Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Football Violence Closes Green Lanes
Coming home from Town tonight at about 10.30. I found Green Lanes by Endymion Road. I had to get some milk anyway so parked up in Venetia and walked up the road to ask the poilce what was happening.
Apparently cars were being randomly attacked. The officer I spoke to didn't know if it was angry Turkish supporters or Kurds goading Turks. I guess we'll probably learn more from the local wires tomorrow.
Apparently cars were being randomly attacked. The officer I spoke to didn't know if it was angry Turkish supporters or Kurds goading Turks. I guess we'll probably learn more from the local wires tomorrow.
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Permalink Reply by Liz on
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But the Turks won 3-2, beat the Czechs!
Any bloody excuse...and football is always a good one isn't is for some mindless violence.
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Permalink Reply by finsburypark on
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There is ongoing attrition between the Turkish and Kurds communities around N4.
I've been told that last year, during a Kurds sit-in demonstration in Manor House, some Turkish throw something against the Kurds.
Soon or later it will explode if communities don't get together and work out the problem.
And I even heard that the political backing of LibDem and Labour in Haringey is really community-oriented, Greeks being Labour and Turkishs being LibDem. Not sure this is true or no.
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Permalink Reply by matt on
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Seems to be the case of the Greek community backing Labour in Harringay Ward, well for one candidate at least!
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Permalink Reply by Stuart on
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Happened at the last World Cup too. Basically the Turkish fans celebrated by driving up and down the more Kurdish Harringay end of Green Lanes with Turkish flags flying - which is a bit of a red rag for the Kurdish community. Last time, there was a pitched battle down the Newington Green end with apparently more than 100 of them going at it. Still, at least it stopped the infernal horn honking.
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Permalink Reply by Anette on
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With all that mindless honking of car horns last night I am not surprised cars got attacked. I felt like attacking one myself, just to shut them up!
Surely there are other, less primitive ways of celebrating a win? Maybe not of we're talking football. I'm not a fan.
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Permalink Reply by BBU on
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I've been hearing the horns for some weeks now, been wondering what the occasion was.
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Remind me to be out of town if that should happen.
I guess I'll never understand how watching a bunch of overpaid, underworked blokes running around for 90 minutes after a piece of leather trying to get it into a piece of netting can even be interesting let alone cause this kind of hysteria. If the whole damned game should disappear tomorrow, I for one would not mourn it.
But I guess, young tribes of men would find something else to punch each others lights out over...
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> But I guess, young tribes of men would find something else to punch each others lights out over...
Flower arranging ...... possibly.
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