søndag den 25. marts 2012

Graffiti at Brondby Stadium

Brondby Stadium "Vilfort Park"
After a difficult startup in the Superleague, Brondby supporters spray painted various stands to enforce the club spirit. The clubs mentality has always been very strong and the fans and players are very much associated when trying to bring the club back to the top.







I presume that BGS stands for Brondby Graffiti Support.











As you can tell, the work is plentiful.












The Brondby logo flying to top.













Brondby I.F
"Brondby Sports Association"


Brondby chants

We came from golden green forests

we were apart of the glorious

when we go to bed, dreaming in a haze

Back to the good old days


Lå lå lå lå lå lå lååå

Lå lå lå lå lå lå lååå
Lå lå lå lå lå - lå lå lå lå lå
Back to the good old days


But then we wake up again

go to game at Vestegnen*

after all we are still standing tall

Brondby, its our club


Lå lå lå lå lå lå lååå
Lå lå lå lå lå lå lååå
Lå lå lå lå lå - lå lå lå lå lå
Brondby, its our club


*The location of brandy stadium

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Proudness is colossal

very unusual

we stand together for our club

brondby if


our will is off steal

one common goal

we stand together for our club

Brondby if


note: Every jumps intact.

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Copenhagen

Copenhagen

Why don't you ever hear copenhagen

we are yellow

we are blue

we have always been feared like few


mandag den 12. marts 2012

Trouble at away stands

Chaotic football derby had consequences. After FCK fans fired flares onto the pitch and created a brake in the game, new rules about away stands are being discussed. The solution has been claimed to be by closing the away stands so no fans can enter that part of the stadium. This might have good intentions, but as Rasmus Trenskow correctly points out, if they were not there the hooligan would just buy ticketcs to the family stands and he does not believe that would make it safer for the family audience.

søndag den 4. marts 2012

Personal opinion - evaluation/reflection

I think that hooliganism is a worldwide phenomenon. I do not believe that hooliganism always have to do with football. I am certain that all of us are hooligans in one-way or another. Hooligans are people that enjoy action, community and pride. It is a way like many others to express you. Hooliganism is at times more severe than others, but in most cases men who likes to get a way from the routine of life. A way of filling some place empty or in other cases just a way to have fun and enjoy being with others in a place where people think a like and act a like. I believe that hooligans should like the football or go somewhere else. I do not think that personal frustrations should ruin the football game. As football hooliganism often is affected by society, I think that it is difficult to prevent as society would have to make much bigger changes on immigration, communities etc.

Having nothing else to write often enhances the medias coverage of football hooliganism. Situations seem similar and the seriousness of one event might affect another, because the scenario seemed comparable. I think it is wrong but also necessary at times to show the violence in an understandable and eye-catching manner. Football violence does appear frequently and people get hurt. Lets try to prevent anyone getting hurt who does not want to. Not just physically but also in the way of ruining a good match or a shop owners windows the next day.

I sadness me that hooliganism or the riots at football games can get out of hand as in Egypt, but these scenarios doesn’t always have to be only about the matches and the pride, but also about society and the former regime in Egypt for an example. The people going to football matches are mostly working class people who are used to being lower than most and therefore having more of a need to escape. I believe that hooliganism can be healthy when the people involved have the right principles and therefore do not hurt anyone, but I believe that the image of fighting still comes through to the younger generation and who knows if they can handle it as well as the people before.

A place where violence exists often attracts other violent groups. When I went to a football match in Paris many of the people I saw belonged more to the rockers after my opinion. ---

I believe in overall that hooliganism can be dangerous but also healthy.

People’s reason of joining the hooligans is varying and I do not believe that hooligans can be considered as unstable, out of control thugs that causes riots every night. I believe the image has been ruined greatly in England, but in Denmark, there is no reason why you shouldn’t be able to stand with the hardest.

I do not believe that hooliganism is the best way to express yourself and release yourself from anger, because it is dangerous and illegal. I believe that hooliganism cannot be stopped; making the stadiums more updated with fences and separate exits would only do so forcing them out.

I do think that the society that you bring your children up in has a lot to do with the chance of them becoming a hooligan. Therefore, children who are in those societies would have to be dawn out of the group because of other interests. A child who likes watching football has a higher tendency of becoming a hooligan to children who has no such interest.

I believe that hooliganism is another interests that are just more dangerous and thrilling than other, but the solution for making your children uninterested in hooliganism will simply by done by helping them finding another interest. As hooliganism isn’t something you do with your everyday friends, I believe that it is easy for a child to not be drawn into it.

The only way that football hooliganism can be prevented is if the hooligans realise on their own that it ruins too much of their personal life’s that it is not worth it. Laws would have to be perfectly restricted as they must not anger the hooligans and frustrate them to do more violence, but to a perfectly annoying point where their life’s are affected and their jobs, so that they would have to stop.

The football register was too much since most fans demonstrated against it and the violence increased outside the stadium, so the fan groups and the clubs should agree on common terms on how to enjoy football matches with songs and no violence and not allow hooligans in the stadium.

lørdag den 3. marts 2012

Egypt football riots


In Egypt around 75 including one policeman were killed when football fans invaded the pitch after an unusual home-win against the best team in Egypt "Al-Ahly." The absence of police was catastrophic and this was due to the last year’s revolution where the army was made in charge of the security. Most people died of suffocation or being crushed and not by fighting or actual violence


http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02127/al-alhi-ap_2127336b.jpg

Increasing amount in young hooligans


Police suggests that the amount of young hooligans are increasing.

The police are worried about the young hooligans as they amount seems to have doubled.
Association of Chief Police Officers figures seen by BBC Radio 5 live show there were 221 incidents last season, up from 114 in 2007.

BBC Radio 5 Live has seen figures showing that in September there were 3,211 bans in place across the UK where 290 of them were for teenagers with the youngest aged just 13.

Watch the interview with the two young football hooligans "Phil" and "John," who received their first banning order at 17. They talk about their complete and total devotion to the football club Coventry and how they will fight no matter what for the club.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11473191

Youtube links

This link contains a danish documentary about danish hooliganism. The film crew follows brondby hooligans and shows for the first time in danish television history how much pride, desire and loyalty football contain. Hooligans are being interviewed over a longer period of time and you get to know the different personalities. I will recommend this video for all danish speaking people as it is easy to understand and gives a clear picture of hooliganism in Denmark.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMB64vZr3vE

This link contains an english documentary showing the english hooligan culture with many interviews with psychologists, specialists and football fans in general. It is very much in depth going, but contains also a lot of video material showing the actual hooligan fights, which hopefully shows how violent these men can be.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sUn6ji6MM8