Fred Perry
25-03-2012, 22:18
Enjoyable night in the Frente Blanquiazul local at one of the events to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the biggest and nosiest CD Tenerife fan club.
The large room was adorned with pictures from the last 25 years as well as merchandise, flags, stickers etc.
The main part was a meeting with the original organisers of the group from 1986 coming back to make speeches. Very interesting and comical were some of the stories.
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Added after 19 minutes:
The origins of the group were not in football at all. A group of lads used to follow the local handball team(in the 80īs this team & sport was very popular playing in front of full arenas in the Canaries). They gained a reputation by letting off flares and smoke bombs inside the arenas and decided to take their "way of support" onto the football terraces due to the boom at that time of Fan groups/Ultras etc.
In those days there was little or no police control and fireworks were permitted. Around 88/89 at a home derby with UD Las Palmas after the match the newly found Frente Blanquiazul walked around to the Herradura part of the stadium where only about 30/40 Las Palmas fans were present(in those days large scale away trips were not common unlike now).
There were NO POLICE and they walked right around the stadium without a problem. When they reached the visitors area the nervous Las Palmas Ultras pleaded that they were all Canarian after all and should not fight. Tenerife fans attacked anyway and it was the first occasion that the club distanced themselves from the group and the police began to take an interest.
Mistakes were made, famously the first membership cards had a neo-nazi cross on. The founders said that it was through "ignorance", although in those days they were not politically biased to the left or right, their main aim was only to support CD Tenerife and to be against Las Palmas.
The large room was adorned with pictures from the last 25 years as well as merchandise, flags, stickers etc.
The main part was a meeting with the original organisers of the group from 1986 coming back to make speeches. Very interesting and comical were some of the stories.
http://i40.tinypic.com/2qlyiw9.jpg
http://i40.tinypic.com/2a0hp2v.jpg
http://i41.tinypic.com/16a3cso.jpg
http://i42.tinypic.com/1eqweo.jpg
http://i43.tinypic.com/261dcgz.jpg
http://i41.tinypic.com/25fn66c.jpg
http://i43.tinypic.com/wspx6h.jpg
Added after 19 minutes:
The origins of the group were not in football at all. A group of lads used to follow the local handball team(in the 80īs this team & sport was very popular playing in front of full arenas in the Canaries). They gained a reputation by letting off flares and smoke bombs inside the arenas and decided to take their "way of support" onto the football terraces due to the boom at that time of Fan groups/Ultras etc.
In those days there was little or no police control and fireworks were permitted. Around 88/89 at a home derby with UD Las Palmas after the match the newly found Frente Blanquiazul walked around to the Herradura part of the stadium where only about 30/40 Las Palmas fans were present(in those days large scale away trips were not common unlike now).
There were NO POLICE and they walked right around the stadium without a problem. When they reached the visitors area the nervous Las Palmas Ultras pleaded that they were all Canarian after all and should not fight. Tenerife fans attacked anyway and it was the first occasion that the club distanced themselves from the group and the police began to take an interest.
Mistakes were made, famously the first membership cards had a neo-nazi cross on. The founders said that it was through "ignorance", although in those days they were not politically biased to the left or right, their main aim was only to support CD Tenerife and to be against Las Palmas.