The French organisers have managed, at least in Marseille, to break all imaginable and unimaginable, the written and unwritten rules and regulations that apply when conducting such activities.
…Actually, watch the discussions on the subject, whose football fans — British or Russian — worse and/or worse for a person to understand, sorry, at least a little funny.
Then after all just.
The behaviour of football fans, of people, of course, not saints, and their mentality, — the value of a more or less permanent. And the same “creepy and drunken English football fans” exactly four years ago, it is a by the generally accepted rules peacefully visited exactly the same football European forum in Ukraine. And four years before that (the British there, however, did not get) the author of these lines in the t-shirt of the Russian national team with great pleasure walking through the ancient streets of the Austrian and Swiss cities. Embraced by football fans from Spain and Germany. And even comforted by the Swedes and Dutch, who were then kicked out of the tournament with a brilliant Russian team under the management of Guus Hiddink. And none of us, frankly, even in a head did not come to do something similar to what happened recently in Marseille. And any, not very sober — alas, fans world is imperfect — efforts at least a little to porosity very politely, but absolutely ruthlessly interrupted, as if from nowhere, taking, smiling local police. Had no problems neither at the world Championships in Germany and Japan, nor in the previous, 2004, the European championship in Portugal. Where the British lived together in the same small southern town of Faro, and no problems, except a sore head in the morning from drunk together tonight, it is generally in no way look back.
So what happened to all these hundreds, thousands, and even tens of thousands of people at the same time crazy?
Fought, after all, not only Russian, by the British, but the British against the French and French Arabs, and along with the police. Drove Ukrainian fans, the Germans, the poles beat the Irish, and all the Ukrainians, while they themselves received from the Croats. That’s what you want, but I have a feeling that this “holiday of disobedience” will not end.
On the contrary. There is a sense that the most interesting, alas, it’s just the beginning.
Again, don’t complicate it.
Football fans, like all the characters, in some situations, “balancing on the edge of the law,” barasat and persist only in those frameworks in which they are allowed to do local security service, police and other organizers. Because, no matter how brave these “football guys” in ordinary life they are completely normal citizens and problems with the law have no one wants.
The fact that in France, “something went wrong” from this point of view, my pals among the Russian fans told not even from Marseille and from the Paris airport Charles de Gaulle, where they were struck by the lack of the tape for the x-raying of Luggage, and the basic framework of metal detectors. And this, sorry, after the recent terrorist attacks in the airport. Police officers too, by the way, the naked eye was not visible.
Further — more.
No police, no metal detectors was not at railway stations, when boarding the Eurostar and off. Subsequently, by the way, it became clear that don’t have them at the entrance to Marseille’s velodrome stadium, and the inspection at the entrance to it was more than superficial. And whether or not, by the way, it surprising that fans carried into the stadium pyrotechnics — it’s good that some fans are prohibited in Russia, IG* is there anything more fun exploding not carried.
And that’s not all.
The French organisers have managed, at least in Marseille, to break all imaginable and unimaginable, the written and unwritten rules and regulations that apply when conducting such activities. It was not, for example, are generally no restrictions on the sale of alcohol, moreover, is unthinkable — he quietly sold it in glass containers. And is it any wonder that after fervent a three-day drunk in the taverns of the Old Port of Her Majesty’s subjects turned into the perfect pumpkin, and the glass bottle is in a very convenient tools for getting into the heads of opponents? At least, according to eyewitnesses, after the events area of the Old Port was covered with a uniform layer of broken bottle glass. Dividing the fan flow and on the way to the stadium, which certainly contributed to the establishment of friendly international relations, and it’s good that the police as a result had to use only tear gas, not rubber or plastic bullets.
And on the “velodrome” by the organizers — apparently, also with the aim of strengthening the international friendship managed to seat fans of opposing teams in the next sector, not even by dividing their symbolic buffer zone. And you wonder, then, that, hot, hot game, mutual sneers and, to confess freely sold alcohol, some then “went to visit” to others?
Me, for example, somehow not surprised.
That is why — especially if, as we agreed at the beginning of this material, consider the fan’s preferences, including not the most pleasant for others, for some “constant” — the causes of the “variables” in this stupid equation, in General, quite simple to understand. And a bad temper British, Russian, French, Polish, German or any other football fans here — good or bad — alas, nothing to do with it.
* “Islamic state” (ISIS) is a terrorist organization and prohibited in Russia.
