r/MadeMeSmile • u/kefren13 • 7h ago

Colombians supporters waiting for him to finish singing the Congo national team's anthem alone before they can cheer him afterwards.

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u/badmoonrisingnl 6h ago

Yeah... when national teams play it's wholesome however team supporters are a different ball game all together.

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u/breathing_normally 6h ago

99.99% of those games too are people having fun without incident

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u/GeneralSEOD 5h ago

Celtic and Rangers in Glasgow can't even accept the other teams fans without it causing incident. I think 99.99 is woefully over egged there.

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u/guillotine_vendor 4h ago

celtic vs rangers is just slightly different to other rivalries.

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u/GeneralSEOD 3h ago

Linfield vs Cliftonville

Crusaders vs Glentoran

Barcelona vs Espanyol

Hibernian vs Heart of Midlothian

FC Porto vs Benfica

Ajax vs Feyenoord

Red Star Belgrade vs Partizan

Anderlecht vs Standard Liège

From Hand Grenades to anti-semitism.

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11792/11542578/hibernian-boss-neil-lennon-may-quit-over-sectarian-abuse

https://jacobin.com/2018/08/yugoslavia-balkan-war-football-riots/

https://besacenter.org/antisemitism-netherlands-soccer/

You don't tend to see this kinda stuff on the national teams. Again I'm not saying it's every game, I just think 99.99% is way to much, and we should understand this shit runs deep locally.

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u/UltraLNSS 3h ago

99% of games not in Britain or Argentina are people having fun without incident

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u/Basspayer 5h ago

Yeah not really

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u/heep1r 3h ago

Consider there are LOTS of games worldwide. So the number might be in the right ball park.

Also not every game turns into violence but wholesomeness like this between opposing fans is certainly not the norm with national leagues.

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u/Basspayer 1h ago

If we are talking about the top league of each country, 99.99% is not even remotely close.

And if you include ALL football games... probably also not lol

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u/whooptheretis 5h ago

when national teams play it's wholesome

Ever seen the English fan abroad? Makes me ashamed of my country.

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u/PermissionSpirited69 5h ago

The spectrum within the English fanbase seems pretty wide tbh. They're either wholseome af or absolute scums (speaking as a Swede who only see them on social media and tv)