So as I sit here at home watching the Liverpool-Middlesbrough game, the announcers on Setanta just had what was quite possibly the dumbest conversation ever. I am recording the game, so maybe later I'll try to do a complete transcript (but that's unlikely).
The gist was that one guy asked the other if he thought that the crowd at Anfield (Liverpool's stadium) was more subdued during day games than night games. The second guy agreed. Then they tried to figure out why it was, and couldn't come up with a good answer.
Now...
Any American sports fan knows that a night game on the weekend is going have many more fans who have been drinking all day, making them louder. I think we can assume that English soccer fans take the drinking part of the sporting event even more seriously than we do. The obvious answer, then, as to why the crowds at the night games seem more boisterous is that they are hammered.
It's possible that the announcers know full well that this is the reason, but the EPL doesn't want to talk about alcohol and their fans since in the past they have had so many problems with fan hooliganism. You think these guys could come up with artful euphemisms rather than play dumb, though.
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