So when I realized that the Florentina soccer game that I signed up to go to a few weeks back was this Thursday night I immediately began thinking about what could go wrong. On my way back from class I was walking with Leora and kept hearing spurts of men screaming. She heard nothing and looked at me like i needed to be institutionalized. When we got closer to the piazza we live in she started hearing it to and then suddenly there were at least 50 men drunk of their asses holding various beer bottles at 4 in the afternoon chanting in Italian (maybe Dutch?). After staring in confusion we realized that they were all gathering before the game. At 7 when we met the group at the bus stop there were TONS of Amsterdam fans (the opposing team) singing and chanting and police were everywhere. They have special busses just for the opposing team because if the two fans were to mix there would definitely be blood so all these men packed on to a double bus and started chanting and swinging from side to side trying to tip it over. after a few seconds some police men came over to which the fans responded by being louder and shook more violently. When the bus pulled out it was preceded and followed by two cop cars, an ambulance, and a helicopter.
What could go wrong?
so eventually we made it to the stadium and the two sets of fans were separated by glass walls with blades on top to keep them apart. The game wasn't half as exciting as the bus stop was and it was FREEZING outside but it was a lot fun.
Maybe my luck has changed? I'll try and charge something today. I'm going to Milan on Sunday and if I can't shop there may be tears.
Were you beating up the china woman to get her money?
ReplyDeleteI think that Europeans get their anger out through hooliganism, while in the US we prefer owning guns and shooting people with them.