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Category Archives: football
Foot on Qaddafi’s Footie
John Foot, a professor at University College in London and sometimes-Milanese, has a good piece up in today’s New York Times exploring the links between Qaddafi, Italian football (notably Juventus) and investments. Worth your time.
Of Chetniks and Padanians
Beppe Grillo hilariously sums up the commonalities between Southern Europe’s most toxic nationalist-separatist groups. Wow, takes me back to the early nineties when deeply mistaken writers were comparing Serb separatists to those sane, cozy Northern Italian separatists. Sorry kids, it’s in Italian … Continue reading
Posted in Balkans, Bossi, football, lega nord, serbia, the italian right, the right in europe, ultras
Tagged football, lega, serbs
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“Football”
FINAL UPDATE: I can’t really say it any better than the Guardian does here. Belgrade’s Vreme ran this story today. There was a rather choice photo of masked Ivan Bogdanov burning an Albanian flag; it’s since been replaced so I … Continue reading
Genoa
Why is Genoa always a place for spectacular violence? There is much to be said about the violence of Serbian football fans in Genoa yesterday, but alas, I have to be away from the computer all day today. Mainly what … Continue reading
Posted in Balkans, football, italy, jeremic, serbia, the right in europe, ultras
Tagged football, gangsterism, italy, Jeremic, serbia, violence
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