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scratchmonkey

Sports post!

Feb 28, 2006 18:16

The catalyst behind this update was a recent news story about racist chants at football (soccer) games in Spain. Basically, a bunch of fans started making "monkey chants" (noises that are supposed to sound like monkeys) at a black player on another team. This is hardly an isolated incident for Spain or Italy, the two countries that have had the ( Read more... )

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aderack February 28 2006, 02:43:52 UTC

O NO!

scratchmonkey February 28 2006, 02:45:32 UTC

bulkor February 28 2006, 19:24:54 UTC

Wow, Free Darko is amazing reading even for somebody who knows jack about basketball.

As somebody who vaguely remembers the '01 Philly finals games (mostly because every single man, woman and child in Philly was apeshit about them) I totally grok what that guy says about Iverson. Every thirty seconds he charged headlong at the net, getting fouled about half the time and missing his shot about half of the remaining time. I guess you can't beat the Lakers that way, but damn if it wasn't fun to watch.

seryoga March 18 2006, 03:39:34 UTC

Racist chants are fairly common to the world of soccer. At least as I know it. Though I've only been to Russian soccer games.

There really is nothing like being in the center of a football game with a crowd of hools yelling "Happy...Happy...Holocaust." Which is of course makes no fucking sense in the context of a soccer game. But, well, nobody ever said that hools had to make sense.

The other perenial favorite chant is "Fuck off, Fuck off, America!" Again, this is chanted in a game between two Russian teams at a Russian stadium.

scratchmonkey March 18 2006, 03:56:40 UTC

I've gathered that the Russian thugs are a cut above the usually hooligan nonsense in Western Euriope, in that there are a fair amount of people there who are part of street gangs, rather than just wishing that they were.

And the racist chanting shouldn't be too surprising given how the whole hooligan or ultra thing comes to be.

And funnily enough, I'm angrier at the organizations involved than the people. People are going to do what they're going to do and there's little I can do about that. Why care? However, to have organizations react the way they have (with the exception of FIFA, with their most recent pronouncement) heats me up.

seryoga March 18 2006, 04:34:10 UTC

Yeah, Russian hools, like their English counterparts, usually come from skinheads and vice versa. In Russia the line between the two groups isn't that defined ( ... )