Tonight Croatia meet Serbia in a game so toxic it makes Celtic v Rangers look like Charlton v Hartlepool
My Serbian buddy sent me the link to
this article which illustrates what a great team "Yugoslavia" would have today. Although I reminded him that we've been there before. The ability of Balkan teams to underperform is legendary.
And if you are interested in the toxic stuff, try this
excellent article on the Serbian coach and his Croatian counterpart, and try some of the readers comments below it...despite the fact that away supporters are banned, my buddy is worried about what might kick off after this game.
Comments
Could end up an anti-climax with no away fans.
Footage of Dynamo Zagreb (Croatia) v Red Star Belgrade (Serbia) , 1min 15 sec for Boban's kick:
Serbians are bastards, have a research into what they did during the early nineties in the Balkan wars and it is very difficult to see past that and like anything about them
You shouldn't be in any doubt that a lot of Croats behaved every bit as badly as the Serbs in the 90s. The Croats have long and dishonourable tradition of supporting Fascism don't forget.
In the mid 90s in Prague a lot of young and educated Yugoslavs from Serbia Croatia and from Bosnia arrived as economic refugees. A lot of them arrived in my office hoping to find a marketing job. That is when I decided that the Bosnian Muslims were the innocent ones. I can still remember one attractive Muslim girl (who dressed just like her Serbian counterparts) telling me how it was in Sarajevo: "We would all mix together. We all had the same lives. Then one day the Serbs got the call. We woke up and realised that our neighbours had guns, and we did not..." Having said that, I would meet the Bosnian Muslims and the Serbs in the evenings all happily mixing together. In the Balkans, nothing is straightforward.
But that doesnt speak for all serbians. People forget that serbia fought nobly for the allies in ww2 whereas croatia sided with the nazis.
My pal told me that the border been locked down for 72 hours before this game. He said the control stations were sending back any likely lads whilst allowing women through. To which my other mate replied -"how u tell the difference like"
:;
But back to the football, all the ex-Yugoslav countries punch way above their weight compared to population, Serbia's not much more than Scotland, Croatia is about the same as the Republic and Montenegro is about the same as Northern Ireland.
Yugoslavia squad for Euro 1992:
GK
Dragoje Lekovic
Fahrudin Omerovic
DEF
Branko Brnovic
Farukh Hadzibegic
Predrag Spasic
Ilija Najdoski
Miroslav Djukic
Budimir Vujacic
Dzoni Novak
MID
Dragan Stojkovic
Sinisa Mihaljovic
Mehmed Bazdarevic
Predrag Mijatovic
Vladimir Jogovic
Vujadin Stanojkovic
FOR
Dejan Savicevic
Slivisa Jokanovic
Darko Pancev
Meho Kodro
...I like rape.
ps. Never had any problems with the Muslim community.
The serbs are the only military to salute with their left hand and its a sort of point using only three fingers. So they used to like lopping fingers off of prisoners.
That and castration
Not "rape, arson, murder and rape" ?
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That may have been after I left. I thought they were okay on the whole; ask for a light, they'd give you a cig as well. Croats I liked too, you just don't want to get in a discussion about their neighbours. Only an idiot would do that.