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Football violence/hooliganism thread

langpark

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This one's for all you PC types in particular :cool:

I'll start with a recent incident out of the Dutch league, where an Ajax fan ran on to attack the AZ Alkmaar goalkeeper and ended up getting his arse kicked.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgElEE_4uW0&feature=related

Goalkeeper then gets a red card and then the coolest part of all happens, the coach walks on and pulls all his players off the field and the match is abandoned...
 

WireMan

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oh the good old days of violence and jibbing.

It was how the casuals movement started. People would go to away games and rob all the designer gear (Euro away in Italy was the fave) and then wear the loot to the football.


Now we get organised fights between fans away from grounds. Which is fine for me. Two groups of people can smash the hell out of each other somewhere far away, meaning the game is more fun and safer for me to watch.


Except in France, Spain and Italy where the police are worse than fans. Latin countries don't get drinking and singing at pubs outside stadiums. Neither it seems to Brisbane train drivers.
 

langpark

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Now we get organised fights between fans away from grounds. Which is fine for me. Two groups of people can smash the hell out of each other somewhere far away, meaning the game is more fun and safer for me to watch.

Yeah this tends to be how it's done in Poland and Russia now... such considerate hooligans we have nowadays :lol:

This one comes courtesy of Romanian football... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIGxwxMffq0
 

WireMan

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Yeah this tends to be how it's done in Poland and Russia now... such considerate hooligans we have nowadays :lol:

This one comes courtesy of Romanian football... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIGxwxMffq0

Life is boring in Romania.

The one that grabs the headlines was Ajax vs Feyenoord when an Ajax fan was killed.


It is better for all concerned, the hooligans get to have a nice afternoon getting beat up, us fans get a nice afternoon at the footy.
 

supercharger

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La Barra Brava in Argentina some of them are real crazy bastards
i've Been to dozens of games in BA which are always alot of fun
only had trouble on one occasion where me and my friends got into a fight with some members of La Banda de le Quema after a san lorenzo-huracan game a couple of years ago
 

WireMan

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Lol that City/United video was mad boring.

Pro Pyro
http://youtu.be/hXAl38G400w

Flairs are banned from English games.

All looks a little staged also. We are of to watch football, not panto.

Next you will have a guy on a megaphone pleading for fans to create an atmosphere and call that great.



Austria - Germany is the same place to anyone not from either place. The first bloke you think of when thinking of a German fella was Austrian.
 
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Flares are banned in Germany as well. Not sure what England has to do with it since Pro Pyro is a German movement.

Megaphones are awesome btw.

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flairs enhance the matchday experience tenfold! Take a step outside your goldfish bowl some day so that you can at least say you've experienced it before bagging it...

especially when you cant see the pitch due to smoke

it really does make it better when you cant see a damn thing
 

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