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Came across a random derby in Morocco recently which has some absolutely mental videos of the fans in the stands, share the good non-Rangers ones you come across in here:

 

^^ the River Plate one is quite possibly my favourite non-Rangers fan video ever, probably because of the guy in the glasses you can see :lol:

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I was in the crowd for this. Was pretty tasty. I distinctly remember feeling very tense when the lad gets dragged away by the police in the first video, because the previous derby had descended into a pretty mad riot. As it happened, the police were very well behaved on the day, even if the fans weren't. 

 

 

 

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1 hour ago, .Williamson. said:

I find a lot of the pyro/tifo stuff absolutely shite looking 

One of my favourite sights in football is our ends at away games in Europe. Always loved all the supporters clubs flags plastered over the away sections 

I hate it in British football, because it feels like a crap import, but in countries where it has long been a part of their culture I quite like it. 

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The best atmospheres are the ones that are reacting to what's happening on the park.

The ULTRAS around Europe are very impressive and perhaps intimidating initially when coming out the tunnel, but it becomes background noise very fast, goals are scored and conceded and the ULTRAS are almost oblivious to events on the park.

Games at Ibrox like Parma, Dortmund, Leipzig take your pick... fans, stadium and team all wired in kicking every ball together.

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21 minutes ago, bluenose244 said:

The best atmospheres are the ones that are reacting to what's happening on the park.

The ULTRAS around Europe are very impressive and perhaps intimidating initially when coming out the tunnel, but it becomes background noise very fast, goals are scored and conceded and the ULTRAS are almost oblivious to events on the park.

Games at Ibrox like Parma, Dortmund, Leipzig take your pick... fans, stadium and team all wired in kicking every ball together.

Agree with this, I saw a clip of Boca fans in the entire stadium bouncing, but the other team had a penalty which they scored and the majority of the stadium barely flinched, just carried on. Didn't sit right with me at all :lol:

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32 minutes ago, JamieD said:

I hate it in British football, because it feels like a crap import, but in countries where it has long been a part of their culture I quite like it. 

Aye I shouldn’t say I think it looks shite, it just doesn’t do anything for me. 

Never really gotten into the whole ultra thing at any level tbh

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1 hour ago, .Williamson. said:

I find a lot of the pyro/tifo stuff absolutely shite looking 

One of my favourite sights in football is our ends at away games in Europe. Always loved all the supporters clubs flags plastered over the away sections 

The pyro the UB has started doing over the last few years has been outstanding, one of my favourite off-the-park moments of #55 was lighting up either side of the River Clyde

PSG before their game against Juve was tremendous:

 

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Just now, psb07158 said:

The pyro the UB has started doing over the last few years has been outstanding, one of my favourite off-the-park moments of #55 was lighting up either side of the River Clyde

PSG before their game against Juve was tremendous:

 

Don’t feel anything looking at it mate :lol:

I like the UB’s doing it from the perspective of Glasgow being Rangers, but I don’t really feel anything towards bright lights and smoke 

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7 minutes ago, psb07158 said:

Agree with this, I saw a clip of Boca fans in the entire stadium bouncing, but the other team had a penalty which they scored and the majority of the stadium barely flinched, just carried on. Didn't sit right with me at all :lol:

To be fair I must confess I was pretty oblivious to events on the park for the 12/13 season, we had a pretty colourful bus at that time and we were all in our early 20s so it got very messy.

Vaguely remember being away at East Stirling, and I've seen a photo of me at Annan so my body was in the ground at least. :lol:

I think we all very much sobered up by the following season and the reality of the situation and how long the road back was going to be.

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9 hours ago, .Williamson. said:

I find a lot of the pyro/tifo stuff absolutely shite looking 

One of my favourite sights in football is our ends at away games in Europe. Always loved all the supporters clubs flags plastered over the away sections 

This is south american culture. North African and now most of Europe.

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7 hours ago, JamieD said:

I hate it in British football, because it feels like a crap import, but in countries where it has long been a part of their culture I quite like it. 

This is it.

Its not actually in the english premier league aside from one or 2 shitey attempts.

Even the hivs and mwell have a mix of old skool casuals with the young team ultra outside of us and the beasty brigade.

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8 hours ago, JamieD said:

I was in the crowd for this. Was pretty tasty. I distinctly remember feeling very tense when the lad gets dragged away by the police in the first video, because the previous derby had descended into a pretty mad riot. As it happened, the police were very well behaved on the day, even if the fans weren't. 

After our game last year we were kept in the Marakana for a long time and quite a number of their fans stayed too.

A while after the final whistle either a steward or a cop (can't remember which) manhandled a Red Star fan and next minute they had the entire section chasing them around their end. It must have been at least 100 fans, possibly more on this one guy. Never seen anything like it. From the distance it was like watching a swarm of ants devour a piece of food. Guy must have got an absolute kicking.

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9 minutes ago, falkirkNS said:

Wouldnt mind BT sport or the likes showing South American games, especially these derbies.

Anything ive watched, they roundky kick f..k out of each other on the park, constant fouling with that south american flair.

It seems to change annually, but BBC and Viaplay (previously Premier Sports) had the rights to show a lot of South American football in the UK. I think the BBC had the rights for the Copa Libertadores games which they were sticking on the BBC One Red Button + iPlayer

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13 hours ago, .Williamson. said:

I find a lot of the pyro/tifo stuff absolutely shite looking 

One of my favourite sights in football is our ends at away games in Europe. Always loved all the supporters clubs flags plastered over the away sections 

My first European away trip was Munich 1989....the amount of flags at that game in the old Olympic stadium was unreal....all bedecked round the running track

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5 hours ago, McEwan's Lager said:

After our game last year we were kept in the Marakana for a long time and quite a number of their fans stayed too.

A while after the final whistle either a steward or a cop (can't remember which) manhandled a Red Star fan and next minute they had the entire section chasing them around their end. It must have been at least 100 fans, possibly more on this one guy. Never seen anything like it. From the distance it was like watching a swarm of ants devour a piece of food. Guy must have got an absolute kicking.

Lovely. 

Must be one of the shittest jobs going, considering the fans are still politically protected.

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3 minutes ago, ForeverAndEver said:

Do Partizan fans not have to go separated into different sections too, due to hating each other?

I was in the Red Star end, but the stadium certainly seemed to be set up for segregation. The away end was divided into three, with large metal fences between where I was and where the hardcore Red Star ultras behind the goal were, and another fence separating a third section on the other side of the curve. I assume it was the same at the Partizan end, but couldn't really see much because of the smoke. 

The set their end on fire, which I think is in one of the videos I posted. Their own stadium! 

Funnily enough, the opposing fans seemed to be in good spirits with each other. Every time the Partizan fans finished a song the Red Star fans applauded (maybe sarcastically?) and vice versa. It was weird. Especially since the Red Star fans kept singing an obviously racist song (all I could understand was they were rhyming "Partizans" with "Pakistans".

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21 hours ago, psb07158 said:

The pyro the UB has started doing over the last few years has been outstanding, one of my favourite off-the-park moments of #55 was lighting up either side of the River Clyde

PSG before their game against Juve was tremendous:

 

Went to see PSG when I lived in Paris about 18 years ago. It was pre big money and the team was shit but the atmosphere was still pretty good. 
Back in those days it was easy to get tickets at the club shop 

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20 hours ago, bluenose244 said:

To be fair I must confess I was pretty oblivious to events on the park for the 12/13 season, we had a pretty colourful bus at that time and we were all in our early 20s so it got very messy.

Vaguely remember being away at East Stirling, and I've seen a photo of me at Annan so my body was in the ground at least. :lol:

I think we all very much sobered up by the following season and the reality of the situation and how long the road back was going to be.

We all did that kind of thing. I remember one cup game away to Clyde in the 1980s where I didn’t even know we had gotten a draw until the day after. I thought we had lost.

Thats bloody Buckfast for ye

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