Football is the most popular
sport which is played by 25.000 players in over 200 countries. For the first
time, football was played in England on December, 19th 1863. Each country has
their own football team, own name and own fans club. Fans club or spectator is
the most important thing which can make football seems alive. Football is
nothing without supporter.
Either Indonesia or England
has fanatic football fans club. For instance, Hooligan of England and “Bonek
Mania” of Indonesia. “Bonek Mania” is fans club of Persebaya Surabaya.
Actually, Indonesia has many fanatic football fan clubs, such as “Viking” from
Persib Bandung supporter, “Aremania” for Arema Malang, “The Jack Mania” for Persija
Jakarta, “Delta Mania” for Deltras Sidoarjo and “LA Mania” for Persela Lamongan
football supporter. I choose Hooligan
and Bonek Mania because there are
some similarities which I will describe later.
Hooligans
Hooligans are the fanatic
fans of England football club. Most of them are in the 18-24 age groups and the
rough working class people who stand near the bottom class of English. Because
of that difference, low level people dissociate their selves from high level
and become one in the same level. They are very close to alcohol, sex,
criminal, violence and drugs.
Hooligans’ fanatism is very
dangerous for everyone around them. When their team loses, they attack shop,
behave more badly along the street and even fight either the rival’s fans who
attend to the stadium or some people who just become the victim of they are
doing. Hooligans never feel guilty, they just do what they want to express
their elation, dejection, frustration or anger because the ups and downs of the
match. The most people thing that hooliganism is meaningless and hooligans are
mindless people, because they just do nothing important and very useless for
either every ones or their selves logically. Moreover there is a film, “Green Street
Hooligans”, that tells the brutality of Hooligans in Queen Elizabeth country.
There is no specific
evidence which can decide when the Hooliganism was first done. In 1314, King
Edward II prohibited football that was still done by the villagers mistakenly.
They kicked the pig bladder in empty field. King Edward II was quite sure that
activity just created disturbance. There are some sources tell that the
Hooliganism has been done around 1880. There are some Hooligans which still
exist until now, such as Millwall Bushwackers, Birmingham Zulus, Aston Villa
Hardcore, Inter City Firm, 6.57 Crew, The Red Army and Chelsea Headhunters. The
first, Millwall Bushwacker is fanatic football fans club of Millwal.
Bushwackers, is taken by the name of one incident that happened in the middle
of civil war of America. Second, Birmingham Zulus came back in 1970. They always
yell “Zulu, Zulu!” along the Birmingham Street that is their specific
characteristic. “Zulu, Zulu” means Zulu knight, the patriotist of Birmingham, and
it is usually yelled as a provocation to make the battle up. This community is
the most dangerous one, from some different backgrounds and the most are dark
skinned people. Third, Aston Villa Hardcore is also famous on the Birmingham.
They support Aston Villa’s club and also called The Villains. Fourth, Inter
City Firm existed on 1970 until 1990 which called ICF, the fanatic supporter of
London’s Club, West Ham United. Fifth, 6.57 Crew, was connected with the Prime
England Portsmouth Football league, and named by the train time which brought
them to Waterloo Station, London, Saturday on 06.57. They have been one of the
biggest Hooligans since 1980 and become the causes of the whole country
disorders. Sixth, the Red Army is the Manchester United fans, have the biggest
Hooliganism in Britain. The last, Chelsea Headhunter, the London fans club of
Chelsea, is known by their racialism.
Bonek Mania
Bonek Mania is the epithet of Surabaya (Indonesia) football team
supporter. “Bonek” is from Javanese acronym of “Bondo Nekat”. It means “no
matter what, ready to take serious risks”. “Bonek” was firstly mentioned on
Jawa Pos newspaper in 1989 for describing Surabaya’s supporter that went to
Jakarta 1n 1988 with 25.000 people without bringing anything by train and buses
to bear witness Surabaya’s team performance which called “away supporter”.
Traditionally, they are the first Indonesia’s supporter that recognizes that
Europe tradition.
Bonek Mania has their own
specific characteristic that always they use when supporting their favourite
football team. Green is their specific characteristic colour and the green
crocodile is their mascot. They were first called “Green Force” because all of
things that they used were green dominantly, but now it changes to be “Bonek
Mania” which describes their spirit of supporting Persebaya. Stadium will be
green if Persebaya Surabaya is playing. Some yells they have become popular
songs in Indonesia, such as Iwak Peyek, because it is very simple and has funny
lyric that have been sung by everyone in all ages. Bonek Mania has a flag with
screaming man in lock hair. A man in the picture is “Cak Dul” or Abdullah who
had put Bonek Flag “Kami Haus Gol Kamu Persebaya” or “We are thirsty of your
goal, Persebaya” on the roof of Senayan Stadium, Jakarta. Everyone who was in
the stadium felt proud of his action and have made his picture as the Bonek
Mania’s flag.
Although there are many
football fan clubs in Indonesia, but I choose Bonek Mania because they have
similarities with Hooligans in England. They like to fight with the rival
supporter and make such a disturbance neither in the stadium nor in the street.
Anarchism is close to theirselves. They like drinking alcohol, creating the
scene, damaging public facilities, carrying a lot of things without paying in
the shop, running into stadium without any ticket and spending their life with
negative and unimportant activities like that. If their team loses, they will
be more anarchic. A little mistake which player or referee is doing will make
them getting angry and doing unpredictable measure that is very dangerous, for
instance running into field, striking the referee and even burning some parts
of stadium.
Bonek Mania makes friend
with Viking, Persib Bandung fans club and becomes at enmity with Arema Malang football
team supporter. In the recently years, Bonek Mania has made many problems in
society especially when they are fighting with Aremania, the archenemy of Bonek
Mania. Both Lazuardi and Erik Setiawan are two of their anarchism victims. They
died when Bonek Mania and Aremania was fighting each other. There are still
many victims that can’t be mentioned one by one. Furthermore, disadvantages
which become government’s responsibility can’t be calculated precisely. They
ever became the biggest rioter in Java Island. Everyone felt afraid when some
people wearing green attributes around them. In the other hand, some Bonek
Manias did not use any green attribute when they were in the other city. They
just felt afraid if their bonek identity to be known by either peoples who
hated Bonek extremely or their enemies who would fight them in gang. It is a
little example of their bad behaviour effects. We know it well if some of them
are coward.
However, there is a positive
value which we can get from both Hooligans and Bonek Mania that is about their
solidarity. They have high solidarity especially for fellow supporter in the
same team. When one falls, others help. If one dies, others grieve. It seems
like that, because they feel become one, in the same condition and direction.
In conclusion, positive and
negative are a couple of thing which has been made by God. If there is a
negative thing, there is also a positive one certainly. Hooligans and Bonek
Mania must be in this world to colour our life either as trouble maker or as
the best solidarity maker.
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