Quote: Smurf "What's your point? I wasn't disagreeing with you.
The word ultra has been used because the football groups use it. I don't see why people are getting their knickers in a twist because they can't accept that using the term is provocative and seem to be dying to contextualize it until it is just a meaningless word. If it was meaningless it wouldn't have been used.
Why use a label which (as has been mentioned by those including 'members') has been tainted by football groups when literally any could have been used? It just doesn't make any sense to me and seems to be deliberately chosen with either bad taste or bad intentions in mind; the balaclava's would provoke the same response in many.'"
So because the word Negro can be deemed as being offensive, the Spanish and Portuguese should change the word, or not use it at all?
A balaclava is a garment used to keep your head and face warm. A scarf is used to keep your neck, and often your chin and lower face warm, should they be banned from general sale because some chose to hide their faces with balaclavas and scarfs while breaking the law?
A hooker is a prostitute, or perhaps it's a position in Rugby...
Ultra is a football hooligan, or perhaps it's a group of die hard supporters in Rugby.
It this man a hooligan?
No, it was November 2010 in Germany, and temperatures were below freezing.
Is this man a hooligan?
No, he's wearing a fire proof balaclava to protect his face from being burned.
Are these people hooligans? Look at them. Disgraceful. Climbing on the advertising hoardings, invading the pitch holding flares too.
Oh wait, they're not flares, the stadium is on fire, they're not climbing on the advertising hoardings, they're trying to evacuate the stand. Of course, that is the Bradford Stadium fire.
What i've proven here is that what you perceive as X Y and Z, is often the complete opposite. If you saw the guy in the 1st picture stood in the stands of the DW Stadium, would you brand him a hooligan?
Looks can be deceiving, as can words, and their often unsubstansiated interpretations.
