The worst bit for me was just being at the game, out-numbered and nearly surrounded by low-life Egull followers, a lot of them in seats normally used by Freo members.
Sitting with my wife in our usual seats, we had two of the very worst examples of base humanity sitting in the seats immediately behind. They screeched through the entire game, as loudly as humanly possible and then a bit more, always demanding that the Egulls do things like "c'mon" or "man up". None of Dermy's or Kingy's old, worn-out clichés were spared; we endured them all, at ear piercing volumes. Ch 7 and Fox Footy have a lot to answer for.
In the last quarter, with the game really needing the mercy rule to be applied, the two of them were still going at it, shrieking for the Dockers to be "ground down", " not let off the hook" or, best of all, "the bloody umps have had it for us all day". Every player in yellow had a childish nickname, all ending with a 'y', even "Yeo-ey".
Sandilands sitting out the final quarter was the funniest thing ever, Fyfe was denounced as a fake with every touch of the ball, Walters was always a "bloody cheat", and the routine booing of "Gaffy" was "just so unsporting". After all, they said, "Gaffy is a champion" ....
Even other Egulls followers were glaring at them, as if even they thought these two were a bit much. Nah. You're all as bad as each other. I've got a ringing noise in my ear that won't stop, and I'm never going to a derby/darby game again.
