Comments on: Inter v Bologna – Preview

By: kirby

kirby — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:21:18 +0000

i trinidad everyone wears their teams shirts. team apparel is quite big here.

By: alessio

alessio — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:59:31 +0000

I wear mine every CL day.

By: ursus arctos

ursus arctos — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:17:05 +0000

Except that no one wears jerseys here unless they are playing or watching football.

By: Johonna

Johonna — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:51:54 +0000

It is also how it is reported here in the US rather than in Europe. Here, if there is gang related violence and the people involved happen to be wearing sports jerseys it is still reported as gang-related. In Italy, I bet it would be reported as sports-fan violence.

By: alessio

alessio — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:33:26 +0000

Oh I agree, I think it’s way blown out of proportion and I didn’t want to suggest that I bought that all games are crazy violent fests. In fact, I’ve never been at one that had any serious problems, other than typical pushing and shoving between tifosi. (Bari-Lecce, good stuff) But here negli Stati Uniti, there’s really no fans that die from game-related violence, it’d hit the news. Last time I remember hearing about one was a fan was killed by a cop in celebrating after the ALCS win of the BoSox in 2004.

By: Johonna

Johonna — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:23:50 +0000

It is like anything sensationalized in the media – blown way way way out of proportion.

Alessio, I think it is exactly because Europe is less violent (or at least that is the perception) that when something like the above happens, it makes all the news.

Think about it this way, in Italy you are far more likely to die in a car accident than in football related violence but people still pack their families into cars and drive. Fatal accidents are so common there (and here, really) that they hardly ever make the news. It is all a matter of perception.

By: ursus arctos

ursus arctos — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:39:36 +0000

I could write a book on football-related violence and the way it is filtered through the European and North American media and used to push various political agendas, but given that this site tends to attract a large number of people who live thousands of miles away from the Meazza, I think it is important to stress that Johonna’s experience is much more typical of the reality of attending a football match here than that of the Siena supporters who were unlucky enough to encounter the Roma nutters.

As most of you know, I have a son who just turned 10, and has been a season ticket holder at Inter since he was 8. I’ve never had the slightest hesitation at taking him to the Meazza, and his health and safety mean more to me than anything else in the world.

By: Johonna

Johonna — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:56:20 +0000

I dont know, MAD, they seem pretty subdued over on the Roma board. Something about having two of their best defenders unavailable for the upcoming match…

Unless something turns around during the break, we have only Nico and Cordoba in central defense, and Zanetti will have to play in Maxwell’s spot again. And that leaves no room for any more muscle strains!

By: alessio

alessio — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:38:07 +0000

The last Serie A game I was at was Juventus-Sampdoria, actually also in February. Ended up being the only game we lost at home all season (2004-2005) at a 0-1 scoreline, talk about a bad choice of games.

By: MAD

MAD — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:37:53 +0000

Which reminds me.

We play Roma directly after the international break, don’t we?

I am really curious to see how many will make it over here to start shit. When they do come, (does anyone doubt it?) will it be for the whole two weeks coming up or just before the game.

We had idiot Milan supporters here for almost a week after the derby game. We even had Juventus people here last week capering around.

Hmm, something must have happened recently to quiet all these folks down… what could it be…