"a time to make friends"
I thought to myself, what can I do to get them as angry as they have made me? Then when I lifted my arm I saw the anger in their faces and I started to laugh.Context? Here is context.
Leipzig's Nigerian midfielder Adebowale Ogungbure was walking off the pitch when hooligans ran up to him, spat at him and called him "Dirty Nigger," "Shit Nigger" and "Ape." He ignored it and walked on. Then, when he passed the main stand and heard fans making whooping monkey noises at him, he decided he'd had enough. He put two fingers above his mouth to symbolise a Hitler moustache and stuck out his right arm in a Nazi salute to the crowd.Adebowale Ogungbure is now my second favorite football player, after Luther Blissett - actually, the whole Luther Blissett thing really deserves a separate post - from which you can tell that I'm not much of a football fan. Two interesting facts also revealed in that Spiegel story:
1) Ogungbure actually faced criminal charges for doing this, because sieg-heiling is everywhere and always illegal in Germany. The charges were swiftly dropped, at least, but for Christ's sake.
2) The slogan adopted by Germany for the impending World Cup is "A Time To Make Friends". I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry.