the magic world of football
Yesterday there was a football match, Catania vs. Palermo. The match was suspended because the supporters were throwing all sort of crap on the field, especially lacrimogeni, which are some sort of semi-bombs that make a lot of smoke when they blast (cannot find a decent translation on internet). The match starts again, then ends. At the end of the match, police was escorting the Palermo supporters to the train, when some Catania supporters, some of them underage, assaulted a police car. A policeman died.
The football championship has been suspended, not clear when it will start again. All politicians are making a mess to condemn what happened. Everyone is full of grief.
This is pure and utter bullshit.
Things like this have been happening nearly every weekend in the last years. The only difference is that noone, luckily, died before. The Italian police needs to escort supporters to the stadium every weekend, as if we were in Beirut during the civil war. Supporters devastate trains every weekend. The stadiums need to be full of police, because otherwise they would kill each other. There have been plenty of examples of recist banners in stadiums. Insulting - and I mean really insulting, Italian way, on every possible relative you have, especially if female - is considered normal. People manage to take all sort of semi-bombs inside stadiums. Some matches had to be suspended because supporters were throwing coins at the players, and if a coin is throw really fast and hits you on the head it hurts badly.
Net, this has been going on forever and only now, because this poor guy died, people realize that things need to change.
Now, let's see what will happen next. My prediction is that they will talktalktalktalktalktalk, next match stay silent for a couple of minutes, and then off we go, waiting for the next dead. If you looked at the page of the Gazzetta dello Sport, the most read Italian newspaper, yesterday night, right after it happened, they had the title about the dead policeman and right below the result and comment of the match. This morning they took it out, perhaps someone told them that they need to pretend that they give a shit about what happened outside the stadium.
The real question should be: what could we do, apart from pretending that we care and forget about it in 1 week or so? Some people are advocating that we should suspend the championship completely, at least for 1 year. I think this is not a good idea, these moron supporters like to devastate things, so it would mean that they would follow another sport and fuck that one up as well. We already have laws that should punish who commits crimes (and these are penal crimes, my dear). The point is, how to actually apply them properly. To be honest, I don't want to stay here and tell you Alba's universal truth on how to slove the problem, because I have no universal truth.
From world champions to world mutherfuckers. Great improvement.
The football championship has been suspended, not clear when it will start again. All politicians are making a mess to condemn what happened. Everyone is full of grief.
This is pure and utter bullshit.
Things like this have been happening nearly every weekend in the last years. The only difference is that noone, luckily, died before. The Italian police needs to escort supporters to the stadium every weekend, as if we were in Beirut during the civil war. Supporters devastate trains every weekend. The stadiums need to be full of police, because otherwise they would kill each other. There have been plenty of examples of recist banners in stadiums. Insulting - and I mean really insulting, Italian way, on every possible relative you have, especially if female - is considered normal. People manage to take all sort of semi-bombs inside stadiums. Some matches had to be suspended because supporters were throwing coins at the players, and if a coin is throw really fast and hits you on the head it hurts badly.
Net, this has been going on forever and only now, because this poor guy died, people realize that things need to change.
Now, let's see what will happen next. My prediction is that they will talktalktalktalktalktalk, next match stay silent for a couple of minutes, and then off we go, waiting for the next dead. If you looked at the page of the Gazzetta dello Sport, the most read Italian newspaper, yesterday night, right after it happened, they had the title about the dead policeman and right below the result and comment of the match. This morning they took it out, perhaps someone told them that they need to pretend that they give a shit about what happened outside the stadium.
The real question should be: what could we do, apart from pretending that we care and forget about it in 1 week or so? Some people are advocating that we should suspend the championship completely, at least for 1 year. I think this is not a good idea, these moron supporters like to devastate things, so it would mean that they would follow another sport and fuck that one up as well. We already have laws that should punish who commits crimes (and these are penal crimes, my dear). The point is, how to actually apply them properly. To be honest, I don't want to stay here and tell you Alba's universal truth on how to slove the problem, because I have no universal truth.
From world champions to world mutherfuckers. Great improvement.
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