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Hopefully this is one battle us fans will win.
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really like joel griffiths as a pundit. as a player i hated him. but on foxsports he's not the sydney arse licker everyone else is.
Good article from Michael Lynch in the Age
I scanned the media this week vainly searching for images of the notorious hooligan Harry The Dog, leader of the fabled F-Troop, London club Millwall's hardcore fan group from the 1970s.
Couldn't see any, so I tried to find pictures of the Chelsea Headhunters from the Kings Road, another bunch of soccer-inspired nutters from a similar era. But they too were conspicuous by their absence.
Ditto my quest for illustrations of West Ham's Inter City Firm, a more frightening set of East End geezers you could not meet in the 1970s and 1980s.
No, I haven't got into a time machine but, judging by some of the screaming headlines and hysterical coverage around "soccer violence", it felt as if I may as well have. I feared some slippage in the space/time continuum had occurred, and these violent crews were on the rampage here in Australia, roaming the streets like ruck-seeking zombies, 30 years after their hooly heyday.
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The F Troop and their infamous butcher aprons may have disbanded but the hate between Leeds and Millwall still exists. They have played against each other in League 1 and the Championship over the past 5 years and let me tell you the police cordon is massive both at Leeds and at the Den.
Back to the issue at hand. Rebecca Wilson has possibly slandered a number of fans by naming them. The last time I checked the FFA was not a judiciary. No one seems to care how she got her hands on the list. The FFA may have a few questions to answer on this front. Time to find a sympathetic lawyer who may take on this matter.
Lucy Zelic goes BANG - I promise you all, this is well worth a read!
http://theworldgame.sbs.com.au/blog...-go-league-fans-find-their-collective-voice-0
This one also made me smile:
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/nat...s-details-were-published-20151129-glb3aa.html
You know, Wilson's article might even end up being a positive in the long run. It's giving football fans a really good opportunity, with growing support from the media, to show what Australian football is.
Agreed, its garbage what the telegraph have done.
But at the same time I really don't want supporters like there are in Poland and Russia...
I think when it's on this scale, it's a little different. You don't have 198 people banned, and there's no formal process of saying you're banned from my shop.A hypothetical.
I run a shop. You're bought things from me before. One time after you've been in the shop, I notice some stock is missing.
To press charges with the police, the onus of proof is on me. I need to have witnessed you taking the items and be able to show the items are in your possession. Without that, I can't get a criminal conviction.
But even without that, I can ban you from my store. It's my shop, and if I believe you've stolen merchandise from me, I'm not going to let you back in. The fact that I can't legally prove it doesn't matter, as I'm not pressing legal charges.
I don't need to prove anything, I don't need to give you evidence and you have no right of appeal. My shop, my choice of customers; and not even morally wrong.
They're not allowed though are they? If so, then people can't really kick up an argument about getting thrown out/banned if they set one off. Fairly slam dunk decision.lol mate if we had supports like that here you will definitely know about. All we have is a few teenie flare lighters and supports who march and sing together who are mistaken for hooligans.
Don't be fooled.
Too late.Agreed, its garbage what the telegraph have done.
But at the same time I really don't want supporters like there are in Poland and Russia...
Not just white. All kids of all colours.They think they are from Poland and Russia and would shit themselves all the way back to watching another sport if they actually come up against people like that. They're bored middle class kids trying to stand for something other than being boring middle class white kids.
So this Gallop press conference from today then...he's pretty much saying the FFA will stand behind the police, newscorp and other hating press rather than the fans that pay to go to games? Lolokthen.
Gallop is the man if you want to build a solid base for a sport. When it comes to player or fan behaviour though, he will crucify everyone to get the result he wants. Just ask Brett Stewart!I thought it was very funny that he kept talking about football fans being united.
They have been united against you and Gallop you hopeless campaigner!
I wish Bozza had included his post-match comments in the interview - he knows how stupid the notion of having to prove evidence his, but he got a bit caught up in yelling at de Bohen to make the point.
How will the business go when all the customers realize how you operate and treat other customers?A hypothetical.
I run a shop. You're bought things from me before. One time after you've been in the shop, I notice some stock is missing.
To press charges with the police, the onus of proof is on me. I need to have witnessed you taking the items and be able to show the items are in your possession. Without that, I can't get a criminal conviction.
But even without that, I can ban you from my store. It's my shop, and if I believe you've stolen merchandise from me, I'm not going to let you back in. The fact that I can't legally prove it doesn't matter, as I'm not pressing legal charges.
I don't need to prove anything, I don't need to give you evidence and you have no right of appeal. My shop, my choice of customers; and not even morally wrong.
its either Rebecca's clone or puppet and i cant tell which yet
"Suburban terrorists". I'm done. I'm ******* done. This is getting beyond a joke now.