Football (Soccer) Thread

[HVC]

What is it with Eastern Europe and hooliganism?

Says the Brit

[Syt]

I've been told in Poland normal people never go anywhere near football stadiums at match time as its just for hooligans.

https://www.tvn24.pl/tvn24-news-in-english,157,m/leader-of-dangerous-gang-and-of-wisla-krakow-hooligans-detained-in-italy,872593.html

The "Sharks" hooligan gang are basically running the club according to a controversial Polish documentary a few weeks ago.

[Josquius]

What is it with Eastern Europe and hooliganism?

Says the Brit

I was born in the 80s.
I know only post hooligan times.
Our modern hooligans, despite the movies, are small scale and don't usually ruin normal peoples enjoyment.

[Admiral Yi]

I was born in the 80s.
I know only post hooligan times.
Our modern hooligans, despite the movies, are small scale and don't usually ruin normal peoples enjoyment.

One success of the Thatcherite Revolution.  Essex Boys are now part of the property class.

[Josephus]

It was really bad in the 80s, English hooliganism. I remember talking to people then who, despite being football fans, wouldn't step near a stadium. It's cleaned up very well since. I know other countries trying to clean up their own act, refer to it as the English model.

[Tamas]

The English were pretty notorious abroad up until the recent EC in France where they were decisively defeated by their Russian rivals, shuttering their renown.

[The Larch]

Our modern hooligans, despite the movies, are small scale and don't usually ruin normal peoples enjoyment.

That's because they've been priced out of modern football and why they're more common in lower divisions nowadays. The Premier League era is totally corporate and middle class, while the hooligan era was much more working class.

[Gups]

I was born in the 80s.
I know only post hooligan times.
Our modern hooligans, despite the movies, are small scale and don't usually ruin normal peoples enjoyment.

One success of the Thatcherite Revolution.  Essex Boys are now part of the property class.

MDMA and rave culture killed off hooliganism

[Maladict]

Bloody hell, the national team won a match. Against our friendly neighbours to the east no less.
They must be in deep trouble.

[Josephus]

Ah yes, the "what if we invented a new tournament and no one cared?" game.

[Maladict]

Ah yes, the "what if we invented a new tournament and no one cared?" game.

Yeah that one 
I didn't even know about the match until after it ended.

[celedhring]

To be frank, I'm liking this League of Nations thing more than I expected. It adds a little spice to otherwise utterly meaningless friendlies.

[Tamas]

To be frank, I'm liking this League of Nations thing more than I expected. It adds a little spice to otherwise utterly meaningless friendlies.

[Liep]

Gibraltar is on fire

[Josquius]

Our modern hooligans, despite the movies, are small scale and don't usually ruin normal peoples enjoyment.

That's because they've been priced out of modern football and why they're more common in lower divisions nowadays. The Premier League era is totally corporate and middle class, while the hooligan era was much more working class.

They still exist with the top teams. Though they're very under the radar.
Its weird stuff apparently, they're all in contact with each other and you'll get the boss of the visiting team's firm phoning the boss of the home team's firm to announce how many people he has brought with him and arrange a place for a fight.
The police's reaction to it all is crap, they pick on all fans rather than just the trouble makers. I'm hoping to get to a few away games this year though friends who've done it before tell me of being forced to drink a few towns away before the match and it all being super stage managed.