Denmark - Oh! To be Danish. An Essay(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
A roligan is a nice guy with a bottle of lager in one hand and a bit of a beer-belly.
He might be wearing a cap, and he'll certainly be wearing a big smile (or a grin) which signals to all and sundry that here comes a guy who likes having a good time and doesn't want any trouble.
No-one seems to mind that the term roligan is influenced by Swedish.
Football Violence in Europe - Alcohol(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Danish 'Roligans' are fanatical football supporters who are renowned for their levels of beer consumption.
Where the heavy drinking of English hooligans impels aggression and violence, the roligan is characterised by the absence of violence and companiable cheerfulness.”
In pursuit of this aim the meaning of alcohol has been substantially altered and now, instead of being a precursor to aggression and fights, is the 'liquid' facilitation of positive social affect and good humour.
www.sirc.org /publik/fvalcohol.html (2185 words)
Football Violence in Europe - Cross-Cultural Differences(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Yet on the international scene the Danish fans — known as the roligans —- are currently winning praise for their good behaviour, and even at club level the problems are marginal compared to Sweden.
Although numerical evidence is again lacking, most accounts suggest that football-related violence in Austria has followed a pattern familiar throughout Europe, with a significant increase in violence during the 1980s, followed by a slight decline in the 1990s.
This style is distinguished by its emphasis on spectacular displays involving co-ordinated costumes, flags, banners, coloured smoke and even laser-shows — and on choreographed singing and chanting, conducted by ultra leaders using megaphones to prompt their choruses at strategic points during the match.
Their players were attacked by fans when leaving the pitch after a friendly match in Hungary – in 1908.
The academics quoted from the Danish Sport Research institute describe that country’s roligans as if they are some sort of lost Nordic tribe.
Where the heavy drinking of English hooligans impels aggression and violence, the roligan is characterised by the absence of violence and companionable cheerfulness.” What?
The boys will be performing the Roligan song in Parken, Copenhagen on the 6 th.
The lyrics for Rock n´ Roligan are now available, check it out, so you will be able to sing along on wednesday.
The boys are going in the studio next week to record the new "Official Roligan song" (Roligans is the name of the danish football suporters).
www.midnightblues.dk /news.htm (2700 words)
Xtratime Community - Att.: Danes and Denmark fans!(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
I bet it is gonna be the "Team Easy On" song that'll be heard most from the Danish fans both in Portugal and during the Tour de France - and the rest of europe will think we are nuts :D
Frederik, are you anti roligan because you don't care for the NT or because you belong the "casual" fan fraction?
I'm definitely not a "casual", but definitely not a roligan either.
The Danes are also very keen on referenda and have the right to popular referenda on changes to the constitution, which is why the Maastricht Treaty was only passed in amended form.
An example: the football 'roligan’ phenomenon, which could only have come from Denmark.
A roligan – not to be confused with English hooligans – is a nice guy standing not too far from a football match, who has one hand around a bottle of lager and the other on his beer-belly.
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Examples of recognized methods for determining CCR1 induced migration can be found in roligan, J. E., Kruisbeek, A. M., Margulies, D. H., Shevach, E. M., Strober, W. editors: Current Protocols In Immunology, 6.12.1-6.12.3.
One specific example of how to determine the activity of a compound for inhibiting migration is described in detail below.
Realms of the Arcane: Times(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
I can't imagine who could have sent it." Lord Neil couldn't imagine it, too.
"...the Viscous Lord Neil of the Evil Portimao Republic and his Despicable, Depraved Roligan Henchmen have tarnished my family name for the last time." He didn't know what to think of it.
- Well it was very fun to play "roligan" the Danish pendant/oppisite to the British "hooligan" with a Denmark-hat on, and to see Dad with his clapping-hat and everything.
87) A small "roligan" (opposite of hooligan) is cheering for Denmark at the football-world championship
Pat Metheny Group Listener Network(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Hey Julian - I love it so much, that I last monday went to the big city (138.000 people) of Aalborg, to ask my CD-connection in one of these big stores, where you have to remmember, which way you came in - to get out again - to order it from the distribution company.
Now my english soccer-fan, do you really believe that the home country of the "Roligan movement" Denmark, would play for a draw against Sweden - 2 to 2 our enemy in soccer, number one???
Then you also belive that Margaret Thatcher by her own free will to support John Major (another tory) left Downing Street number 10 of her own free will???
