r/interesting • u/Raj_Mandal • Jul 05 '26

MISC. England's team booked 15 different hotels, but Mexico fans still found out where they were staying and blasted loud noises, trying to keep them up all night before the game.

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u/MoreColorfulCarsPlz Jul 05 '26

The Mexican authorities? In Mexico? Suppressing Mexican fans of the Mexican football team?

That's not happening. This is also just how football works. Hooligans do this for local derbies. Of course they are going to scale up the shenanigans on the international scale.

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u/wentImmediate Jul 05 '26

This is also just how football works

Is it a good thing or bad thing?

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u/ZhanBlue Jul 05 '26

Bad but true

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u/Cerulean_IsFancyBlue Jul 06 '26

It’s bad. You know it would be worse? A massive violent police response. “Oh good, we injured a bunch of people, but we made sure that tomorrow’s football game will be fair.”

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u/Captain-Codfish Jul 07 '26

I'm your dream, mind astray I'm your eyes while you're away...

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u/Murky_Conflict_7356 Jul 05 '26

Sad but True

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u/wentImmediate Jul 05 '26

If it's undesired behavior, then actions can be taken to dissaude it.

There's always a choice to act or not.

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u/bremsspuren Jul 05 '26

It's part and parcel of the Azteca experience, tbh.

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u/TheAutumnWind_21 Jul 05 '26

Good. That means there’s passion for the sport. If England beats Mexico they overcame a lot. Makes it mean that much more.

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u/UntimelyMeditations Jul 05 '26

You mean makes the result mean less, regardless of who wins. Anything that makes the game less even detracts from the result.

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u/keZZaZ84 Jul 06 '26

Yeah your comment makes no sense, what other person said is 💯 accurate. They managed to achieve and overcome despite any hurdles

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u/TheAutumnWind_21 Jul 05 '26

You right. They should play the games in a stadium with no crowds or noise.

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u/cowfishduckbear Jul 05 '26

Not the same thing at all since crowd are and have always been part of the game. If you want, you can compare it to the assholes who shine lasers in players' eyes.

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u/TheAutumnWind_21 Jul 05 '26

There’s like a 99% chance the noise outside had no effect on the England players whatsoever. There’s teams who flew in their own food and cooks, I’m sure Englands management took precautions so this would be a non-issue. The crazy fandom is what makes soccer special.

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u/thatsingingguy Jul 06 '26

No. Fuck that noise. South American “crazy fandom” led to a referee being beheaded. Stop making excuses for appalling behaviour.

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u/keZZaZ84 Jul 06 '26

But the USA stop teams assistants etc from being apart of the group/team. also get exemptions on rules for their team that have been around for decades, while other teams don’t get the same
I’m not comparing it to beheading that’s just fucked, but then neither is partying playing music and letting off fireworks. So that’s a weird ass train of thought 🤔 oh I get it 😬🤐

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u/keZZaZ84 Jul 06 '26

Fast forward 24 hrs later and 🎉 for 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

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u/TheAutumnWind_21 Jul 07 '26

All love. Hard fought game and England deserves the win. Hope they keep winning.

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u/deaddreamsneverdie Jul 05 '26

Chill Samuel Alito

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u/TheAutumnWind_21 Jul 05 '26

You get this riled up over a comment on Reddit. I don’t think you should be allowed to vote. Lol

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u/Mediocre_Nova Jul 05 '26

It's a PASHUN thing

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u/Budget-Researcher559 Jul 05 '26

It's not how football works in lots of other countries with very engaged football fans. It shouldn't be ok, and people like you who just accept it as normal will lead to it staying that way.

Dude, this hotel could have the pilot sleeping there who will fly your plane tomorrow. You want him to fly it on 0 sleep because of some trash football fans? You want your surgeon do not have gotten any sleep before he operates on your heart or brain?

There's way more important things in life than football and these people are way out of line.

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u/MoreColorfulCarsPlz Jul 06 '26

This happens in England, France, Italy, Spain, all over Latin America, etc. to differing extents.

It obviously isn't every game, but later rounds of major tournaments and local derbies regularly have events like this happening.

I don't know how serious you are about pilots and surgeons, but when I worked in an industry that had me staying in hotels in major cities, I brought ear plugs and was fine no matter what was going on outside.

These antics are likely to have no effect on the players. It's really just an excuse to party.

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u/Ok-Woodpecker4734 Jul 06 '26

It does not

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u/D_Viper2 Jul 06 '26

Just say you have never watched a UCL knockout matches. It's very common when a good team faces a weaker team from weaker league

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u/OpeningElectrical296 Jul 06 '26

This does not happen in France.

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u/MoreColorfulCarsPlz Jul 06 '26

Tell that to PSG in the champions league.

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u/OpeningElectrical296 Jul 06 '26

Not in France, we have competent police forces.

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u/MoreColorfulCarsPlz Jul 06 '26

I don't know if you're being purposefully obtuse or not. A very brief web search will show multiple incidents where PSG fans did this.

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u/MembershipDecent9454 Jul 05 '26

Yeah even the cartel is like, “ándale pues”

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u/Got_Kittens Jul 05 '26

It works as long as people keep making excuses for it though.

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u/Chruman Jul 05 '26

What other teams had this happen to them at this world cup?

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u/Bigbossbyu Jul 05 '26

Basically everyone that’s played Mexico

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u/Chruman Jul 05 '26

Exactly.

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u/Party-Evening3273 Jul 05 '26

I promise you that these things don’t bother the players at all. They have ways to cancel the noise. The only people crying and being babies about this are the overly sensitive fans.

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u/ilikepix Jul 05 '26

TIL it's "pathetic" to call out degenerate antisocial behavior

I don't even care about football, I just care about people thinking this is a remotely acceptable way to behave

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u/Chruman Jul 05 '26

Weird. A team just asked for an investigation for it.

Youe take seems to be contrary to the facts.

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u/Party-Evening3273 Jul 05 '26

Asking for an investigation are your “facts”? Sorry, sonny, but that doesn’t mean anything. I can ask them to investigate xyz, doesn’t mean squat. I would say to let me know when they find something but since this is just gamesmanship and nothing will come about it, I won’t bother.

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u/Chruman Jul 05 '26

The point being that it obviously bothered the players, which is contrary to your comment.

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u/greg19735 Jul 05 '26

I don't think it has been to this level.

but at the same time, this match is Mexico's most important match in a generation. At least at the world cup.

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u/KineticKris Jul 05 '26

And they deserve to lose now more than ever.

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u/aesemon Jul 05 '26

Saw a post showing fans doing the same for one of the groups stage games.

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u/Chruman Jul 05 '26

Which game?

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u/aesemon Jul 05 '26

I don't remember but go look in the world cup sub if it matters so much to you.

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u/Chruman Jul 05 '26

I did. I could only find the ecuador v mexico game.

I think you're making it up.

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u/aesemon Jul 05 '26

Why would I? Saw a post last week or so about it with a vid of them making noise outside a hotel. Was before England had finished their group stages.

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u/Chruman Jul 05 '26

Idk, maybe you want to carry water for the terrible behavior from the Mexican fans.

There are only two instances of this happening this world cup. Here with England, and last week against ecuador. Both were in Mexico city, done by Mexican fans.

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u/aesemon Jul 05 '26

So exactly what is said.

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u/Chruman Jul 05 '26

Yes, the point i was making is that it was the Mexican fans every time.

Good job. You got the original point I was making.

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u/MidnightSensitive996 Jul 05 '26

can you name other examples of this happening?

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u/Dickinmymouth1 Jul 05 '26

Pretty much any away game in a European competition has this happening, genuinely can’t count the amount of times I’ve seen videos of this happening. It’s normal and I’ve never heard any stories about it actually having an impact on the players.

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u/lastreformed Jul 05 '26

you know nothing about football culture and that's okay this happens for pretty much any important game in central and south america

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u/Eve_Doulou Jul 05 '26

Irrelevant. Be civilised. It’s the World Cup, and it’s an embarrassment to Mexico. You don’t see Americans or Canadians pull this shit on opposing teams.

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u/MoreColorfulCarsPlz Jul 05 '26

Yeah, just do a quick google search and dozens of high profile ones comes up.

I get that you like most Americans are just into football for the World Cup, but maybe learn about a cultural phenomena before you comment on it.

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u/MidnightSensitive996 Jul 05 '26

Is this a champions league thing? I was a big galaxy fan and season ticket holder up until they signed Beckham. I've been to three world cups and today mostly follow mediocre Argentinian teams (Racing and Independiente). i cannot in my memory recall a time a World Cup host country did something trashy like this. 

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u/MoreColorfulCarsPlz Jul 05 '26

MLS doesn't have real football culture. It basically just borrowed the same sports culture all other American franchise sports have. Argentinian football absolutely has this. They are often credited with the origination of it.

Another famous example of this at a world cup was South Korea in 2002 when they hosted. They did the same to Italy.

It's not trashy. It's basically people partying using 'bothering the other team' as an excuse.

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u/MidnightSensitive996 Jul 05 '26

oh you're one of those guys that wears a team scarf to the gastropub. enjoy your $25 smashburger!

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u/JRepo Jul 05 '26

People being obnoxious is not culture, it is just silly childish behaviour. Or are you trying to say football is silly and childish?

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u/MoreColorfulCarsPlz Jul 05 '26

Yeah, it's a game. People use it as an excuse to go out, socialize, and have relatively harmless fun.

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u/swohio Jul 05 '26

This is also just how football works.

Then it's not a sport I want to be a part of if this is a part of it.

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u/MoreColorfulCarsPlz Jul 05 '26

Then don't. No one is making you.

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u/swohio Jul 05 '26

Okay I won't. I do my best to avoid associating with people who behave poorly.

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u/penguins_are_mean Jul 05 '26

You two should make out and make up now.

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u/MoreColorfulCarsPlz Jul 05 '26

Careful, I might try to have fun while we do it and /u/swohio might get offended.

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u/MoreColorfulCarsPlz Jul 05 '26

I just saw you're a regular contributor on /r/Asmongold. I understand now. You haven't left your house in 6 years.

Sometimes, people have fun! It's pretty cool. Fun can get loud and rowdy sometimes.

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u/swohio Jul 05 '26

Fun can get loud and rowdy sometimes

This isn't about fun, this is about disrupting a teams sleep the night before a match. That's just shitty behavior and if you endorse it you're a shitty person.

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u/PoopMcgee75 Jul 05 '26

That sucks.

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u/KingCarbon1807 Jul 06 '26

You get that this isn't a good thing, right?

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u/Illustrious_Put_817 Jul 05 '26

Maybe if they weren’t shit at soccer they would let have to resort to this

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '26

Thats a lot of words to say “3rd world shit hole”