Soccer Hooligans
“Maybe we cannot change the mentality of these people, but we can have a victory for an hour and a half each week at least.”
Thierry Henry
Yes boys and girls. Depsite the Soccer Hooligans beating each other stupid. People throwing flares on the field and all those other goodies…it seems there’s a lot of racism in and around soccer. More than one brother has had to be conviced not to walk out of a match cause he was pissed off with being called a monkey or having bananas thrown at him. Who would have thought it possible. Despite the fact that there aren’t as many black euro-peons walking around and there are a whole bunch of right-right wing groups who wield Nazi signs and throw the Aryan hi sign, it seems like people are just taking notice. Well include me cause I hate soccer anyway. It’s even to the point where some players are becoming famous for returning the sign.
By the way he maintains it’s an ancient Roman thing, I remember that from Gladiator. So now FIFA has made up it’s mind to get involved and start penalizing clubs who’s fans call brothers monkeys and other such crud. The concern has become that fans will start abusing their players in attempts to get the other team punished. The thing is most of these penalties are taken against the teams. Conceivably fans could still do alot and get away with it. I wouldn’t really expect a lot of progress. I mean we’re talking about a bunch of euros who get drunk and beat the hell out of each other. Those aren’t the people I expect to have tolerance towards someone different. Too bad for them that Thierry Henry is pretty much the best player around. Even in Europe we’re taking over! Suck it Aryans.
Mannn, soccer fans (or as they call them overseas; futbol) are FANatics. Any group of people who take a sport so serious that they have to throw items like bombs and flares on the field and at players have serious and crazy issues. That’s just plain retarded dawg.
Comment by Luke Cage — June 6, 2006 @ 1:42 pm
I always find it funny when the US is ahead of any country when it comes to anything related to race. Using racial slurs, epithets, nazi signs, etc. would never happen at any major American sporting event. And, if it did, it wouldn’t just be black people, for example, who would be offended. There would be a lot of other people, regardless of race, who would stand up and say something.
I read the WP article about this, and according to the players the worst countries were Spain, Italy, Germany, and other Eastern Eurpoean nations.
Remind me to never go to those places…
Comment by Reese — June 6, 2006 @ 2:16 pm
Hey Amadeo, did you by chance see HBO’s Real Sports expose on racism at European soccer games?
Nah, I was peeping the ESPN joint the other day though…and I had heard about it before then.
A-Team
Comment by Nikki — June 6, 2006 @ 2:44 pm
Europe is boiling pot ready to explode with pent up racism. Anyhow, ordinarily I would not follow World Cup Soccer, but Trinidad & Tobago made it to the World Cup. Go Soca Warriors!!
Comment by MizJJ — June 6, 2006 @ 7:15 pm
where have I been? I missed all this. Thanks for the heads-up.
Yay Trinidad, Yay Tobago!
You ever notice you never meet people from Tobago? What’s up with that?
Comment by God's Child — June 7, 2006 @ 4:02 am