In another terrifying incident in an Europa League match between Liverpool and Zenit, here in Zenit St Petersburg stadium on Thursday, Liverpool’s fans were reportedly beaten up before and during the match by a bunch of hooligan said to be the host fans. A local news channel flashed the news about 40 peoples’ strong group who attacked the traveling fans when they landed on the metro stations to attain the match. The attack was so severe that supporters had to take the shelter inside stadium itself until security forces used bats to scatter the hooligans. Surprisingly, it all happened when Zenit had ensured that there would be adequate protection inside and outside of the ground so that match could be played in a clean atmosphere, but on the contrary, everything that happened was against the commitments. Actually, racism has ever been a biggest cause of ground attacks in this part of world, perhaps not too far ago, a group of strong hooligans warned Zenit to avoid playing with any black … [Read more...]
Shocking manifesto by Zenit fans club Landscrona
Everyone will agree on the fact that racism needs to be cut out from soccer, and there are countless measures being taken out in various parts of the world to eradicate this anti human aspect of the game. Another dark area of soccer, or perhaps any other sport, is sexuality of players, coz LGTB players have ever been a part of every traditional sport including soccer. Now, a controversy seems to be arising from the den of two-time defending Russian champion Zenit St. Petersburg’s fans club Landscrona, who released their manifesto last Monday asking for a complete ban on nonwhite players along with gay ones. It is one of shocking revelation by one of the biggest soccer fans club in the world, however, for the time being, club has departed itself from this manifesto describing it as anti-humanity, but on the other side, fans are in no mood to change their mind or demands. For them, gay players are unworthy of their great city, while ‘dark-skinned players are all but forced down Zenit's … [Read more...]