Serie A fan killed

[Evafreak]

Internazionale's Serie A game with Lazio has been postponed following the death of an away supporter.

A Lazio fan died after clashes between Biancocelesti and Juventus supporters at a motorway restaurant near Arezzo.

Reports suggest the fan was shot, although details of the incident have yet to be confirmed.

However, Sunday's Serie A fixture between champions Inter and Lazio at Giuseppe Meazza has been called off with a later date to be rearranged.

Juventus' game at Parma, meanwhile, is expected to go ahead, along with the other fixtures in Sunday's programme, albeit with a 15-minute delay.

Also the AC Milan game against Atlanta seems to have been abandoned due to fan troubles as well

[Thrilla]

You know, if something like this happened in England, UEFA and FIFA would just ban football in the country >_>

[Guest Big Boss]

Jesus, it's ridiculous when you compare football related violence from across Europe to what we experience in England and the other home nations. We get gangs of skinheads in burburry having a scrap in a carpark... they get shootings outside motorway restaurants.

[therockbox]

But this is the English disease :S

[Adam]

Just ban all football fans from Italian football.

This is even more reason for me to want to see Scotland knock Italy out of Euro 2008 before they even get there.

[Guest Big Boss]

Apparently it was an "accidental" shooting. The cops went in to sort out the trouble and bamn bamn bamn.

[Dan]

Half of Italy is now rioting.

[FireDoughnut]

Did anyone see that Ross Kemp on Gangs when he went to Poland and met the football thugs?

Football fans on the continent are mental.

[Dan]

Polish people are mental, take Myke for example

[LUKIE]

There has always been a history of violence in Serie A, and it is usually dealt with swiftly.

The question I bode to fans of English soccer, is why there are 'gangs' setup in English soccer that purposefully leave England and go to other countries to cause mayhem.

Serie A has this stigma of people dying, but what I am getting at, is that the Italians are mad, but they keep it in their own country. The english are equally as mad, and take it wherever they go.

Bah to you all!

[stokeriño]

The question I bode to fans of English soccer, is why there are 'gangs' setup in English soccer that purposefully leave England and go to other countries to cause mayhem.

You ask this...as if we could actually say "ah yes, this is the reason".

[Guest Big Boss]

Yeah, one group of those Polish hooligans were complete wankers. They invited him this shithole in the middle of nowhere and tried to make out like they weren't hooligans when he asked them about it.

[GA!]

The question I bode to fans of English soccer, is why there are 'gangs' setup in English soccer that purposefully leave England and go to other countries to cause mayhem.

You ask this...as if we could actually say "ah yes, this is the reason".

I'm shocked he actually asked something that hasn't got anything to do with Japan, personally.

And football hooliganism in England is nowhere near as bad as in the 1980s thanks to better stadiums and policing, something countries like Italy surprisingly have little of. I haven't heard of any problems domestically in England with football violence in years. When there are problems abroad involving English fans with English teams, it can be the fault of the drunken minority. However because of past stereotypes still being there, there are incidents where police are very heavy-handed like they were in Spain to Spurs fans last year for example.

[therockbox]

The question I bode to fans of English soccer, is why there are 'gangs' setup in English soccer that purposefully leave England and go to other countries to cause mayhem.

[FLiam]

A mate of mine is going to the Roma/Utd game in December. He is fucking mad.

[LUKIE]

My brother is going to Italy then Europe next year and wants to catch some Serie A.

The one game he says he would love to see, Inter/AC.

I won't have a brother for much longer.

[JimbobJoylove]

To be honest there doesn't seem (to my knowledge) to be major physical hatred (or at least a recent history of) between the Milan teams, so he should be ok.

A problem with the Ultra groups (and a lot of teams have them in some shape or form) is that they actually have a degree of power and influence over certain sections of the club. If the team is deemed as under-performing, it's not uncommon for the ultra group to demand talks with the chairman and officials, and often it's granted. There's even been rumours that when an Ultra group says a player is to be sold, it happens.

They have too much power quite frankly, and often these leaders are 'known' to be involved in criminal activity and even are affiliated with certain sections of the police.

Edited November 13, 2007 by JimbobJoylove