I've Been Reading Reports From Timorous Journalists...

[sandyRoe]

... about the ferocity of some Serbian football hooligans.

Surely the masses of England fans would contain among their numbers people who would be more than a match for any thuggish East European?

[Peter Pedant]

Our thugs are better than their thugs - really Sandy !

I was surprised - can the Serbian hooligans read? My father ( auuld dead daydy) was mixed with Serbo Croat POWs in  nuremberg POW camp in 1945. Germany was the aggressor. (*)

so I thought there might be LESS animosity and not more

Next there seems to be a certain amount of woke shoulder shrugging amonst the Polizei - hooligans will  be hooligans.

[Peter Pedant]

(*) that is long - - very long for AB - for "but we were allied during the war". Yes Iknow some AB jokesters will joke " what war dat den?"

Down there ( Serbo Croatia next part of Yugoslavia) if a resistance hospital ( er Serbo - croats shooting at Germans and getting wounded themselves) was gonna be over-run.... the retreating forces would SHOOT the prisoners who cd not  walk. - eek ! (Heard it from a forces doctor who served with them)

Because mods can follow argument at all: this little ditty shows how hard the serbs can be

[Peter Pedant]

patients not prisoners oops

[Peter Pedant]

Oh. so no one else has been readin then. Typical sunday afternoon on AB.

[douglas9401]

Hot blooded and stary-eyed these Balkan types, best avoided.

[sandyRoe]

You set out to compose something that might stir a bit of controversy and it doesn't attract much comment.

Sometimes I wonder why I bother.

[sandyRoe]

Chairs and bottles have already been thrown.  And it's hours to the match yet.

[douglas9401]

Maybe just clearing a space for a mega group hug.

[Peter Pedant]

patients not prisoners oops

Should I put in references? That was Dumoulin, Plymouth. I think he rather envied a child cd listen and recount his fathers activities.

Another operating session 1945 ( it has to be 1944-5 as the mixing of the camps took place instead of the separation of armies previously. The Russians were always terribly badly treated by the Germans). Yikes Andy will be after me! - one serbo-croat said to my father, " Arthur Harryovitch, we Europeans must stick together" - showing this serb didnt think he was a slav

Trump - "The Ukrainians speak russian right? so they are russian." 2020 or thereabouts.

we havent heard much of the pan-slav empire....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-Slavism

[naomi24]

Peter Pedant, you've been asked nicely to stop mod-bashing.  You've ignored it.