When in Rome....

[Markeh]

Here’s the assortment of crude weapons confiscated outside the Coppa Italia final

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/socce...ted-outside-coppa-italia-final-175747609.html

This year's Coppa Italia marked the first time the tournament has ended with a Rome derby and thus the first time both participants played the final in their home stadium (since the Stadio Olimpico is always the host site). Given the fact that was not just a match between the fiercest of intracity rivals, but one with a trophy on the line, local authorities anticipated an especially combustable atmosphere. Judging by the frightening array of crude weapons confiscated by police before the match, it seems the historic final between Roma and Lazio could've been ruined before it even began.
Of course, any Rome derby is bound to include a variety of violence of weaponry. This time, however, police confiscated garden tools, kitchen knives and hatchets all taped to sticks for maximum stabbing reach from ultras under the Ponte della Musica.

What the fuck is that all about?

 

[Frogfish]

What the fuck is that all about?

I would at least have expected these :

and a lion or two.

 

[hamstrung_pigeon]

The Flying Guillotine.

 

[Athens]

Were they expecting the zombie apocalypse?

 

[RolandG]

Bloody hell. Itals are blood thirsty suckers.

 

[Spionkop69]

What's that all about?

Anyone who's been to a game in Rome as an away fan, will be aware of the general level of cowardice that prevails among fans from that city. Their hands are spared rough stuff, they prefer to let a weapon do the job.

Fucking Roman shithouses.

 

[Skullflower]

nothing wrong with this. i'm the same when i go to drinkies.

 

[dantes]

You'd need to wear a Highlander trench coat to conceal those.

 

[Dirkus_Circus]

You'd need to wear a Highlander trench coat to conceal those.

Or a badass duster

"First of all, it's not a jacket. It's a duster. It's like a jacket only it's longer and thicker and far more badass. I look like Lorenzo Lamas and women find it irresistible."

 

[tombrown]

They obviously all come from the same source ... one loonie with a transit filled with home made weaponry that he fantasised about handing out on the battle front.

 

[Dirkus_Circus]

They obviously all come from the same source ... one loonie with a transit filled with home made weaponry that he fantasised about handing out on the battle front.

It is odd that they are all fashioned exactly the same.

 

[Silver Sean]

What's that all about?

Anyone who's been to a game in Rome as an away fan, will be aware of the general level of cowardice that prevails among fans from that city. Their hands are spared rough stuff, they prefer to let a weapon do the job.

Fucking Roman shithouses.

Two stories. One, a few years ago one of the Rome team's supporters (home) spent an entire game pelting the other Rome team's fans (away) fans below with coins, piss, spit and other objects. Neatly forgetting they were to be the away fans IN THE SAME SPOT later in the season. When they were the away fans the other lot set fire to a scooter and threw in onto them. Dumb as fuck. (how the fuck you smuggle a Lambretta into a football ground is beyond me)

Secondly, a mate of mine went to Italia '90 and spent a couple of weeks getting pelted with stones, sticks etc on every train they went on and worse. In Turin they were made to camp in a small, out-of-town sports track/arena. In the middle of the night a load of Juve fans (faces covered naturally) surrounded them and attacked them. Sadly for the Juve fans the camp contained pretty much every West Ham/Millwall etc thug following Ing-ur-lund at that point and they were chased through their own streets all night and given an awful pasting. The next morning Torino fans were giving the Ing-ur-lund fans free breakfast etc as a thank you.
Fucking morons the lot of them.

 

[Athens]

(ho the fuck you smuggle a Lambretta into a football ground is beyond me)

By bribing a friendly police man to look the other way of course.

 

[Spionkop69]

Two stories. One, a few years ago one of the Rome team's supporters (home) spent an entire game pelting the other Rome team's fans (away) fans below with coins, piss, spit and other objects. Neatly forgetting they were to be the away fans IN THE SAME SPOT later in the season. When they were the away fans the other lot set fire to a scooter and threw in onto them. Dumb as fuck. (how the fuck you smuggle a Lambretta into a football ground is beyond me)

Secondly, a mate of mine went to Italia '90 and spent a couple of weeks getting pelted with stones, sticks etc on every train they went on and worse. In Turin they were made to camp in a small, out-of-town sports track/arena. In the middle of the night a load of Juve fans (faces covered naturally) surrounded them and attacked them. Sadly for the Juve fans the camp contained pretty much every West Ham/Millwall etc thug following Ing-ur-lund at that point and they were chased through their own streets all night and given an awful pasting. The next morning Torino fans were giving the Ing-ur-lund fans free breakfast etc as a thank you.
Fucking morons the lot of them.

I've experienced Roman hospitality on at least 3 occasions. Went to the two nil in 2001 and that was fucking lunacy. Prior to that I went with my lady to Rome for a romantic break and we went to the Lazio v Peruggia game (I'm all romance me!!) and the Lazio fans spent most of the game attacking each other as even they couldn't be bothered to attack the less than a hundred Peruggia fans who were guarded by machine gun toting police.

As most of us know, the seeds of Heysel were sown the year before in Rome...not an excuse just in case anyone is wondering. But, if that had been Roma fans chased and attacked en masse having had the tumerity to win the European Cup in an english clubs home ground then we'd have all been thrown out.

Why don't the Italian "fans" travel I wonder? I suspect its because they're shit houses. I'd take most West Ham fans over fans of an Italian club.

 

[Portly]

The Italians have a strange attitude to football hooliganism. It's almost respectable in some quarters, with sort of fascistic/nationalistic political overtones.

I was wandering around the back streets of Catania in Sicily once, when I came across what seemed to be the official Catania hooligans' shop. In the window there was all kinds of hooligan-type gear.