Tifo - Why Not At Bramall Lane?

[cahill]

Jesus, thought everyone knew what a Tifo is, but just for you (obviously non footy fan people), let me explain.
Tifo is the word used to describe a colourful, vibrant and usually choreographed visual display by football supporters. It is also a phenomenon in other sports, such as cycling and auto racing.

Displays of a tifo normally occur within stadiums before and during games but can also take place outside a ground.

In many cases the visual displays are carefully planned and often each individual supporter forms part of a mosaic by wearing or holding a particular colour.

I feel utterly ashamed for not knowing that. Please forgive me ?

 

[cahill]

Agreed.

I realise that I'm probably living in the wrong city to be saying this, but can we not make our own culture and stop copying others so we can look good on social bastard media?

People just seem to want more to tiktok.

So i take it you’ll not want clackers then ! Some people are SOOO last year.

 

[CrookesBlade]

I love these types of discussion:

“Why haven’t we fully adopted this minor thing that traditionally hasn’t been part of UK football culture”

“Because we are all useless cunts and we hate ourselves”

I wonder if Sampdoria fans are on their forum tonight slagging everyone off from the cappuccino lady to Genoa council because Bovril isn’t available on match days.

 

[Ainsley Harriott]

You believe there is a significant liberal movement who target football fan behaviour at the Lane?
You’re starting to stretch beyond parody.
If folk want to organise something crack on and do it instead of blaming everyone else including the club for your own ineptitude.
They shouldn’t organise a singing section FFS and all they needed was 50-60 of them within a few seats of each other, so something as per the above will clearly be beyond them.

There's a significant liberal movement of people in society who are just boring bastards.

Organising a singing section should be simple enough but the ridicule aimed at it was enough to stop anyone.

 

[jt64]

Does no one else remember the attempt at a tifo before the Forest play off game at home two seasons ago? I fully feel like I’ve imagined it because no one ever mentions it in these discussions

You did imagine it

 

[Foxy]

I love these types of discussion:

“Why haven’t we fully adopted this minor thing that traditionally hasn’t been part of UK football culture”

“Because we are all useless cunts and we hate ourselves”

Looks like club staff have organised it elsewhere, just not at the Lane because they hate us…

 

[Foxy]

Organising a singing section should be simple enough but the ridicule aimed at it was enough to stop anyone.

A proportion of the “ridicule” came from the divisive pops at other people from the outset too.

We always come together so well as a fan base

 

[Eza Blade]

Tifo always sounds like a fanny cream

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

With all the kop plebs migrating to the top aisles, a tifo board display would look like one of those jumbled tile puzzles.

 

[Rodley]

Before I get on board with this plan and show support, how many pubes per ball?

Shocked and appalled you need to ask - you clearly draw balls which aren’t a veritable Whiteley Woods of masculine pubic hair Foxy?! You must be one of these liberal types who make Ainsley quiver.

 

[Rodley]

In my younger years, i was a frequent attendee of Fiorentina games, and they could put on a decent display on the curva fiesole. Nothing OTT and as ambitious as the Milan or Rome clubs, but still impressive. It is something that i did wonder could be done at BDTBL.

Meant to be a good atmosphere there Nic? Is that still the case?

 

[Isar]

I have noticed that the Newcastle fans are getting very "visually graphic" at their home games, some of it looks impressive. Again as mentioned on here this is a more European type thing that is creeping into the UK, personally I don't mind it. Also BDTBL still has a better atmosphere than most other English grounds.

Today I learned what Tifo means which proves your never to old to learn new things

 

[Greasy Chap Butty]

Shocked and appalled you need to ask - you clearly draw balls which aren’t a veritable Whiteley Woods of masculine pubic hair Foxy?! You must be one of these liberal types who make Ainsley quiver.

If we put hairs on, we'll look like some out of date fuckwits.
They need to be nicely smooth manicured, not a 70s jungle FFS.
Typical United.

 

[Rodley]

If we put hairs on, we'll look like some out of date fuckwits.
They need to be nicely smooth manicured, not a 70s jungle FFS.
Typical United.

Bet you paint them rainbow coloured unall, sicko.

 

[Greasy Chap Butty]

Bet you paint them rainbow coloured unall, sicko.

 

[Rodley]

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It was you who kyboshed the BLUT singing section waint it?

 

[Nicolaus_Copernicus]

Meant to be a good atmosphere there Nic? Is that still the case?

Yes, the last time that I went it was still good. Italian football atmosphere is a lot more sedate than it was 10 to 20 yrs ago. The local authorities, police & FA have clamped down on the a lot of the wilder things that went on. It used to be an unwritten rule that the main curva was self policing. That's led to me seeing some right crazy shit, especially in Rome.

Florence would be the city/ground that I would recommend firstly for a long weekend if someone wanted to go to an Italian match. Ryanair fly to Pisa from east mids and Manchester, and then it's a short & cheap train journey (£8 and about 1 hr) to Florence. Other than the tower & a couple of buildings, Pisa isn't worth a long visit, they have a well supported 2nd division team that you could shoehorn into a visit. Everyone basically walks from the railway station, up the road to the tower, queues, takes a photo pretending to hold it up and then goes home.

If you went, chances are that you could do two games from Fiorentina, Empoli, Pisa, Siena & Livorno. Also in March there's an international youth tournament in Viareggio, which is a beach resort nearby, if you're a proper footballing anorak.

Florence is a cracking city, small historic and atmospheric, but can be busy from Easter onwards, you can also stay outside nearer the coast and visit the cinque terre by train, which are 5 very beautiful fishing villages that stretch northwards up the liguria/tuscan coast.

 

[Flatulent_Bob]

There's a significant liberal movement of people in society who are just boring bastards.

Organising a singing section should be simple enough but the ridicule aimed at it was enough to stop anyone.

Yup, it was the libtards who stopped them by saying stuff on an Internet forum. Not actually doing anything tangible like contacting the club to block it or getting other fans to actively oppose it. They were just mean to them on the internet and said they wouldn’t be able to do it, which evidently they couldn’t.
Those true fans who tried to organise it of course, can say what they like on the internet and shouldn’t expect anyone to have a go back.
I mean how could they possibly look to overcome people not believing in them, no one can do that. The only option they had was to go and be mean back and not to try.
And now we come back to this thread.

 

[Tom Bott]

Most of the crowd can't get the GCB reyt

Maggots.

 

[TJB.]

Palace's tribute to Maxi Jazz was pretty bloody special.

 

[Nonamedhorse]

I feel utterly ashamed for not knowing that. Please forgive me ?

And so you should be. I did check with Google first, to make sure what I thought it was, was correct. As luck would have it, it matched word for word what I was going to write .

 

[SB_90]

 

[Kanye]

Nothing more intimidating than choreography and coloured paper.

 

[cahill]

I have noticed that the Newcastle fans are getting very "visually graphic" at their home games, some of it looks impressive. Again as mentioned on here this is a more European type thing that is creeping into the UK, personally I don't mind it. Also BDTBL still has a better atmosphere than most other English grounds.

Today I learned what Tifo means which proves your never to old to learn new things

I feel « included » as well. I’ll bet these young uns don’t know what « tune in, turn on, freak out » meant.

 

[Bert]

I feel « included » as well. I’ll bet these young uns don’t know what « tune in, turn on, freak out » meant.

Timothy Leary, if Bert's memory recalls correctly. Drop out was the last line.

 

[Greasy Chap Butty]

It was you who kyboshed the BLUT singing section waint it?

Yes, mysoginistic testosterone fuelled thugs.

 

[Nick Jansky]

Timothy Leary, if Bert's memory recalls correctly. Drop out was the last line.

Along with Baba Ram Dass. Aldous Huxley was also around it. It was quite a movement.

 

[diode_blade]

What about L.I.F.O and F.I.F.O?

 

[Nick Jansky]

There's a significant liberal movement of people in society who are just boring bastards.

Organising a singing section should be simple enough but the ridicule aimed at it was enough to stop anyone.

A lovely dose of irony here. You’ve just come across as the Uber Snowflake in that post, Ainsley

 

[Greasy Chap Butty]

What about L.I.F.O and F.I.F.O?

Bloody Lifos , one more pint in the pub, then off early for the pub / bus.