football fanatics being a pestilence as always
I’m so sorry and ashamed of those Swedes. Tallin is such a beautiful city. I hope the Estonian police can gather enough data and share it with Swedish police to identify and prosecute those idiots.
Make the clubs pay for this kind of thing and watch the problem disappear in record time.
There was a a daycare that was annoyed by parents that were always late to pick up their kids. This was a problem because it meant the staff would have to work late. So they decided to charge a fine when parents showed up late. Problem solved, right?
Parents were tardy more often after the fine were put in place.
The reason was that people who felt bad about their poor behavior no longer felt bad when they were compensating someone for it.
The Swedish fans pay for tickets which support the team. The ticket prices would go up when they behave this way. But we shouldn’t assume that it would be a deterrent. They might think that because they pay higher ticket prices, they now have permission to behave poorly.
Fair point, but I think it could be managed with the right model. It does not have to be a flat “replace the proven material damages” fine. There could be fixed (large) fines for any kind of significant misbehavior on top the the material damages, multiplication factors can be applied to material damages and adjusted until an effect kicks in, fines can be increased with repeat offenses, …
At some point clubs will just go bankrupt if they don’t take action against this.
Alternatively, instead of fines give them “yellow cards” or “red cards” depending on severity and ban them from the next game(s) accordingly, counted as an automatic loss in the league or tournament. Clubs will care about that a lot, same as most parents who might not care about paying a fine will care a lot about losing their daycare spot, if only for a short time.
I’m sure they would vandalise with the rival clubs brands then.
All these Swedes apologizing and me as an american watching this like, “so that’s what it looks like from the outside to apologize for your idiot countrymen.”
Which game?
sweden vs estonia. football
I have never understood what the point of going crazy after a sports event.
If you let sports become an emotional experience, I have problems with you already, but allowing it to get you worked up into enough of a frenzy to just go out and break stuff just makes no sense at all.
If the outcome of a game affects you even one iota more than “oh well” or “yay”, then I already know you’re of caveman-level intelligence. Yes, I’m judging raucous sports fans, and I’m tired of pretending not to. Nothing should ever get you that worked up at all. Except maybe a ton of coke. Even life or death situations should be more chill than that.
I won’t even get that crazy when Trump dies, so sports fans have no reason to ever get like that. I don’t care about their ages or maturity either. Getting that worked up at all, ever, in any context is just proof of lack of self control.
And people act like it’s just normal. I see it mentioned after American football games too (usually I hear about it in reference to Philadelphia but I’m sure it’s talked about elsewhere too).
These people need to be force sedated during the game to prevent this from happening.
95% of people overlook the involvement of alcohol. I know you urinpeans love your booze, but you need to recognize that its a problem. I went out to a 4/20 event one year in the far off land of San Francisco, and everything was great until about 5pm when the liquor came out. Once morons started doing shots off park benches, the fights started, and the property destruction started. An otherwise peaceful and heavily medicated gathering turned into a riot with just a handful of handles.
I suspect they are not actually in a state of extreme emotional turmoil when these things happen, but they rather just enjoy destruction for its own sake and don’t care about the consequences for others. The sports event is just an excuse.
Similar things unfortunately exist in other contexts, too. Recently I heard on similar behavior in the camping area of large music festivals being an increasing problem.
The point is to give people a more safe outlet for their tribalistic impulses. That’s why this propaganda with Trump is working so well, they’re exploiting that instinct. I still feel that when all those right wingers decided to boycott the NFL, that’s when we lost them to the ultra right for good.
European soccer hooligans are some of the worst people on the continent. Also majority of them are fascists, especially in eastern europe.
There’s a swiss football team near us that has fans that all wear khaki trousers and black shirts and they march instead of singing and waving scarves. Creepy as hell.
Then they would feel right at home in Estonia
‘Ultras’ of any football club should be categorized as domestic terror groups or whatever. No matter the country, all they do is just smear graffiti, destroy public property, be drunk, starting fighta and being generally obnoxious POS. Football clubs should be liable for any damage those mfs do. And if that means that they need to raise ticket prices, good. Maybe this will discourage those mfs from going to the stadium.
Exactly.
People don’t join these groups because they like football.
They join because they want to get drunk, fight, and smash things up, and need an ‘excuse’ to do that, and similar people to do it with.
Average football people behaviour
average stadium fan
Absolute nonsense. By far the majority of football fans want nothing to do with the kind of pricks who do this sort of thing.
A good number are like this though. I used to live next to the stadium in Bulgaria and on game days we locked ourselves inside because it’s not safe with these roving mobs of hooligans. People get attacked, raped, they sweet destroy everything in their path. It didn’t matter what country they were from, a good number are always like this.
Sure, some are like that. But not enough for it to be “average football fan behaviour” - it’s the exception, not the rule.
Imagine if migrants did it
It’s probably good Americans aren’t big football fans because they would celebrate like this but with guns too.
Philadelphia has to grease the light poles because Philly fans riot after basically every game, especially when they win.
Philly fans are the worst in the US. But even then, I don’t think they do this to a stadium bathroom
Will you stop with this hypothetical shit, there are actual, real things to be critical about
Sounds like a problem that would solve itself
I just want to know how the hypothetical americans got their guns to europe.
Have you not seen what sheep americans are?
As a Swede I find this utterly embarrassing, and more than mildly infuriating. These are just criminals who use football as an excuse to hate on society.
They’re like this everywhere.
This shows the difference between casual football fans that went to see the world cup (they were awesome) and hardcore football fans that are closer to terrorist organizations.
These shitstains don’t just get drunk and destroy things and attack people, they plan to do so ahead of time, this is just part of the fun for them
Not only mildly infuriating
Obviously destruction of property is an inappropriate response to any soccer result, but this is particularly baffling because European soccer isn’t in season. They did this for a friendly? I mean a coupla-few stickers maybe, but what kind of celebrating or bad blood are you having after a friendly?
There doesn’t have to be a reason to any of this. Hooligans cause damage any chance they get. They do this at home too. They are permanently at war with everyone and everything.
They’re pests. You don’t reason with cockroaches.
The qualifiers for Europa league/conference league etc. has already started. This was a conference league qualifier game.
Ah that makes more sense, although an ecl qualifier is still pretty tame.
This and players pretending to be injured on the field is why of all the sports in the world football has by far the worst reputation in my mind.
Swede here (and from GBG, Gothenburg), and I can only say I’m sorry for the shit stains that did this. I have no interest in sports so I really had no idea this was something that could happen. Fuck every single person who took part in this, they don’t represent us as a country and city at all. I hope you hate them for them, not the whole country and city. And I, and I’m absolutely certain most of us, share the absolutely deserved hate towards the people who did this. I hope there’s some way to get names and make those public, I’d love to make them feel unwelcome in their own home.
Damn, as a Swedish person. I’m sorry our football hooligans are a problem even here. I don’t known it was that bad though.
