It’s fancy dress season in European football and no one does it like the Brits. This was just a quick snap with my pocket camera during today’s match between the Baggies and the Magpies.

I have never before seen anyone wearing a balaclava shaped like a raw turkey.

West Bromwich Albion 3 – 1 Newcastle United




  1. Faxon says:

    Eidheard,
    Nobody in the United States gives a shit about soccer.

  2. moss says:

    Eideard doesn’t give a shit about fools.

  3. god says:

    #2 – Or turkeys.

  4. Jess Hurchist says:

    I think faxon is just plain wrong on this

  5. Tippis says:

    #1 That’s ok. No-one in the world cares about hand-egg either.

  6. Torbit says:

    Northern Men are right hard, -3 Celsius and not even wearing a t-shirt. although he does have a lot of blubber to protect him.

  7. Holdfast says:

    #1 He said football, That is as defined by nearly 95% of the planet. The game you are thinking of is not where a ball is moved around by someones foot most of the time.

    Perhaps your game should be called something else – like American ‘football’.

  8. Mike Toole says:

    #1 – you’re in for an unpleasant surprise:

    Funny picture. I’ve seen chicken hats before, but never turkey balaclavas. That match was terrible, btw. So was Sunderland-West Ham afterwards.

    Watching a GREAT match now – Monterrey vs Santos, Apertura final. watch it on Telemundo, shit’s off the hook!

  9. Ya Think? says:

    A man with a chicken hat, standing next to a pig.

    Ah, life on the farm…

  10. Thomas says:

    #7
    That is as defined by nearly 95% of the planet

    Poster-child proof of the argumentum ad populum.

    It’s fancy dress season in European football and no one does it like the Brits

    Really? That’d be tame for an NFL game.

    http://nfl.com/videos/nfl-network-top-ten/09000d5d8181c2c4/Top-Ten-Follies-Crazy-fans

    http://jandofabrics.com/newsletters/top-12-crazy-nfl-fans-and-their-costumes/

    http://chicagonow.com/blogs/jay-cutler-superstar/2010/01/those-crazy-packers-fans.html (I think one of the pictures is of Big Foot).

  11. Thomas says:

    #9
    (Should read “poster-child example…”).

  12. noppa says:

    #1 And nobody else cares about hand egg.

  13. Ben-in-the-woods says:

    For the record, ‘soccer’ or ‘football’ is correct as the full name of the sport is soccer-football (as opposed to rugby-football).

    As for tame football fans, what the NFL lacks in chants, it certainly seems to make up for in fancy costumes. But I’d prefer Millwall’s ‘Your going home in f**king ambulance’ chant to silly dress…



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