Talking about "deja vu" !!! - there was the same silly talk on here before the home leg vs. Bahrain last time.
Some fans were talking about making a racket outside the Bahrain team's hotel.
No need for it in the end was there, anyway?
Australia experienced a hostile reception in Uruguay during their qualifiers several years ago, including fans making a racket outside their hotel - but you can't lump all countries together.
As the Mexican lad says above, it doesn't seem to be part of Mexican fan culture - and let's make sure it never becomes part of ours!
In the 2002 WC qualifiers the Socceroos went to Montevideo leg ofthe playoffs and experienced being jostled and spat on (by elderly women of all things) on the street during a walkabout. There was the usual pot and pan banging outside the hotel, looked on by bemused constabulary with no hint of intervention looming.
In the 2006 WC playoffs they flew in from the training camp (elsewhere) on the day of the match, and flew back to Sydney directly from the game - FFA paid for a charter 747, set up with sleeping spaces, ice baths etc. Recovery was conducted on board. Uruguay team followed them (for the second leg) on a regular flight, in economy class, and their Qantas plane circled over Sydney for an extra 1/2 hr or so "awaiting landing spot". The last bit may have been completely coincidental.... The short of the long was that by the second half of the second leg the Uruguayans were fading, even if they only had to travel once. I watched their best playmaker (Recoba) simply hit the wall by about 65 minutes. Australia scored just once via Bresciano andthat was enough to cancel the 1:0 loss in the first leg, the game went to penalties where Mark Schwarzer easily earned a knighthood. But that, as they say, was a different team in different times.
Actually, getting outplayed quite a bit these days
