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Posted September 08, 2026 08:29 · last edited September 08, 2026 08:32

Simon B wrote:
martinb wrote:
In the old league half of it it was about avenging old scores and making new ones and the football wasn’t the most important thing, and that’s also not much of an image to get people involved.
On the bright(?) side, it could be a lot worse.

Genocidal militias in the 1990s wars in ex-Yugoslavia were literally recruited from football ultras.

On the other hand, the Australian government made a deliberate choice to let fascist Croatian war criminals immigrate in 1946, and it's the grandkids of those guys who are now the supporters of Sydney Ustaše 58 and similar teams. There's a reason Central United and other NZ "ethnic" teams don't have that problem.

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Doloras edited September 08, 2026 08:32

Simon B wrote:
martinb wrote:
In the old league half of it it was about avenging old scores and making new ones and the football wasn’t the most important thing, and that’s also not much of an image to get people involved.
On the bright(?) side, it could be a lot worse.

Doloras edited September 08, 2026 08:31

Simon B wrote:
martinb wrote:
In the old league half of it it was about avenging old scores and making new ones and the football wasn’t the most important thing, and that’s also not much of an image to get people involved.
On the bright(?) side, it could be a lot worse.

Doloras edited September 08, 2026 08:30

Simon B wrote:
martinb wrote:
In the old league half of it it was about avenging old scores and making new ones and the football wasn’t the most important thing, and that’s also not much of an image to get people involved.
On the bright(?) side, it could be a lot worse.

Genocidal militias in the 1990s wars in ex-Yugoslavia were literally recruited from football ultras.