To be fair, there were 30,000 Irish fans in Poznan last night and only few encountered any bother.SWP's back said:Are you taking the piss?UltraPoland said:how many fights and injuries you got on a typical british friday/saturday night out?
is someone counting or it`s being counted only abroad? :)
Great deflection by the way.
Did we see this amount of violence at Euro 96? Did we fuck. The figures quoted are at the Euro's, not in town centres up and down Poland and the Ukraine that would happen with or without a major sporting event taking place.
It's a disgrace Uefa allowed the tournament to take place there and shows that bluemooner's stating "there'll be no trouble, I went to Poznan and it was fine" was bollocks. For the Irish fans to get into bother, you know something is not right. They never have trouble anywhere, they are well loved universally, normally.
Wait until Poland and the Ukraine go out!Dubai Blue said:To be fair, there were 30,000 Irish fans in Poznan last night and only few encountered any bother.SWP's back said:Are you taking the piss?UltraPoland said:how many fights and injuries you got on a typical british friday/saturday night out?
is someone counting or it`s being counted only abroad? :)
Great deflection by the way.
Did we see this amount of violence at Euro 96? Did we fuck. The figures quoted are at the Euro's, not in town centres up and down Poland and the Ukraine that would happen with or without a major sporting event taking place.
It's a disgrace Uefa allowed the tournament to take place there and shows that bluemooner's stating "there'll be no trouble, I went to Poznan and it was fine" was bollocks. For the Irish fans to get into bother, you know something is not right. They never have trouble anywhere, they are well loved universally, normally.
And as soon as England got knocked out of Euro 96, the atmosphere turned decidedly ugly. There was fighting/rioting up and down the whole length of the country that night.
I'll reserve judgment until the end of the tournament, but so far there doesn't appear to have been violence on a worrying scale.
Of course, things may well change. But I don't think there's anything to be too concerned about so far. It's been a lot worse than this at other tournaments.SWP's back said:Wait until Poland and the Ukraine go out!Dubai Blue said:To be fair, there were 30,000 Irish fans in Poznan last night and only few encountered any bother.SWP's back said:Are you taking the piss?
Great deflection by the way.
Did we see this amount of violence at Euro 96? Did we fuck. The figures quoted are at the Euro's, not in town centres up and down Poland and the Ukraine that would happen with or without a major sporting event taking place.
It's a disgrace Uefa allowed the tournament to take place there and shows that bluemooner's stating "there'll be no trouble, I went to Poznan and it was fine" was bollocks. For the Irish fans to get into bother, you know something is not right. They never have trouble anywhere, they are well loved universally, normally.
And as soon as England got knocked out of Euro 96, the atmosphere turned decidedly ugly. There was fighting/rioting up and down the whole length of the country that night.
I'll reserve judgment until the end of the tournament, but so far there doesn't appear to have been violence on a worrying scale.
Dubai Blue said:Of course, things may well change. But I don't think there's anything to be too concerned about so far. It's been a lot worse than this at other tournaments.SWP's back said:Wait until Poland and the Ukraine go out!Dubai Blue said:To be fair, there were 30,000 Irish fans in Poznan last night and only few encountered any bother.
And as soon as England got knocked out of Euro 96, the atmosphere turned decidedly ugly. There was fighting/rioting up and down the whole length of the country that night.
I'll reserve judgment until the end of the tournament, but so far there doesn't appear to have been violence on a worrying scale.
Indeed they are, but this isn't at a game, its at some street screening, same will no doubt happen in the UK somewhere, when some pissed up fan gets told to move by a steward, as it often does.Dubai Blue said:MSP said:security guys got beaten again, this time apparently by polish fans
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf2m3SGLM5Y[/youtube]
Pricks
Fucking idiots.MSP said:security guys got beaten again, this time apparently by polish fans
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf2m3SGLM5Y[/youtube]
ban-mcfc said:there's some absolute nutters from eastern europe.
i worked with a polish guy once (good lad) and some of stories he told me were terrible.
platini won't care though as long as he gets paid.
Euro-Polish police say trouble at a minimum
Polish police have made just 72 arrests since the start of Euro 2012 last Friday, fewer than on an average holiday weekend in the host country, the country's Ministry of Internal Affairs said in a statement on Monday.
The run-up to the tournament, which Poland is co-hosting with Ukraine, was marked by fears over racism and groups of soccer hooligans in both countries. There were violent incidents in the cities of Wroclaw and Poznan over the weekend, mainly involving Croatian and Russian fans.
But the ministry pointed to the relative calm at fan party zones in its major cities - the biggest ever at a European Championship - as evidence that the tournament is going off smoothly.
"Since the start of Euro 2012 in Poland altogether 905,000 fans have taken part in fan zones and stadiums," the ministry said.
'Police have detained 72 people, of which more than half have been under the influence of alcohol. That is decisively less than police normally record on other holiday weekends.'
Authorities are also working hard to head off tensions around a march planned by Russian fans to the national stadium in Warsaw ahead of Tuesday's Group A game against the hosts. The game has emerged as one of the tournament's big potential flashpoints.