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That Mitchell & Webb Look on people who refer to the football team they support as “us”
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That Mitchell & Webb Look on people who refer to the football team they support as “us”
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While it’s an amusing bit, it’s also obvious to anyone that if you disallow the pronoun, we, in this case, you either have confusion with both teams called they, or you have to say the full name of the team every time.
For someone like David Mitchell, who doesn’t like sports at all, forcing everyone to say the full name every time would just make it a longer conversation that he doesn’t want to be a part of.
Think this is one of the rare instances they missed the mark. The we is referring to supporters part in the football club, not as them thinking they are part of the team, also support is often referred to as the twelfth man for a reason, good backing from supporters, in the crowd or just knowing they are watching and passionate, really spurs (pun intended) players along.
Who doesn’t like Raiders of the Lost Ark?
The fake footie commercial is my favorite…WATCH THE FOOTBALL
Some sports fans are taking it too personally, it’s just a comedy sketch lol.
As a sports fan, I do try to avoid saying “we” or “us” when referring to the team, though I might say it when referring to the fandom or crowd that I’m a part of.
Love hearing a David Mitchell rant regardless. That guy is hilarious. I’ve watched so much Would I Lie to You over the years.
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Some of you are forgetting that Webb in this sketch only took up supporting after the team won, that’s one of the main reasons for Mitchells rant.
Webb has no real affiliation with the team but has chosen to support them last second and started lording it over someone who doesnt give a shit about football.
It’s not a generic roast of all football fans. He isn’t a real supporter. He’s roasting people that “suddenly” give a fuck about football whenever “their” team wins.
edit: too many godamn people in here forgetting this is a british show making a joke about a specific type of football fan (that are well known here). Just because you *can* apply this logic to other sports and topics doesn’t mean that’s what they are talking about, like this is some profound joke and not just Mitchell making an excuse to have a rant at football fans that have pissed him off in the past.
You should also post that football sketch from them
His brief case only holds a half a bottle of scotch and he fucking went right to town on it too. I don’t know who would be worse to sit with.
Jokes on them, I’m a part owner of my team.
The point could’ve been so much funnier. Just a ham fisted delivery. It is cringey when sports fan do that, but this feels like a redditor wrote the scene and chuckled quietly at their genius
Brilliant
Unless you’re on the team, employed by the team, or own the team, there is no “We”. You sat on your couch drinking beer and pounding wings. “You” didn’t do anything to affect the game.
Notable exception being the Green Bay Packers. Since they’re publicly owned by Green Bay, those people can say “We”.
British comedy at its best
Love this duo!
What I hate even more is when people use ‘we’ in individual sports. I’m just like WHY, WHY THE FUCK DO YOU YOU THINK IT’S WE.
One of their weaker sketches but still miss this show
Some people definitely tie too much of their self-worth and happiness to how well their team does. But saying “we” for a team is just a colloquialism and everyone knows what they mean 🤷🏼♂️
I’m great in this show.