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L’allenatore dell’ Inghilterra Fabio Capello si è espresso in termini pesantemente critici riguardo la situazione relativa all’ordine pubblico negli stadi italiani. Infatti, il mister della nazionale dei “tre leoni” ha affermato che il calcio nel nostro Paese sarebbe rovinato dagli ultras che ne condizionerebbero lo svolgimento. L’attaccante del Wigan M.King, il quale rigetta ogni addebito,è accusato di avere aggredito una giovane donna in un locale, procurandole la rottura del setto nasale. Continua ad essere al centro dei tabloids l’attività della “EDL”, scesa recentemente in piazza in diverse città di Inghilterra e Galles ed in procinto di tenere una dimostrazione anche a Glasgow. Diversi media si interrogano su questo nuovo fronte nel sociale aperto da diversi “football lads” ed ex tali.
England manager Fabio Capello ‘ultras’ fan concern enrages in denial Italian football officials
Daily Mail
26 October 2009
Fabio Capello has been ‘saddened’ by the problems at Italian football grounds and claims watching games in England and Spain is a more spectator-friendly experience.
But Italian Olympic Committee president Gianni Petrucci was unhappy with Capello’s frank remarks. A title winner at AC Milan, Roma and Juventus, England coach Capello claims the game in Italy is being ruined by ‘ultras doing whatever they want’.Capello, who has led England into next year’s World Cup in South Africa, offered his opinion in a seminar based at Coverciano titled ‘Football And Those Who Discuss It’.’As it is, the ultras [hardcore Italian fans] do whatever they wan,’ said Capello’In the stadium they can insult everything and anyone. In Spain, instead it’s different.’There is more respect and the families go to the stadium with their children, it’s a different world.’I remember once (in Spain), a fan threw me a paper ball and he was taken away.’In England the stadia are full, there is a desire to go to the stadium, nothing ever happens and the stewards do a perfect job.’I am saddened with what is happening in Italy, the decline will be more evident, and what only needs to be done is to apply the law.‘A decision must be taken by the authorities and by the clubs so that people return to the stadiums and they are more welcoming.’The game in Italy has been plagued by violence in recent years but no major incidents have taken place this season after the anti-violence measures already in place were tightened.Unruly spectators face the prospect of tougher penalties, while officials have had more control of fans entering stadia thanks to electric turnstiles which read tickets with fans’ names on the Security cameras have also been installed at grounds across the country.Additionally, clubs are banned from selling blocks of tickets to visiting fans, and they now have the have the authority to prevent suspected hooligans from entering stadia.But Italian Olympic Committee president Petrucci hit back at Capello’s remarks.’The ultras are in charge? Absolutely not,’ he said.’Capello has coached in Italy, I am his friend, and I don’t like it when they go abroad and start making judgements about their own country.Stats Zone’Those are comments that don’t thrill me.’Italian football federation president Giancarlo Abete added: ‘At times the image that is shown of our fans can be such that it confuses the poor behaviour of a small group with the behaviour of the majority.’Results have shown that episodes of violence have decreased.’
Football star ‘broke woman’s nose’
PA
26 October 2009
Premier League footballer Marlon King groped a young woman and then broke her nose when she rejected his advances at a celebrity nightclub, a court has heard.The Wigan Athletic striker, who denies all charges, had allegedly shouted, “Don’t you know who I am, I’m a millionaire”, before “smashing her in the face with a clenched fist”.London’s Southwark Crown Court heard his “completely gratuitous violence” came just minutes after he spotted the slightly-built 20-year-old at the Soho Revue Bar last December.She was part of a group of “sporty type” friends “socialising, dancing and drinking” the evening away, and had never met the player before. Some of them “worked at a fitness centre, there was a footballer and also a sports journalist with a well-known TV company”, said Roger Daniells-Smith, prosecuting.He told jurors the 29-year-old defendant had not been part of their group and “none of them had invited him to join them”. But that did not stop the married father-of-three from “sexually touching” the woman on her bottom, claimed counsel.”It was neither welcome nor consensual, nor could he have thought that she was consenting to it,” he said. “They were complete strangers to each other. It was not an accidental brushing, or innocent contact that occasionally happens in crowded bars. This was deliberate and sexual.”The barrister said when she pushed his hand away and he grabbed her wrist, she shoved him in the chest. “At that moment Marlon King took one step backward and smashed her in the face with a clenched fist. He broke her nose with the blow. It was a completely gratuitous piece of violence against a slightly-built female. It was unprovoked and could not have been an act of lawful self-defence,” he said.As security staff intervened and led him away the player allegedly told them: “Why? I’ve done nothing wrong.”King, who denies one count of sexual assault “by touching” and one of causing her actual bodily harm, insists he was the victim of “mistaken identity”.The trial continues.
The roots of the EDL
The Spectator
26 October 2009
Rod Liddle
The EDL is in alliance with, or is comprised of, or perhaps actually is, two previously formed predominantly anti-Muslim groups, The United British Alliance and Casuals United. Both of these groups are noteworthy in one respect: they are organized bands of football supporters.
A few notes and observations on the English Defence League, which has gained a bit of prominence recently and is mentioned in Mel’s latest article in The Spectator. This is the organisation which turns up to Muslim demonstrations and does a bit of vigorous counter-demonstrating for itself; they then are in turn picketed by the witless, bedraggled red fascists of the UAF.he EDL is in alliance with, or is comprised of, or perhaps actually is, two previously formed predominantly anti-Muslim groups, The United British Alliance and Casuals United. Both of these groups are noteworthy in one respect: they are organized bands of football supporters (Perhaps we should form another group which pickets meetings and demos of the UAF).T. I well remember the UBA, back in 2005, touting for support (and indeed getting a fair amount) on the Millwall fans’ websites which I frequent. Their aim then was to “picket” mosques, although I don’t think standing around a brazier handing out copies of the Socialist Worker was what they had in mind. They seem to have disappeared altogether, which leads me to assume – perhaps wrongly – that they are one and the same as the EDL. Their members certainly LOOK the same. Casuals United (the name drawn from the football hoolie “casual” movement of the early 1980s) have also been quieter of late; the aims and aspirations and mission statements of the three groups are absolutely identical: avowedly non-racist, patriotic, anti-Muslim extremist, strongly pro British armed forces etc – and all seem to be drawn from the football terraces. There’s another group – March For England (MFE) drawn from exactly the same base and with exactly the same aims, which also seems to have drifted into abeyance. Contrary to most current thinking, there doesn’t seem to me to be an link, formal or informal, with the BNP. My suspicion is that they all of these groups are now, effectively, the EDL.I think it’s rather sweet that our football hoolies are taking an active interest in politics. I do wonder if this recent politicisation is a consequence of the rather tame and sterile atmosphere at Premier League football matches, where policing makes it close to impossible to kick the shit out of opposing supporters and one is thus forced to look elsewhere for a bit of sport. However, their demonstrations have been remarkably pacifistic, if verbally somewhat antagonistic. Incidentally, the one columnist they all admire and link to on their sites is….. Melanie Phillips. Though I don’t suppose she’d have much time for them, of course. I’ve certainly never seen her down The Den in an SI jacket screaming “jog onnnnnnnnnn, you mug” (although it’s something I’d pay to see.)