I get what you’re saying but this is in Toulouse, this wasn’t even “their” team. Lots of people watch, I get it. But I simply refuse to accept that this behaviour is just a numbers game.
They’re emulating what’s happening in Paris, they want to be part of the biggest sporting event of the year. 10 million people watched the final in France, that’s 1/6 of the french population (and that’s just the legal streams). No other sport gets that kind of motion, not by a country mile. The world cup gets a billion and a half globally. Genuinely, if you were in the streets in Paris on saturday you wouldn’t be questioning it, within a half hour of the game ending there were enough people outside to block all the traffic, and I live on the edge of the city, that’s what it was like at its lightest. No other event gets that many people in the streets, no protest gets that large. It’s literally the biggest event these kids will see in their lives, outside maybe of the Hajj.
Religions are nothing if they don’t have numbers behind them. If you win the numbers game you’ve got the game in the bag.
I get what you’re saying but this is in Toulouse, this wasn’t even “their” team. Lots of people watch, I get it. But I simply refuse to accept that this behaviour is just a numbers game.
They’re emulating what’s happening in Paris, they want to be part of the biggest sporting event of the year. 10 million people watched the final in France, that’s 1/6 of the french population (and that’s just the legal streams). No other sport gets that kind of motion, not by a country mile. The world cup gets a billion and a half globally. Genuinely, if you were in the streets in Paris on saturday you wouldn’t be questioning it, within a half hour of the game ending there were enough people outside to block all the traffic, and I live on the edge of the city, that’s what it was like at its lightest. No other event gets that many people in the streets, no protest gets that large. It’s literally the biggest event these kids will see in their lives, outside maybe of the Hajj.
Religions are nothing if they don’t have numbers behind them. If you win the numbers game you’ve got the game in the bag.