Posts Tagged ‘Croatia’

Photo Daily | December 13 | Boban Day, Dinamo Zagreb

By Tom Dunmore • Dec 13th, 2007 • Category: Photography

Today’s photo daily, the latest in our Croatia series, was sent in by a reader directly. The words below are his, too, explaining the night that these flares went off as Zvonimir Boban made his last lap around Maksimir Stadion, Zagreb.

Boban day was held on October 7th, 2002. Some forty thousand spectators were in attendance, […]



Photo Daily | December 12 | Croatian Time-Warp

By Tom Dunmore • Dec 12th, 2007 • Category: Photography

As we continue looking at Croatia this week, today we examine the decaying state of stadia there that reminds some of England twenty years ago, as our Croatian compadre discusses below. Here’s Stadion Maksimir, pictured as Arsenal played NK Dinamo in Zagreb last year.

Croatia (with proposed co-host Hungary) lost the bid for Euro 2012. Considerable […]



Photo Daily | December 11 | Hadjuk Split Graffiti

By Tom Dunmore • Dec 11th, 2007 • Category: Photography

We continue our Croatia series this week, words once again by Croatia’s craziest fan.

The badge of Hajduk Split as graffiti on a wall is a common sight in Croatia’s second city, and here it is at the fourth century Palace of Diocletian.
The club was founded in 1911 in Prague by four Croatian students. One will […]



Photo Daily | December 10 | Dinamo Zagreb’s Bad Blue Boys

By Tom Dunmore • Dec 10th, 2007 • Category: Photography

Photo Daily this week moves from Serbia to Croatia, the words for the descriptions below courtesy of a man who was a lot happier than me when Croatia beat England last month.



Ultras video - Focus on the Bad Blue Boys

By Thomas Dunmore • Jun 28th, 2007 • Category: Hooliganism, Video, World Football Culture

The Bad Blue Boys of the Croatian team Dinamo Zagreb are rather infamous in European ultras circles, and will be the subject of several posts on pitchinvasion.net in the coming weeks. After all, how many supporter groups can claim to have been part of the start of a war? For the Bad Blue […]