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Ultras groups are all very corny in their imagery

Milan as a city has generally become more and dangerous at night in recent years. So there's no guarantee it was a football-related assault, but if it is it's certainly an isolated group of idiotic, probably younger, men trying to "prove themselves" to their friends. It's a very unfortunate but...

Really interesting insight from the AEK fan

Well we're informally known as "gobbi" ("hunchbacks"), so it really depends on what you make of your nickname. Same with "culés" ("those who show their ass") for Barça fans.

The only Greek word my brain has retained is in Ancient Greek and was taught to me by my childhood friend who was then studying Ancient Greek in highschool: ραφανιδωσις ("raphanidosis") = shoving a radish root up in the bum

Yeah sorry I didn't explain myself very well - the hinomaru has been the flag of the country (aka the national flag) since 1870, be it the empire or modern Japan. The flag with the sun rays is, as you say, the military's flag. And we agree on the rest :thumbsup:

Be sure to wave it for the cameras at the end of next match!

Except that the Imperial flag actually is the national flag of Japan. The "radiant sun" flag is simply the Army and Navy flag, both today and in WW2. I completely agree that it shouldn't be displayed at matches because it's a military flag and not a national flag - but the national flag of the...

As someone who is used to a different style* of football, "soul destroying" is exactly how I'd describe that; it's honestly terrifying in a giant-hive-minded-meat-grinder-machine kind of way. Some other football fans might describe good park-the-bus defending as "soul crushing", but being...

It's quite funny seeing this as the first post on the board for me because I've just finished watching the highlights and celebrations of your match and was literally about to ask on here if anyone had noticed it, as it immediately stood out to me. But I also noticed it was flown by people who...

He was the pivot/regista of RDZ's Sassuolo and was known to be very intelligent and technical in his passing and press evasion in that team, with great vision. But when we got him (just as Allegri was re-hired) he didn't have that precise structure in place anymore, the opposite in fact; and...

[looking dejectedly at Locatelli] Yeah...

Ajax are one of the better ones to be fair, not much pointless aggression internationally compared to other Dutch teams, they're too historically big for that. They're noisy and travel in numbers, but shouldn't cause a lot of trouble.

Exciting, but tough group guys. I appreciate your eagerness for travelling to big European stadiums but, as far as the tournament goes, getting a tough group is not a good thing no matter how much anyone lies to themselves. It's not gonna "prepare" you for anything, it's just gonna test your...

Well at least he's provided us with some Jehovah's-witness type of entertainment for a couple days That thumbnail really reminds me of something like a Hunger Games poster or some low-quality generic young adults saga

Nah, would love for us to make contact with aliens or traces of them but until real evidence comes out I'm not really interested about uncertain testimonies and political/procedural stuff. Plus all my mental energy is spent on trying not to let slip some Swedish or pizza-related opinions.

Very good actor, as an aside in Italian he's dubbed by my favorite dubber :blush:

I'm not a mod and I can easily ignore online conversations if I don't want to take part in them, so by all means go ahead. I was just pointing out that the title question (including the "Politics" flair) has now become slightly misleading in representing the content of the thread, that's to say...

This reminds me, season 2 of Good Omens is coming out in a couple days; here's hoping it's not shit. And I think the question about the flag has been answered, no? Even if it was just used as a very transparent attempt at "casually" starting a discussion about the Antichrist. So, case closed...

Yeah, only that they put a different symbol in the middle