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Are there any official stadium blueprints on the web now? All these articles talk about the look of the stadium, but none of them provides a photo.
This might've already been posted - about Euro soccer fans. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101041206-832213,00.html
Gotta love this... In France top club Paris St.-Germain has hard-core neo-Nazi fans who chant racist and homophobic slurs and bombard visiting players with objects of all kinds.
Oh right, because we Mets fans are the homophobic neonazis when we go after upstanding Americans like John Rocker. If anyone ever deserved to get batteries thrown at him... Man, I hate the Braves so much.
File in the 2 cents category: I was at the PSG-Rangers UEFA Cup match featuring Reyna and Ronaldinho in Paris in 2001 (Anelka was benched), accidentally seated in the hard-core end zone section for fanatics (no idea how our tickets wound up there, but whatever). My wife and I were attending with some friends of ours, a French couple, which helped me actually get to my seats since the French police kept trying to pull me out of the line as looking too Anglo apparently. Once we got to our section there was no pretense of being able to sit, just chants, drums, and testosterone. However, there was nothing thrown, no skin-heads, or what would even begin to pass for neo-Nazis that I could see. They made a few bum-rushes at the Rangers supporters at half-time out in the hallways, but the stadium was locked down pretty tight so no one could get near each other. The Rangers fans had to wait in the stadium about an hour after the match while the police tried to clear their path of locals, but despite the penalty kick loss that saw PSG eliminated, no major problems occurred other than a lot of trash and drunks all over the neighborhood. I don't doubt that there may be a portion of PSG supporters who could qualify as neo-Nazis and what-not, but the implication from the story of commonplace mis-behavior by them is pretty inaccurate from my personal experience (we lived a few blocks from the stadium), and the only time I saw as heavy of a police presence at a match there other than European matches was against Marseilles, and then there were basically "no holds barred," either home or away, on the field or in the stands. Contrast that with my experience at a meaningless Italian league match in 98 between Fiorentina and Salernitana, with flares and fireworks constantly going back and forth over the plexiglass barrier between the rival groups of fans.
Overblown and inaccurate. Regurgitating the same old crap from three decades of football in order to feel better about a bit of fan trouble in the NBA. I thought TIME was supposed to be a prestigious, reliable magazine?