the ultimate example of the boy who cried wolf, and then is surprised that nobody believes them. They probably don't start the violence, but hate speech is illegal and entices violence on them and they have no sympathy from me. Switched to supporting Ireland in the rugby, think I will start supporting Ireland in the football as well this Friday against Wales. Would rather support a team that respects other countries and enjoys being in international tournaments than one with racist fans and an unbelievably large sense of entitlement
None of us enjoy these cunts - not even their families, I'm sure - but I'm not going to stop supporting my country because of them.
UEFA and FIFA need to start treating these like this physical violence and identify and ban supporters who do this kind of stuff. Admittedly it wont happen because they were wholly inadequate at curbing the violence at Euro 2016.
Though, just so we don't jump on the specific countries are cunts as we tend to do, lets remind everyone of Euro 2016 violence:
England: Fought with Police, Russians
Russia: Fought a good few groups including Germans in Germany.
Ukraine: Fought with German fans.
Germany: Fought with Ukrainian fans.
France: Attacked Northern Irish fans unprovoked. PSG fans attacked Turkish supporters.
Spain: Fans wearing Neo-Nazi insignia robbed and attacked people before Turkey game.
Croatia: Stopped a match then fought Czech fans.
Albania: Fought Romanians.
Romania: Fought Albanians.
Russian fans were often reported as the worst but its kind of hard to tell when you just see a mass of bodies. These events tend to be shit-shows though and I think everyone is quite rightly worried about how Russia will handle this level of violence especially as Russian fans hardly have the best reputation.
Could only imagine if they tried to enforce not antagonizing slurs against other nations or peoples.
Irish fans and Northern Irish fans were all great though, as far as I recall. I think they even got a medal for being so lovely.