Absolute bollocks is it. There is trouble all over the country every weekend, and it's on the rise again. I think the lower leagues are much worse than the Premier League though.
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[Albion] Marseille fans
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el punal
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Southern are sorry to announce that the posturing expected at platform 8 has been cancelled.
Assert your dominance. Walk into the away end wearing a PSG shirt and eyeball each and every one of them. They’ll respect your authority.
Ike and Tina Burner
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- Mar 22, 2019
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It's making a big comeback post covid. People are feeling increasingly disenfranchised within society I think. The subculture is a natural balm to those feelings. Football factory is not a great film but the "Tottenham away" monologue does sum up a lot of people's state of mind.
There will however be a replacement 'Hold Me Back' service operating at 30 minute intervals
I’m hoping he’s off to the Foghorn.
If he’s not licked to death by a pack of deceptively ferocious cockapoos he’ll throw himself in the sea once he sees the Rose.
- Apr 5, 2014
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We have a winner.
Calling at:
19.02 General Hand Gestures
19.04 Disco Bouncing Forward And Back
19.10 Pointy Offensive Chants
19.12 Bravado Behind A Police Line
19.15 Films Uploaded To Twitter
For memories sake, in 30 years time the next PPF will talk of how tasty it all was.
Bertie D'Astard
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- Aug 19, 2018
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Could solve the problem of where they park their mopeds …
Proper fighting seems a thing of the past but anti-social behavior (aka people being twats) racism and homophobia is still rife unfortunately.
Justice
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Do you see us run Ajax has probably done the rounds already amongst the teens.
jakarta
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Shouty shouting still exists, some of it being banter, some of it rather less so as mentioned above.
BluesRockDJ
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- Jan 24, 2020
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Pre Brexit they would have been able to travel on their ID cards, they now need to have a passport, which might restrict them.
- Jul 10, 2003
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Between you and me, it was exactly the same in the 'infamous' 70s, except luckily we didn't have the phones for evidence and 50+year memories aren't what they were
That first flush of teenage testosterone, supplemented by a little artificial enhancement and an excitable imagination really hasn't changed much
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redoubtable seagull
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- Oct 27, 2004
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I watched the AEK away game in the pub outside London Bridge and there was a group of London based Marseille fans watching our game before theirs against Ajax. They said they are part of a group of about 150 in London who gather to watch their games in pubs in London, travel away to Europe occasionally and especially to Uk matches as well as home matches when back in France. They were looking fwd to our match, thought they’d lose, said they are hopeless this season, and did not think there’d be any trouble. They said the trouble occurs when there’s been history with another club or if visiting fans to their city start acting up. They were very uncomplimentary about Dutch fans, and anyone who has half an eye on European football will know Holland has a problem at the moment.
Peacehaven Wild Kids
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It’s not banter though is it? banter is something you have with an opposing fan in the work place.
“banter” at the station, in an away town pub, near the ground etc will inevitably result in punches being thrown
Not unless they were travelling directly from Ireland. They'd have always needed a passport to arrive from France.
Was it the Renault Five ?
- Apr 19, 2018
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I need to read that series of books again. One of them has a description of following England abroad, I think Spain 86 maybe, and from memory the protagonist gets on a train to escape the police and ends up travelling away from the city and other fans and football. Not an experience I ever had but something in the way that was described and the way it changes the perspective of the bloke even if only temporarily really stuck with me!