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One in the underground where a drunk friend began doing pull ups on an art installation (some real crap art, not a memorial) and a load, maybe not 10, of Frenchman went after us. Bashed me on the noggin. Spat at us. Other french people split it up as we'd have died. This was at 7am and people were going to work.
Then another 4 of them saw us walking out of the underground. They started shouting something in some language and we stopped to look back and they began pegging it after us.
Multiple other occasions like this and it was only the french that did it. The Englanders were the good guys.
Nothing major tbh but I don't follow cardiff or wales away normally so I don't claim to have any experience of foreign fisty cuffs.
Last edited by LordKenwyne; 17-02-17 at 14:06.
I think the problem was that it was Russia Slovakia the day before Wales England and within half hour or something of each other. So some drunk locals probably didn't care to ask us which side of the bridge we came from.
I expected far more trouble because of that but it looks like Russia went all out on the first weekend and didn't bother much for the rest.
The Russians who kicked off in Marseille were not seen again in the following days. This could be, if there's any truth in what I've heard, because they came into Marseille harbour on a Cypriot registered trawler owned by a Ukrainian. It's thought that this is how they got in undetected by plod, and back out again quickly, job done, so to speak.
We saw no problems either, didn't hear of any from other fans and haven't heard of anything since. Paris, Bordeaux, Lens and a few places in between, the French were fantastically hospitable towards us. The only hint of trouble I saw was a small group of pissed up West Ham fans in Paris acting like arseholes towards some French fans that were watching a group game. They shut up as soon as the Gendarmerie showed up.
Poor LordKenwyne seemed to be confused and surprised because he was shouted at on the Paris Underground "in some language". Until then he probably thought French was just English spoken with an accent like René in 'Allo 'Allo. What chance do Welsh and English hooligans have against the Russians if LordKenwyne is representative of our hooligans. The Russians are a tough people. The gay looking man and the woman in the video below have probably got bigger balls than all our hooligans put together.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ1owXJZaSQ
Last edited by David Vincent; 20-02-17 at 00:19.
" They started shouting something in some language and we stopped to look back and they began pegging it after us."
Well being as you were in France, and you said yourself they were French, and ONLY the French gave you grief then maybe they were speaking, i dont know French??? Just a guess.