Guys who paint themselves

[PLAGIARISM! 0]

Always been more of a scarf man. Is that mainly a soccer/country with shite weather thing? People paint faces here, btw.

 

At any cold weather NFL game, there's always half a dozen drunk fat dudes in the first five rows with B-R-O-W-N-S or B-E-A-R-S painted on them in dog masks and shit. American football uses beer for a scarf.

 

Incidentally, I saw part of some program profiling the rise of neo-nazi sentiment among european football leagues. Particularly in Italy and Spain, I think. Some Spanish coach called some other player a "black shit," and all this other rotten stuff. You ever see anything like that, or was the show blowing a few isolated assholes out of proportion?

 

I've not seen anything that bad in the UK, but I don't go to games that often. It's much rarer in Britain than the rest of Europe, definitely. The incident you're referring to was a comment from the Spanish national coach about Theirry Henry. Spain and Italy have a shambolic record of crap like that and there's a lot going on to try and stop it, or so we're told by the regulation bodies. A guy who used to play for my team who's now in Italy acknowledged the Neo-nazis in the crowd with a Hitler salute when he scored, later defending his actions with the gem 'I'm a fascist, but I'm not a racist'. Not every club has an openly fascist section of their fanbase though. There certainly needs to be programmes about it.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

That's fuckin' nuts. Sounds like the retarded shit that went on in american sports during segregation and Jim Crow laws and everything. I'm surprised they adopt the nazi style of racism, what with the Germans blowing everybody up a little over half a century ago. I'd figured they'd just go all KKK about it, or be some other run of the mill racists.

[The Czech Republic 0]

Hitler was charismatic enough that they can forgive his erstwhile regime, I suppose.