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| Cheeseman1000 |
Posted - 11/17/2004 : 15:02:44
Before I start, this is not neccessarily directed at the Spanish in general, particularly not those on this forum.
Tonight, the England vs Spain football match left me fuming. OK, our midfield may as well have stayed at home, our passsing was abysmal and the strikers didn't get a chance, but thats not what ticked me off.
Every time England's black players (Ashley Cole and Shaun Wright-Phillips) in particular) got the ball, a certain section of the crowd began monkey chants. I was utterly appalled. I didn't think anyone held this sort of attitude anymore, particularly not in an advanced, liberal country such as Spain.
It led one of the commentators to ask to be reminded what year we were in, and I fully see his point. It was, as John Motson said: "tiresome, unneccessary and completely out of order," and thats putting it very mildly indeed.
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| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 12/27/2004 : 11:10:18
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Originally posted by whoreatthedoor
"Panem et circenses", they said.
Though I prefer to watch wild beasts devouring christians.
Christians or whatever.
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Pah! As Newo says, I prefer to actually participate in the devouring of Christians, passively watching is for morons.
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| whoreatthedoor |
Posted - 12/23/2004 : 17:37:15
A funny vision, isn't it?
There wasn't any television, after all.
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| Newo |
Posted - 12/23/2004 : 17:27:32
Imagine all the Romans that sat around on their behinds reading the sports news carved on stone tablets. Games were there partly to distract them from real life under the asskicking financial systems of interest and usury that they lived with and, uh, we still live with. I mean, go team.
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| whoreatthedoor |
Posted - 12/23/2004 : 17:17:33
"Panem et circenses", they said.
Though I prefer to watch wild beasts devouring christians.
Christians or whatever.
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| Newo |
Posted - 12/23/2004 : 17:11:24
Monkey chants? Par for course. I would hardly have thought watching twentytwo adults trying to put an inflated piece of leather inside a net was something that increases neural activity anyway. Sorry guys, playing sports fine, passively watching them is for morons.
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| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 12/23/2004 : 10:39:01
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Originally posted by mun chien andalusia
PS: at least the spanish apologised...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,27-1365730,00.html
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Their coach wasn't so apologetic though, nor were certain sections of their press.
Sadly this has now crept back into the English game, albeit with a very very small minority (two or three at a game).
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| billgoodman |
Posted - 11/19/2004 : 07:39:31
Oh yeah throwing bananas at black players
it happens
it's repulsive
In Holland there's a tradition of shouting the most disguisting things
even about the girlfriends or wives of players
think in the line of hookers, jews, and mostly in the combination with cancer or HIV
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| mun chien andalusia |
Posted - 11/19/2004 : 07:14:47
PS: at least the spanish apologised...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,27-1365730,00.html
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| darwin |
Posted - 11/18/2004 : 20:35:14
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Originally posted by vilainde
You can't say hooligans in football stadiums are representative of the European population. It's like saying Americans are racist because there are no black Nascar drivers.
I think here in France they usually fine the team whose supporters cause such trouble, but I don't know how it works in other countries.
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| astrology |
Posted - 11/18/2004 : 14:52:55
football fans are mostly mononeuronal beings..
right wing guys are mainly racists but with the other hand are profiting on inmigrant laborwhat underlies in this is that spaish workin class folks instead of using thei educational advantage normaly are unskilled workers who fear the inmi grants as concurrenc
note i live in a workin class neighbohood in sevilla and have morrocans africans and latin american people living here and we get along well
in catalonia many people took inmigrants with them when voting as a way of showing they should have same rights..
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| bazza |
Posted - 11/18/2004 : 10:48:42
personally if i was either ashley cole or shaun wright phillips i would have left the pitch. it was awful - but its always going to be a minority who do things like that.
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| mun chien andalusia |
Posted - 11/18/2004 : 08:55:47
of course i was not talking about the spanish (or italian for that matter) people in general. i was just making a point on what kind of people go to the stadium nowadays. i love football but i hate to shout, that's why i quit going to the stadium. i only go to champions league games everynow and then nowadays. fear of uefa punishment shuts many fuckheads up and permits to enjoy the game.
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| whoreatthedoor |
Posted - 11/18/2004 : 08:44:41
I'm not trying to apologize them. You can say that spanish people is racist, and it's partially true, but you can't base your opinion on a football match, because a football match isn't real life. I've seen the most lovely people shouting horrible things to a player who had cancer. It isn't well done, but it happens. I've been in a lot of football games, so I know what I'm talking about.
Also I remember seeing black guys doing the same thing to a black player. In general it's plain stupidness and not real hatred. After all, sports are a legal substitute for war.
PS: It's hard to talk about these things in a foreign language without being misunderstood, so I quit.
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| whoreatthedoor |
Posted - 11/18/2004 : 08:25:47
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Originally posted by mun chien andalusia
it isn't just a stupid chant i'm afraid. many supporters are organized fascist groups even outside the stadium. they want to pass their message through football. another example is the lazio chant that praised "arkan the tiger" some years ago. what a serbian war criminal has to do with football? and bashing your own players is significant. why the hell would a supporter bash his own team? there are loads of similar examples. and they are not so innocent as they may seem.
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But we were talking about the general chants, not only a small group. I know that some fascist bands use sports because they need a reason to get into a fight. There are motherfuckers everywhere.
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| n/a |
Posted - 11/18/2004 : 06:40:20
Ugh it is horrible, really horrible. A Hindu friend of mine knocked back this guy at her last university who came onto her and everytime he saw her after that he'd yell racist abuse at her..
(However... this guy made the mistake once of calling her a fucking paki outside the meeting place for an asian lads society, just as it broke up.... she said to him "do you realise where you are?" this guy turned around and saw this huge group of angry lads growling at him and she added "If I were you, I would run now"... run he did, and not fast enough he was)
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| Cheeseman1000 |
Posted - 11/18/2004 : 06:21:28
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Originally posted by whoreatthedoor
It's isn't racism
Sorry, I have to disagree - its horribly racist to direct offensive chants at people because of the colour of their skin.
I think in a lot of places it stems from ignorance - my flatmates girlfriend is Bulgarian and she said when she first arrived at the coach station she was shocked because she'd never seen a black person before.
I'm not sure what the cultural mix is like in Spain - from what I've heard its a lot less diverse than the UK or France, but I couldn't say for sure.
PS Whore etc., I'd just like to say I'm commenting on the fans not you guys, please don't misunderstand me.
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| mun chien andalusia |
Posted - 11/18/2004 : 06:18:36
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Originally posted by whoreatthedoor
It's isn't racism, it's just a stupid chant. It's a common attitude here to say the most horrible things to football players. They use to do it even when there are black players in their own team, which is particullarly ironic.
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it isn't just a stupid chant i'm afraid. many supporters are organized fascist groups even outside the stadium. they want to pass their message through football. another example is the lazio chant that praised "arkan the tiger" some years ago. what a serbian war criminal has to do with football? and bashing your own players is significant. why the hell would a supporter bash his own team? there are loads of similar examples. and they are not so innocent as they may seem.
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| the tolerant |
Posted - 11/18/2004 : 05:05:53
England Under 21's got the same reception too the night before.
I think they're more than just chants, and even if they were just to rile, it's pretty mean shit what they spouting.
It must be hard to deal with, especially at the age of say 18 or 19. Footballers are outnumbered big time by the crowd so to here such hostility....
I know our fans can be yobs 'n' nobs, and we no angels, but it seems to always happen in certain parts of Europe whenever England play. And it's mass chanting too. Not just a small minority tucked in the corner of the lower tier of a stand. Coin Tossin' Racist Fools.
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| vilainde |
Posted - 11/18/2004 : 04:53:19
You can't say hooligans in football stadiums are representative of the European population. It's like saying Americans are racist because there are no black Nascar drivers.
I think here in France they usually fine the team whose supporters cause such trouble, but I don't know how it works in other countries.
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| cvanepps |
Posted - 11/18/2004 : 04:38:29
That's terrible. Good Christ!
My sister lived in Budapest for three years and she told me many stories about how bad racism is in the eastern block. I realize Spain is not in the eastern block but it's symptomatic of an overt racism over there whereas stateside, it tends to be covert.
I know we have many many folks from Europe posting on this forum so if I'm wrong, please tell me.
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| whoreatthedoor |
Posted - 11/17/2004 : 23:39:31
It's isn't racism, it's just a stupid chant. It's a common attitude here to say the most horrible things to football players. They use to do it even when there are black players in their own team, which is particullarly ironic.
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| Cult_Of_Frank |
Posted - 11/17/2004 : 22:44:31
Are you serious? This is mind-blowing in a horrible, horrible way. This year is full of surprises re: the dark side of humanity.
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| n/a |
Posted - 11/17/2004 : 17:08:49
is it meant to be malicious or is it just an ignorant chant?
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| mun chien andalusia |
Posted - 11/17/2004 : 16:58:37
unfortunately it's pretty common in italy too. "jew supporters-niger team" was a common chant of lazio's supporters against roma.
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| n/a |
Posted - 11/17/2004 : 16:07:31
It's ridiculous, racism makes me want to fucking puke, ridiculous.
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| Cheeseman1000 |
Posted - 11/17/2004 : 16:04:08
You'd think so, but I've been reading this week that this sort of attitude goes by reasonably unnoticed in Spain. I'd prefer to think this wasn't true.
I think in the UK, starting a chant like that at a match would be roughly equivalent to going into the ground with a swastika tatooed to your forehead.
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| Dallas |
Posted - 11/17/2004 : 16:01:22
Wow. That is surprising. That wouldnt even happen in the deep south in the US. Even though some people may want to, the stigma that attached to that line of thinking would get the people shouted down and kicked out of the event.
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| Carolynanna |
Posted - 11/17/2004 : 15:56:39
That is simply disgusting simon.
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