banjo
GOSBTS
Last week all about the favelas, this week about the drug gangs and finishes next week I assume about the more fortunate residents.
BBC 2 tonight at 9.
BBC 2 tonight at 9.
a mate of mine lives in Rio, even in the favelas you will get left alone most of the time.Has there ever been a World Cup where there weren't TV programmes and newspaper articles just before, warning about how terrible and dangerous the host nation is?
I read an article in one of the papers a few months ago about the terrible violence that England fans can expect to be bestowed upon them by the Brazillian gangs of ultras. It had interviews with some of Brazil's most notorious hooligans, all who had the same chilling message: "There is sometimes trouble at club games in Brazil due to gang rivalries but we have no problem with England fans at all and they are very welcome here for the World Cup". The interviewer tried to stir things up by asking things like "What if they start smashing the place up and attacking you, what will you do then?" and got a "Well we wouldn't stand there and let that happen", which the paper then tried to spin to make it sound like England fans would be facing gang attacks from hundreds of ultras the second they got off the plane. I'm surprised the paper bothered publishing the article in the end, they didn't get what they were looking for at all.
It's a really ****ed up country. The stuff that goes on there every day would be headline news in the UK for weeks... but then again, the same could have been said about S. Africa.