Internationals October (Euro Qualifiers + Friendlies)

roonster09

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Kane is England's playmaker. 2 quality assists.
 

LARulz

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Shevchenko seems to be cruising it at Ukraine. Is he actually a good manager?
 

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Maybe the defeat to the Czech's was just one of those games and England aren't in a crisis after all?

Funny that.

Also, the Bulgarian fans are cnuts.
 

AaronRedDevil

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A shame the fans act like this. I love visiting Bulgaria, I've been there 5 times. Aholes
 

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I was watching the France game but heard about stuff going on with Bulgarian fans, can anyone give me a brief explanation of what happened?
 

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Would you say the same thing about English fans pushing Asians in a water fountain and making racial slurs? I agree something more severe needs to be done but outright banning nations won’t solve a cultural problem.

That’s a bit different from consistently failing to control a group of fans in a stadium. A lone arsehole outside of the stadium is very hard to do anything about.

If England fans were racially abusing players I would absolutely support a ban. The cultural problem is the larger issue, but it’s not fair to players in the squad to have to be subjected to shit like this on a regular basis. They’re just trying to play football.
 

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Hope the England fans get out safely and don't do anything stupid. Situations like this when the crowd is clearly hostile is to remove all football shirts and go straight back to their hotel. I wouldn't be hanging around any bars tonight if I was one of them...
 

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That’s a bit different from consistently failing to control a group of fans in a stadium. A lone arsehole outside of the stadium is very hard to do anything about.

If England fans were racially abusing players I would absolutely support a ban. The cultural problem is the larger issue, but it’s not fair to players in the squad to have to be subjected to shit like this on a regular basis. They’re just trying to play football.
I think it was dealt with well, the feckwits were forced to leave, these guys aren’t fans they are Ultra’s. It was easy to see most of these guys faces, simply identify and ban them from games.
 
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I thought they said they would walk off if there was any racist abuse? obviously it was all talk.
 

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I think it was dealt with well, the feckwits were forced to leave, these guys aren’t fans they are Ultra’s. It was easy to see most of these guys faces, simply identify and ban them from games.
Problem is I could still hear abuse after that lot had left.
 

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Penny for the Bulgarian FA cheif's thoughts right now, after he said there'd be no problems and that it was offensive that England suggested there would be.
 

DomesticTadpole

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I thought they said they would walk off if there was any racist abuse? obviously it was all talk.
They are going down the right route which is sensible. Better to make sure the points are ours either through a win or if game abandoned. Anyway this lot deserve to see their team tonked.
 

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I think it was dealt with well, the feckwits were forced to leave, these guys aren’t fans they are Ultra’s. It was easy to see most of these guys faces, simply identify and ban them from games.
Bulgaria have consistently failed to deal with this, its been a problem for a long time. It’s not good enough to just kick some fans out after two warnings.

This was talked about as a problem, and has immediately been one. Countries who can’t stop it don’t deserve to be involved in these competitions.
 

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To hell with the UEFA protocols

and to hell with the “thrashing them so it’s ok”

walk off and sod it, the importance of the game is nothing when subject to racism, I really can’t see any reason to put up with it anymore, playing on and thrashing them isn’t dealing with it.
 

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The team should be banned from the trying to qualify for the next Euro's. It really is as simple as that. This is not an isolated incident by one or two idiots. Its happening time and time again by a good number of people. Enough is enough. Ban them.
 

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The team should be banned from the trying to qualify for the next Euro's. It really is as simple as that. This is not an isolated incident by one or two idiots. Its happening time and time again by a good number of people. Enough is enough. Ban them.
They should be banned from World Cup qualification as well and no friendlies allowed either.