Comments on: Just more passionate fans, eh?

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 22:15:13 +0000

It’s quite simple. The top Argentinian barrabravas make a living from their nefarious activities. Pimpi started on 50,000 pesos a month. He was put in charge of Newell’s covered mini-stadium, hired it out and kept the proceeds. The club’s swimming pool and the economic rights to many of the youth team players were signed over to him. Pimpi was chairman Lopez’s henchman. Only the other day, the Boca barra brava went to the team’s hotel and “summoned” the players for a talking-to. Without a trace of irony, the hoodlums complained that bad results had hit their income from merchandising, from control of the street parking around the Bombonera, and so on.

English hooligans don’t make a penny. The clubs give them nothing, so there is nothing for them to kill for.

By: mike

mike — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:59:18 +0000

Those commenters haven’t a clue what the barra bravas of argentina are doing to the game. “choreographed” fans don’t
1) violently barge their way into club facilities, hotels, and retreats to threaten first-team, second-team, reserve players and managerial staff
2) siphon money raised officially by the clubs they support into their own personal funds to supplant their greed
3) actively engage rival club supporters for the sole purpose of intimidation by violence.
4) actively instill an internal hierarchy of power for the sole purpose to enact points 1) thru 3), and re-arrange said power when points 1) thru 3) aren’t being preformed satisfactorily to the tastes of prospective candidates
plus many more.

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:36:39 +0000

Terrible, the last detail shows the sadistic nature of some of these ‘people’