UEFA considers fining fans for jeering national anthems
Aren't sports fans supposed to be the great unwashed?
Bet this wouldn't be popular in Montreal!
UEFA considers fining fans for jeering national anthems
Aren't sports fans supposed to be the great unwashed?
Bet this wouldn't be popular in Montreal!
"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those
who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis."
Dante Alighieri
"A day without sunshine is like, you know, night."
Sandra
"Michael Moore is reminiscent of a heavy-handed Leni Riefenstahl, who glorified Nazism in the 1930s." Peter Worthington, Toronto Sun.
That may not be fair to Montreal fans. I think they just hate US.Originally posted by Kaiddin
Aren't sports fans supposed to be the great unwashed?
Bet this wouldn't be popular in Montreal!
While it's a noble idea to encourage fans to be respectful of their opponents' nation, I think the deep rooted rivalries and hooliganism amongst the most radical of fans make it difficult to enforce. I seriously doubt that just the warning will be enough. Perhaps more players should be like Fernando Couto and be more proactive in helping their fans be more respectful of the opponents' anthem.
Or, maybe UEFA should just go to playing the European anthem, "Ode to Joy," before every match.
Davy Jones
"Frightened? My dear, you are looking at a man who has laughed in the face of death, sneered at doom, and chuckled at catastrophe! I was petrified."
-- The Wizard of Oz
I think if stadium owners start ejecting people in a public spectacle without refund, other people will fall in line.
"The American Eagle needs both a right wing and a left wing in order to fly."
-paraphrase of Bill Moyers
I see something like this and am glad I live in a country that (at least in theory) respects free speech.
Fines for jeering at someone? Jeering says more about the person doing it than it does about the target. This sort of thing legitimizes it, though. Far better to grow a thicker skin and simply ignore it.
I've heard Germans can be fined for saying unkind things to others. I didn't really believe it, but if this sort of action is typical of the European approach, maybe it's true.
I cant really see this being implemented. I mean, how is going to be policed?
If you have 50000+ fans at a sporting event, would you be able to pick out the ones that are whistling and jeering.
Cheers
Tas
I'm NOT stupid, I'm NOT expendable and I'm NOT going!
I don't think they would be able to loacate and remove individual fans in a statium of 50,000 people.the football associations of those countries can incur fines
Didn't the NFL penalize the home team 5 yards when their fans made too much noise the visiting team couldn't hear the signals at the line of scrimmage for a couple years? Didn't they remove it because it was unworkable and open to abuse?
The NHL threatened once to penalize a team for their fans throwing multi-legged sea creatures on the ice during their games. Nothing has come of it from what I've heard.
Many states and provinces still have profanity laws on the books but they are never enforced.
You can't legislate class or etiquette.
"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those
who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis."
Dante Alighieri
"A day without sunshine is like, you know, night."
Sandra
"Michael Moore is reminiscent of a heavy-handed Leni Riefenstahl, who glorified Nazism in the 1930s." Peter Worthington, Toronto Sun.
AFAIK, there haven't any more of those incidents since the threat.Originally posted by Kaiddin
The NHL threatened once to penalize a team for their fans throwing multi-legged sea creatures on the ice during their games. Nothing has come of it from what I've heard.
There are even sillier laws still in the book that are never enforced. Such old and strange laws are probably the products of colonial time. Yeah, I've seen PBS's Colonial House.Many states and provinces still have profanity laws on the books but they are never enforced.
No, unfortunately. Again, a child-like, savage race indeed.You can't legislate class or etiquette.
Anyhoo, just some random thoughts...
"My philosophy is 'you don't need me to tell you how to play -- I'll just provide some rules and ideas to use and get out of your way.'"
-- Monte Cook
"Min/Maxing and munchkinism aren't problems with the game: they're problems with the players."
-- excerpt from Guardians of Order's Role-Playing Game Manifesto
A GENERATION KIKAIDA fan
DISCLAIMER: I Am Not A Lawyer
Okay, I have followed hockey in a long time but are you sure of this? Red Wing fans really quit doing this 10 years ago and the hockey people are still talking about this.Originally posted by REG
AFAIK, there haven't any more of those incidents since the threat.
"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those
who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis."
Dante Alighieri
"A day without sunshine is like, you know, night."
Sandra
"Michael Moore is reminiscent of a heavy-handed Leni Riefenstahl, who glorified Nazism in the 1930s." Peter Worthington, Toronto Sun.
As long as people are talking instead of throwing, the threat has become an effective deterrant.
Anyhoo, just some random thoughts...
"My philosophy is 'you don't need me to tell you how to play -- I'll just provide some rules and ideas to use and get out of your way.'"
-- Monte Cook
"Min/Maxing and munchkinism aren't problems with the game: they're problems with the players."
-- excerpt from Guardians of Order's Role-Playing Game Manifesto
A GENERATION KIKAIDA fan
DISCLAIMER: I Am Not A Lawyer