Politics and Football

[HoreTore]

Heh, it's not like it's just a Scottish phenomenon. I remember all the Celtic fans thought they were being smart when they took Palestine flags for thier game against Hapoel Tel-Aviv, when it turns out Hapoel are the 'liberal' team of Israeli football (IIRC, anyway), and often fly Palestine flags themselves. If they had done it against Beitar Jerusalem on the other hand...

Reminds of how the Chelsea fans makes gas hissing when facing Tottenham....

Do football teams in France/Norway/wherever ever have these political connotations?

Yes and no. Obviously we don't have different religious or ethnic groups etc facing each other here, so what have is a "milder" version... But my team, Vålerenga, is a team from the capital, Oslo, and therefore regularly uses banners with degenerative terms for farmers, rural people, people from other parts of the country, etc etc. A common chant used in every game is "Øl og vold, skamslåtte bønder"(beer and violence, beat up peasants) and it's by far the loudest one, and the one most of the fans sing along with. Another case is when we faced now bankrupt(HAH!) FC Lyn, with Lyn being the upper-class side, while Vålerenga is working class.

Other commons songs are:
- "We know who our dad is!" - sung quite a few teams, particularly the upper-class teams Stabæk and Lyn
- "Everyone from (Våler)Enga claps like this"(followed by simulating heroin use) - sung by most teams outside the capital, like in Hamar and Drammen
- "Everyone from X has the same grand-dad" - sung by Enga when facing rural teams, particularly Ham-Kam, and X is substituted by the name of the opposing teams city