I’ve never seen tifo quite like the efforts of these South Koreans fans in the video below. I’m not even sure what to say about it. It’s more like art than anything to do with football, I think, but it’s still pretty mindblowing. The hardcore fans I’ve known in the U.S. and U.K. would [...]
Our open thread on the Women’s World Cup has certainly thrown up highly contrasting opinions, and this blog welcomes honest takes from all quarters. But perhaps the most interesting perspective on it I’ve seen so far comes from the Global Game blog, which features an interview with the biographer of Brazilian star Marta.
It’s very hard [...]
The ultras of Hapoel Tel Aviv went a little too far this week:
Israeli soccer took a turn for the worst Thursday night when Hapoel Tel Aviv fans set fire to the stands in the team’s UEFA Cup qualifying match with Siroki Brijeg in Bosnia. Two were arrested and one fan was evacuated to a hospital [...]
Actually, I’ve never been to an ice hockey game, so I’m not making the comparison myself. But in a feature for Canada’s CBC, a soccer-neophyte reporter is blown away on a visit to BMO Field to watch Toronto FC in the supporters’ section.
Whilst fans of rival MLS teams who have been supporting their team avidly [...]
Following on the heels of recent trouble in the Intertoto Cup, last night saw serious trouble at a UEFA Cup first qualifying round match between Bosnia’s Zrinjski Mostar and Serbia’s Partizan Belgrade (see video below).
Play was held up for ten minutes early in the first half in Mostar after rival fans clashed with riot police [...]
Say what you will about ESPN’s influence on the American sports marketplace, they are masters of sport as theatre, even in a thirty-second advertisement.
For their behaviour in the video below, Legia Warsaw fans have managed to get their club expelled from the Intertoto Cup, as Soccernet reports.
UEFA officials abandoned the second-round match in Vilnius after fans of the Polish club clashed with police and fired numerous missiles onto the pitch.
FK Vetra had been winning 2-0 when the [...]
Whose more unpopular in Manchester - Saddam Hussein or Malcolm Glazer? Football fan and filmaker Adrian Goldberg explores the origins and progress of FC United of Manchester, offering insight into why fans abandoned the glories of the Manchester United Megastore for life as a minnow. It’s essential viewing for all supporters of any [...]
The videos that ultra groups put up on youtube seem to be recruitment drive vehicles these days, so smoothly are they put together. And they’re always accompanied by some bloody terrible techno music.
Still, these Ajax fans can’t half put on a tifo display and for some odd reason, they always seem to be around when [...]
