Quote from: Jon Crofts on May 02, 2018, 05:02:15 PMQuote from: Monty on May 02, 2018, 12:14:27 PMIt'll be all-seater, which will be more geared to actual long term football watchers rather than your casual thug element.It's a shit stadium, set in beautiful surroundings in a suburb of Rome that's an absolute twat to get to and from the city itself. The seats themselves are like plastic arse shaped buckets set in concrete uncomfortable as fuck and if its been raining full of water. I hope it rains.Cool that you've got back from the future to tell us about Roma's new stadium. Niche but cool.Edit: sorry that was bitchy to a completely unjustified degree!
Quote from: Monty on May 02, 2018, 12:14:27 PMIt'll be all-seater, which will be more geared to actual long term football watchers rather than your casual thug element.It's a shit stadium, set in beautiful surroundings in a suburb of Rome that's an absolute twat to get to and from the city itself. The seats themselves are like plastic arse shaped buckets set in concrete uncomfortable as fuck and if its been raining full of water. I hope it rains.
It'll be all-seater, which will be more geared to actual long term football watchers rather than your casual thug element.
Quote from: Pat McMahon on May 02, 2018, 03:03:03 PMThe blokes I knew reckoned some of their fellow supporters did not make the distinction between Roma and Juventus fans in Brussels a year later and were far more ready for trouble that horrible night.Being careful what I say here - it doesn't defend what happened at Heysel in any way - but the seeds of the trouble there were sown (sowed?) in Rome
The blokes I knew reckoned some of their fellow supporters did not make the distinction between Roma and Juventus fans in Brussels a year later and were far more ready for trouble that horrible night.
You're not wrong about the Olimpico absolutely being shit, but just because it's all-seater in principle doesn't mean it is in practice - that shallow bowl thing is just too easy to turn a seated curva into a standing area. The Stadio della Roma should be more 'English' in style and harder to do that in.
Quote from: Pat McMahon on May 02, 2018, 02:38:05 PMQuote from: villa `cross the mersey on May 02, 2018, 02:32:14 PMWhen we played Juve at Villa Park back in 82? I seem to recall a couple of Villa fans were stabbed outside the ground Correct - by UK based Juve fansWeren't they hairdressers from Herts or something like that?
Quote from: villa `cross the mersey on May 02, 2018, 02:32:14 PMWhen we played Juve at Villa Park back in 82? I seem to recall a couple of Villa fans were stabbed outside the ground Correct - by UK based Juve fans
When we played Juve at Villa Park back in 82? I seem to recall a couple of Villa fans were stabbed outside the ground
Quote from: Monty on May 02, 2018, 05:24:06 PMYou're not wrong about the Olimpico absolutely being shit, but just because it's all-seater in principle doesn't mean it is in practice - that shallow bowl thing is just too easy to turn a seated curva into a standing area. The Stadio della Roma should be more 'English' in style and harder to do that in.I have only been there once, for the Italy v England 0-0 in 1997, but I liked it, though we did have cracking seats opposite the England fans on the halfway line.My old boss was from Rome and a Roma season ticket holder, so I went to Rome frequently between 2000-2008. I was always told they were "the team of the city," and left wing to Lazio's right wing fans. Monty, I have heard about the fall in gates and the rise in hooliganism but why have Roma fans become so aggressive in the past decade? Or is that just a symptom of Italian football?
Roma need 5 now
Quote from: SteveN on May 02, 2018, 07:57:37 PMRoma need 5 now4