I very nearly yelled "idiot" out my car window at a cyclist bombing down the middle of our quiet one-way street this evening, the wrong way right through a 4-way-stop intersection (but of course he didn't see the stop sign because it's facing the other way) like he was Greg van Avermaet on the descent of the Col de la Madelaine. But I didn't bother, because the bearded hipster millennial would have probably felt even cooler than he already thought he was if he was admonished by the old guy, driving the station wagon with his young daughter in the back. So I put it down to "not worth it".
However, I will yell an online "idiots", and it will be worth it, at the Cologne fans who decided to act like real dumb, well, idiots, at Arsenal's Emirates stadium today. Three thousand of them had tickets, 20,000 showed up and many of them attempted to fight their way into the stadium. Instead of happily celebrating their return to European competition after 25 years, they made any proper football fan hope they never qualify again. The BBC posted a text message from an Arsenal fan inside the stadium with his 11 year old son who said he was surrounded by Cologne supporters and it was a very scary atmosphere.
I have absolutely no time for football "supporters" who go to a football stadium to fight. I like passion, I enjoy passionate support. But there losers are idiots. Or the idiots are losers, the whole lot of them. And your team lost. Karma.
Excuse my google German: "ihr Idioten!"
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