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  1. El Zen
    To play with them?
  2. El Zen
    Woah, there. You can have one section/stand for ultras (some of whom might occassionally don a mask or balaclava) who chant intimidatingingly (but also with humour and positivity) and have a pyro display or two, while at the same time have the rest of the ground available to kids, families, old folks and everyone else. You don’t think the game is open to kids and women in Scotland, Germany, Scandinavia, Belgium, Holland and so on? Do you really think ultras culture causes nazi salutes and stabbings? I mean, come on.
  3. El Zen
    I honestly don’t care. They’re obviously as valuable as any fan, but making someone sit somewhere else to make room for a singing section is a sacrifice I make every day of the week without even a hint of hesitation. They can enjoy the game just as much from another seat, and a proper atmosphere (which improves the experience for everyone) requires organisation. Not having a designated singing section is absolutely nuts imo.
  4. El Zen
    Zackly this.
  5. El Zen
    Neither were my club in Norway and the majority of our fans ten years ago. Things change. I wasn’t much of a fan either, to be honest, and lo and behold now I’m an active ultra.
  6. El Zen
    Threats of violence, on twitter. And even if ultras culture hasn’t been established in England yet, doesn’t mean it can’t be if clubs and fellow fans are open to it. Look to Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Scotland and how far the culture has developed in just the last few years. The imrpovement is incredible.
  7. El Zen
    Brigada were forced out, and Project B6 routinely receive threats. If it’s for you or not is up to you, obviously, but I find it slightly odd to see people praising visiting ultras one minute and then actively resisting ultras culture at home the next. And saying it’s ‘not for us’ is almost a bit arrogant, isn’t it? Like, the English football going public isn’t one homogeneous static size. I also think it’s completely fair to give your more active fans ticketing privileges, but that’s another debate entirely.
  8. El Zen
    Over just the last few weeks, I’ve seen Villa fans praise Hibs fans, Legia fans and Zrinjski fans, many wishing we could get that kind of atmosphere going at VP. Yet whenever people try to introduce anything resembling continental ultras culture to England, they are invariably ridiculed, harassed and threatened by fellow fans. There is little to no understanding of the ultras culture, both among the average fan and certainly among clubs. I do wish Brigada 1874 had been allowed to flourish and grow.
  9. El Zen
    Croatian Ustashe scum, probably.
  10. El Zen
    Zrinjski are more or less exclusively Croatian. Ethnic Bosnians in Mostar support Velez.
  11. El Zen
    FC Basel. Never seen anything like it.
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  13. El Zen
    Yeah, even for me, this is true. Like, 1998 feels like it’s about ten years ago, not f…ing 25. There are people who themselves are starting to feel too old who weren’t even born when stuff happened that feels like yesterday to me.
  14. El Zen
    I hope, with some confidence, I’ll never have to wear one of those things ever again.
  15. El Zen
    I have no idea if another Scandi VT’er made such claims or not, but f*** it, I’ll just go ahead and claim all of that except the bit about it being frustrating
  16. El Zen
    On holiday, just me and the missus, no problem at all.
  17. El Zen
    Glad to hear you haven’t got a brain tumor, buddy, but that is f***ed up. I hate my ex with a passion, but if the mother of my child potentially had a brain tumor I’d want to know. What would drive her to not even ask you about something so massive?
  18. El Zen
    There is absolutely no way I could live like that, and I don’t say that to be disrespectful.
  19. El Zen
    I’d say on average about 1,5+ times per day, so 10-12 times per week, but we’ve only been together for six months. I probably should wait a bit and enjoy this before I ask her to marry me, shouldn’t I?
  20. El Zen
    Need to get that balance right and rotate a couple of players in without weakening the side. The likes of Chambers can’t be trusted, clearly, but we can’t play the same 11 every game in all comps either. Oh, and we pretty much have to win. No slacking and half-arsing it.
  21. El Zen
    Fantastic.
  22. El Zen
    You’re not alone.
  23. El Zen
    Hey, don’t read into my or anyone else’s instincts. I have major trust issues after being treated like absolute dogshit by my ex, and I tend to project them onto others. Follow your gut instinct, but I have to say, at the very least, her reaction is odd. You don’t just ask for a divorce over a disagreement. Even after learning the truth about the evil shit my ex had done to me, it still took me a couple of weeks to decide what to do about it.
  24. El Zen
    Yeah, I hate to say this was my initial instinct too, but I am scarred by my own experience.
  25. El Zen
    They probably do, and they probably will, and as long as HSV f*** up every year I’m fine Such a close and interesting league, though. Lots of massive clubs Hertha and Schalke struggling early doors.
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