Football

Friendly games are always different to proper ones, but a good win even so :flowers:

Poli Timi now joint 3rd in the table!!.... yay

yeah.

way to go poli.

shame on commando viola and the supporters who considered to welcome the guest supporters with beatings

Is violence a big problem in Romanian football?

hey, we're third and hoping to get second away game so i'll be staying home. i remember a game with ceahlaul played 6-7 years ago exactly on my birthday. well, it ended up 1 all and the reff denied us an obvious penalty. worst birthday present ever :P

Rogeroo a scris:

Is violence a big problem in Romanian football?

well the fans of certain teams just don't get along. in '99 i got to experience first hand the animosities between rapid and steaua fans. it wasn't pretty at all. fans got beat up and a trolley got destroyed by angry steaua fans wich greatly outnumbered a small group of rapid fans. one famous incident was at the las steaua-dinamo game where dinamo fans provoked steaua fans by stealing one of their banners. it got real ugly and plice made excessive use of force litteraly beating the crap out of the fans. not dinamo ones though..they have always been favoured by the police altough they did their share of violent deeds including stabbings derbyes are dangerous things because if you don't get in a fight with the other fans you might get in a fight with the cops. the only sollution is to keep police on the streets. it has been done and it was succesful

there is always police all over the town on match days, but

there is a local rivalry between poli and uta. sort of 'who's the best team in the western part of romania'. apparently some forget that that is to be decided on the field, not in other parts of the stadium.

there used to be a time when i knew nothing of football and poli (not that i know much now), but i knew this: we had the best gallery in the country. it gave every team hell, but through singing, not through beating. it was rumoured to be the "cleanest" supporter group, one that wouldn't cause trouble. right now i am thinking back to what a drunken steaua supporter told me one august night in bucharest when hearing i came from timisoara and i reckon it is true. we always claimed a certain superiority, distancing ourselves from the misery that sometimes happened at derbies in bucharest. we have absolutely no more grounds to do so. none whatsoever. this is not a single occurence, it is the second or third incident of that kind that i know of. so, my dear heated wannabe supporters: thank you for dragging us into the mud :P

i would like to self-dellusion myself that it is all starting to rot from the top, since we have crap management and an even worse club owner. however, i am clear in the head enough to admit that that may be one of the reasons, but not the reason. he can talk as dirty as he wishes on tv. if the 'supporters' have brains, they don;t follow such an example...

In England the hooligans never wear football shirts of their team. Instead police look for designer label clothes, cos thats what they usually wear. Luckily when their is violence the police are pretty good and dont attack the people caught in the crossfire! Just the hooligans!

i've seen two movies about english hooligans the football factory and i forgot the other one. one was about chelsea hooligans and the other with west ham united. the funny thing is that both movies featured a cup match against millwall and both groups were excited to face up against the milwall hooligans. before i saw them a neighbour of mine who is some sort of neo nazi told me that milwall has the most famous group of hooligans.in romania fans are dvided in brigades that usualy cover a certain area of the city (i'm reffering here to steaua, dinamo and rapid fans which are the most numeorus and live in the biggest city) but the genral population isn't aware of these things. i mean they are not famous for anything. a group of rapid fans called the 921 brigade tried to gain respect by stealing the flags and banners of steaua fans right from their warehouse. and they did. it. only after a few years they found out it was rapid fans that robbed them :D

How was the Uefa game the other night Sera? I have still not seen the result!

Rogeroo a scris:

How was the Uefa game the other night Sera? I have still not seen the result!