http://hrhb.info/showthread.php?t=530Originally posted by 100s
What is this guy Nikša talking about in the article? When they ask him about the Black Knights, that’s it. Everything. I knew this stuff by heart for years. "Young fans, kamikazes, throwing themselves into the fray, falling down, getting back up," and so on. Honestly, "mystic old school hooligans" is the perfect title for this thread. Back then, there weren't many photos or anything—just stories and memories you can practically feel. I was just over ten when this happened, and the Black Knights were my only heroes. They were the reason I started showing up to games a year or two later. At my first game, I was up in the North stands with my crew, and man, what a show. Olympique de Marseille! To some, they were local legends; to others, they were Superman, or legendary bikers, or a father figure, or an older brother, or famous soccer players. For me, it was the rivalry and the Black Knights. All these articles about the Black Knights from that Marseille match should be the cover story for every single one of our pages. Just that, and nothing else. If you weren't part of that, you aren't a real fan. Unfortunately, later generations became fans just for the party, the circus, the folk festivities, the "I'm from the coast" vibe. I could never wrap my head around that, let alone accept it. How does a hardcore group like the original Black Knights turn into 30-meter banners carried by every small town in the country? How does the number one hooligan and Ultra group in all of Europe become a synonym for a celebration, a carnival, or some random drunkard in a jersey shouting at a fairground? From being the kamikazes the media tried to smear—the ones whose presence made mothers hide their kids from the White Knights, while the press lynched them and the club feared them, yet every other fan deeply respected and admired them—to becoming this traveling circus of cheap props and media-friendly clichés... it's a massive shift. And even today, as things are finally moving back toward the right track, we are still outnumbered. There are way too many of these "other" types. Why? For how long? If you weren't there for the big matches against Marseille, you weren't part of the true Black Knights!
Copy from the forum, hopefully someone gets what this guy is trying to say🙂