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H72

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  1. Unfuckingbelievable. Just when Hearts looked to be building a very strong side outwith the Old Firm. Romanov is going to run Hearts into the ground.
  2. I find it fucking hilarious that they seem to think going to Malmo is going to be "hell". Ask the remaining Manchester squad what it's like to play in Belgrade. I really hope Rangers fucking pump this mob.
  3. I'm pretty sure he was actually.
  4. Did he play for Aberdeen or am I making things up?
  5. A name I'll never forget for some reason. I always remember him from when I was growing up.
  6. Next year's FM needs to be far more realistic for lower-league management. I enjoyed all my games in LLM - at Montrose, Weston-super-Mare and Gloucester City - but there's a helluva lot of realism still missing. It's far too easy to arrange reserve friendlies away to some New Zealand outfit and reel in £20k for every 90 minutes. It's also too easy to bring in players from small countries like Reunion; they just wouldn't move half-way across the world to sunny Gloucester. SI need to have a look at all areas of LLM.
  7. Is it ironic that I now hope Rangers don't pay £2.8m for him?
  8. I'm staying out of this thread until the idiots disappear.
  9. Hailing from the birthplace of Italian Communism (PCI) has left an indelible mark on the city’s only football club, A.S. Livorno. While maintaining the label of a “leftist” club, Livorno supporters fully embody that identity by sporting Che Guevara banners as well as flags with sickle and hammer. Club legend and open Communist Cristiano Lucarelli has often ruffled Conservative (and Centrist for that matter) sentiments by pushing Socialist gestures (I.E. Che Guevara shirts and “The People’s Fist” Seen above) while in Livorno colors. Before every home fixture supporters of the Amaranto sing “Bandiera Rossa”, the Pro-Communist anthem during the resistance in World War 2. While maintaining a strong relationship with other left-wing football clubs such as Marseille and AEK Athens (forming what is called the Triangle of Brotherhood), tensions reach a boiling point when competing against clubs of the opposite political background (Lazio, Inter, and Verona). Although the rhetoric of brotherhood and solidarity may be well and fine, the brutality committed by the club’s Ultras is some of the most violent in Italian football. Yet to the Lazio Ultra group Irriducibili, formed over twenty years ago, in the Curva Nord, Socialism tends to fall on deaf ears as they fall in line with fascist tendencies. While fascism is a taboo subject in post-world war Italy and Germany, club legend Paolo di Canio is often quoted as saying, “Mussolini was the best leader in the history of a united Italy.” An unabashed supporter of Italian Fascism, di Canio was often seen giving the fascist salute (seen right) to the Curva Nord during matches. While the rather infamous Irriducibili, as in line with fascist ideology, are to chant racist slurs against black players, including Lillian Thurman, who refused a move to Roman outfit due to racism amongst Ultras. Although some of the more heinous aspects of Lazio hooliganism includes the support of Arkan, a Serbian war criminal, and banners supporting the travesties that occurred at Auschwitz. I will not discuss the validity of either political extreme (mostly because I firmly see both ideologies as an apocalyptic experience) but what I see is a disturbing trend of blending extremist ideology with football and rivalry with hatred, into a dangerous molotov cocktail. With Calcio having lost its 4th Champion’s League spot to Germany next season, it has become commonplace to attempt to cure the ills of Italian Football. Yes, Calciopoli is the dominating reason for the recent decline of Italy, but the gang control and ultra violence remains an extreme issue and one that grants no favors or sympathy to the state of Calcio. Although adding a political agenda to the pitch can possibly end up in positive change, such as the Respect movement to end racist chants, but more often than not, political ideologies only add fuel to a burning flame when combined with football. No longer do you loathe a club’s existence because of a cross-town rivalry, but you begin to feel that this club’s ideology is one that threatens your way of life (according to perspective of course), and that is a dangerous combination, one that has injured or killed thousands. We have enough public discontent with politics; there is no need to conjoin the two. http://soccerlens.com/fans/the-politics-of-hatred-s-s-lazio-vs-a-s-livorno/ Huge eye-opener for me with regards to Livorno, Marseille and AEK, not to mention the assosciation of Inter to the far-right! Obviously I was aware of the racism that emanates from many Italian clubs, with Inter being one of the most culpable, but I never knew it was so severe. I'm sure djw will love this.
  10. Spot on. Steven Gerrard is without a doubt one of the best midfield players ever to grace the Premiership and he's a fantastic player - but he's also a Grade 'A' cunt.
  11. Funnily enough they thought that he'd score for joy and fun down there.
  12. Hopefully they dish out some terror challenges too as well as scoring a few more.
  13. Take it they're getting pumped then?
  14. That pretty much leans towards everything I said. And see for the patronising tone you take with everyone on the forum? Get rid of it.
  15. Am I reading this right? Celtic phoned Blackburn to buy him so he wouldn't be a threat against Lennon's job? :lol: Fuck me, some people are more deluded than the Tims themselves.
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