The Croatian fans weren't exactly mindless, they knew exactly what they were doing and how it would play out.
Why are English supporters the most pitiful in world football?
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Ha, yes big controversy over there.
Really - only thing I can find is Lyon hooligans attacking a bar where England fans where drinking. The bar owner says the Lyon hooligans caused all the trouble.
All the presenters on talksport saying the fans have all been drinking and bantering together and they are all amongst it.
Whats the point in all this tabloid shit.
Which is actively encouraging people to go out late at night by extending public transport all night over the weekends.
Melbourne tried a lock-out about 8 years ago - it was a disaster.
So in other words what Tony said is the complete opposite of Ryan's hometown [emoji23]
English supporters make up only 5% of arrests so far and when you put that in perspective - they're one of the teams with the biggest support abroad it puts them well down the list. Not that I'm defending them or their actions by the way but it goes a bit of the way to dispelling the myth they are the devil incarnate.
Yeah, according to "British Authorities".
Also from the same article
[article]British police have images of 48 other supporters who they are looking to pursue action against.[/article]
It's Marseille ! A fucking shithole known as a hotbed of criminal activity / gangs. It shouldn't have been chosen as one of the host cities for obvious reasons.
At the end of the day, Ryan has his opinion. He's not wrong because it's an opinion not a fact. It's got 31 pages of debate out of us.
We shouldn't waste energy trying to change it because we don't like it. Just accept it as his opinion and then decide why it bothers some of us so much.
I mean, a bloke from Ireland, living in Melbourne, has got some of us very defensive - myself included - despite my trying not to get sucked in.
He's entitled to think that. Trying to get people to change opinions like this is, I find, pretty futile as everyone just digs in.
But if we didn't, the forum would wither and die.
I'll just shut up I think!
We shouldn't waste energy trying to change it because we don't like it. Just accept it as his opinion and then decide why it bothers some of us so much.
I mean, a bloke from Ireland, living in Melbourne, has got some of us very defensive - myself included - despite my trying not to get sucked in.
He's entitled to think that. Trying to get people to change opinions like this is, I find, pretty futile as everyone just digs in.
But if we didn't, the forum would wither and die.
I'll just shut up I think!
Yeah, it's a cracking thread.
We're ALL still upset about the fucking potato famine Portly. Fuck knows whats pissing O'Hare off.
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I've spent the last 10 days out there just got back this morning and some of the best craic we had was with the English fans.
We were singing songs taunting each other in neighbouring pubs last week and it was all done in a friendly manner with zero aggro.
Absolutely no problems from either sets of fans until a few local yoofs showed up to annoy the English fans and obviously it kicked off but nothing major it was just a small minority which had too much to drink but they were certainly provoked.
Anyways those Russians are proper fucking animals.
It's like they're military trained to hooliganism.
Colour coded so they don't fuck their own up.
Scary shit.
Apart from that it's been a brilliant experience.
French police are doing a magnificent job considering the pressure they are under from all angles.
Monday with the Swedish fans was great.
Brilliant people who sang along and laughed and mingled with the Irish all day and night.
Couldn't get a ticket for the Belgian game thankfully but they were brilliant outside the ground too.
The Russians need a long banning from traveling to support their team though and it needs to happen soon.
It's actually far worse than what's being reported.
We were singing songs taunting each other in neighbouring pubs last week and it was all done in a friendly manner with zero aggro.
Absolutely no problems from either sets of fans until a few local yoofs showed up to annoy the English fans and obviously it kicked off but nothing major it was just a small minority which had too much to drink but they were certainly provoked.
Anyways those Russians are proper fucking animals.
It's like they're military trained to hooliganism.
Colour coded so they don't fuck their own up.
Scary shit.
Apart from that it's been a brilliant experience.
French police are doing a magnificent job considering the pressure they are under from all angles.
Monday with the Swedish fans was great.
Brilliant people who sang along and laughed and mingled with the Irish all day and night.
Couldn't get a ticket for the Belgian game thankfully but they were brilliant outside the ground too.
The Russians need a long banning from traveling to support their team though and it needs to happen soon.
It's actually far worse than what's being reported.
Firstly, congratulations on continually shoe-horning in "bigot" (that's a direct quote ok?) into every post, in every thread Mark. Bigot-bingo points on their way to you.
Secondly, the nations/supporters you've referenced either don't have a storied history of crowd trouble at international football events like the way the English do, or we don't have a large presence of their supporters on this site. Given most of this site is English, I was kinda curious as to what your opinions are of your pathetic travelling supporters. Wouldn't really make for much of a thread if I'd asked the Hungarian element of this site for their own nationalist views would it?
I suspect you wouldn't like their fans either, their Ultras probably would have given you the Nazi salute though.
You need to take the blinkers off.
Fuck sake mate, if you're going to use Irish terminology, at least phrase it properly 😉
So sorry to offend your grammatical sensibilties
Not a chance.
Wouldn't even chance watching it from a hotel in Moscow.
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