Alerta: Antifascist Football Fans

[Holden Caulfield]

Alerta is a new antifascist/footy fans website that has been set up.

We at Antifa England think it's an excellent idea and look forward to watching the site grow.

http://www.alerta-network.tk/ (http://www.alerta-network.tk/) (the link dont seem to work, but this is the same on the antifa site as well, sorry chaps)

www.antifa.org.uk (http://www.antifa.org.uk)

[Killfacer]

Sounds good, is there much going on in England? I'm a football fan and have a season ticket but even here in bristol theres alot of racism amongst football fans. Sure it's not as bad as in Spain, but its fucking annoying.

What is it actually planning on doing?

[Holden Caulfield]

Sounds good, is there much going on in England? I'm a football fan and have a season ticket but even here in bristol theres alot of racism amongst football fans. Sure it's not as bad as in Spain, but its fucking annoying.

What is it actually planning on doing?
its the first i've herd comrade, i'll try to find an active link somewhere and get us some more juicy chuncks of information

but as for antifascism in Bristol there are antifa contacts there who would know better about stuff going down in the town better than I.

[Holden Caulfield]

i've found this (http://alerta.bplaced.net/wordpress/?p=66) but there is only the one article,

[Killfacer]

I have found my new favourite spanish team :tt1:. FORZA CADIZ (i know the starts italian but meh)

[jaffe]

there are a lot of football teams in South Europe with a leftwing supporters base. In Perugia and some other citys there are 2 sides. One full of fascist scum and one full of leftwing scum (pretty confusing IMHO).

[Pogue]

I sing anti-fascist songs at football sometimes, but I'm usually on my own. :(

[nuisance]

I sing anti-fascist songs at football sometimes, but I'm usually on my own. :(
Like what?

[redSHARP]

yeah go MLS!!:crying::(

[Killfacer]

yeah go MLS!!:crying::(

I assume that this is for proper leagues, not amatuer part timers like the MLS.:lol:

On a more serious note, anyone got any more information on this? Don't want to go on but it sounds interesitng.

[Holden Caulfield]

got any more information on this? Don't want to go on but it sounds interesitng
maybe this will keep you satisfied until we get some more info
http://www.revleft.com/vb/anti-fascism-football-t94130/index.html?t=94130&highlight=football

[Pogue]

like what?

antifa hooligans!

[An archist]

I'm proud to see Liege fans with banners in support of paperless immigrants:D.
Chauvinism all the way!

[redSHARP]

MLS is solidy against racism, and in most US sports, a player could get a serious fine and get black balled. it is up to the sport team, the league, and fans to make srue racism does not take root.

[Killfacer]

I'm proud to see Liege fans with banners in support of paperless immigrants:D.
Chauvinism all the way!

Your a standard liege fan? Got a lot of reasons to be happy then, you were unlucky to say the least to get knocked out by liverpool and your league champions (i think).

Steven Defour is a class act and you will not be able to replace him, which is sad because if you still had him and had kept Fellaini then in a couple of years times you could have competed alot better in the champions league.

I'm a big fan of Standard, there was a good atmosphere against Everton (maybe not the best in europe as somebody said earlier) and you play nice football.

[zider]

here in bristol theres alot of racism amongst football fans.




are you city or rovers?

I haven't been to a match in years, I hope racism at football isn't approaching anything like it's 1980's levels .

[Killfacer]

City mate. Nah, it's not nearly as bad as it was. It's still around but certainly nothing as bad as it was. Ashton Gate's a bit of library if i'm honest, so when somebody does shout "fuck off nigger" something like that, it's amplified.

[An archist]

Your a standard liege fan? Got a lot of reasons to be happy then, you were unlucky to say the least to get knocked out by liverpool and your league champions (i think).

Steven Defour is a class act and you will not be able to replace him, which is sad because if you still had him and had kept Fellaini then in a couple of years times you could have competed alot better in the champions league.

I'm a big fan of Standard, there was a good atmosphere against Everton (maybe not the best in europe as somebody said earlier) and you play nice football.

:DWell, I'm not supposed to support them, since they're not from my hometown, but what can I say, they're just great to watch and my hometown team (OHL) is absolutely shite.

[zider]

City mate. Nah, it's not nearly as bad as it was. It's still around but certainly nothing as bad as it was. Ashton Gate's a bit of library if i'm honest, so when somebody does shout "fuck off nigger" something like that, it's amplified.

it's partly the "library experience" that stops me going back to Ashton Gate, it's a lot of money to sit in near silence :(

I've come across quite a few fellow revolutionary ciderheads over the years but I can't remember a single rev gashead :laugh:

[Killfacer]

it's partly the "library experience" that stops me going back to Ashton Gate, it's a lot of money to sit in near silence :(

I've come across quite a few fellow revolutionary ciderheads over the years but I can't remember a single rev gashead :laugh:

Thats because gasheads are inbread mutants.

Ashton gate is good very occasioanlly. I remember the last game of the season when we got promoted, people sung for the entire match and then stormed the pitch.

The pubs around the area probably have a better atmosphere in on a match day.

[Pogue]

Its the same at Chelsea at the moment, with the whole library thing. Although if you're in the shed, especially the lower, its good. I was there for the Cluj game and we made the atmosphere mint.

[Killfacer]

Its the same at Chelsea at the moment, with the whole library thing. Although if you're in the shed, especially the lower, its good. I was there for the Cluj game and we made the atmosphere mint.

Chelsea fans are really loud away from home although the only chant they seem to know is:

"Chelsea, Chelsea, Chelsea,
Chelsea Chelsea, Chelsea"

[Andropov]

Im a massive LOI fan.
Have been since I was a sprog, have been a season ticket holder for years.
People from Ireland and England look down on it but tbh we couldnt give a flying fukc.
LOI hasnt become commericalised like the big European Leagues its still raw working class football.
And I can gaurantee you that the atmosphere in a LOI game would still beat an English game even if the crowd is a fraction.
In fact the Germans love LOI, they love getting back to the old school working class football clubs.
Its terraced, its dirty, its p!ssing rain, the food is terrible the services are worse but we wouldnt change it for the world.

:thumbup:

[Killfacer]

what the hell is LOI?

[Holden Caulfield]

League of Ireland

[Killfacer]

I don't wish to condemn what sounds like good fun, but i do like being able to see good footballers play. Plus there is no opportunity for promotion or the champions league.

I assume the attendances must be pretty low?

[Andropov]

I don't wish to condemn what sounds like good fun, but i do like being able to see good footballers play. Plus there is no opportunity for promotion or the champions league.

I assume the attendances must be pretty low?

Meahh I dont buy into that logic, I firmly believe that your club chooses you not the other way around.
There is promotion and relegation with the First Division and Premier Division and there is European football.
There is a champions league space so there is a possibility of Champions league football and 3 UEFA Cup places.
Incidentally my team qaulified for the UEFA Cup, first time since 1997 or so when we played Club Brugge.

Aye they are very low in comparison to England.
Like Cork would get around 5000, Bohs 3500, Derry 2500 Pats 2000, Drogs 2000. Just rough estimiates.
Its actually very interesting to look a the dynamics of sport in Ireland.
The rural community is over whelmingly GAA.
The upper class (bar Limerick) play Rugby.
The middle class's often buy into the Premiership sh!te.
The urban working class's still follow LOI football over whelmingly.

All one has to do is look at the old LOI strongholds in Irish towns and the locations of LOI clubs in Dublin.
The old LOI strongholds in Irish towns would be Dundalk, Athlone, Sligo, Waterford.
All old working class towns.

While in Dublin Shams are now based in Tallaght, Bohs are based around Phibsborough/Cabra area and Pats are based in Inchicore.
Those places are all working class to the core.

[Killfacer]

Ah, my apologies. I though LOI was some kind of amateur football league. I didn't know you were referring to the proper irish league. I agree with you completely. If i was born in ireland i would support a LOI team. My personal favourite is derry, mainly because they are the only ones i have heard of.

I assume you get knocked out of the uefa cup by crappy croations team :tt2:

Still, watching uefa cup football is better and more exciting than me trudging down the ashton gate every other saturday in the pissing rain to watch city loose 2-0 to some shitty northern team.

[Wanted Man]

I don't get a lot of opportunities to see professional football in the stadium. It's expensive, and since I've lived everywhere, I've never really grown into one club in particular (evil rootless cosmopolitan :crying:). I support Ajax because my father has supported them ever since the days of Cruyff and others (people from outside Amsterdam who claim to support Ajax are usually "glory supporters", but I can't take the blame for it, maybe that makes my father a glory hunter! :tt2:), but Amsterdam is too far away to go and see football...

Ah well, there's always the local amateur team. Average attendance of 200-300, with about 20 die-hards standing on the otherwise empty terraces every Sunday, through the rain and the snow, to see the team beat the leaders or get embarrassed by the relegation candidates. The barely audible stadium speaker, the manager who always gets exaggeratedly angry at the referee, the "paid amateur" opponents who are on top of the league because they sign all the washed-up ex-pros they can get their hands on, the narrow tunnel where only one player can pass through at a time, the board members retreating into their back room for beer and fried snacks... Now that's football.

[F9]

Ah well, there's always the local amateur team. Average attendance of 200-300, with about 20 die-hards standing on the otherwise empty terraces every Sunday, through the rain and the snow, to see the team beat the leaders or get embarrassed by the relegation candidates. The barely audible stadium speaker, the manager who always gets exaggeratedly angry at the referee, the "paid amateur" opponents who are on top of the league because they sign all the washed-up ex-pros they can get their hands on, the narrow tunnel where only one player can pass through at a time, the board members retreating into their back room for beer and fried snacks... Now that's football.

Old good times, which sadly i didnt had the chance to live!:(
AGAINST MODERN FOOTBALL

[Wanted Man]

Well, at least they're still alive at the amateur grounds! :D Although politics and modern football are even attempting to encroach on them. For example, the government intends to ban the consumption of beer during amateur football matches. Not a big problem for my club, because they play in the highest amateur league and don't heavily depend on consumptions. But it could be a death blow for the lower league clubs from the smallest rural villages. And it's a blow to the football culture of some of these clubs, which can best be described as "drunk and disorderly". :D

Ah well, whatever they try, they'll never take away what's there entirely. For example, our home ground will always be the monumental Esserberg, designed by one of the players (who was also an architect!) who gave the club their one and only league championship in 1920, decades before the introduction of professional football. It's kind of off-topic to anti-fascism, but pictures like this are always nice:

http://www.8ung.at/kettcar/ground/esserberg2.JPG

Normally, the stadium is never so full. This picture is probably from the Eurovoetbal tournament, when the Under-17 squads of the best clubs in the world (Real, Newcastle, Fenerbahçe, Schalke, Porto, Anderlecht and others were there this year) and the Netherlands (Ajax, Groningen, Heerenveen, Twente and PSV this year) come to Groningen to compete against each other.

Normally, it looks more like this (http://www.bequick1887.nl/voetbal/pages/accommodatie/) or this (http://groenwitfotopage.web-log.nl/groenwitfotopage/special_04_bezoek_esserberg/index.html). Although sometimes, the stadium still fills up. For example, when the club managed to qualify for the FA Cup and played against the big professional club NEC. Then it looked like this (http://www.bequick1887.nl/voetbal/nieuws/4371/eerste_machteloos_tegen_nec_in_bekerstrijd.html), this (http://www.bequick1887.nl/voetbal/nieuws/4372/sfeerimpressie_be_quick_1887_%E2%80%93_nec.html), this (http://www.mijnalbum.nl/Album=BKPONUTP) and this (http://detrouwehonden.nl/dbid=7160/tpl=1901/shortmenu=2).

Of course, professional football in Groningen is nice too, with FC Groningen doing so well. A few years ago, they built the spanking new Euroborg stadium which houses about 22,000 people. Instead of building some kind of ugly UFO-like structure, they stayed true to the club's roots and built a beautiful new ground, with the stands right next to the pitch.

Some great pics: http://groenwitfotopage.web-log.nl/groenwitfotopage/tifo_20072008/index.html They show an action dedicated to Erik Nevland (at Fulham now), an action during a UEFA Cup match against Fiorentina (they played European football last season, not anymore, unfortunately!), some more actions, a full away stand against rivals Heerenveen, a great banner in the home match against Heerenveen showing "the Frisians being blown away". At the bottom, there are pictures of the disastrous stadium fire of April, when an incredible asshole set fire to the materials before the match against Ajax. It is extremely lucky that nobody got killed, because it was relatively easy to escape to the pitch.

So what's it like in Cyprus?

[LivornoCalcioUK]

As a British fan of an Italian club I don't get to go to many Livorno games, but when I have been in the past the Curva Nord has always been in great voice with Communist anti-Fascist songs and chants. Bella Ciao is a personal favourite of course, and when we play Lazio there's always a rousing rendition of Paolo Di Canio A Testa In Giu in "honour" of the skinhead bastard himself.

[Bilan]

I r bad, but I like the game, fuck the politics.

[Killfacer]

It's a shame they had to get rid of terraces and stop people drinking in the stadium in england. I know that it helped to stop football hooliganism but it's annoying when you have to guzzle as much cider as you can before you go into the stadium.

I wish i lived in somewhere like Germany where they have terraces and you can drink in the ground.

[Wanted Man]

Oh, that reminds me of some great pictures I saw of the stadium of HSV. Now, HSV can go fuck themselves, but the stadium itself is really impressive. There is a huge standing area for the most fanatic supporters, the stands are very steep, it really looks amazing.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/141/347147470_29c91815a5.jpg?v=0

More: http://groenwitfotopage.web-log.nl/groenwitfotopage/special_16/index.html

Also, usually, when a new stadium is abandoned, they demolish the old stadium. But sometimes, they just leave it there, which leads to interesting results.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2400/2257064045_0816dbf328.jpg?v=0

Stadion de Kraal (http://groenwitfotopage.web-log.nl/groenwitfotopage/special_42_de_kraal/index.html), the stadium of VVV Venlo until they moved to De Koel. Abandoned since 1972, only the pitch is maintained for training. The main stand was demolished, but the terraces were allowed to stand forever.

De Wageningse Berg (http://groenwitfotopage.web-log.nl/groenwitfotopage/special_42_wageningen_twee/index.html), the stadium of FC Wageningen. The club went bankrupt in 1992.

[zider]

Oh, that reminds me of some great pictures I saw of the stadium of HSV. Now, HSV can go fuck themselves, but the stadium itself is really impressive. There is a huge standing area for the most fanatic supporters, the stands are very steep, it really looks amazing.

It looks even more impressive when filled with the brown and white of St. Pauli :thumbup:,whenever they are forced to play there. :star:

[Andropov]

Ah, my apologies. I though LOI was some kind of amateur football league. I didn't know you were referring to the proper irish league. I agree with you completely. If i was born in ireland i would support a LOI team. My personal favourite is derry, mainly because they are the only ones i have heard of.

I assume you get knocked out of the uefa cup by crappy croations team :tt2:

Still, watching uefa cup football is better and more exciting than me trudging down the ashton gate every other saturday in the pissing rain to watch city loose 2-0 to some shitty northern team.

Derry is club with an enormous tradition for those interested where politics and football merge.
Because their ground, the Brandywell, is in the Bogside it is the only ground in any top flight league in Europe that doesnt have a Police presence.

Aye I have no doubt we will get knocked out by some sh!tty team, but we are not in it for the success.
I sincerely hope the LOI never becomes widely popular in Ireland, for the FAI would prostitute the league in heartbeat like the Premiership.
Its nice being in the righteous minority.

[Killfacer]

I wouldn't worry about it too much, i'm sure that like most countries with small footballing leagues the majority of "supporters" will be fans of clubs like Manchester United and Arsenal.

[F9]

Well, at least they're still alive at the amateur grounds! :D Although politics and modern football are even attempting to encroach on them. For example, the government intends to ban the consumption of beer during amateur football matches. Not a big problem for my club, because they play in the highest amateur league and don't heavily depend on consumptions. But it could be a death blow for the lower league clubs from the smallest rural villages. And it's a blow to the football culture of some of these clubs, which can best be described as "drunk and disorderly". :D

Ah well, whatever they try, they'll never take away what's there entirely. For example, our home ground will always be the monumental Esserberg, designed by one of the players (who was also an architect!) who gave the club their one and only league championship in 1920, decades before the introduction of professional football. It's kind of off-topic to anti-fascism, but pictures like this are always nice:

http://www.8ung.at/kettcar/ground/esserberg2.JPG

Normally, the stadium is never so full. This picture is probably from the Eurovoetbal tournament, when the Under-17 squads of the best clubs in the world (Real, Newcastle, Fenerbahçe, Schalke, Porto, Anderlecht and others were there this year) and the Netherlands (Ajax, Groningen, Heerenveen, Twente and PSV this year) come to Groningen to compete against each other.

Normally, it looks more like this (http://www.bequick1887.nl/voetbal/pages/accommodatie/) or this (http://groenwitfotopage.web-log.nl/groenwitfotopage/special_04_bezoek_esserberg/index.html). Although sometimes, the stadium still fills up. For example, when the club managed to qualify for the FA Cup and played against the big professional club NEC. Then it looked like this (http://www.bequick1887.nl/voetbal/nieuws/4371/eerste_machteloos_tegen_nec_in_bekerstrijd.html), this (http://www.bequick1887.nl/voetbal/nieuws/4372/sfeerimpressie_be_quick_1887_%E2%80%93_nec.html), this (http://www.mijnalbum.nl/Album=BKPONUTP) and this (http://detrouwehonden.nl/dbid=7160/tpl=1901/shortmenu=2).

Of course, professional football in Groningen is nice too, with FC Groningen doing so well. A few years ago, they built the spanking new Euroborg stadium which houses about 22,000 people. Instead of building some kind of ugly UFO-like structure, they stayed true to the club's roots and built a beautiful new ground, with the stands right next to the pitch.

Some great pics: http://groenwitfotopage.web-log.nl/groenwitfotopage/tifo_20072008/index.html They show an action dedicated to Erik Nevland (at Fulham now), an action during a UEFA Cup match against Fiorentina (they played European football last season, not anymore, unfortunately!), some more actions, a full away stand against rivals Heerenveen, a great banner in the home match against Heerenveen showing "the Frisians being blown away". At the bottom, there are pictures of the disastrous stadium fire of April, when an incredible asshole set fire to the materials before the match against Ajax. It is extremely lucky that nobody got killed, because it was relatively easy to escape to the pitch.

So what's it like in Cyprus?

Nice!:)
When you say whats like in cyprus you mean professional league not amateur right?
Well, things here are getting more and more modern, and unfortunately reaching "high" levels of modernation(?).Stadiums with the best facilities, big "televisions" so fans can see advertisements, new technology of advertising boards where advertisements change and move for more money!Basically the advance is reaching the levels of the best countries in football, england spain italy etc!And that for me is completely dissapointing!Its the sell out of the game and the ideas behind it, its the sell out of the teams themselves and the ideas behind them!
Now in people attending, i can only speak for my team(i dont give a fuck about other teams:p) my team rates more than 50% of the countrs population, at very least half of the people if you ask them they will say they support OMONOIA(OMONIA in english), thats because our great achivements, and the best team ever in cyprus, but also because our anti-facist and leftist character.My team was born in the name of anti-facism, so a lot of "leftists" and progressive people back in 48 gathered around this team, and since the team had one of the best rosters teams have ever seen back then, and since the time we entered the main league, we had two golden decades where we got one championship after the other, and with those success our persentages on people got huge!
On the last few years when an arsehole got in charge and as a "president" of the club, he destroyed what people before build, he brought useless players, he got the team in debt, and he "ate" a lot of money from the team!So since last year our average home attendance didnt pass 5-6 thousands i think, which is really a huge dissapoinment for us!Fortunately with common actions bettwen the fans, and us the GATE9(the main fan, ultras ) as a "vanguard"(:p) to this battle we managed to take him out from his possition and set some people with dreams for this team, but always know that the team isnt "theirs" but ours, we are the team, they just take some responsibility and help economically!Since last year our home attendance reach more than 12 thousands for sure, with some games like vs Man City and Aek Athens attendance reach 20000 only from our side and a lot of people staying without tickets!Our team is first in the league, got for first time in first round of UEFA, where we lost from City, but not as easy people whought, we could do a lot better with being a lottle more careful, anw City fairly procide as a "better" team, and we were happy for playing a decent match against a team in so high level!We are getting straight for the champion now, and i think is the time that tickets from "our" 24000 seats stadium are gonna get sell out, which isnt the first time we did it!
Imagine for a country were population dont pass 750000, how hard it is to fill a stadium like this!:wub:
And yeah, i love my team, if you didnt understood so far!:wub::p

Fuserg9:star:

[Wanted Man]

Interesting stuff indeed. Nice that there is such a strong and fanatic support for your team, and that they managed to make some impact in Europe. How come 50% support them, though, do people from other cities also support them instead of their 'local' sides?

I know very little about Cypriotic football. The only time it really made the news here was in the qualifications for the European Championship of 1988, when Holland played against the Cypriotic national team. They won 8-0, but some idiot threw a bomb at the Cyprus keeper, so the match had to be replayed in an empty stadium.

Yeah, there are modern football quirks all over here as well. Especially the big screens that show advertisements and replays (for rich pricks in the skyboxes who are sitting too high or aren't paying attention to the game?). There is a big tendency to throw money at things. For example, Feyenoord managed to get investors to spend a lot of money on experienced current and former Dutch internationals (Van Bronckhorst, Makaay, etc.). Now, they are in the lower end of the league and strapped for cash.

Hilariously, Feyenoord are actually planning to build a new stadium with a capacity of 80,000 - 100,000. As if "De Kuip" (http://www.stadiumguide.com/kuip.htm), the most beautiful stadium of the country (says the Ajax fan!), isn't good enough. If they keep this up, soon they'll have the biggest stadium of the nation, but they'll also be playing in the lower league, so it will be an almost-empty concrete shell. Now, I don't like Feyenoord, but it would suck if the greatest football rivalry was no longer played in the highest league.

Killfacer: yeah, a lot of people support Man United or Arsenal, no matter where they're from. A very funny and true article about this: http://www.independent.ie/sport/other-sports/man-united-men-share-in-the-miracle-of-martyrdom-1386539.html

[F9]

Interesting stuff indeed. Nice that there is such a strong and fanatic support for your team, and that they managed to make some impact in Europe. How come 50% support them, though, do people from other cities also support them instead of their 'local' sides?

Yeah, our fans are from all over cyprus, and in most of them we are more than the local teams fans!:thumbup1:And in cyprus isnt such a big deal on local teams, its a small country so you can come to the home stadium from whatever town you live at, and obviously we can go and to all the away matches!



I know very little about Cypriotic football. The only time it really made the news here was in the qualifications for the European Championship of 1988, when Holland played against the Cypriotic national team. They won 8-0, but some idiot threw a bomb at the Cyprus keeper, so the match had to be replayed in an empty stadium.

Yeah i know the situation, the keeper was from my team!:p
However the one that threw that thing to the keeper became friend with him at the end!After some years of the incident he contacted our keeper and he even came down here!Lately, i dont remember exactly for what purpose,( did we have a match cyprus-holland recently? i dont watch national teams a lot tbh) the story got on media again, and the two friends were again together, he came here!:)Good things on football...:)
Ohh and btw the keeper was useless!:p


Yeah, there are modern football quirks all over here as well. Especially the big screens that show advertisements and replays (for rich pricks in the skyboxes who are sitting too high or aren't paying attention to the game?). There is a big tendency to throw money at things. For example, Feyenoord managed to get investors to spend a lot of money on experienced current and former Dutch internationals (Van Bronckhorst, Makaay, etc.). Now, they are in the lower end of the league and strapped for cash.

Its nice watching their modern "style" faling, thehy just need to understand to go back in the years(shit im sounding like a primitivist:lol:)


Hilariously, Feyenoord are actually planning to build a new stadium with a capacity of 80,000 - 100,000. As if "De Kuip" (http://www.stadiumguide.com/kuip.htm), the most beautiful stadium of the country (says the Ajax fan!), isn't good enough. If they keep this up, soon they'll have the biggest stadium of the nation, but they'll also be playing in the lower league, so it will be an almost-empty concrete shell. Now, I don't like Feyenoord, but it would suck if the greatest football rivalry was no longer played in the highest league.

Yeah, i know what you mean!Its FAR better having a small stadium which you sold out, and making a hot atmosphere, and the away team thinks is in hell, than have a huge stadium with empty seats and no fucking noise!


Fuserg9:star:

[Wanted Man]

Funny thing is, Feyenoord's capacity is already 50,000, and it usually doesn't sell out, due to the poor results (although Feyenoord fans will tell you that they are the most loyal supporters, they unfortunately also have some percentage of fickle glory hunters, it's just a reality of modern football).

The way modern football deals with money is no different from capitalism itself: purely looking at short-term self-interest. But the money must run out eventually. With 16 million inhabitants, and little foreign interest, the tv money (the main source of income) from Dutch football is relatively low. Unlike previous seasons, the commercial tv stations are no longer interested in spending tens of millions on football rights, so the rights went to the public broadcaster relatively cheaply for 5 years. This is costing the league a lot of money. They claimed that they would make up for it because a lot of people would subscribe to the new paid "Eredivisie Live" channel. But recent journalist investigation showed that only 300,000 people have subscribed so far, way below the target. The bubble will burst eventually, but of course, none of the rich fucks are going to suffer from it, just the fans.

About the Cyprus keeper: yeah, that story made it to the media again several months ago. It was because of the historical tv show "Andere Tijden", which made a series of sports episodes during the summer. They devoted an episode to the incident, 21 years later. They did indeed show the keeper and the bomber meeting again, as the keeper revisits the Netherlands. He once again stands in the goal in De Kuip where it all happened. The bomber spoke to the media for the first time. The keeper apparently also made a counter-offer to the bomber to visit Cyprus.

After Euro 1988, the keeper already visited Oss (the hometown of "the bomber of Oss") where everyone was eager to please him. Because everyone was pissed off at the idiot who had thrown the bomb, because he put the country's qualification at risk and "misrepresented the city of Oss". The bomber's life was threatened several times by even bigger idiots, on one occasion, they even placed a coffin in his parents' backyard. For years, he basically didn't have a life, except for fear. All because he somehow decided that he "wanted to make a big bang" in 1988...

Back then, Holland were really lucky to even qualify. The Ajax physio Greep said in his expert-testimony that Charitou was exaggerating his injury. Greep was later seen celebrating with the FA official with a bottle of champagne. A little white lie? Bribery by the Dutch FA? Well, Charitou later did say that he might have been able to continue playing despite the shock, but nobody even asked him.

In any case, it was extremely lucky. If the Uefa had been harsher, Holland might have been disqualified, and all the events of 1988, the rise of Van Basten, Gullit, Rijkaard, etc., the wins against W. Germany and USSR, the only silverware ever won by Holland, would all not have happened. I believe the Greeks were pretty pissed off, they would have qualified if the Uefa had been harsher (as they might have been against smaller nations or less clever lobbyists...).

The broadcast from last summer: http://player.omroep.nl/?aflID=7182662 It's in Dutch, but shows some interesting stuff. The keeper speaks Greek, I think. The bomber's words are also subtitled, because he speaks with a thick southern Dutch accent. :p (With Internet Explorer, you can watch it on 200% size, with Firefox only small size seems to be possible :()

http://weblogs.vpro.nl/anderetijdensport/files/2008/04/charitou1.jpg

Charitou back in the goal.

[Killfacer]

I get the feeling dutch football is shrinking. The current Ajax side is frankly appauling and they find it impossible to replace quality players they bring up. No team can replace Rafael Van Der Vaart, Sjnider, Huntelaar, Maduro.

[Wanted Man]

It is shrinking, largely due to the money problem I mentioned earlier (little audience, so little money from tv rights - this season, the commercial broadcasters haven't made huge bids). Unlike English clubs (even Hull, Stoke, Fulham, etc.), Dutch clubs can't just afford multi-million euro transfers, except for clubs with huge financial backing (Ajax, AZ.. and what else? Not many millionaires interested in putting money into Dutch sides). Worse yet, English scouts prowl all over the Dutch youth matches, so that many young talents move abroad before they've even made their first-team debuts. It's pure human trafficking of children that should be banned IMO, but it also happens because of greedy parents and agents.

It's true though, even the top teams are weaker. Compare the PSV squad from just 4 years ago, when they still had Lee, Park, Gomes, Alex, Van Bommel, Vennegoor, Ooijer, Cocu, etc. Or Ajax 4 years ago, with De Jong, Maxwell, Galásek, Van der Vaart, Ibrahimovic... even 2 years ago, they still had Sneijder, Babel, Huntelaar, Grygera, Heitinga, Stam and Davids. Both sides were still capable of competing in Europe. Now, PSV are hopeless against Olympique, Liverpool and Atletico (okay, tough opponents, but they would have been able to compete in the past).

Ajax have a lot of money to throw at the problem, so they can still make purchases like Sulejmani, Cvitanich, Aissati, etc. and progress in the UEFA Cup thanks to beating Hamburg. But it's not optimal. I hate to say it, and injuries are also to blame, but I don't think Van Basten is that good a manager for the club. There doesn't seem to be a lot of consistency in either tactics (just the same weak counter-football) or man management (transfer-listed players suddenly fitting into the first-team plans again).

One football pundit put it well when he said: "We are becoming a UEFA Cup nation." It's a sad reality, but probably true. On the plus side, the playing field in the league is a lot more level. Anyone can beat each other, boring provincial clubs are now playing UEFA Cup (besides Ajax, NEC and FC Twente also got past the group stage, which is pretty good). When they play against Ajax, PSV or Feyenoord, it's no longer a choice of losing 4-0 or 5-0. They can beat the "top" clubs by attacking well. It's a lower level, but it certainly provides more entertainment.

Just as long as we don't slide down to the level of Belgium, I'm happy. :p All the international players are still great, we just won't be seeing them in our own league after they turn 20. :(

(by the way, Maduro wasn't so good :p)

[Killfacer]

Fuck i forgot Zlatan Ibrahimovic use to play for Ajax, sold him to Juventus who then had to sell him to Inter because of the match fixing scandal.

Ajax have money, they just waste it on crap players. Look at their teams, it's full of mediocrity.

[Wanted Man]

Oh yeah, there's the bad spending too. Who will still remember Anastasiou, Mitea, Sikora, Sonck, Obodai, Boukhari, Charisteas, Juanfran, Lindenbergh, Roger, Manucharyan, Colin, Kuffour, Ogararu, Silva, Delorge, Krohn-Dehli, Bakircioglu, Luque, Rommedahl, Urzaiz, Sno...?

Most of them were decent or good players before they came to Ajax. So skeptics say that Ajax ruins careers. :p A lot of them are depth purchases, which is nice, except they spent millions on them in just half a decade. For depth, they should just use their best youth players, IMO. Last season was the worst when it came to shitty purchases. Luque, Delorge and Rommedahl all turned out to be useless. Kuffour hardly even played (rumours went that he was actually 36 years old or so, not 31, which would explain why he peaked for Bayern long ago). Urzaiz was supposed to be a "pinch hitter", but what good is a 36-year-old striker who never plays otherwise? He only got 3 subs in the end... Silva played for a while, but we never hear from him anymore.

Perez was the absolute worst. They sold him to PSV at the beginning of the season, then brought him back during the winter transfer window! Morons! Suárez was a great player, but he already proved himself at FC Groningen, so it's thanks to Groningen's scouting. Bakircioglu and Lindgren are decent at best.

There are some great purchases, but only players that already made themselves obvious at other clubs. Suarez and Lindgren from Groningen, Huntelaar and Sulejmani from Heerenveen, etc. Although Sulejmani still has to prove himself, but he gets injured often. The scouting sucks.

[Pogue]

If you live in England and want the old atmosphere just follow a non-league team, still standing terraces, cheap and rough, very working class.

[F9]

If you live in England and want the old atmosphere just follow a non-league team, still standing terraces, cheap and rough, very working class.

Yeah thats the spirit, "fuck" liverpool and arsenal!:thumbup:(no offense guys you support this teams, its just a phrase;))

[Pogue]

Admiteddly though Fuserg, I support a premiership club but also follow my local non-league team :D

[F9]

Admiteddly though Fuserg, I support a premiership club but also follow my local non-league team :D

But why you do it?Maybe because you like the football premiership teams play, but still like your local team, because it is close, you know people etc etc?Am i right?:)

Fuserg9:star:

[Killfacer]

Rommedahl was shit for charlton so how they decided he would be good enough for Ajax is beyond me.

[Wanted Man]

If you live in England and want the old atmosphere just follow a non-league team, still standing terraces, cheap and rough, very working class.
So what is it like to be a supporter in the Premier League, anyway? Because here, sometimes pundits say: "Hooliganism is out of control, we need to adopt football laws similar to England." Is it true that everyone has to sit down all the time (the stadiums are all-seater, anyway...), no fanatic/ultra actions, etc.? Just sit down, watch advertisements and clap? Because that sounds boring. :closedeyes:

Edit: Rommedahl sucks. He is just fast. He should have become a runner. Utterly useless player. He was at PSV before, where he was mediocre I guess. It's just another crappy depth purchase, the kind of player that they should have gotten from the youth teams without paying.

[Killfacer]

So what is it like to be a supporter in the Premier League, anyway? Because here, sometimes pundits say: "Hooliganism is out of control, we need to adopt football laws similar to England." Is it true that everyone has to sit down all the time (the stadiums are all-seater, anyway...), no fanatic/ultra actions, etc.? Just sit down, watch advertisements and clap? Because that sounds boring. :closedeyes:

Edit: Rommedahl sucks. He is just fast. He should have become a runner. Utterly useless player. He was at PSV before, where he was mediocre I guess. It's just another crappy depth purchase, the kind of player that they should have gotten from the youth teams without paying.

Only the big four (arsenal, chelsea, man u and liverpool) ever make everyone sit down for the entire match. When i go to see Bristol City you can stand up as much as you want and there is alot of singing/chants. Good fun but i would rather it was terraced and we were allowed to drink. You are allowed banners and stuff like that.

The thing is, English football used to be fucking horrible. Hooliganism was a huge problem and the laws that the government brought in to deal with it have be extremely effective. It's the one time laws brought in have exceeded their expectations.

No drink in the statium, alot of policemen around the stadium and in the stadium, no terraces, no flares and alot of police operations using CCTV to track down hooligan leaders and nail them. It worked very well but some people thing it killed the spirit of English football. I just think those people are stupid because they are looking back with rose tinted glasses and its just childish nostalgia.

I think they should probably do it in Italy where they have alot of problems but Holland has never struck me as a place where it would be needed.

Edgar Manucharyan looks like a really ugly version of my older brother.

[F9]

shit, killfacer, do you support the laws of the state which obviously breaks the human rights of the people?they are being watched all the time with cameras, they are arrested for fucking standing or making noise!!


No drink in the statium, alot of policemen around the stadium and in the stadium, no terraces, no flares and alot of police operations using CCTV to track down hooligan leaders and nail them. It worked very well but some people thing it killed the spirit of English football. I just think those people are stupid because they are looking back with rose tinted glasses and its just childish nostalgia.

No, you are stupid!Whats fucking football if you cant get drunk and get their stand for 2 hours, song and support your team, make a hot atmosphere in the field, and win results from the fans?I can see and in my fucking neighborhood 22 kids shooting a fucking ball, but the atmosphere of the stadium when your teams enters, when a goal scored etc its something that you cant see anywhere.Football without singing, flares, banners, dancing etc, its not football, its just 22 people kicking a ball!

Fuserg9:star:

[Killfacer]

shit, killfacer, do you support the laws of the state which obviously breaks the human rights of the people?they are being watched all the time with cameras, they are arrested for fucking standing or making noise!!



No, you are stupid!Whats fucking football if you cant get drunk and get their stand for 2 hours, song and support your team, make a hot atmosphere in the field, and win results from the fans?I can see and in my fucking neighborhood 22 kids shooting a fucking ball, but the atmosphere of the stadium when your teams enters, when a goal scored etc its something that you cant see anywhere.Football without singing, flares, banners, dancing etc, its not football, its just 22 people kicking a ball!

Fuserg9:star:

What the fuck are you on about?

I have stated numerous times that i wish i could get pissed in side the stadium and that i wish they still had terraces. I agree, i enjoy british football but i would enjoy it a lot more if it was like it used to be.

[Killfacer]

I simply find the fact that some idiots seem to like every aspect of old english football simplly because it is old and not for any good reasons.

[Killfacer]

WHat the fuck, you have me bad rep for something i don't even think.

[Wanted Man]

Fight! Fight! :p

I guess it's a mentality thing, too, that may depend on culture. That maybe in southern Europe, it's much more communal, and also more fanatical: everyone standing on the terraces, drunk & disorderly, probably not even caring so much about the football itself. While in northern Europe, there is a section of fanatical fans, but also people who just want to go to a match with the family, or actually watch the game, etc. And obviously English football is more profitable and commercialised than Dutch football, and Dutch football is more profitable and commercialised than Cypriotic football. The more monetary interest at stake, the more interest in keeping things "orderly".

I also don't like the idea of football legislation, but from what I've gathered, football hooliganism in Britain was very much getting out of control. In the Netherlands, it does exist, it came over from England at some point (see, England is to blame for all our problems! :D). But it's mostly isolated incidents, although bad shit does happen sometimes. In 1997, someone got killed during an arranged battle between Ajax and Feyenoord "fans". It also once occured that Ajax "fans" stormed the pitch and attacked players during a match between the youth teams of Ajax and Feyenoord. Sometimes it also happens that the police escalate things, thanks to trumped-up fear of "hooligans". And Dutch fans abroad can cause trouble, like Feyenoord in Nancy a month ago.

Still, the nanny state crap from some clubs is annoying. Like the FC Groningen board, who ask their fans not to sing "hurtful chants". :crying: Or Feyenoord confiscating banners that tell the board to "piss off" because of their mismanagement. Violence, racism, etc. go too far, but it's bullshit if any expression that might "hurt" other people is silenced.

[Pogue]

In the Shed at Stamford Bridge we all stand up as one and they can't do anything about it. At the last match I went too we didn't sit down once.

There should be optional standing areas with support bars. And the atmosphere at our matches seems nothing compared to the electricity of the Italian scene. Sames goes for Greece, etc.

[Killfacer]

Groningen asked their fans not to sing "hurtful" chants? Thats fuckin hilarious.

[Wanted Man]

Yeah, lest they bring mean banners against Ajax, because Ajax fans are made of sugarware or something. :( I guess most people who went to that away match figured "fuck it" and did it anyway, and rightly so. When they arrived, they were confronted with a huge Ajax tifo action making fun of the aforementioned stadium fire. (great pics: http://www.ajaxfotoside.net/0809thuis/groningen/groningen.html)

[F9]

http://alerta.bplaced.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/action_day_web1.jpg

The next “Action Day“of the antifascist football fan network “Alerta” deals with the theme “resistance against fascism and the actual societal and historical-political intercourse of it”.

The then wide resistance against fascism, racial paranoia and annihilation in Europe, due to all its forms of appearance, is mostly criminalized, ignored or, in system conform parts due to the actual state policy, exploited in today’s historiography. But antifascist resistance was much more than civic historians or the media want to make us believe. It was the uprising of humanity, solidarity and the active fight against the barbarism.

Paul Weiss once wrote incisively (in the third part of his writing “The Aesthetics of Resistance”): “(…) As long as there is the will to resistance, there is culture as well.” Culture vanishes in silence and accommodation, just ceremony and ritual remains.”

It was this urge to stand up against hegemony and totalitarian structures which drove the people all across Europe to rise up against fascism and its machinery of war and annihilation, if it was for pure fighting for survival or for political beliefs. We think of all men and women in the Spanish Civil War, the Resistance in France, and the guerrillas in Eastern Europe, in the Balkans, in Greece or in Italy, the resistance in Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Austria or any other country. That was living international solidarity!

It is our duty as today’s generation of Antifascists to remember and keep alive these events (most of the time witnesses have already died) and to step against the growing historical revisionism and the transfiguration of offender and victim perspective. Our comrades have at their time acted in our names as well, in the name of the upcoming generation, and have fought fascism with everything they could. Neither torture, nor terror, nor murder was able to stop them because their will and their beliefs have been stronger. This legacy is and remains our duty.

We must not allow that antifascism is getting criminalized in retrospective and that facts are turned upside down. The ones that have shot first, have tortured first and have killed first have been the fascists! Resistance was not only legitimate but necessary, at the most in a period of time in which the majority of society was also offender or at least belonged to the silent masses.

Alerta Network wants to make precisely this to a subject of discussion on the coming Action Day. Furthermore we want to create the local reference of history of our cities and our clubs in particular. It is our aim to make our “curva” face history and to draw inspiration from it for coming necessary fights. There will be actions in the particular “curvas”, lectures, information material considering local members of resistance, there will be workshops, podium discussions, alternative city guides, dialogues with time witnesses, honors of local antifascists or victims out of the own clubs. The offer and the ideas have no limits and our network will always speak loudly and creatively against the current circumstances:

For freedom and for the multifaceted and multicoloured life!
Antifascism never was and will never be criminal!
Against historical revisionism!!! Your resistance will never be forgotten!!!
Never again war!!! Never again fascism!!!

[mannetje]

In Holland racism in football is not that worse as it used to be. it is still out there offcourse. but with the reasonable punishments the law got for it makes those racist hooligans think twice. that's a plus about my little country. but in the other countries around holland racism is still very active i noticed a bit. In holland there is a law against racism. in most countries there isn't really a law against racism i think. racistparties are forbidden here. except one party called the pvv in dutch (partij voor de vrijheid) in english the party for freedom. they are really heavy anti-islam. and they are getting very powerfull over here. but what i have to say over racism in football and hooliganism in general. the people who do it are really retards. and we don't have to be really afraid of them. leftists are much more smarter. fuck those partypooper asshole's.:cool:

[F9]

Mannetje, most of us cant get what you say so we would appreciate write in english from now on please, and keep dutch in the forum.Thanks.
Btw, im sticking this, and if you have problem RA, let me know it, after all you mod the forum.

[mannetje]

Mannetje, most of us cant get what you say so we would appreciate write in english from now on please, and keep dutch in the forum.Thanks.
Btw, im sticking this, and if you have problem RA, let me know it, after all you mod the forum. there is something wrong with my translator programm.

[F9]

You know your stuff about football so I was wondering if you knew much about the political character of teams in greece?
I know AEK have certain links with the Left but what about PAO and Olympiakos and the like?
And is there certain divides even within the Left as for Anarchists supporting one team and Marxists supporting another etc?
Any info would be helpfull. :)

Indeed AEK fans (described as ORIGINAL 21) have left links, friendships with livorno marseille, members of Alerta antifa etc, though AEK as team from the years had a basically more nationalist attitude, where there are lots of supporters of them that still are, but ORIGINAL is the main fan group and they basically "rule" the stadium so nationalists just stfu:)
PAO and Olympiacos, both a really really mixed and confused situation.You can find amongst them from neo-nazis, to leftists.None of those group rules so far, in PAO the apolitical rules easily with Gate13, on Olympiacos used to be the same with Gate7 though last years lots of neo-nazis joined their ranks, and they are heading for that possition. From history now, what they supported, PAO was the team of junta, greek facists ruled greece for some years, they were the ones got them on final of champions league(cant remember date now), with many of those games be helped from the refferees so they distract peoples mind from politics to football to do whatever shit they want, they were pushed openly in the local league to wins, and they have a pretty much fascist backround which thankfully dissapeared now, though it exists among some cases.Now Olympiacos had the history of been supported by the poor fans of Peiraias port, workers class etc of Athens were supporting Olympiacos and many could say that it was a "leftist team", though slowly it lost its character, and we get nowadays lots of fascists among them, and what they were saying to PAO fans for buying trophies and successes, they done it, basically Olympiakos president rules everything, over the last years some amazing whistles from referees helping them happened(though last couple of years they made a strong team and dont really need referee to win), that was revieled and it was obvioust that there wasa trend pushing Olympiacos winning but in the end no one got punished(usual greek "justice" shit:rolleyes:).
No there is no trend amongst leftists who they support, but you can find most of them not supporting neither as all teams are companies, but all those who do support a team, and there arent few, are spread to all the teams, with AEK having the most, with some usually 2nd league team Panachaiki(with Navajo fan group) have a decent number of leftists and decent presence in antifa-antira and generally leftist movement, and last Asteras Exarhion, the local team of the "Anarchist terittory" where it gets support from lots of there, even if they dont like football, Asteras is a non professional team, with no budgets etc, so lots seem to be ok supporting it.

Fuserg9:star:

(If we have greek fans of Olympiacos and Panathinaikos, you can correct me if i am wrong(i dont think i am :p, or post your own side of the story)

[Redmau5]

When Celtic played Hamburg in Germany on Thursday, they were greeted with this;

http://files.stv.tv/img/articles/135231-celtic-greeted-with-no-surrender-banner-in-hamburg-410x230.jpg

For those who don't know, "No Surrender" is an Ulster loyalist slogan used by supporters of loyalist paramilitaries like the UVF and UDA. Hamburg fans have been recently cozying up to Rangers because of Celtic's strong relationship with their rivals St. Pauli. The HSV fans were even singing Rangers' songs and chants when they played Celtic at Celtic Park.

[Wanted Man]

Fuck HSV, even though some of my favourite players were there (De Jong and Van der Vaart), and some present ones as well (Elia and Berg). Shit club though.

[Sasha]

When Celtic played Hamburg in Germany on Thursday, they were greeted with this;

http://files.stv.tv/img/articles/135231-celtic-greeted-with-no-surrender-banner-in-hamburg-410x230.jpg

For those who don't know, "No Surrender" is an Ulster loyalist slogan used by supporters of loyalist paramilitaries like the UVF and UDA. Hamburg fans have been recently cozying up to Rangers because of Celtic's strong relationship with their rivals St. Pauli. The HSV fans were even singing Rangers' songs and chants when they played Celtic at Celtic Park.


assholes, fuck them....

[Wanted Man]

By the way, is the connection between HSV and Rangers really a recent one? According to wikipedia, it has been like that since the 1970s.

[Tifosi]

Every group in the Alerta Network

Azzuro Düsseldorf (http://www.azzuro2001.de)

Bukaneros Rayo Vallecano (http://www.nodo50.org/bukaneros/)

Brigadas Amarillas (http://www.brigadasamarillas.net/)

CEPA Andalucia - No link

Fanladen Sankt Pauli (http://www.jugend-sport.de/stpauli-fanladen/index.html)

Filmstadtinferno Babelsberg (http://filmstadtinferno.de/)

Gate9 Omonoia (http://www.gate9.com.cy/)

Gate22 Veneziamestre (http://www.gate22.org/)

Green Brigade (http://www.ultras-celtic.com/)

Horda Frenetic Metz (http://lefcmetz.free.fr/)

Infamous Youth Bremen (http://www.infamousyouth.org/)

Lost Boyz Flingern (http://www.lostboyz.de/)

Nordpol Innsbruck (http://www.np03.com/)

Original 21 (http://www.original21.com/)

Schickeria München (http://www.schickeria-muenchen.de/)

Supporters Hanau (http://www.hfcsupporters.de/)

TeBe Partyarmy (http://tebepartyarmy.blogspot.com/)

Ultra’ Sankt Pauli (http://usp.stpaulifans.de/)

Ultras 07 Ternana - No link

Ultras Darmstadt (http://www.ultrasdarmstadt.de/)

Ultras Hapoel (http://www.ultrashapoel.com/)

Ultras Inferno Liège (http://www.ui96.net/)

Verrückte Köpfe Innsbruck (http://www.vk91.at/neu/)

[Tifosi]

and that Hamburg display is funny:laugh::laugh: us Celt's don't give a shit! I wonder how much money they put into that?:laugh:

[Pogue]

yeh they are mugs, its quite an impressive display of fascism from them.

big up celtic and pauli!

[F9]

We have a Celtic fan?Cheers mate!:)

This: Gate9 Omonoia (http://www.anonym.to/?http://www.gate9.com.cy/) are the best btw, if you didnt know already!:thumbup1:

[Tifosi]

Yes gate 9 are a good group, think i have a gate 9 scarf somewhere in the house.

Celtic & Omonoia forever, fuck apoel

[F9]

Yes gate 9 are a good group, think i have a gate 9 scarf somewhere in the house.

Celtic & Omonoia forever, fuck apoel

:tt1::thumbup1:
Fuck them, those damn motherfuckers, as Rangers too!You have a scarf?Nice.The time will come when i will visit Scotland and leave with a fuck lot of things of Celtic:D

[Tifosi]

:tt1::thumbup1:
Fuck them, those damn motherfuckers, as Rangers too!You have a scarf?Nice.The time will come when i will visit Scotland and leave with a fuck lot of things of Celtic:D

:lol: Nice, just stay as far away as possible from the "offical" Celtic shop. It's all money in John Reid's pocket, dirty war criminal that he is

[F9]

:lol: Nice, just stay as far away as possible from the "offical" Celtic shop. It's all money in John Reid's pocket, dirty war criminal that he is

Nahhh, i will of course get to the fan shops;)

[Tifosi]

Gate 9 Fights Fascism

Gate 9 has always throughout history shown its antifascist ideology, both on the grounds and the streets when it was needed. Our leftist nature has nurtured us with ideals always struggling for a fair society and standing against all that is rotten within this world. We respect everyone who deserves respect; we stand by the sides of all those who have been out - casted by society due to its own incapability to understand and respect what might seem to it as different. Moreover, Gate 9 has a principle which prevents us from engaging into activities which might harm our team or endanger our fans. The reasons behind this announcement are the unprovoked attacks carried against us by fascist groups of the Cypriot fan scene; attacks which this week ended in bloodshed on their side, on our attempt to defend ourselves, and most importantly the rest of unarmed OMONOIA fans, which do not belong to Gate 9. The fans simply gathered to participate in our tournament dedicated against the oppression carried out towards ultra movements in Cyprus and around the world; a tournament done as a part of the actions we decided regarding the ALERTA Network decision to focus on oppression. The tournament organized by Gate 9 was named after the slogan of this month’s ‘campaign’; ‘Your repression, Will never kill our passion’’.

The tournament was embraced by a number of fans, not only those who part our organized fan core Gate 9. However, some fascist scum could not psychologically cope with that. Our biggest rivals, the fans of the unnamed were on their way towards another city to watch their disgusting team playing for a championship game, and decided to pay us a visit, having in mind about our tournament, and thinking that it would be another good chance to attack against families, women, and kids. The mini-football ground where our tournament was held was under the high way which made it even easier for them to attack since it was on their way to their team’s game.

As they approached the futsal grounds they parked their cars and busses on the high way and wearing helmets, carrying batons, and rocks they began to organize for an unprovoked attack, while our fans were still participating in the tournament. At one point they began throwing flares and several other materials downward towards us in the ground. Gate 9 had to stop the activity and take matters into its own hands in order to avoid injuries and protect our fans from the assault. We stayed on the area forming a powerful block and managed to gather several things to respond if needed. Throughout the years we have learned the cowards and their tactics when it comes to assaulting our fans therefore we knew how to react.

Gate 9 stayed united as a block and gave the fascist a feeling of confidence since they saw our stance as apathetic and they thought they were winning. Their confidence made them come down the high way and approach even further the place where our tournament was taking place; the perfect trap. As soon as they tried to enter the ground Gate 9 charged a reaction they will live to remember for the rest of their lives. Gate 9 began to chase the fascist all over the place, while many of them were beaten to a point they could not even move their feet. Some were even taken as hostages and were stripped by our fans and let to run totally naked in the streets to save their lives.

The fascist scum were running all over the place to save their lives and ended up on the high way once again chased and covered in blood. Gate 9 did not stop there and took things even further. We climbed on the high way and continued our pursuit and anyone who was taken was once more beaten and taught a lesson. The high-way took a green color and everything in the area reminded of a war-scene with a bombarded landscape. Their cars were destroyed, their clothes were taken of their bodies, and a huge collection of their scarves, flags, footers, and other materials are now in our possession, and decorate our walls. Furthermore, some of their fans even run and hid themselves hundreds of meters away where our stadium is. Gate 9 separated in blocks and was scanning the area for our rivals. When those hiding were found, we made another powerful attack and many ended up crying on the news and channels about what was done to them. The best part of the story is that they even had a police member along with them and he as well engaged in the fights!!!

To cut a long story short, the fascist had the biggest defeat ever throughout their shameful history, with a number of injuries, and a torn to shreds pride. A member of their fanatics is at the moment still in the hospital being in a critical condition, and as all signs indicate, the doctors will not manage to keep him to life. Gate 9 is sad of any human loss, but cannot neglect the fact that this certain person was the ONE responsible for the severe injury of a fellow-comrade in the incidents which happened in our curva last year; where the fascist waited of us to depart the stadium and entered attacking unsuspected fans, kids, and families wearing helmets, and holding lethal weapons such as iron pipes, batons, and knifes.

The reason Gate 9 is communicating through this announcement with all of our comrades is not to brag about our accomplishment, but to ask for your solidarity. From the first moment of the incident our rivals are trying to label us as criminals, misleading the already corrupted media, to show us as responsible for the events which took place. Although their attempts are failing, some right-wing guided media began their propaganda and present the facts as an organized ambush by us, something far from reality. Furthermore, our rivals do not even have the integrity to realize that it is them who led situations and their own fan hospitalized. They organized an attack towards us which failed due to some heroic people of Gate 9 who protected both our pride, and the rest of our fans. The biggest ridicule of the situations is that OUR BROTHERS who put their lives to risk to battle against the fascist are being held in the police departments facing serious legal consequences for defending themselves and are even facing MURDER charges!!! And the last and most disgusting, is that the people responsible for the arrest of our brothers are the same fascist who organized the attack and got defeated!!! We all know about the cooperation of the police with fascist groups, but this goes beyond any logic. These are not ultras, they are a shame of the movement and as such they must be dealt with.

Gate 9 sincerely asks for your solidarity to our struggle. If every group could arrange a banner of solidarity during the next match-day and send us pictures it would be greatly appreciated. Fascism is a disease, and we will fight against it in any cost, even if we have to risk our lives to do so. Stand by us, and let’s kick fascism out of our stadiums.

NO PASARAN…GOODNIGHT WHITE PRIDE…

[F9]

Ohhh, thanks RC for posting this, i missed it, and was actually wondering if there was going to be an announcement on english, but anw.
As it says, fucking cops have our brothers in jail with murder charges(!!!!), and our stand last night was missing and not complete without them.
:mad:

[An archist]

That's pretty insane. Any more info/news sources on this?

[F9]

That's pretty insane. Any more info/news sources on this?

Not in english as far as i know, there have been a couple videos of the instance on the net and youtube, but they have removed it, basically our group decided that they should be removed because it could help to the identification of persons by cops. Most media anyway are pushing the states propaganda in the effort to make the measures against fans accepted by society, as it happens.We have now to have our IDs in matches, and our IDs will be written on our tickets, if they dont match, you dont enter, trying to stop movement of fans in away matches on "critical" and "dangerous" matches.Basically the state found the chance to power up the measures against fans, and push forward modern football, by an instance happened outside from the stadium and it had nothing to do with a game:rolleyes:
Ohh and in wednesday, referee threatened to stop the match for flaming against another team:rolleyes:

[F9]

http://photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs090.snc3/15741_187681923074_514308074_3020504_4423684_n.jpg

http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs090.snc3/15741_187681928074_514308074_3020505_5064245_n.jpg

http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs090.snc3/15741_187681938074_514308074_3020506_1396960_n.jpg

First from Hapoel Tel Aviv and Ultras Hapoel, second from Bayern Munchen, and last from Panachaikis Navajo.
Thanks bros.

http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs090.snc3/15741_187681948074_514308074_3020507_2614189_n.jpg

[F9]

On last news, all of our fans have been temporarily released from custody, one of our bros spent more than 10 days in jail, and we will now wait for the trial.The fight continues as charges have not been withdrawed.

[F9]

I renew my blog on new banners, new have been brought up, and more will come. Thanks bros..

[Tifosi]

The Green Brigades display at half time against hapoel tel aviv last night

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVZkaDjKI9U&feature=channel

Display before the game

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgROSKEnaVk&feature=channel

We won the game 2 - 0 but went out as Hamburg beat Rapid 2 -0

[Tifosi]

USP support for Gate 9

http://usp.stpaulifans.de/copper//albums/Saison2009-10/14-FCP-Union/normal_IP_FCSP-Union390.JPG

[F9]

Thanks RC, i already updated my blog with USP one, but one with a different angle.
On the todays derby against the unamed fascists(1-1 btw ...) there was a couple of banners thanking comrades etc, but i havent found pictures showing them clearly, most are shots from away.If i found it, i will post them.

[pastradamus]

Dont know if this was posted already but Andropov sent me this fucking brilliant video from Adana Demirspor vs Livorno. Notice how the fans are mixed as well. . . Cool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpBOSgaJub8

Watch the first 2 mins and then at about 5.40....things really kick off!!! :D

[Bandito]

Oh how I hate HQ videos...
Great vid, by the way, but it took me half an hour before I could watch it without cracking.

[Tifosi]

Dont know if this was posted already but Andropov sent me this fucking brilliant video from Adana Demirspor vs Livorno. Notice how the fans are mixed as well. . . Cool.

XpBOSgaJub8

Watch the first 2 mins and then at about 5.40....things really kick off!!! :D

That Tifo was class, BAL where a good group but full of Stalinist's

Friendly in Turkey --- Adana Dermispor 0 v 0 Livorno
http://forzalivorno.org/solacik/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/adanademirsporlivornouf.gif
Why a friendly in Turkey? No, non è questione di business. No, not a matter of business. La Società Adana Demirspor fu fondata da 500 operai delle acciaierie di Adana nel 1938, una squadra proletaria, orgoglio di una città di gente che lavora duramente per un pezzo di pane. Adana Demirspor The Company was founded by 500 workers in the steel mills of Adana in 1938, a team proletarian pride of a city of people who work hard for a piece of bread. Un bel giorno, un giocatore di origini operaie nato nella città dove fu fondato il Partito Comunista Italiano, rinuncia ad un miliardo per giocare nella squadra della sua città, la storia arriva anche in Turchia, un gruppo di studenti di Sinistra di Istanbul il cui motto è:"Endustriel futbol'a Hayir" ="No al calcio capitalista", affascinati dalla storia di Lucarelli, aprono un sito internet: www.forzalivorno.org (http://www.forzalivorno.org) . One day, a player from working-class born in the city where he founded the Italian Communist Party, giving up a billion to play in his hometown team, the story arrives in Turkey, a group of left-wing students in Istanbul whose motto is: "Endustriel futbol'a Hayir" = "No football-capitalist", fascinated by the story of Lucarelli, open up a website: www.forzalivorno.org (http://www.forzalivorno.org). Diffondono tutta la storia di Livorno, del Livorno e di Lucarelli tra tutti i movimenti di sinistra Spread throughout the history of Livorno, Lucarelli of Livorno and between all the movements of the left
di tutta la Turchia, il Livorno e le BAL diventano un mito,Lucarelli il loro idolo. throughout Turkey, the BAL Livorno and become a myth, Lucarelli their idol. Tra il 2006 e 2007,organizzano convegni a livello Nazionale sull'argomento, la stampa Turca pubblica articoli su Livorno e sul Livorno. Between 2006 and 2007, the organization nationally on the subject, the Turkish press publishes articles on Leghorn and Leghorn. I tifosi di Adana considerano i Livornesi loro fratelli ed è così che si arriva all'amichevole di domani sera Venerdì 4 settembre 2009. Supporters of Adana Livornesi consider their brothers and that's how you get the friendly tomorrow evening, Friday, September 4, 2009. Il presidente del coordinamento dei club dei tifosi di Adana, pressato dalla gente, prende l'iniziativa di organizzare un'amichevole con il Livorno, vedere il Livorno nel loro Stadio è un sogno per loro ed il sogno si è avverato. The chairman of the coordination of club of fans of Adana, pressed by the people, takes the initiative to organize a friendly match with Livorno, Livorno see in their stadium is a dream for them and the dream came true. Iragazzi di Istanbul, Izmir e Ankara, si sono organizzati e sorbendosi 18 ore di pullman, oggi, insieme ai tifosi del Demirspor sono andati a ricevere la squadra all'aereoporto di Adana. Iragazzi of Istanbul, Izmir and Ankara, are organized and sipping 18-hour bus today, along with supporters Demirspor went to receive the team at the airport of Adana. Il loro stadio, non consente di contenere tutti coloro che vorrebbero partecipare all'evento, per cui sono state organizzate una sorta di feste davanti alla loro curva per stare comunque vicini al Livorno, la Tv di stato, TRT,dovrebbe trasmettere la partita in diretta, non è ancora sicuro, lo si saprà domani. Their stadium is not possible to hold all those who would attend the event, for which it was organized a sort of parties before their turn to stand still so close to Livorno, the state television, TRT to submit the match live not yet sure, you will know tomorrow.
FORZA LIVORNO FORZA DEMIRSPOR FORZA FORZA LIVORNO Demirspor
http://i.milliyet.com.tr/SonDakikaHaberGaleriler/2009/09/04/fft15_mf363959.Jpeg
http://i.milliyet.com.tr/SonDakikaHaberGaleriler/2009/09/04/fft15_mf363957.Jpeg
http://i.milliyet.com.tr/SonDakikaHaberGaleriler/2009/09/04/fft15_mf363949.Jpeg
http://i.milliyet.com.tr/SonDakikaHaberGaleriler/2009/09/04/fft15_mf363945.Jpeg
http://www.alelivorno.it/images/rsgallery/display/fft15_mf363955.Jpeg.jpg.jpg
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http://www.alelivorno.it/images/rsgallery/display/livornodemirspor3.jpg.jpg
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http://www.alelivorno.it/images/rsgallery/display/fft15_mf363935.Jpeg.jpg.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn9hz_YP3DU&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Faslivorno%2Eproboards%2Ecom%2Fin dex%2Ecgi%3Fboard%3Dgeneral%26action%3Ddisplay%26t hread%3D121&feature=player_embedded

[praxis1966]

Pogue touched on something I was going to say. It's not all passive at English stadiums. In the Gwladys Street End of Goodison, most days the supporters don't sit down or stop singing the entire match. And the songs and chants are far from polite. Even club song, 'If you know your history' gets perverted down there with lines like 'We don't know what the Red side say, why the heck should we care?' getting changed to 'We don't care what the Red shite say, why the fook should we care?'

A couple of seasons ago there were rumors that Steven Gerrard was going to be sold to Chelsea, fueled in large part by leaks that he had asked to be transferred because he was dissatisfied with the lack of investment at the club. Three or four weeks into the season was the home leg of the Merseyside derby and one of the loudest chants heard that day was 'Fuck off to Chelsea' every time Gerrard touched the ball.

Anyway, there's never any sitting down and shutting up, leastways not at the Gwladys Street End.

[Buitraker]

This post need Stand up with new season

[F9]

This post need Stand up with new season

Any info on your team/group?

[Buitraker]

The most important group of my city is Herri Norte Talde(North people Group), are Antifacist and Basque Nationalist.
Its the best group on the street in Spain, but no in stadium...

http://galeon.hispavista.com/hinchasantifacistas/img/HNT%20KAPOAN.jpg
http://sp4.fotolog.com/photo/4/28/19/munozinaki/1229514881552_f.jpg
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1-vUITM8vmM/S7IxQxN_McI/AAAAAAAABQk/0ZwsuujlqLY/S660/HNT+bilbao.jpg

This video is of this year in San Mames(Athletic Stadium), fighting Hnt and Gate 0 of Anderlecht
RvQQ_LS8VEg


Another fight last year, Hnt vs Ultra Boys(Nazis of Sporting), the people running are Ultra Boys:
gELEWr89AJc

[Rale]

Does HNT have official web page comrade?

[Buitraker]

Does HNT have official web page comrade?

No

Why do you ask?¿

[Rale]

No

Why do you ask?¿

Because almost all groups from ESP have.

[Buitraker]

Because almost all groups from ESP have.

But this is special :laugh:

You can follow this blog
http://unaikistan.blogspot.com/

He write a member of hnt

[rido01]

Ahh i was in AdanaDemirSpor-Livorno match...Great experiments... Seeing Che posters in the hands of Italian brothers,backing up both teams...
I am from Turkey and this was the best moments i live about sports which i am heavily intended in football..
Forza Livorno;Forza ADS..

[F9]

Late response but Livorno is not in Alerta.

Now on point, November, the Alerta action month and todays game was based on that in our stands, we had and a small text, but too bored to translate:) in any way...

http://gate9.com.cy/site/images/stories/capitalism2.jpg



Video from small coreo, as we were playing in a stadium you cant do much

WBqE_JhL16M


Any other members can update us on their teams actions, i know there are some of you out there;)

[An archist]

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs918.snc4/73181_450663577285_109275377285_5579867_281356_n.j pg

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs951.snc4/74474_450663637285_109275377285_5579868_4991102_n. jpg

:cool:

[Stranger Than Paradise]

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs918.snc4/73181_450663577285_109275377285_5579867_281356_n.j pg

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs951.snc4/74474_450663637285_109275377285_5579868_4991102_n. jpg

:cool:

What team is that?

[F9]

What team is that?

Standard de Liège:thumbup1:

[BigJim]

Here is a flag I made.

http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/8329/35307466959604965681199.jpg


http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/7030/35307466959624965681199.jpg

[F9]

Israel's friendly football fans
Not all football supporter crews are allied to the hard right – Hapoel Ultras fans are among those on the left who fight racism

''..............Another fan spits at the mention of APOEL Nicosia, a Cypriot team whose acronym bears no connection to the Hebrew word Hapoel. "We hate them, because they're all fascists," he tells me. "Their fans hold banners with swastikas on, and they give sieg heils at the ground. We're part of Antifa, which is why we despise them..............."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/dec/21/israel-football-hapoel-ultras

haha, respect

[pastradamus]

At this point I wish to advertise my own team. Cork City FORAS = the Ultra division is knows as commandos 84( fans and supporters of the rebel army).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5S7XR18Rcs

[F9]

commandos 84?and ultras? arent your fans aware of this:


http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSmzgcI1fqWz1MPYK2Tlz3IbxrOfGgOk FUHhTxoNwkOt7mPfb827Q (http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.ommania.fr/imagesUpload/logos_compet/commando%2520ultra%252084%27.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.sports.ru/tribuna/blogs/fingersplit/&usg=__YH5jSjOAlV6y-3i_pzmU_Q8c92A=&h=400&w=398&sz=31&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=q-t2tl70f4L9KM:&tbnh=141&tbnw=140&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dultras%2Bcommandos%2B84%26um%3D1%26hl %3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3D6Jv%26sa%3DN%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26biw%3D1440%26bih%3D720%26tbs%3Disch: 1&um=1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=126&vpy=65&dur=1370&hovh=225&hovw=224&tx=124&ty=123&ei=lIUuTe6cK9CNjAf06YGEBQ&oei=QYUuTYqwOMyAhQeducWHCg&esq=7&page=1&ndsp=28&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0)


?:p

[pastradamus]

Yes, the name is nothing more than a coincidence. The Cork City C84's are named so because of the founding date of the club.

[F9]

I think you all gonna like this picture...


http://www.gate9.com.cy/gallery/var/resizes/Multimedia/Wallpapers/revolution.jpg?m=1295819294 (http://www.gate9.com.cy/gallery/var/albums/Multimedia/Wallpapers/revolution.jpg?m=1295819294)

more: http://www.gate9.com.cy/gallery/index.php/football/omonoia-apoerl

[Bandito]

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs1393.snc4/164549_1643895532038_1076346253_31446670_3488272_n .jpg

St. Pauli.

[An archist]

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs1393.snc4/164549_1643895532038_1076346253_31446670_3488272_n .jpg

St. Pauli.

Punks and skins love :D

[pastradamus]

Dunno if this video was posted yet but its awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMI7_hhHijI

[Sasha]

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs1393.snc4/164549_1643895532038_1076346253_31446670_3488272_n .jpg

St. Pauli.

i'm going to an st. pauli match on the 12th :cool:

[Means to a end]

Hello, I am a new member. Instead of posting on the induction thread I may as well post here as football is a big pastime of mine.

Am a big Luton town fan. :) Do not go much but had a season ticket from 15 to 22 (am now 24).

Sadly our club has a big EDL following, many of the founders of the EDL come from Luton and go to games. :( The club have spoken out against this but still E.E.E.D.L chants and men wearing EDL t-shirts are seen about as well.

We have also (if you know English football) been shafted a lot by the capitalist and bourgeois FA and Football league.

Thats pretty much it, the football ground is also another place where ACAB are at their worst as well.

[What Would Durruti Do?]

Dunno if this video was posted yet but its awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMI7_hhHijI

Cool video, but a lot of those clubs are notoriously fascist. Red Star Belgrade? Ferenbahce?

[Andropov]

ys06FVLlnGY
Might aswell give Forza Rovers a plug here.
Ultras group of Sligo Rovers.
Thats last seasons review.

[F9]

http://i64.servimg.com/u/f64/14/84/67/57/20941011.jpg

Burn the bases of death(as you can see death in greek contains the word NATO, which was the "point")

[Gate9]

fuser if you can find any material concerning the action day done at the cup final I think it would be interesting for our brothers to see.

[F9]

i have already informed them the time it happened, but anw will post again the gate9 video here, seems more appropriate and will stay longer:)

LHTdLi89FzA

[An archist]

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d1/brakke123/standard-carlo.png

[Black Sheep]

couldn't you just stick to antifascism, without the mysticist sect-like groupie football fan bullshit attached to it? :confused:

The garden of antifascism is beautiful as it is, do you really have to assert that there are fairies behind the bushes?

this was my annual anti-football/anti-sports fan public service announcement

[An archist]

K_WAQvQkpKM

[An archist]

Just though I'd leave this here


"Even more then courage, we want (your) rage"

http://ultras-tifo.net/images/stories/reports/2011-2012/standard-anderlecht/2.jpg

[Bandito]

Just though I'd leave this here


"Even more then courage, we want (your) rage"

http://ultras-tifo.net/images/stories/reports/2011-2012/standard-anderlecht/2.jpg

Which club is this? Standard?

It's amazing!

[Tifosi]

Which club is this? Standard?

It's amazing!

Yes, it's Standard (http://www.ultras-tifo.net/photo-news/703-standard-liege-anderlecht-12022012.html).

[An archist]

More Standard spam

https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/421498_10150575525712286_2099857687_n.jpg

[Sasha]

Holyshit thats awesome!

[Niall]

thats amazing

[F9]

Events and May Day Celebrations

A.C. Omonoia Nicosia. Nicosia-Cyprus
It has been a busy past few weeks in Cyprus. Gate 9 as always during the Easter break organizes many activities both for the supporters but also for social contribution.
Throughout the holidays at our central fanclub there were competitions (Poker, Backgammon, Table-Tennis) that got all brothers and sisters involved in having some fun and relaxing during a festive time of the year for us in Cyprus, and also a time of no sporting action. Also many of the Gate 9 fanclubs in other cities in cyprus hosted an array of music nights and parties, such as the live music party hosted at the brand new Gate 9 Larnaca branch.
It was not all fun and games though and as every year Gate 9 also organised a day at the central Fanclub where people from the blood donation department of the General Hospital came and many of our members joined to donate their blood to the blood bank of the General Hospital so it can be used to help the people that need it most.
Yesterday, May 1st, Labor Day, as every year Gate 9 joined with all the workers of the land to celebrate this glorious day in the annual May Day Parade through the streets of Nicosia. Thousands of people showed up from all corners of Cyprus with their May Day flags, banners and even their marching bands. It was a very special day as this time, was the first time in 56 years that both Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots united together in the celebrations. It all started with meeting outside the Ministry of Economy and then marching through the city until a wide open space next to the Ledra Palace Hotel in Nicosia. The hotel lies in the Buffer zone, the area which separates and divides the two communities until this day. A big concert was held with thousands of Turkish and Greek Cypriots all participating as one ! A truly fantastic experience and testament to our commitment to work for peace along with our Turkish Cypriot brothers and sisters.
Other Gate 9 sections also participated in the local May Day parades in their own areas of Cyprus, like our Lakatamia Section which marched with a banner that said: “The worker’s struggles are never forgotten”.
Gate 9 was from the first groups to parade into the main meeting area holding our banner proudly. Our banner read “Worker, you are hungry! Why do you still obey them?”. By this we sought to inspire the people to think and act truly against all forms of capitalism that take advantage of the workforce while giving little back, without workers , nothing can be achieved! Therefore they deserve the utmost respect!
Omonoia also participated with some young boys from the academies who where holding a banner which wrote: “No to Racism” , in Greek and Turkish while they all held bananas in their hands in light of the recent incident with Dani Alves.
The evening ended with us walking back in the streets of Nicosia, singing Gate 9 songs that pierced the silence of the night!

Photos and link: http://rebelultras.com/2014/05/02/events-and-may-day-celebrations/

[GalickyH]

I don´t now if this is the right topic, but: Was anyone at ANTIRA - St.Pauli Hamburg this year?

[TIVVYULTRAS]

As a non league fan i gotta say there are more antifa ultras poping up now, disilousioned with over priced football we make the noise at the ground and off it clapton fc is a good example the IVF at Mangotsfield and here at Tivvy ok were are semi pro but hey who wants to pay £20+ quid for a ticket in the 4th tier. :mad: NOT ME