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Chinese people are stupid:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/24806788

Scottish football will be broadcast live in China for the first time after a 10-year rights contract was agreed with an online streaming provider.

The deal, struck by the Scottish Professional Football League, covers the screening of 58 SPFL matches through PPLive TV.

It is expected to generate £20m for the SPFL and its clubs.
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Chinese football is pretty awful but why would anyone in China want to watch Scottish football? It's a great deal for the Scottish teams though and if anyone in China bothers to watch it then it'll boost sponsorship giving the clubs some much needed money.
 
Or you could just called them Copenhagen since you're writing in English not Danish!

I can't believe that Manchester City made the second round of the Champions League! :bigsurprise:
 
Payback time today. Not that it gets Ajax any further since they've fucked it already up in previous matches. And also: Barca-Milan!
 
http://www.scotsman.com/news/scotla...-attacked-by-masked-ajax-supporters-1-3176489

NINE Ajax fans have been arrested after a group of Celtic fans were attacked at a bar in Amsterdam, ahead of the two teams meeting in the Champions League tonight.

The incident is said to have occurred at the Old Sailor Cafe, in the city’s ‘red light district’, where a group of Celtic fans were attacked by a number of masked Ajax supporters shouting ‘Amsterdam hooligans’.

Local media reported that around 50 Celtic fans were in the pub at the time of the attack, with Amsterdam police later escorting the supporters from the area following the attack.

Witnesses reported a fight breaking out before the Dutch fans left and security staff barricaded the bar’s doors.

Celtic fans drinking in the bar had earlier been interviewed by a local TV station ahead of the match at the Amsterdam ArenA this evening.

It is believed the hooligans targeted the pub knowing Celtic fans would be inside.
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That's not that nice. I am reading that -additionally- there are also fans of Anderlecht, Dinamo Zagreb and FC Sankt Pauli in the city, actively searching for riots. An emergency order by the major has been issued in order to kick these particular people out of Amsterdam.

Dinamo Zagreb plays vs PSV tomorrow, Anderlecht played CL yesterday and FC Sankt Pauli doesn't even play European football.
 
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Apparently some Ajax fans turned up in Glasgow a couple of weeks ago and were asking where the best place to go for a fight was. If Rangers were playing tonight instead of Celtic then we'd see a war on the streets of Amsterdam.
 
That's pretty scary. Is football hooliganism still common in Holland? In Britain it's only Rangers and Millwall fans that are still associated with it.
 
Not as common that this happens every week. There have been some notorious incidents over the years.

Hadn't heard much of it this year. Perhaps it is also common vs British teams.
 
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Hadn't heard much of it this year. Perhaps it is also common vs British teams.
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In fact, I have the impression that in certain countries, local hooligans are trigged by the presence of British fans, even though hooliganism among British fans has been more or less dead since the early 90s. Especially when English teams go to Italy, it seems there are frequently bad episodes (like when Tottenham fans were attacked in Rome a year ago). I wonder if that is due to bad blood from the 80s?

http://news.sky.com/story/1161030/spurs-fan-stabbed-in-rome-two-men-jailed
 
Funny you mention Tottenham. Tottenham hooligans brought hooliganism to the Netherlands before and during the UEFA Cup-final in 1974, a match against Feyenoord in Rotterdam. On that day, hooliganism on Dutch ground was born. The Feyenoord fans had to respond in the same manner, out of self defense. Before that, it was virtually non-existent.


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Dutch Documentary about this black day (made some months ago, incidentally), but it also has LOTS of interviews with the English. Recommended:

British teams (or only English) might have brought hooliganism to all European countries so I can imagine there's a history with these guys.
 
A Manchester United fan was stabbed in Rome before the 2008 Champions League Final as well.

Slask Wroclaw played Dundee United in UEFA Cup qualifying two years ago so loads of Poles living in the UK made the trip to Dundee and got drunk and caused an awful lot of trouble in the city. Riot police were called in and a pub had its windows smashed.
 
Barcelona is like a whole team of Ashley Youngs. You touch them, they fall like you punched them in the goddamn face... Especially Neymar.
 
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