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That's all the emotion: Klinger was right, the curses in football have become more vicious
What can be said about the football fans who cursed me shamelessly while riding wildly on a scooter for a derby?
Schklinger was right, the atmosphere was toxic, the cries became more cruel, and those who are heartbroken all week should not be surprised that it erupts
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Nir Klinger
Maccabi Tel Aviv fans
Hapoel Tel Aviv fans
Paz Hasdai
Saturday, November 13, 2021, 10:00 p.m.
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Summary: Maccabi Tel Aviv - Hapoel Tel Aviv 1: 1 (Sport 1)
On the one hand, it is not clear why our beloved Nir Klinger is so surprised by the behavior of a football crowd. Why is he suddenly so disappointed and upset as if he has discovered something new. After all, he himself is a person who is carried away by the emotions of the game (in fact, he even cultivates the image of emotion), he himself is a person who often rages and then calms down when the show ends (sometimes even regrets seeing himself from the side), he himself is a "brainwashed" Hesitating to get his hands and feet dirty, so no, it's not clear what he is suddenly excited about by teasing and cursing in the stands, especially ones that have been heard for decades.
And if what worries him is the short memory of Maccabi Tel Aviv fans, then it is also surprising, because part of Klinger's magic "soul" is his ability to be committed to his team at all costs, committed to the present and blind to the past.
And if he is at Maccabi Haifa, then everything is green.
Then he moves to Maccabi Tel Aviv and everything is yellow.
Then to Hapoel Tel Aviv and all red, and on the way to Betar Jerusalem and Hapoel Haifa, everywhere he is not only devoted but also lacks sentiments to the ex (on the contrary, he will not hesitate to make a defiant glitch towards her bench), concentrating only on his current team, whatever it was. And that's okay, it's natural, just to understand and remember how things work.
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Klinger (Photo: Bernie Ardov)
But if there is one thing that can really be agreed with Klinger it is about the level of cruelty in the industry, which increases over the years. There has always been animosity, but what has changed is the style. the language. Evil and wickedness. Manifestations of hostility, devoid of humor and awareness. It does not refer to the pre-planned violent incidents, but to the things that are ongoing, walking from the car to the stadium: young guys who are already having trouble putting boundaries, who can insult a father with a girl on the shoulders, look him in the eye from a few meters and rain heavy curses and death wishes .
I admit, I'm an older man.
I remember an article in a newspaper from about 150 years ago, with David Schweizer, in a Tel Aviv local newspaper, in which he talked, among other things, about his relationship with his wife, and even said with a smile that he took part in household chores and dumped trash.
The day after the article we were going to Bloomfield, when suddenly in the stands a funny song came to him with the words "Who takes down the garbage, who takes down the garbage, who takes down the garbage, the oil dude!".
Yes, that was the teasing, about the oil dude taking down the garbage.
We giggled in embarrassment.
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Teasing from other days.
Dovid (Photo: Flash 90, Moshe Shai)
It is not meant to relish nostalgia, or to hint that it used to be better. There was always violence, there was always hatred between rivals, the stadiums were trash cans, the stands were always used as a home for a raging mob, which allowed itself to fall apart precisely in this arena. But the language was more innocent, the little difference between "sit quietly ya manike" and "bow down you bastards." The same intention, the poet's spirit is the same, just a different choice of words, violent and blatant, like a rape song that threatens to "rape your girls" or a norm that has taken root with Holocaust wishes and crematoria and gas sounds.
I was walking around Tel Aviv on the day of the derby, and from time to time I was filled with jealousy of the excited fans with the scarf around their necks who already in the late afternoon started preparing for the game and joined them for a beer together. But for every nice fan, two disgusting ones were discovered. Like for example the two young guys who walked the avenue and behaved in the typical beasts of football fans. The feeling was not only that they were preparing themselves for the game's unique energies (hence shouting and staring to get into the atmosphere), but also allowing themselves to behave differently just because they wore a football shirt, ostensibly giving them a license and reference to deviate from social norms.
So they shouted loudly in the pizzeria, tossed the cardboard tray, their whole body language radiating rudeness and aggression. In fact they looked like two pretty normative people "in real life" who every other day of the week know how to pick up the tray and adjust their volume to the place and situation, but this time both they and everyone around them have to accept the convention that "this is football fans". And all present looked at them in disgust and felt relief when they left.
Or for example the three boys, who traveled together to the game, all three on one scooter. No helmets, of course. Driving wildly on the sidewalks, of course. Unstable, endangering themselves and pedestrians. For a moment I looked at them with a little envy, at the spirit of youth and irresponsibility, at the friendliness and the way they stood next to each other to save a few shekels, at the frivolity and joy of life, and I could not help but take my eyes off them as they passed me. But apparently my gaze seemed suspicious to them, and they felt some hostility from me, and so, against the backdrop of the wild and wild atmosphere, while driving they shouted at me "fuck you today you slut", leaving me and my house stunned.
Perhaps the problem is the handling of football, which has always been tainted with hypocrisy: on the one hand hearts, immediately afterwards chirping.
Enjoy the rivalry and cultivate it, and then be amazed that there are casualties.
This is reflected in the media's great love for torches and smoke grenades, which add so much color and atmosphere, in contrast to the "establishment ''s opposition to the pyrotechnics phenomenon, which leads to group fines and penalties for fans.
Those who are enthusiastic about the atmosphere that the fans create ("an atmosphere that only a derby can produce!", The broadcaster will say) become the first to call for them to close the stands.
Those who rejoice in the sights will call for the stands to be closed.
Flares (Photo: Berni Ardov)
And maybe this is the overall atmosphere in the country, or in the world, with increasing polarization and extreme voices being said shamelessly, and the social networks and the violent discourse and the feeling of being hated, and for the most part it is fine and brings to likes, everything is already known. And maybe it's just me who's getting older, and just looking sideways at the young people and each and every one of them seems to me to be a "kaka kid", and it could be that from the beginning of history the old people were right, and the younger generation is more and more broken, to the near kidney.
And perhaps one should come to terms with the fact that these emotions are not part of the game but the heart of the game.
That the industry incites emotion for economic reasons.
Because with all due respect to the derby, no one was impressed by the game itself, no extraordinary football moves are remembered, the level did not rise again, one team made a bunker, the other looked impotent, really nothing to expand on the professional side, again all the headlines touched on off-field matters, after The game, in a TV interview, in an excited man who said exciting things about cursing and evil and people being swept to extremes.
So no, it's not clear why Klinger was so surprised.
It's the business, and it has a price.
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