Old Habits Die Hard

[StMarkEofE]

Croatian football fans ‘used Nazi symbols’ during matchesNov 5 12:53 PM US/Eastern
Croatian police were investigating reports Monday that fans of local football club Hajduk Split sold and wore T-shirts bearing Nazi symbols.
The Hajduk fans were “walking proudly in Split wearing T-shirts reading ‘Hajduk Jugend,’ a direct allusion to the ‘Hitler Jugend’,” wrote the Slobodna Dalmacija reported.

The T-shirts, sold on the fans’ website www.torcida.org, depict an eagle carrying the Hajduk coat of arms in its claws, which the daily said replaced the swastika in the Nazi version.
“We will check those reports to establish whether the law has been broken,” Marina Kraljevic Gudelj, a police spokeswoman in the southern town of Split, told AFP. A Croatian football association spokesman said the governing body had no knowledge of the case. Under its Nazi-allied Ustasha regime, hundreds of thousands of Serbs, Jews, anti-fascist Croatians, Roma and others were killed in Croatian concentration camps during World War II.

 

[manualman]

Old habits?? I didn’t see mention that any of the thugs appeared to be over 60 years old!

Rather it would seem that a few of a new generation have adopted a bad habit.

Think THAT way and pass it on to your kids and maybe we’ll see less generational hatred in the world.

 

[MCL]

Couldn’t find any Nazi symbols on the website you cited. Where did you get your information? It sounded like a news report but you did not give the reference.

 

[hazmatdude]

Sorry my Croatian is a bit rusty to get much out of the websites you posted. It is true however that Islamic nations almost universally supported Hitler and the Third Reich during WWII. Therefore in 2007 its reasonable to assume these “old habit die hard” in this predominantly Muslim country.

 

[MCL]

Sorry my Croatian is a bit rusty to get much out of the websites you posted. It is true however that Islamic nations almost universally supported Hitler and the Third Reich during WWII. Therefore in 2007 its reasonable to assume these “old habit die hard” in this predominantly Muslim country.

Am I reading this correctly? Are you saying that Croatia is a predominantly Muslim country?

 

[Petergee]

Old habits?? I didn’t see mention that any of the thugs appeared to be over 60 years old!

Rather it would seem that a few of a new generation have adopted a bad habit.

Think THAT way and pass it on to your kids and maybe we’ll see less generational hatred in the world.

Yes, I would say that rather than continuing to fight WW2 the soccer thugs are continuing to fight the bitter war of the 1990s when Split was besieged by Serbian attackers.

Unfortunately soccer seems to act as conduit for violence and racism wherever it is played.