This research investigates linguistic impoliteness used inonline football
comments through the examination of impoliteness strategies proposed by
Jonathan Culpeper. It examines how impoliteness strategies are used on online
comments and what strategy that ismostly used in an online Indonesian football
website, Okezone by Indonesian participants. The research uses qualitative
method supported by quantitative data. First, the writer found that Indonesian
participants mostly used positive impoliteness strategy to express their negative
attitude on giving comments. Second, there are four out of five impoliteness
strategies used by Indonesian participants, withhold politeness strategy is
excluded