It's a long story. But shortly. Year 2005. qualificationg game for champions league (2nd round) Partizan-Sheriff (Moldova). Club said that Grobari can't put their banners on the fence of the stadium. They said that UEFA don't allow banners. We showed them lot of photos from all over Europe that banners are normal at the games in Champions League and UEFA cup. But they refused. We decided to watch only 1st half (without singing) and to go out of the stadium at the 2nd half. It was very difficult game for Partizan, they won only 1:0. Partizan passed to the next round. 3rd round of qualfications for CL Partizan played vs Artmedia Bratislava. We went to bratislava. Lot of flares finished inside the pitch. And Partizan paid lot of money to UEFA because of that. Score was 0:0, and it was good score for the 2nd game in Belgrade, very good chance to be again in Champions League. So, we decided to help players and to support Partizan, even we were in war with management of club. Stadium was full, crowd fantastic, but Partizan players missed lot of chances to score. After extra time, score was 0:0, ane Artmedia won the game by penalties.
Next game was 1st leg in UEFA cup against Maccabi Petach Tikva (1st time we heared for that club). !st game in Israel Partizan easily won 0:3. Before 2nd game we made agreement with management of club about banners. They allowed banners for that game. At the match day, all bookmakers in Europe took off game Partizan-Maccabi from their listes. So, noone couldn't bat on this game. We said ok, maybe main people from the club decided to sell the game (it was not 1st time), but we all thought that we will pass to the next round. But. Score was 2:5 for Maccabi. After the game, group of 30 fans were still inside the stadium to pick up banners (like was arranged with the club). But, someone from the club send police to beat up fans. In that fight with police (there were hundereds policeman) lot of fans were seriously injured.
After that we decided not to go to the games anymore. We send leter that we want all management, president, general secretary and director go away from the club. Untill then, Grobari will not support football club Partizan. So, protests started. Thousands of Grobari were infront of the Partizan stadium at every game. At the stadium were 50-100 spectators. Football club started to play very bad, they lost several games, even they lost in cup against club Timok (3rd division), but people from the club stayed at Partizan, like nothing happened. Offcourse, Red Star was champion that season. This season, we continued with the protests. But, this time we decidet go on some away games of Partizan, and still not to go at Partizan stadium. We were in Maribor (Slovenia) at the qualifications for UEFA cup 1st round, and again lot of flares finished inside the pitch. After that we went to Groningen in 1st round of UEFA cup. This season Partizan went to UEFA cup group stage. We were at away games in Glasgow against Rangers. In Belgrade at the game against Auxerre were about 2000 spectators at the stadium (never been less in European competitions in Partizan history). Offcourse, Partizan lost 3 games, only 1 drow. In Serbian championship, again Partizan lost lot of games. In one moment Partizan was I think at 6th place. Now Partizan is 14 points behind Red Star, in stupid competition as Serbian league is. At the last game of the 1st part of championship OFK Beograd-Partizan, we invited all fans from whole Serbia to come. After the game about 10000 Grobari were on the streets of Belgrade in protest walk against people of Partizan. We went to goverment of Serbia and gave them letter. In the evening we finished our protest infront of Partizan stadium. We put grave cross with the name of genaral secretary of the club (he is number 1 mafia guy). It was like we burried him.
Few days after, Partizan management had meeting and they decided to change president and management. So Partizan got new president (some politician) and new management. They thought that Grobari will be satisfied. But we still want 2 main guys to go away, general secretary and director. We will see what will happen. There is rumours that new president will sack them. All this period of our protests, they wanted to talk with us to make some agreement, but we refused.
So we followed basketball club with fantastic crowd at every game. At the same time, Partizan football club palyed their games in front of few hundereds spectators (mostly friends and relatives of players).
You can see in topics about PAOK-PARTIZAN or Greetings from Serbia lot of photos and stories about our protests.
You can also see some videos from our protests:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4FeIJmbEpM (Embedding disabled, limit reached)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz3ONU9D6nk (Embedding disabled, limit reached)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXZ6vmUfED0 (Embedding disabled, limit reached)
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PS You will see on lot of banners and flags rabbit. We call general secretary "Zeka" its a short of his surname Zecevic, and is Serbian it means rabbit.
