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irishmufc wrote: What banner was this gspain?   From that short video it looks like the N.I. fans are on the right and lunged at the Croatian ones with their backs to the wall. So it looks like both were fighting. It wasn't just one way.

Edited by Coachers - 17 Nov 2016 at 1:32pm

That will pass soon enough and it wont be long before you want to give him a rusty trombone whilst singing shoulder to shoulder with him 

DUBLIN DOC wrote: That will pass soon enough and it wont be long before you want to give him a rusty trombone whilst singing shoulder to shoulder with him

Sat in the home end last year in Warsaw . Not a problem

Historically two teams with scrote fans* so trouble was inevitable without segregation. Johnny foreigner is not exactly the most popular in the north post flegger gate and Brexit so was always gonna be a target for 'Brit' element of the pub teams fans, but in saying that the Croates have shown in the Euros and since that they are coonts too.

* (I'll give the IFA credit where it's due though, they seem to mostly have eradicated the Billy Boys/ 10 German bombers element of their support. NI games look (from a far) unrecognisable to the late 80s and 90s and that has to applauded. They just have to change the anthem now)

I don't see anything online in regards to a banner. Was that how the fight started?

irishmufc wrote: Funny Territorial how the Croatians or the Polish didn't seem to have an issue with us. Also there was plenty of Polish and Irish mixed together in the stands in the last campaign with no trouble.

Er, have you forgotten Euro2016?

You know, when 40k(?) Polish and NI fans mixed entirely happily in Nice in June, without a problem. In fact the only trouble any of us saw was when some French yobs attacked a pub where the Polish and NI fans were drinking and singing together. At which point, they put down their pints, joined together to chase off the yobs, then resumed the drinking and singing. When the French police turned up to deal with the trouble, they made (I think) 7 arrests, all of them French.

Meanwhile, Croatian fans were at this in St.Etienne, during their match with the Czechs:
"Croatian fans threw a pyrotechnic flare at a steward which exploded underneath him amid sickening scenes during this evening's Euro 2016 game against the Czech Republic. 
Stewards tried to cope with the violent mob of Croatian fans who started fighting amongst themselves with their team leading 2-1 with minutes to go.
The team's coach Ante Cacic was furious following the violent scenes which seen the match suspended for five minutes while stewards removed the burning flares from the pitch.
Cacic described the violent fans as 'sports terrorists', before admitting Croatian authorities could not battle the hooligans by themselves." 
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-3647205/Croatia-fans-fight-throw-flares-pitch-Euro-2016-clash-Czech-Republic.html#ixzz4QI55CXRD

I guess that was NI fans' fault, too...

irishmufc wrote: You're criticizing SHH for blaming N.I. fans when you do the exact same engaging in whataboutery towards the Croatian ones. The fact there was little or no segregation or Croatian fans having priors doesn't excuse the N.I. fans who were engaging in the trouble just as it wouldn't the Croatians.

The Croatian fans' recent history of violence, both home and abroad, is a matter of public record. This is why they have had fines and stadium bans etc imposed by FIFA/UEFA.

UEFA will have had an observer at the game in Belfast, so if there was any serious misbehaviour by NI fans, that will be reported. Meanwhile, there were numerous media representatives present - none has as yet reported any notable* disorder by NI fans.

Meanwhile, if you are more prepared to listen to SHH than me - I'm biased, like, but he isn't - then I'm quite happy for Gspain to give his account of what he witnessed. After all, he was actually there, unlike SHH, Zizu and others who immediately rush to condemn the NI fans...



* - I can't discount the odd drunken twat, including maybe the one in the 9 second video, but you get those everywhere.   

Edited by Territorial - 17 Nov 2016 at 6:27pm

gspain wrote: However a quick read of the forums here regarding Chisinau and Vienna will throw up a few stories re fisticuffs and bad behaviour as well.

Quisling! Don't you know what happens to 'Touts'?

Obviously those stories stem from NI thugs masquerading as good oul Oirish Bhoys, in a siniaster operation to tarnish the BIG's good name.

Well it must be, mustn't it?