dec 01, 2015
Titus right on the money - Luke, Karen & Ryan
Matt Fenwick
Dec 01, 2015
Stephen Black, something satirical to get you through lunch. He is worth a follow for aus sporting satire
Wayne Ginger
Dec 01, 2015
Best one yet mate
Wayne Ginger
Dec 01, 2015
Ralston Drieberg Classic!
Andy Cass
Dec 01, 2015
still has more credibility than Rebecca Wilson
Matt Schofield
Dec 01, 2015
It's not that hard, just send the ffa a letter and they'll ban me without any evidence and then tell me if I can prove I'm not guilty I can get off. What a world.
Liam Harkin
Dec 01, 2015
Just give the evidence then
Stuart Ainge
Dec 01, 2015
David David Hards
Will Gannon
Dec 01, 2015
Who cares it's only soccer
Joel Urban
Dec 01, 2015
Always good to support Alan if you want to further your own career
Matt Schofield
Dec 01, 2015
Where do I get this evidence? It's hard to make a defence if you don't even know what you've done. Etihad stadium sure won't hand over any video footage.
Matthew Blashki
Dec 01, 2015
Euan McDonald-Madden, raises some great points
Liam Harkin
Dec 01, 2015
Can't help ya there. I've never been in a situation where I'd be worried about getting banned from a sport
Matt Schofield
Dec 01, 2015
Well that's the point.
Liam Harkin
Dec 01, 2015
I'd ban everyone if I could
Liam Harkin
Dec 01, 2015
This has gone well off topic for me stirring you about bosnich
Karen Patricia Griffiths
Dec 01, 2015
And then were us...
Sean Brown
Dec 01, 2015
Alex Plant great banter
Steven Frankie Lanfranca
Dec 01, 2015
Kirk Billy Josh Craven Keegan have a read of this
Michael Savage
Dec 01, 2015
2 bays of fans walk out whoopty doo.
Matt Schofield
Dec 01, 2015
I know, this argument would be taking place all over Australia with soccer fans vs non-soccer fans lol
Liam Harkin
Dec 01, 2015
Na I think non-soccer fans are on same page.
Just the 10% who assume all you do is throw flares and assault each other
Matt Schofield
Dec 01, 2015
Just let the bad ones kill each other with violence and flares then they won't have to worry about them U0001f44dU0001f3fb
Liam Harkin
Dec 01, 2015
Section them together. Worked with Israel and Palestine
Keegan James
Dec 01, 2015
Hehe Jonesy the voice of reason as always..
Damien Drake-Brockman
Dec 01, 2015
Got to read this Peter Kavanagh
Peter Kavanagh
Dec 01, 2015
haha, yes I did. Lol
Richard Witbreuk
Dec 01, 2015
bit of gold. doesn't go far enough bar the game fro oceania
Andrew Caire
Dec 01, 2015
Jake Carrick-Smith "hypothetically"
Jake Carrick-Smith
Dec 01, 2015
Titus is the man!
Stej Bosnjak
Dec 01, 2015
Add to that 198 the fans who received bans from Soccer Australia during the NSL days
Andrew Smith
Dec 01, 2015
The less dipshits congregating in public areas the better.
Gunnadownunda
Dec 01, 2015
TitusOReily Surely we should be punishing these thugs, not rewarding them by banning them from A League thugs.
Gunnadownunda
Dec 01, 2015
TitusOReily We should be punishing these thugs, not rewarding them by bans from A-League games.
Wandererdude88
Dec 01, 2015
TitusOReily wswnick is this even real? Wtf lol
JorgeKni
Dec 01, 2015
TitusOReily what about round ball makers? They should be prosecuted as drug dealers, what kind of person give a round ball to a kid?#tiasr
Matt Booth
Dec 01, 2015
Neil Joseph quality
Dean Wishart
Dec 01, 2015
Sarcasm... It's a gift
Furzey78
Dec 01, 2015
I prefer the good old days of the NSL. It was so much easier to vilify soccer fans when they had dirty terms like "Croatia"generously tagged to the team names. If the A League is serious about stamping out this nonsense they should just publicly print the massive death toll that flare-lighting has caused. It's a huge number, right up there with Marijuana overdoses and drop-bear attacks. Worst than ISIS indeed...
Furzey78
Dec 01, 2015
Wsw87 You're so right. Who the hell does this Titus guy think he is? You should read his atrocious attacks on the Carlton football club... Unforgivable! The quality of serious, non-comedic sports journalism has really dived (like a Sydney forward) in the last few years. If you have your pitchfork handy let's form an angry mob and get those darn kids of our lawns once and for all.
Peter Catton
Dec 01, 2015
Are they serious or just taking a dive?
Luan Nguyen
Dec 02, 2015
send them back to oceania.. that'll learn em..
Callum Stacy
Dec 02, 2015
So original. Let's all be chav's!
Timothy Linnell
Dec 02, 2015
Jack Sharlassian thanks jack