Sparta Praha (H) | CL | Post Match Thread

Did anyone tell them their team lost 5 nil? They weren't watching the game, just the conductor!

I don't get it. It's not about football. The stadium is just a venue for their organised and choregraphed choir singing/chanting. God I'm old - I remember when you used to watch football for pleasure and didn't have to be degree qualified in geo politics and international accounting.
 
Asa's left peg said:
Did anyone tell them their team lost 5 nil? They weren't watching the game, just the conductor!

I don't get it. It's not about football. The stadium is just a venue for their organised and choregraphed choir singing/chanting.
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Agree. The point is, to me, that chanting and suchlike has an organic relation to what's going on out on the pitch. Or it should.
I'd be quite uncomfortable with a regimented form of chanting at City, or anywhere in England for that matter. Makes me think of the Busby Berkeley musicals from the 1930s (look at the clip from “Lullaby of Broadway” on Youtube and you'll understand exactly what I mean). Or — with a more sinister shade of meaning — the Nuremberg Rallies.
I think, though, that fans from these smaller European clubs are just going for a good time, and a European jaunt. The match is entirely secondary. Up to a point, I can respect that.
 
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
Agree. The point is, to me, that chanting and suchlike has an organic relation to what's going on out on the pitch. Or it should.
I'd be quite uncomfortable with a regimented form of chanting at City, or anywhere in England for that matter. Makes me think of the Busby Berkeley musicals from the 1930s (look at the clip from “Lullaby of Broadway” on Youtube and you'll understand exactly what I mean). Or — with a more sinister shade of meaning — the Nuremberg Rallies.
I think, though, that fans from these smaller European clubs are just going for a good time, and a European jaunt. The match is entirely secondary. Up to a point, I can respect that.
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True. I've thought it for a while and it hit me when we scored our first, very disrespectfully, in the middle of one of their routines. They didn't miss a beat and continued. I would have been suicidal for a split second and then blamed Mahrez. Each to their own,
 
Asa's left peg said:
True. I've thought it for a while and it hit me when we scored our first, very disrespectfully, in the middle of one of their routines. They didn't miss a beat and continued. I would have been suicidal for a split second and then blamed Mahrez. Each to their own,
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I don't watch when other teams' players or fans celebrate a goal against City, usually just put my head down till after play has restarted and always mute the sound if it's on tv. Think the last time I had to see celebrations of an opposition goal was at Wembley in "81 when Ricky bloody Villa scored and the Spurs fans nearby went wild.
 
Fordyboy46 said:
Sparta fans were a bit nuttier than I was expecting
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Was at the sparta v hearts game a few years ago
We were drinking outside the pub when we saw a group walking up the road.
Suddenly they rolled their beanie hats down into balaclavas and tried to storm the pub.
I don't think they expected the resistance they got and ended up running off again sharpish.
Only slight casualty was Lord George Foulkes who took a couple of slaps
So no harm done
 
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