[Football] Russian welcome mat laid out for our fans....

[CHAPPERS]

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/wor...mzan-kadyrov-ahead-of-world-cup-a3859991.html

Good start to the propaganda machine.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Same thing happened in Amsterdam to 60 England - literally unbelievable to nick and fine people just because they were English and the twats who caused trouble had all ran off - and there was only 4 of them who started it!

I can only comment on what I saw on TV, and perhaps we are being misled - but there were an awful lot more than 4 people on that bridge in Amsterdam throwing beer (and a bloody BIKE) at innocent tourists on boats below.

 

[seagullsslimjim]

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/wor...mzan-kadyrov-ahead-of-world-cup-a3859991.html

Good start to the propaganda machine.

Well the Standard is owned by a dye in the wool Russian, so i guess you'd always expect that sort of negative coverage.

'On 21 January 2009, the Russian businessman and former KGB agent Alexander Lebedev and his son Evgeny Lebedev, owners of The Independent, agreed to purchase control of the newspaper at £1 for 64 percent ownership'

 

[Spiros]

I've been in Moscow for the past week and everyone has been very welcoming. Haven't ever felt unsafe - including tube journeys alone late at night. No more to worry about than London so far.

With murders in London up to 74 and counting so far this year that's not saying a lot ...

 

[Dr Bandler]

I have spent quite a bit of time in Russia, as my wife is originally from there, and I can only echo the reports of the fans on this thread who are currently there. Russian people are generally friendly and helpful, and I have felt safe in Moscow day and night. I am not sure I would feel so safe in some of the gang-infested parts of London at night.

However, and here is the caveat, young Russian males are generally quite macho and masculine, in a way that our society has moved away from, and are often trained in mixed martial arts. A small sub-section of these are nationalists and / or football hooligans, and these would not be people to mess with. I feel very sure that most normal fans will be fine, but if any English idiots start behaving like the knobs that have previously been mentioned on this thread, then they better watch out.

Interestingly, there is a real difference between our "old school" hooligans, like the ICF or old Millwall, who would have given the Russian hoolies a good run for their money, and today's anti-social idiots. The former were just out for a fight, whereas the latter seem to want to behave like moronic chavs but without consequences. This time, there will be some.

 

[Eeyore]

Even during the worst of days our fans rarely seemed to cause trouble on home soil. Scotland, excepted, perhaps. But even in those rare encounters it seemed to be the Jocks that started things.

I wonder if it is the same in Russia. Hopefully so. I'm guessing that they wouldn't expect government support on this occasion. Image and all that.

It looks like many have chosen not to travel. Could be more like Japan/Korea this time.

 

[clapham_gull]

With murders in London up to 74 and counting so far this year that's not saying a lot ...

Got home safe again.

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[Sheebo]

I can only comment on what I saw on TV, and perhaps we are being misled - but there were an awful lot more than 4 people on that bridge in Amsterdam throwing beer (and a bloody BIKE) at innocent tourists on boats below.

Different situation. Yes there was a fair bit of twattish behaviour (10k over there so always likely whatever nation tbh) but inexcusable. The 60 nicked as a token to boost the numbers for the English press was because 4 Blackburn & Burnley fans had a go at each other and the old bill went in from here which caused mayhem. Then came back from the trouble to nick those innocents that had stayed behind and not followed the trouble!

 

[FIVESTEPS]

With murders in London up to 74 and counting so far this year that's not saying a lot ...

Murders in Moscow are much higher at 4.6 per 100000 people compared with 1.6 in London. Murder rate in London is low in comparison to a lot of European cities.