Zeljeznicar vs Sarajevo 08/05/2013

Lovely pyro :cool:

Pussybitches gonna pussybitch

Good work =d>

Wonder if we can ever convince FFA to get mass smoke machines like they use @ Portland Timbers as a way of curbing the want for flares?

-PB

The MLS does controlled pyro pretty well.
Vancouver use heaps of fireworks and other such things. But the also have a sweet pre game walk out.

It's very Frinchise-American, but everyone loves it, and it gets you so jacked up for the game.


Terrible video and a terrible crowd, but in a full stadium it's sweet.
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Edited by Eastern Glory: 13/5/2013 05:19:58 PM

They already have smoke/fireworks at some NRL matches, so it shouldn't be a problem.

The whole notion of replacing flares with club/FFA controlled smoke or fireworks is pretty cringe worthy imo. Flares are usually a tool of celebration or used to improve displays and why anyone would want that being controlled by the suits is beyond me. Regardless, they won't work as a replacement; flares will still be regularly lit. Supporters aren't mindless retards who blindly follow.

:lol: have you ever met a Manchester United fan? :lol:

You must be new around here........

Edited by ozboy: 14/5/2013 04:32:03 AM

I can see them being expensive to run. Timbers are a team with a strong turnover (better than majority of the A-League teams at any rate) and thus pyrotechnics and smoke machines are more affordable for them. I think you're also discounting the appeal of the subversive nature of flares.

I'm talking about real supporters, not people who claim to follow an overseas team despite never having attended a match of the so-called team they 'support'.

Wouldn't expect you to understand.

Edited by ducky42: 14/5/2013 08:03:32 AM

Indonesian fans

Persib x Persela

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PSS Sleman x Persenga Nganjuk

Great choreo
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So your definition of 'supporter' relies on a person attending the matches. You can't possibly support a team you've never been to the game of. So I'm not a Packers fan, not a Liverpool fan, and not an atletico fan, I don't actually follow any team despite owning the merch and watching the games every week on tv.

By your definition there are only 45,522 Liverpool fans and 75,811 MAXIMUM on any given week. How absurd :roll:

Real supporters put their time and hard earned into following their team. Sitting on your arse in front of the tele in your official replica jersey doesn't make you special. Going to games, immersing yourself in the match day experience and contributing is what I'd consider as someone who genuinely cares for their club. Anyone can pick up shitty sponsored plastered merch and call themselves a fan.

What if so someone goes to the games and doesn't support the team? I go to Wanderers games, but I'm a Glory fan because I live in Sydney... I've been on a tour of Ewood Park and I'm passionate about The Rovers, but I live in Sydney and therefore cannot go to their games. I used to be a Vancouver Whitecaps member, but I no longer live in Vancouver, yet I still follow the team.

Am I a fan of nothing?


Also, do this mean that Aussies living overseas, Perth, Darwin or Tassie cannot be socceroos fans because they don't get to see games?

National team games are completely different to clubs so don't even bother trying to compare that.

Why do you 'support' teams on the other side of the planet and why are you a Perth fan if you live in Sydney?

Edited by ducky42: 14/5/2013 08:08:56 PM

Believe it or not, it's actually possible to support a team that isn't located in the city in which you live.

It's not necessarily about where you live, it's more about the commitment you have towards the team you support. Living in another city of course makes it pretty fucking bizarre that you'd follow a team from somewhere else unless it's a team you've committed at least some part of your life to.

I guess there are genuine reasons such as being brought up by parents to follow teams but nothing fucks me off more than cunts who pick some random foreign team and decide they're gonna support it.

The SuthoSoulja Ultra's are going to be out in force tomorrow night supporting 'Straya against Greek Olympic.

OH-LIMP-DICK have nothing on us!!!

I still believe you should have some connection to a football team beyond just watching them win a game on a given day.

Yet, I'm not an Arsenal supporter because of my family, who were ultimately split Arsenal/Tottenham anyway, I don't support Arsenal because I was born close by and lived for some near there - I didn't know that at four years old.

I'm Arsenal because I went to my Aunt's house (on my Mother's side, who doesn't even like football and isn't 50/50 Arsenal/Tottenham) at four years old, and I saw all my cousins, older than me of course, and they were all wearing Arsenal shirts when I met them.

I didn't become a gooner because I wanted to support my local team, or follow the family, I became Arsenal because I looked up to my cousins and I wanted to be like them. It was just chance. If it wasn't for that, I'd be Tottenham with my Dad.

Odd question. Seems to imply that once you support a local team, you're not allowed to move to another city.

Are you retarded or did you just not read my other posts?

So you can only be a supporter of a team if you've been to one of their home games? Seriously?

Neither, as a matter of fact. :lol:

Teams can only have as many fans as their stadium sits, obviously. United's estimated 6.7m worldwide fans are actually all frauds.

Who are you to determine the standard which governs who is or isn't a fan? Who are you to tell someone their support isn't as 'real' because they can't live in the city their team is from? What your'e saying is that there are only 45k Liverpool fans. Which is horse shit.

Why the fuck would you follow a team you can't/don't go and watch on a regular basis? What pride do you take in a random team from the other side of the world which doesn't represent you? Imo makes you more of a fanboy than a supporter.



Gloryhunters. Why do you consistently post in a thread regarding a topic you clearly have zero idea about?

Anyway enough arguing with internet fans.

RIP to the Fenerbahce supporter who was killed after the Galatasaray match the other day. :(

Coritiba x Atletico Paranaense (12/5/13)

Coritiba celebrate their silverware:







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...I don't even understand this whole thing with ducky. Like, is there something that I missed??

People support teams for reasons other than arbitrarily picking them out from the Matchay Program you know. Peoples have relatives who played for the team, or family that grew up in the city and have always supported the team, they might have been raised to support the team. You accuse me of having 'zero idea' about this, but ironically it's you who's completely clueless and shooting your mouth off.

You've got no right to judge anyone's motivations and reasoning for supporting a club. Much less deride these fans, many of whom keep YOUR club afloat. Furthermore, unless you yourself live within a 5 minute walk of Hindmarsh Stadium and have been to every single home game Adelaide have played over the last 10 years then you yourself are a hypocrite.

tl;dr: Fuck off Ducky.

Yeah, supporting a team which represents my city and state is similar to supporting a foreign team. Good job champ.