And they were so clever and so organised and well trained, so the media keep saying.
Why are English supporters the most pitiful in world football?
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And they were so clever and so organised and well trained, so the media keep saying.
They've let themselves down there.
Apparently there is a hardcore of 150 Russian Ultras still roaming around, unnaccounted for. I'm not sure how they've counted, identified (or indeed defined) this group of drug-crazed, "military trained", tooled up, superhooligans though.
I'm not sure if that's a poor reflection on Rodgers, or simply the only way he thought he could communicate with the pig-ignorant Balotelli.
This bloke probably knows
https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...016-russian-fa-alexander-shprygin-nazi-salute
There was a video of their "military training", which was a wobbly-shot film of large, stupid-looking men doing push-ups in a wood.
He probably started with his neurolinguistic programming before spiralling down to charades then finally drawing stickmen.
I blame ISIS, or Al-Queda, they started all that homevideo in the woods shit. Or was it the Blair Witch project?
I was willing to give that link the benefit of the doubt at first, given Putin agreed to meet with some of the rival team Ultras to try and stop them from killing eachother during football matches earlier this year.
But not any more.
It's no good for English actors trying to break into Hollywood.
Let's not kid ourselves, Putin is a psychopath and Russia is extraordinarily dangerous, and run like a cartel.
Sky News NewsdeskVerified accountUpdate - UEFA fines Russia's football federation €150,000 (£118,000) & team will be disqualified if there is more fan violence at
Euros 2016 France
BREAKING: UEFA hand Russia suspended disqualification from
Excellent! Nice one UEFA. Hopefully that hideous cunt Lebedev gets deported too.
Although it won't stop any further disturbances outside the stadia
Although it won't stop any further disturbances outside the stadia
Yeah, Sky News
Ha ha ha ha!
You need social control authorities to be able to see the wood AND the trees. So the combination and collaboration of football-specific policing forces needs to be complemented by a broader, non-specific police unit that isn't making sense of things within the same paradigm. The slowness of the authorities to act here has in part been because every incident seems to have been viewed through the lense of football problems, which has led to the patently incorrect and dangerous failure to separate 'ordinary' football hooliganism from what's blatantly been stone-cold sober, pre-planned and co-ordinated acts of social violence. There was enough evidence, on camera as well as on the streets and in the stadiums, to recognise this very early on, and yet the approach remained dogmatically and clumsily one-dimensional. It's easy to sympathise with the French police and security units when they have to deal with this event at a time and in a context of high alert terrorist threats, but you can't just drop a football dome over all these areas and funnel all the facts through that perspective. It leads to the chaos, confusion and lack of consensus that is currently playing into the hands of these organised groups.
You can't tell me that Kay Burley isn't a talented, sensitive, intellectual and personable news broadcaster.
Her coverage of the Bataclan massacre was sensitive, hard-hitting, objective but also emotionally charged to exactly the appropriate degree. Even my cat looked sad.
There was another classic recently when Cliff Michelmore (some old BBC fella) died, and Kay responded with typical alacrity, accuracy and sincerity by tweeting "RIP Malcolm Muggeridge" underneath a photo of Malcolm, who had died 26 years earlier. On a different day.
You are aware that only 6 English fans caused trouble and they were dealt with yesterday.
Yep, the ones with body armour, balaclavas and flare guns. Just the run of the mill minority footie fan.
This thread has eaten its own tail about half a dozen times now
He's joking. Everyone is joking. IT'S ALL A BIG JOKE!
Someone PLEASE lock this thread
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