*Manticore* Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 I read this in the Observer at the weekend. Looks like timmy has missed out on a speshul frendship. Not just that, but St Pauli are cheating on them Around Alexis Grigoropoulos's "shrine" in Exarchia, the letters AEK are painted everywhere, with a circle round the A. Yards from the site of the shooting is the Original 21 fan clubhouse - the slogan "Fuck Modern Football" and a skull wearing AEK colours painted on the hoardings. Utterly strange to the world of English football, these AEK fans are part of an international alliance with "twin" crews supporting Livorno in Italy, Marseille in France and St Pauli Hamburg in Germany, with whom they rally to help fight fans of teams with a fascist identity and for anti-globalisation demonstrations in loose co-ordination with the Black Block. Around the Grigoropoulos shrine are also slogans painted by the Livorno Autonomous Brigades who, with the Original 21crew, were to the fore in December's uprising and street fighting with the police, at which they are markedly adept. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/2...l-unrest-athens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Andypendek Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 On a broader point, all this puts the moaning about Old Firm fans singing into context, doesn't it? I wonder what Grahamis Spiersopopolis, the famous Greek radical journalist, would make of our feeble attempts at social poison, when compared to riots, assasination attempts, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J_RFC87 Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 Never knew Marseille has such a right wing fanbase Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carsons Dog Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 The Livorno fans were a joke when we went there. A very very wet joke at that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thermopylae Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 On a broader point, all this puts the moaning about Old Firm fans singing into context, doesn't it? I wonder what Grahamis Spiersopopolis, the famous Greek radical journalist, would make of our feeble attempts at social poison, when compared to riots, assasination attempts, etc. Grahamis Spiersopopolis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thermopylae Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 Never knew Marseille has such a right wing fanbase It's the Vichy influence Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMMS Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 Part of the appeal of supporting a football club is the empowerment it gives to often otherwise disenfranchised people, mainly young males. Whether you agree or disagree with their politics the power AEK fans hold in Athens is remarkable. This exists in parts of South America too I believe. Still got a bit to go before they take over Dynamo Kievs grasp on power though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rangers4eva Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 On a broader point, all this puts the moaning about Old Firm fans singing into context, doesn't it? I wonder what Grahamis Spiersopopolis, the famous Greek radical journalist, would make of our feeble attempts at social poison, when compared to riots, assasination attempts, etc. Grahamis Spiersopopolis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLUEDIGNITY Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 They really are speshul people these jungles in fact if any of these craicsters were bitten by a poisonous snake, it's the snake that would die ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterC Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 They really are speshul people these jungles in fact if any of these craicsters were bitten by a poisonous snake, it's the snake that would die ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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