We weren't talking about a single team/individual case: portlock generalised: "We’re British, not hot headed Latinos that stab" (and then went on criticising racism, after making a bold racist statement, that's pathetic).Did we do a lot of damage on Thursday then ? Genuinely didn’t see any from Tuesday morning through to Friday morning - either inside or outside the ground or anywhere else in the city, nor see or hear of any locals attacked. Pop back on here next Friday and tell us how you were treated in Brighton and at the Amex. I doubt Roma will feel the need to issue you all with specific warnings about the likelihood of violence or robbery, and making your own way to the stadium (if your reputation allows this to happen) will be perfectly safe - you won’t be told to avoid certain areas and won’t need police protection
The few examples of twattish behaviour on the part of a tiny minority of our lot has (as usual) been rightly called out on here, as it usually is at the time it happens.
So if we're talking about Brighton, no you guys are cool.
It's just that after decades of your fellow citizens (other teams' supporters) being violent in Rome, local idiots react as the idiots they are.
I'm here to just bring portlock down to earth, so he/she realises there's the other side's reality, which is not well represented in English media. For all the broken fingernails a poor Brit came back home with, I've seen tens and tens of big headlines, but for all the destroyed shops, disorder, and violent behaviour I've WITNESSED every f***ing time an English team plays in Rome, I've never read or heard anything from English media. OF COURSE portlock thinks Brits are "not hot headed". In his mind, the Heysel tragedy probably never happened, and "Hooligan" is a thing of the past now that the UK THINKS it solved the problem internally, but doesn't care about abroad.
