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I only have one, and it’s not very entertaining.
I was on a bus going to work. A few stops before mine the bus gets cut off by another bus. The driver started yelling at the other driver then pulled over and got out of the bus to, I assume, escalate the conflict. We were near my stop anyway, so I got off before things could get hairy.
Getting onto a train in Stuttgart, Southern Germany.
A strong smell of beer and cigarettes hits me.
Everyone in the train carriage in front of me wears blue and white football jerseys.
And everyone behind me wears white and red.
And they’ve already started singing songs at each other.
On one of my first days in Edinburgh, back in 1990, I came out of Waverley station to find myself facing a battle royal between Hibs casuals and mounted police. I’d never seen anything like it, I was too stunned to be scared. I was later educated by locals on the topic and realised I probably should have been a little bit scared.
https://www.thefreelibrary.com/CCS+Capital+City+Service%3B+FEARED+HIBS+CASUALS+WHO+MOVED+UP+TO+THE+BIG…-a0625220870
Any time anyone mentions football hooligans I instantly think of Orks from Warhammer 40k.
Every fucking time I forget to check the schedules on the weekends before I take the tram to the city… I feel you
I find a lot of German footy fans to be reasonably well behaved, despite the booze. It does depend on the team. Same for teams from other countries, I suppose. There was a bunch of Swiss fans (from Bern, iirc) a while ago who all dressed and marched like Proud Boys and sang songs that were absolutely terrifying. Their team lost. Karma.
Bundesliga (1st league) is civilized in Germany.
But in the regional leagues, as the quality of the football goes down, so does the quality of the fans.