The Road to the UEFA European Championships - Poland/Ukraine

Justice for Goldado wrote:

The Easter Bunny wrote:

110% wrote:

Allez les rouges wrote:I forgot to add that this morning on the Tube I saw a trio of Japanese Poles chatting away (yes, this was a first for me too). I couldn't help thinking "hm, presumably these people live their lives in constant fear of violent attack, if those c**ts are right". I'm hoping the c**ts are wrong and that these people are fine, if far from typical.

Difficult to say, and I can't judge without the experience, can only go on what others say. But we were scared of South Africa too (would have been a far more complicated trip for me). I don't really want to live my life like that, even though I'm acutely aware that the glorious parties of '06 and '08 were in western Europe.

I guess we will see if it was worth the risk if I am back on here in July.

Most likely nothing is going to happen to you, but it is good to at least be aware. I spent a month in the Ukraine last year and nothing happened to me. I stayed right next to the shaktar stadium, but the league was over. You should take the normal precautions you take abroad anyway, e.g. don't go off on your own, don't get too drunk, if something happens get ready to run etc. I avoided going out late at night, but my white colleagues went and were only threatened with the usual "leave our women alone" stuff. One more thing the level of other languages spoken is quite low (as you can see by some of the advertising we are getting on here), but we had a Russian speaker with us which really helped a lot.

This is a common thing from eastern europeans, a random group of Serbians (we think) tried starting on us in Zante, but we just walked on pretending we didn't see. About a minute later we saw them beating up these 2 random blokes who were stupid enough to retaliate.

Puntys top tip:
Don't act like a big bollocks outside your home town, there will always be a bigger bollock

So what you are really saying is yous shit yourselves and let another group of men intimidate yous?

In my experience the opposite is true,if you act confident and give off the impression you are game to fight then more often that not they will leave you alone and choose a weaker target.However if you act like cowards and walk with your head down avoiding eye contact you will get taken advantage of and be forced into physically defending yourself.

Justice for Goldado wrote: My nickname of 10% is catching on.

COTR wrote:

Justice for Goldado wrote: My nickname of 10% is catching on.

Puro was calling him that long before you arrived


No wait.....you are Puro, silly me, you are right

The Easter Bunny wrote:

Justice for Goldado wrote:

The Easter Bunny wrote:

110% wrote:

Allez les rouges wrote:I forgot to add that this morning on the Tube I saw a trio of Japanese Poles chatting away (yes, this was a first for me too). I couldn't help thinking "hm, presumably these people live their lives in constant fear of violent attack, if those c**ts are right". I'm hoping the c**ts are wrong and that these people are fine, if far from typical.

Difficult to say, and I can't judge without the experience, can only go on what others say. But we were scared of South Africa too (would have been a far more complicated trip for me). I don't really want to live my life like that, even though I'm acutely aware that the glorious parties of '06 and '08 were in western Europe.

I guess we will see if it was worth the risk if I am back on here in July.

Most likely nothing is going to happen to you, but it is good to at least be aware. I spent a month in the Ukraine last year and nothing happened to me. I stayed right next to the shaktar stadium, but the league was over. You should take the normal precautions you take abroad anyway, e.g. don't go off on your own, don't get too drunk, if something happens get ready to run etc. I avoided going out late at night, but my white colleagues went and were only threatened with the usual "leave our women alone" stuff. One more thing the level of other languages spoken is quite low (as you can see by some of the advertising we are getting on here), but we had a Russian speaker with us which really helped a lot.

This is a common thing from eastern europeans, a random group of Serbians (we think) tried starting on us in Zante, but we just walked on pretending we didn't see. About a minute later we saw them beating up these 2 random blokes who were stupid enough to retaliate.

Puntys top tip:
Don't act like a big bollocks outside your home town, there will always be a bigger bollock

So what you are really saying is yous shit yourselves and let another group of men intimidate yous?

In my experience the opposite is true,if you act confident and give off the impression you are game to fight then more often that not they will leave you alone and choose a weaker target.However if you act like cowards and walk with your head down avoiding eye contact you will get taken advantage of and be forced into physically defending yourself.

Yes, good shout. Get in a fight which accomplishes nothing, get potentially arrested/beat up by the police, get put in a jail cell and ruin my holiday

I can tell you've never been abroad

Justice for Goldado wrote:

The Easter Bunny wrote:

Justice for Goldado wrote:

The Easter Bunny wrote:

110% wrote:

Allez les rouges wrote:I forgot to add that this morning on the Tube I saw a trio of Japanese Poles chatting away (yes, this was a first for me too). I couldn't help thinking "hm, presumably these people live their lives in constant fear of violent attack, if those c**ts are right". I'm hoping the c**ts are wrong and that these people are fine, if far from typical.

Difficult to say, and I can't judge without the experience, can only go on what others say. But we were scared of South Africa too (would have been a far more complicated trip for me). I don't really want to live my life like that, even though I'm acutely aware that the glorious parties of '06 and '08 were in western Europe.

I guess we will see if it was worth the risk if I am back on here in July.

Most likely nothing is going to happen to you, but it is good to at least be aware. I spent a month in the Ukraine last year and nothing happened to me. I stayed right next to the shaktar stadium, but the league was over. You should take the normal precautions you take abroad anyway, e.g. don't go off on your own, don't get too drunk, if something happens get ready to run etc. I avoided going out late at night, but my white colleagues went and were only threatened with the usual "leave our women alone" stuff. One more thing the level of other languages spoken is quite low (as you can see by some of the advertising we are getting on here), but we had a Russian speaker with us which really helped a lot.

This is a common thing from eastern europeans, a random group of Serbians (we think) tried starting on us in Zante, but we just walked on pretending we didn't see. About a minute later we saw them beating up these 2 random blokes who were stupid enough to retaliate.

Puntys top tip:
Don't act like a big bollocks outside your home town, there will always be a bigger bollock

So what you are really saying is yous shit yourselves and let another group of men intimidate yous?

In my experience the opposite is true,if you act confident and give off the impression you are game to fight then more often that not they will leave you alone and choose a weaker target.However if you act like cowards and walk with your head down avoiding eye contact you will get taken advantage of and be forced into physically defending yourself.

Yes, good shout. Get in a fight which accomplishes nothing, get potentially arrested/beat up by the police, get put in a jail cell and ruin my holiday

I can tell you've never been abroad

I'm not a pussy therefore I have never been abroad.

COTR wrote:

Justice for Goldado wrote: My nickname of 10% is catching on.

Puro was calling him that long before you arrived


No wait.....you are Puro, silly me, you are right

The Easter Bunny wrote:

Justice for Goldado wrote:

The Easter Bunny wrote:

110% wrote:

Allez les rouges wrote:I forgot to add that this morning on the Tube I saw a trio of Japanese Poles chatting away (yes, this was a first for me too). I couldn't help thinking "hm, presumably these people live their lives in constant fear of violent attack, if those c**ts are right". I'm hoping the c**ts are wrong and that these people are fine, if far from typical.

Difficult to say, and I can't judge without the experience, can only go on what others say. But we were scared of South Africa too (would have been a far more complicated trip for me). I don't really want to live my life like that, even though I'm acutely aware that the glorious parties of '06 and '08 were in western Europe.

I guess we will see if it was worth the risk if I am back on here in July.

Most likely nothing is going to happen to you, but it is good to at least be aware. I spent a month in the Ukraine last year and nothing happened to me. I stayed right next to the shaktar stadium, but the league was over. You should take the normal precautions you take abroad anyway, e.g. don't go off on your own, don't get too drunk, if something happens get ready to run etc. I avoided going out late at night, but my white colleagues went and were only threatened with the usual "leave our women alone" stuff. One more thing the level of other languages spoken is quite low (as you can see by some of the advertising we are getting on here), but we had a Russian speaker with us which really helped a lot.

This is a common thing from eastern europeans, a random group of Serbians (we think) tried starting on us in Zante, but we just walked on pretending we didn't see. About a minute later we saw them beating up these 2 random blokes who were stupid enough to retaliate.

Puntys top tip:
Don't act like a big bollocks outside your home town, there will always be a bigger bollock

So what you are really saying is yous shit yourselves and let another group of men intimidate yous?

In my experience the opposite is true,if you act confident and give off the impression you are game to fight then more often that not they will leave you alone and choose a weaker target.However if you act like cowards and walk with your head down avoiding eye contact you will get taken advantage of and be forced into physically defending yourself.

Yes, good shout. Get in a fight which accomplishes nothing, get potentially arrested/beat up by the police, get put in a jail cell and ruin my holiday

I can tell you've never been abroad

The Easter Bunny wrote:

Justice for Goldado wrote:

The Easter Bunny wrote:

Justice for Goldado wrote:

The Easter Bunny wrote:

110% wrote:

Allez les rouges wrote:I forgot to add that this morning on the Tube I saw a trio of Japanese Poles chatting away (yes, this was a first for me too). I couldn't help thinking "hm, presumably these people live their lives in constant fear of violent attack, if those c**ts are right". I'm hoping the c**ts are wrong and that these people are fine, if far from typical.

Difficult to say, and I can't judge without the experience, can only go on what others say. But we were scared of South Africa too (would have been a far more complicated trip for me). I don't really want to live my life like that, even though I'm acutely aware that the glorious parties of '06 and '08 were in western Europe.

I guess we will see if it was worth the risk if I am back on here in July.

Most likely nothing is going to happen to you, but it is good to at least be aware. I spent a month in the Ukraine last year and nothing happened to me. I stayed right next to the shaktar stadium, but the league was over. You should take the normal precautions you take abroad anyway, e.g. don't go off on your own, don't get too drunk, if something happens get ready to run etc. I avoided going out late at night, but my white colleagues went and were only threatened with the usual "leave our women alone" stuff. One more thing the level of other languages spoken is quite low (as you can see by some of the advertising we are getting on here), but we had a Russian speaker with us which really helped a lot.

This is a common thing from eastern europeans, a random group of Serbians (we think) tried starting on us in Zante, but we just walked on pretending we didn't see. About a minute later we saw them beating up these 2 random blokes who were stupid enough to retaliate.

Puntys top tip:
Don't act like a big bollocks outside your home town, there will always be a bigger bollock

So what you are really saying is yous shit yourselves and let another group of men intimidate yous?

In my experience the opposite is true,if you act confident and give off the impression you are game to fight then more often that not they will leave you alone and choose a weaker target.However if you act like cowards and walk with your head down avoiding eye contact you will get taken advantage of and be forced into physically defending yourself.

Yes, good shout. Get in a fight which accomplishes nothing, get potentially arrested/beat up by the police, get put in a jail cell and ruin my holiday

I can tell you've never been abroad

I'm not a pussy therefore I have never been abroad.

Again you show how dense you are, it shows a lack of perspective. If you had paid for a holiday would you want to ruin it over a silly little scrap?

Justice for Goldado wrote:





at 4:16 BBC translated "hey, hey, who's not jumping is a Jew" but the fans are chanting "hey, hey, who's not jumping is from Widzew