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Come anticipato nei giorni scorsi è Pardew il nuovo allenatore del Newcastle. Il nuovo manager ha reso noto di avere ricevuto da propri colleghi molti messaggi che lo invitavano a desistere, ritenendo la sua scelta azzardata viste le modalità che hanno portato all’ allontanamento di Hughton.Gli stessi tifosi bianconeri hanno solidarizzato con il vecchio tecnico, esautorato nonostante le buone prestazioni della formazione neo promossa. Problemi anche a casa del Chelsea dopo l’ennesima sconfitta, questa volta a Marsiglia in Champions’ League.Il capitombolo non ha compromesso il passaggio alla fase successiva ma è un nuovo campanello di allarme per i Blues che si accingono ad incrociare i tacchetti con il Tottenham. In vista del match con i rivali Drogba ha suonato la carica. Infine proponiamo un reportage del “Sun” sulla risorgente violenza a corollario del football britannico.

 

Drogba’s Chelsea produced another mediocre display in Marseille

Didier Drogba is hopeful his waning Chelsea side can halt their bad run in Sunday’s league clash at Tottenham.

With four points from six league games, the Blues have dropped to third in the table, and on Wednesday they lost 1-0 at Marseille in the Champions League.But the Ivorian striker said: “Maybe everyone will expect us to lose on Sunday, but it could be different.”Despite his defiant message, however, Drogba deemed fifth-placed Spurs to be “genuine title rivals now”.”They are having a good season and there is no reason why they can’t challenge,” opined Drogba. “Chelsea used to beat them regularly but things change, that’s life, but it is up to us to make it happen again.”

 

(BBC Football )

 

Alan Pardew has admitted that other managers have questioned his decision to become the new boss at Newcastle.

The Magpies, who controversially sacked Chris Hughton on Monday, have used seven different managers over the last five-and-a-half years.”I’ve had a lot of texts from managers saying ‘you must be mad going there’,” said Pardew, 49, on Thursday.”But it’s one of the top five clubs in England. It’s a daunting prospect but something I couldn’t turn down.”

(BBC Football )

 

 

THERE’S MORE THAN PEOPLE WANTING A FIGHT..BRITAINS’S TODAY IS A VERY ANGRY PLACE ( The Sun )

THE sight of violent football hooligans brought back memories of the dark days of terrace wars in the Seventies.

Angry fans of visiting Aston Villa hurled missiles as Birmingham City supporters invaded the pitch at St Andrew’s last week and the trouble spilled on to city streets.Blues boss Alex McLeish declared it “a return to the dark ages.”I watched the chaos unfold as part of an investigation into the fresh wave of football hooliganism blighting Britain.Smoke grenades filled the chill night with acrid fog and bottles fizzed through the air, crunching into deadly shards as they hit walls, pavements and people.Nearly 500 cops in full riot gear tried to contain the street fighting, with dog handlers making a beeline for the prime troublemakers.The next morning, the day we had hoped to be given the 2018 World Cup, English football woke up with a throbbing headache.A Sun investigation has found that violent “firms” of hooligans are having their ranks swelled by a new generation who regard the Football Banning Order – brought in ten years ago to keep thugs away from matches – as a badge of honour or an occupational hazard.

 

Former yob Cass Pennant, 52, is now acknowledged as an expert on football hooliganism.He believes the spiralling violence is a product of the tough economic times.He said: “This is more than people wanting a fight, Britain is an angry place.”No jobs, no money, there is widespread unrest.”You’ve got transport workers on strike, students rioting – it’s pervading every level of society.”Recent figures from the Association of Chief Police Officers revealed there were 103 incidents of hooliganism last season involving under-19s, compared to just 38 the year before.

 

But the new generation are just one ingredient in a volatile cocktail which is causing violence to explode at matches all over the country.

Youngsters keen to make their mark are being “mentored” by old guard yobs who were kicking off in the Seventies and Eighties.One of the worst outbreaks of the Noughties was the battle between firms from Tottenham and Chelsea in Parsons Green, west London.Ten people were stabbed and 34 arrested. The average age of those arrested, after going to war with machetes and nail-studded baseball bats, was in the MID 40S.

 

It was the old guard leading the charge.

Trevor Tanner, 42, is the former leader of the Yid Army, a Spurs firm. He wrote two books on it, Tottenham Massive and Massive Attack, and is unrepentant in his attitudes.He said: “You have the old guard leading the firms still. But you’ve also got a lot of youngsters who are keen to make a name for themselves. They have to prove themselves to the older lot before they are accepted. That often leads them to go to great extremes.“You’d be surprised if you met some of the lads, they seem like they wouldn’t say boo to a goose.

Banned

“They’re good, decent fellas but come match day they like a ruck.”I will say this – nobody outside the football world gets hurt.”These fellas aren’t out on the streets causing problems for innocent people.”For me it was time to get out. I’m banned from every ground in the country.”I’ve been stabbed and had just about every bone in my body broken. It would be selfish of me to carry on, and there’s a whole new world out there.”No regrets though, and it was fun while it lasted.”Added to the mix of young and old is a new style of thug, being branded “Wetherspoon Warriors” and “Yates Yobs”.

 

These are casual fans, named after pubs where they watch games before hitting the streets and getting stuck in, without ever setting foot in a ground.Recent nasty clashes involving non-ticket holders include the 2008 UEFA Cup final, where Rangers lost to Russian club Zenit St Petersburg.The game was in Manchester and 100,000 fans of the Glasgow side descended on the city centre to watch it on big screens – before turning the area into a war zone.At least 15 cops were hurt and 12 supporters charged for violent offences in what became known as the Battle of Piccadilly.Cass Pennant was a ringleader of West Ham’s Inter City Firm in the 1970s, the feared gang named after the trains on which they travelled the country to away matches.He now studies terrace violence as a social science and lectures on it at universities.He says: “The Wetherspoon Warriors are taking the violence out of the ground and on to the streets.”They gather in town centres and bring numbers to fights which catch police unaware. Recently we’ve seen street battles being run at a number of fixtures, including West Ham v Millwall last year and then Chelsea v Cardiff this year.”These guys happily stay put in the town centre when kick-off comes and watch the game, rather than go to the ground.

Spill

“Then, when a fight erupts, chaos descends. The police do all they can but they can only monitor known faces, big players in firms.”When the fights spill out into the big-screen venues they have problems dealing with the ferocity of the fighting.”This idea that the football hooligan has gone away, or even calmed down, is nonsense. But it has faded from the public’s consciousness.”People tend to think of it as the 1980s-90s phenomenon, when firms travelled around the country to battle rivals.”Huge scale incidents, involving mobs from London clashing with mobs from the north, made the issue national news, and rightly so.”But what we have today are localised firms engaging in ‘postcode wars’, all battling for dominance of a particular area.”This means the news is kept on a local level and the nation isn’t getting the big picture.”A good example of this was at Hartlepool against Sheffield Wednesday in August.”In the fights after that match two Wednesday supporters were airlifted to hospital. This is a serious level of violence.”But I bet it is news to anyone who doesn’t live in the north. Localised violence means localised reporting.”For the young hooligans I meet during my work, it’s just another form of gang culture, a sense of belonging to something.”But where they differ is they truly don’t care. Having been bought up with CCTV and banning orders, it doesn’t discourage them.”People remember the Seventies’ hooligans as being part of the general depression, the days of austerity and frustration among the working classes.”But that tinderbox environment is back.”If we’re not careful we could easily see a return of riots, not just over football, but on the streets.”

 

(The Sun )

 

 

 

 

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“Leoni fuori gabbia”: ultimissime  copie su EBay;  dopo solo da www.lulu.com fino a ristampa Un noto leader di una Firm, richiesto di commentare i consueti incidenti procurati all’estero dai Lads, dichiarò alla stampa “Margaret Thatcher ci deve condannare pubblicamente ma dentro di sè sarà sicuramente orgogliosa del lavoro fatto dai ragazzi”.. Questo libro si propone come un viaggio attraverso quarant’anni di trasferte oltre Manica dei Casuals britannici al seguito delle selezioni nazionali e delle squadre di club. La narrazione delle principali trasferte può facilmente diventare il paradigma per descrivere centinaia di giornate nelle quali le firms hanno esportato all’estero il loro bagaglio di fedeltà, nazionalismo, alcoolismo e, spesso, anche violenza. Il volume si propone come naturale seguito di “Lads 2009”, dello stesso autore, che illustra la scena attuale dei mobs britannici tra le mura domestiche. Sangue, birra e Red Hand gli ingredienti ricorrenti di un cocktail spesso esplosivo

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