Re: Serie A Thread
hi everybody guys, i hadn't much free time lately so i didn't come here...... many interesting things happened in the past few weeks.... many great matches it would be nice to talk about... from the roma derby to fiorentina - napoli, from inter - genoa to empoli - roma.... also the last 2 palermo matches were absolutely great to watch. genoa - palermo and palermo - napoli were maybe the 2 most entertaining matches this season offered so far and it would be nice to talk about them.......
but i guess what happened this sunday should come first of all so...
first of all some facts.
sunday some guys (6, maybe 7) moved with a minivan from roma to reach milan. they weren't ultras, just 6 simple guys who wanted to have a trip in milan to support their team.
when they reached Arezzo (a town near firenze) they decided to have a break in one of those service areas that u can find along the highway... just a little break to refuel the car and take a croissant at the bar. in this service area they met some guys who where headed to parma to watch the juventus match. those guys too weren't ultras. just 4 friend, 4 simple juve supporters...
now, we still don't know why but theese guys started arguing. at the moment it seems that this "dispute" didn't concern football at all. besides juve and lazio supporters are "friends" and even their ultras groups are "allied". Probably it was just a silly dispute....maybe the drivers parked their vehicles to close each others and they scratched their cars.... we don't know.
anyway the situation degenerated in a fight.... nothing serious btw.
on the other side of the highway, about 200 meters far from the guys, 2 policemen noticed the fight. they didn't realized soon what was happening but they saw those 5 guys fighting each others (just 5 of the were fighting... the others were sitting in their own cars) so one of them decided to "fire a warning shot" in the air.
as soon as the policeman shoot, the guys ran into their own cars to run away. probably they were afraid of missing the match, and they decided to run away to avoid the policemen keeping them stuck in that service area for too much time (asking them their id cards and their documents...). but of course this was a big mistake. when a policeman asks u to stop u just have to stop and let him check u out. if u run away, then the policeman will think u have something to hide. and actually running away from a policeman who is warning u to stop is already a crime.
so those 2 policemen started running towards those guys cars one of them didn't put his gun in the holster before starting to run....... A TERRIFIC MISTAKE! When he was starting to get across the highway (the guys were on the other side), he stumbled and accidentally pulled the trigger.... the bullet flied across 2 iron framings (which delimit the borders of the highway), passed through the entire highway (skirting all the cars on the highway :shock

and reached the minivan, breaking the back window and hitting one of the guys neck.
as u will easily realise what happened was a tragic accident. and most important, it has anything to do with football. people dies everyday... and here in italy almost everybody support a football team. so if this should be called a "football death", then every death in italy should be called a "football death".
so the statement..
Vanzandt said:
it is another death in football
is quite unappropriate.... but i can undestand why u wrote it, Vanzandt, as the foreign newspapers i read theese days are quite misinformed

Buffon said something pretty reasonable yesterday.."
last week an old lady died in torino. she was a nice person and a juventus fan..... should we stop football matches for her too? has her death anything to do with football? of course not. it has anything to do with football, like that poor guy's death."
nontheless as soon as the news reached the stadia, many ultras groups decided this was the perfect pretext to unleash their fury and anger.
attention! i'm not talking about fans or supporters... i'm just talking about some ultras groups (milan, inter, atalanta, roma and lazio).
those thugs, those animals who live in our "curve" (the "curva" is the stadium end, the ultras turf) showing their ACAB banners (All Cops Are Bastards) went out of their mind when they knew a
bastard policeman killed a guy. And when they knew that guy was a football fan (what a pathetic pretext!) they decided to do anything they could to stop the matches.
they started singing their disgusting slogans, like "policemen murderers". and when they realized the matches wouldn't have been stopped, they decided to break the stadia protection glasses to get inside the pitch and force us to stop the match.
and that's exactly what happened. when the atalanta match was suspended the whole stadium started yelling at the ultras, singing "scemi, scemi, scemi" (which could sound like "bastards" in english). everybody wanted to see the match, and everybody in the atalanta stadium was quite frustrated about the match suspension.
JUST 20 ULTRAS WERE ABLE TO PUT AN END TO A FOOTBALL MATCH. the fans, the police, the stewards, the players, nobody was able to stop them..... an entire stadium against 20 idiots..... but still those 20 idiots won.
the ultras said they were mad because they thought it wasn't fair to continue the match, they said they did that disgusting mess just to force the italian autorithies to stop the match to "respect" the dead guy's memory.......
but of course this was just a ridiculous pretext. infact the most terrible things happened a couple of hours later, in roma, where lazio and roma ultras (about 200 people) started some sort of an urban guerrilla destroing cars, shops, bus, the italian olimpic committee, and many police stations.
but then i wonder, if those beasts just wanted to stop the matches, why roma and lazio supporters unleashed their fury upon the city? I mean, roma and lazio matches were already suspended since hours, so what was the point in that mess???
those bastards didn't really care about suspending the matches, they didn't really care about that poor guy. they just wanted to unleash their anger...........
and the most disgusting thing is that we allowed them to do it! they weren't 2000, 1000 guys in bergamo stadium, trying to break that glass.... they were just 20! How can we define italy a civilised country if just 20 idiots can do such a mess!! how can we define italy a civilised country if a bunch of ultras can start a guerrilla in one of the most important cities in the world?. what the hell they're not an army! they're not terrorists. they're just a bunch of silly ignorant kids! can't we handle such a ridiculous threat??
today all the most important europeans newspapers are of course generalising, referring what happened sunday to the whole italian fans community... but that's pretty normal. people doesn't know the ultras are above the 2% of the italian football fans community... and they don't even know that not every ultras group is composed by bad apples....
just to make an example, palermo's stadium has a 37.000 people capacity. we have an average attendance of 25.000 fans each week. but do u know how many of them are actually ultras? well, palermo has 3 ultras groups for total sum of 300 guys. this means that palermo's ultras are approximately the 2\3% of our supporters.... and of course not all of them (palermo ultras) are bad apples.
then i wonder; if such a little bunch of idiots can cause so much troubles, what could happen if the 10, 15 percent of the italian football supporters would act like that???? a coup?? a civil war????
the only thing we italians should be ashamed of are not the ultras. violent persons, thugs, petty criminals are everywhere..... but here in italy (unlike the other countries) we don't seem to be able to handle them.
here in italy just 20 idiots can stop a football match, just 200 18 years old kids can turn a city into an hell..... that's what we should really be ashamed of
