Good afternoon.
Enjoying the Euros? Rarely are the first games of any tournament much to write home about.
What is for certain is whatever Officer Dibble over there is in charge of the gendarmes, they need to pull there finger out and sharpish. The footage on YouTube of a steward being used as a stress ball by bovver boys has been viewed by close to 100,000 people.
In Lodz, a gang of about 50 masked Polish thugs targeted English and Russian accented fans in a violent burst of punches and kicks.
Report in the Irish Examiner this morning about more violence where 14 were arrested in Poznan. The suggestion being that Irish and Croatian fans were swooped on by Polish fans as they sat peacefully on the pavement terrace of the Sami Swoj pub.
What’s as chilling a prospect is a planned march by Russians this coming Tuesday (when Russia and Poland play each other) to mark Russia Day. The best bit of this insanity is that when this idea was broached last week a Polish ‘All Union’ mob asked for permission to ‘counter march’.
As ever in football it’s only punters like you and I that can see the difference between thoroughly good ideas and thoroughly bad ones. As far as racism goes, it’s not even a specter.
It’s been confirmed as present at training matches and tournament games alike. The Dutch had to listen to ‘monkey chants’ while they trained in Krakow. UEFA’s response was surreal. They said it had no plans to launch an investigation into the alleged racism, saying it believed the abusive chanting was in protest against Krakow not being chosen as one of the Euro 2012 host cities.
You cannot help but feel that Platini and the rest of the corpulent leeches that are responsible for awarding these things to those that whore and bribe themselves the best are living in another world. They cruise from one extravagant lunch to another with the air of the most pious of popes, not for a nano second considering that their decisions might carry consequences to real people.
At this rate people will be selling bits of Poland and the Ukraine like they did of the Berlin Wall.
If this article was a tweet I would have retweeted it! Seriously though, whoring and bribing must have paid off, who in their right mind would have awarded a major tournament to these backward, backwater places?? They’re facking feral over there, seen that shit first hand. By the way…..Arry Out
While the fringe fascists are a nuisance its the silent ones that do nothing that are the culprits.
The police and nuetrals outnumber these dicks in the thousands and they do nothing.
Now is the time to stop the bastards
Pontious f*cking Platini knows the monkey chants are going on around teh Dutch, but won’t do anything because there is no official complaint! You couldn’t make this sort of crap up could you!
Maybe the fact that Platini has been such a staunch “chauvanist” for so long…. its a short hop, skip and jump to racist…just ask Sepp.
The people in charge of football acroos the globe are almost entirely bent, incompetent or a mixture of the two. No other endeavour that involves so much money is left so poorly regulated. We can’t control the third world or even the second, but we should pressure the British Government at every turn to examine the abuses going on in the football industry.
As for Platini or Sepp lite as he might equally be called, no amount of kissing will turn him into anything other than gormless frog.
who are you calling bent?
Bent?
Pep Guardiola agreed on leaving Barcelona last month not to manage any Spanish side during season 12/13 also not to take the helm of any European club side involved in the Champions League. Now at the time it looked like Chelsea would not qualify but now they have through winning the final it looks like Pep is out in the cold.
Maybe Daniel has an ace to play after all.
God, if that were to happen……..
yawn…
boycott Russia 2016. fucking joke, that’s the least punishment they deserve.