Disrespectful Uruguyan fans

[mikasalo32]

Alright I know it was only a small few, but what happened when the Socceroos arrived in Uruguay today was totally uncalled for.
Spitting on players and abusing them just after they got off the plane is absolutely disgusting and disgraceful.
When Uruguay arrived over here they were treated well and even had their own cheer squad of Uruguayan-Australians at the airport.
Thankfully the Aussie players are professional enough not to let this kind of shit get to them and hopefully the Uruguayan players dont behave as disgracefully as their fans on Monday morning.

 

[rumanu?]

we will get revenge by smashing em' on monday

 

[altek]

Erm...calling Uruguay "U R GAY" doesn't seem respectful to be too. What do you think

 

[bingtin]

We can't completely blame the Uruguayan fans for showing disdain towards the Australian team. After all, we did beat the Uruguayan team, and we did force the Uruguayan team to economy class on the plane, and they now have to go to Montevideo from Los Angeles. However, spitting on Frank Farina and the Socceroos is just unacceptable. The Australian public didn't spit on the Iranian team after they knocked us out of the World Cup 4 years ago, so why is Uruguay doing the same? If it is about the timing of the games, blame FIFA, not the Australians

 

[Ruben Sosa]

If you think that was bad, wait until monday.

 

[lito88]

Jejejejej ....I've my ticket!!!!!!

 

[mikasalo32]

We never called the "U R Gay", thats from the ****in Simpsons, and Australia never forced em to fly economy class and even after that they got a government plane from LA and arrived in Montevideo before us. And there's still no excuses for those pigs behaviour.

 

[ZePenguin]

Originally posted by mikasalo32
We never called the "U R Gay", thats from the ****in Simpsons

What about THIS thread then?

 

[Ruben Sosa]

Look Mikasalo32, In Uruguay football is a Religion, and rivals are enemies. We don't greet enemies with flowers and presents. If you didn't like our behavior, Australia is more than welcomed to forfeit the match and go back home.

 

[copious]

Well dont you think it is pretty poor behaviour when Uruguyan fans spit on a visiting countries players? In my opinion they are just sore losers.
however i dont think we will see the end of that behaviour, it will happen again when Australia beat Uruguay and qualify for the WC on monday

 

[eLeMeNOhPee]

Like Frank Farina said The small number of Uruguays there bahaved poorly, if fact that acted as if they were uncivilised.

AFL in Australia is a religion but you don't see Essendon fans spitting on Brisbane fans...Do You?...that's because we are civilised.

PS: No offense to those Uruguays who were abusing players

 

[mikasalo32]

ZePenguin- that was just one little 15 year old idiot who said that. He doesn't know any better, everybody else in that thread said it wasnt a nice thing to say even the Aussies.

Ruben Sosa- You'd like us to forfeit the match wouldn't ya. That way you might have a chance of making the World Cup,your ****in team got flowers and shit when they arrived here(but thats not really the point).
You can't justify your fans spitting on our players just like I can't justify Robert Pires spitting on players even though I'm an arsenal fan.
So just because football is treated like a religion in your country doesn't give you the right to spit on and abuse players.

 

[Gareth]

OK look, fair enough being passionate about Football, call it a religion if you will, but when people are disresprected and peoples safety is at risk, then its not passion...its criminal.

What the Uruguayan fans did at Montevideo Airport was not just disprespectful, unlawful, I feel those few who did that may represent a minority yet still represent Uruguayan football, and for that those who did that charges should be pursued and a reasonalble course of action attained.

I mean I am passionate about football, I think of it as my religion, yet I do not see the opposition as an enemy, on the pitch yes, off the pitch they are simply normal people. That is how the Uruguayan fans should behave. When Australia lost out on WC Qualification for France 98 against Iran, I cried, I admit that, and one of my friends is Iranian, yet I did not spit on him or anything like that.

The display that those "fans" (so-called) made in regards to Frank Farina and the rest of the team, was not just criminal, they bahved as animals.

 

[mikasalo32]

Yeah your right and not only was it disrespectful to Australia and the national team, but it was direspectful to football aswell behaving in that sort of many to the opposition.
And if football is like a religion then why would you disrespect it??
You don't disrespect your real religion do you??????

 

[bingtin]

What has happened in Uruguay has now affected the whole country. I know that there are civilised people in Uruguay that would've greeted the Socceroos with open arms, but the fans at the airport have now given the world the impression that Uruguayans are uncivilised, discourteous people.

See what a handful of people can do to their group's reputation?

 

[Gareth]

The Australians have been guarenteed 800 riot police at the match, plus more than 20 more riot police guarding the team 24 hours a day and Australia are sending their own chef over to Uruguay cause they dont trust the Uruguayan chefs, with food poisoning and the likes.

Its just a precaution.

 

[Ruben Sosa]

eLeMeNOhPee: AFL in Australia is a religion but you don't see Essendon fans spitting on Brisbane fans...Do You?...that's because we are civilised.

Well I spit on Penarol, but they're just plain trash.

mikasalo32: You'd like us to forfeit the match wouldn't ya. That way you might have a chance of making the World Cup

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! THAT WAS A GOOD ONE!

Why don't we wait until after the match to say who might have a chance of making the WC?

mikasalo32: You can't justify your fans spitting on our players

I wasn't trying to justify anything. If you look at older posts of mine you'll see me warning you (Australians) to expect this type of welcoming from several fans. I'm suprised there were only 30.

mikasalo32: So just because football is treated like a religion in your country doesn't give you the right to spit on and abuse players.

Tell that to the fans, not me.

Gareth: OK look, fair enough being passionate about Football, call it a religion if you will, but when people are disresprected and peoples safety is at risk

Wrong. No fan made a physical assult on any player. As far as I know players were warned by Frank that there would most likely be insults directed towards you when you get here.

mikasalo32: You don't disrespect your real religion do you??????

Considering I don't have a religion it would be hard to disrespect it. And no I don't count myself as one of the people that see Football as a religion either.

bingtin: Uruguayans are uncivilised, discourteous people.

Don't you people read my posts?! I said all that (ok, not in those exact words) hundreds of times!

 

[bingtin]

There were implications of violence and players getting hurt in the fracas at the airport. Your "fans" were pushing each other in order to try to get close to the players and abuse them, they ended up fighting amongst themselves

 

[a_johnson82]

"Gareth: OK look, fair enough being passionate about Football, call it a religion if you will, but when people are disresprected and peoples safety is at risk

Wrong. No fan made a physical assult on any player. As far as I know players were warned by Frank that there would most likely be insults directed towards you when you get here. "

Technically, spitting on someone in a threating matter is physical assault - as little as it may seem, it still is (at least in Australia). Actually, assault can simply be threatening verbal abuse, so they could all be charged on that.

Furthermore which disappoints me, is that the UFA are claiming that they were treated poorly on arrival in Australia! What a crock of shit - they had a perfectly fine arrival, noone spat on them or jeered them - they had our respect.

"Ruben Sosa: Look Mikasalo32, In Uruguay football is a Religion, and rivals are enemies. We don't greet enemies with flowers and presents. If you didn't like our behavior, Australia is more than welcomed to forfeit the match and go back home. "

And to those who justify the actions or imply such, then those people are as bad as those who greeted the Aussies on arrival at the airport. We would never forfeit the match, and I do believe the match would be moved to neutral ground before Australia would forfeit anyways, which would be fine by me!

Finally, all I can say to those people who did spit and jeer on the Soccerroos, well they are the people from U-R-GAY

AJ

 

[altek]

I don't really know who you expect others to be respectful, when you are not. The first time "U R GAY" was posted, mikasalo said that the thread starter of that thread was a "15 y/o idiot". Now someone else from Australia has called Uruguay "U R GAY". OK, I don't know about the rest of Australian fans, but this thread has proved that the people here don't really respect other people, let alone other teams.