The Fight Against Salivia

The Tidy Britain Group have launched a campaign against footballers spitting during matches as it is a bad example to young children!! What the Fu....?

Anyone who's played football in any kind of a competitive way knows the amount of mucus and flem and god knows what else that ends up in your head during a game. Nothing like a good spit to clear it all out. Maybe the group in question would like the players to politely stop and trot over to a conveniently positioned spittoon and hock a loogie in a more gentlemanly fashion. When will people realise that football is a fucking sport and stop trying to tame the thing into something more 'civilised'. Maybe we should stop slide tackling too as it makes your shorts dirty and probably causes harm to the ozone layer.

Apparently one of the reasons for stopping players spitting is to prevent the likes of El Hadj Diouf spitting at anyone who gets within distance (and with the amount of practice he's put in that distance is getting bigger). Diouf doesn't spit at people because you're allowed to spit, he spits at people coz he's a scummy bastard. Elbowing people in the head or trying to remove the leg from below the knee is also against the rules but it doesn't stop Shearer and Eissien from giving it a go in nearly every game they play.