"Followers of football (those from the colonies call it "soccer" although the correct name is "association football") are all morons. "

Thanks Rich. You know me so well.

Mind you, I'm sort of absolved by the fact as a lifelong Aston Villa fan at present every time I'm watching them I'm not really watching football as such, but a sort of mummer's farce parading played out by an increasingly confused and disparate group of people with little common interest and little sense of obligation to actually try to win a game.