Blickfang Ultra Nr. 27

the southern city Lagouira. This was
the opinion of the police officers
who removed the choreography
before
kickoff, which led to
a boycott by the fans
on the backstretch
during the first half.
Too bad, because in
the minutes before,
around 1.500 people
jumped right off the
bat and sang melodic
songs with apparently
several verses.
In the away stand the
different groups installed
three leaders on
the fence, who always
tried to coordinate the singing
but it didn‘t always work. Sometimes
they couldn‘t understand
the calls of each other, because in
the group in front of them again a
song was rising, sometimes they
simply didn‘t want to. As long as
the group around you is jumping
and singing madly, you don‘t care,
but if you look at the potential in a
stand like this, you inevitably come
to think of what would be if … 95% of
the guests were Ultras aged 15 to 35,
who unfortunately rarely matched
for a united singing but when they
managed it was very convincing.
Now, only the collaboration has to
work better.
But generally, everything seemed
calmer than I had imagined according
to the stories, because I had
heard that crutches were a popular
piece of equipment in away games
in order to provide an advantage
in the frequent battles
in the stands, where always
pickpockets were
lurking. However, the
only fights I noticed
were fierce struggles
for water bottles.
Somewhere
there probably
was a water tap
from which individual
people carried
a filled bottle into
the stand, the way into to
stand being already difficult
enough. Once there, everybody
was lurking until the bottle was