A dark underbelly of European football

And out of the swamp crawls...

You show me Freddy Kruger and I'll show you a Glimmer Twin. 

Let's move on to a real dark underbelly of European football...

A report today stated that Steaua Bucharest will play their next two UEFA Europa League home matches behind closed doors after UEFA punished the Romanian team's fans for draping insulting banners inside their stadium. The banners reportedly contained abusive language aimed at their Hungarian opponent Ujpest Budapest during a Europa League second preliminary round match on 16 July 2009 won by Steaua 2-0.

The first match of the sanction will be Steaua's game with Saint Patrick's Athletic of Ireland on August 20. The club was also reportedly fined €30,000, but the loss of gate receipts and other income likely generated from merchandising and concessions may be worse, estimated to total €700,000 by Steaua’s president.

"Oh, this is going to be good," I thought. But I shortly discovered I have to do my own searching because the press are too squeemish to (1) post a photograph of the banner and (2) translate the banner into something I can understand.

So after some poking around, I ended up at the Steaua Bucuresti Thread on Xtratime.org (Xtratime Community>European Football>Other Nations>Romanian Football>The Steaua Bucuresti Thread) where a posted comment on the subject included a photograph of the banner taken at the game.

The commenter also included a translation from Hungarian to English of the banner:

How long does a Hungarian woman hold their shit in?

9 months.

Welcome to a dark side of the beautiful game. No sympathy for the devil.

 

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