That decision provoked more offence, though, as Dinamo's famous ultras group the Bad Blue Boys have opted to boycott the visit to Lokomotiva Zagreb as it falls on Good Friday. "Given that the next ...

And yet in Zagreb it is easy to see that there is something wrong with the Bad Blue Boys, and with Croatian football in general. Leading the chants behind the goal are just a few dozen supporters ...

Members of Dinamo Zagreb’s "ultra" group of supporters -- known as the Bad Blue Boys (BBB) -- have long been associated with extreme nationalist causes. An infamous "football riot" between them ...

Croatian President Zoran Milanović has called the detention of the Bad Blue Boys – a hooligan group affiliated with Dinamo Zagreb football team – a political farce and ethnic retaliation.

Zagreb’s sooty facades are strewn with unartistic graffiti: simplistic tags and scrawls declaring loyalty to Dinamo ‘The Bad Blue Boys’ (the local football team), are everywhere. Depending ...

The Bad Blue Boys have been supporting Dinamo Zagreb since the 1980sImage: Igor Kralj/PIXSELL/picture alliance Fan groups, Holiga added, are not a homogeneous group, neither politically nor in ...

Croatia’s capital Zagreb is a football metropolis ... that Dinamo’s notorious Bad Blue Boys took on their counterparts from Red Star Belgrade, the Delije, fans fighting on the pitch at ...

when the fans of Dinamo Zagreb crashed through the metal fences that separated the stands from the pitch. The Croatian ultras, the Bad Blue Boys, had been trading insults with their most bitter ...

Kranjcar became a hate figure with the Bad Blue Boys, one of the most notorious supporters groups in world football, when he took the inadvisable step of leaving Dinamo Zagreb for their hated ...

If the Maksimir Stadium were a choir, the Bad Blue Boys would be the conductors. Perched high up behind one goal, their strident cry of "Dinamo!" receives a lusty response of "Zagreb!" from the ...