The NCAP Soccerball Thread

[Rusty Nails]

Well, quite.

But such events don’t normally result in a country’s PM and King expressing sympathy for them.
Or the gang’s PM suggesting a military rescue operation.

Perhaps he was expressing sympathy to the Israeli supporters who had been attacked but had not been involved in the offensive slogans..unless you know they all were. Football violence often spreads to ordinary fans.
Netanyahu is just being Netanyahu and stirring.

 

[tarric]

Travel to a football match, behave like a thug, attack private property the and citizens of the city you're visiting, chant racist slurs during a minutes silence for victims of the recent floods in Spain and then cry victim when the local thugs decide to give you a bit of a kicking.

 

[theclaud]

It's not the only kicking they got. 👍🏼

 

[glasgowcyclist]

They have no shame.


View: https://x.com/DoubleDownNews/status/1854992522914713646?s=19

 

[The Crofted Crest]

The people attacking the Israelis were gangs of Moroccans riding round Amsterdam looking for Israelis to attack. And that on the very anniversary of Kristalnacht.

 

[Rusty Nails]

Travel to a football match, behave like a thug, attack private property the and citizens of the city you're visiting, chant racist slurs during a minutes silence for victims of the recent floods in Spain and then cry victim when the local thugs decide to give you a bit of a kicking.

Sounds like any local derby in the UK.

The Maccabi ultras follow a long international line of football thuggery. I have no doubt they instigated a lot of the fighting in Amsterdam but it was not unexpected by the authorities, and similarly I have no doubt there were was a planned 'reaction' to this inevitability from Palestine supporters.

In other surprise news the Pope came out as a Catholic, and scientists have found samples of ursine turd in a forest.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

A disturbance at a local derby doesn’t get co-ordinated condemnation, in the form of propaganda in favour of the instigators, from state leaders and government officials around the world, along with absurd comparisons to Kristallnacht.

 

[Rusty Nails]

A disturbance at a local derby doesn’t get co-ordinated condemnation, in the form of propaganda in favour of the instigators, from state leaders and government officials around the world, along with absurd comparisons to Kristallnacht.

Of course not. Those, and other examples of football violence at club matches throughout Europe and the World are commonplace. This one is magnified by the horrors in Gaza and Lebanon.

Of course it gets condemnation from the establishment because everyone is bending over backwards to not appear anti-semitic or anti-Israeli...two terms which are increasingly being conflated.

Everyone looks at this one example of violence at a football match through the prism of their own biases.

 

[theclaud]

Lengthy thread (there's too much of it to post screenshots, soz)...


View: https://x.com/MouinRabbani/status/1855427545262399585

 

[glasgowcyclist]

It’s funny how the Maccabi thugs are Israeli football fans when they’re confidently chanting death to arabs and tearing down Palestinian flags around the city but when Amsterdammers retaliate and kick their butts they’re suddenly jewish people suffering a ‘pogrom’.

Classic entitlement turned victimhood when things don’t go their way.

 

[AndyRM]

Lengthy thread (there's too much of it to post screenshots, soz)...


View: https://x.com/MouinRabbani/status/1855427545262399585

I knew it was pretty bad, but I hadn't realised the extent of it. Beyond f*cked up.

 

[Ian H]

And on a lighter note...

 

[AndyRM]

 

[Ian H]

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A different report, just a short paragraph within the match report:-
The pre-match Remembrance Sunday silence was cut short by referee Nick Walsh as a number of Celtic fans sung a song about the death of Aidan McAnespie, who was shot by a British soldier at an army checkpoint in County Tyrone in 1988. Supporters had already raised a series of banners which read: “From Balfour to Starmer, the crimes of the empire live on, Britain is committing genocide in Gaza.”

 

[AndyRM]

A different report, just a short paragraph within the match report:-
The pre-match Remembrance Sunday silence was cut short by referee Nick Walsh as a number of Celtic fans sung a song about the death of Aidan McAnespie, who was shot by a British soldier at an army checkpoint in County Tyrone in 1988. Supporters had already raised a series of banners which read: “From Balfour to Starmer, the crimes of the empire live on, Britain is committing genocide in Gaza.”

Sky muted the audio, as they usually do when the Old Firm songbook gets cranked up. It's a problem everyone knows about but never gets properly acknowledged.