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- Caiman, on 07/22/2008, -9/+94Hooliganism? This pathetic little brawl? Please.
- inactive, on 07/22/2008, -4/+63lol, go to Argentina: the "hooliganism" is brutal after almost any game of Boca Juniors vs. River Plate. People end up dead
- megamod, on 07/22/2008, -3/+38hey it's a start. It's all good and fun until a dummy brings the Wasp Knife into the stadium
- speedk0re, on 07/22/2008, -6/+37dude stfu as an American you're embarrassing me
- inactive, on 07/22/2008, -3/+33I was at the game and it wasn't much of a scuffle. A couple Hammers left with some bloodied noses... but what do you expect when a couple guys decide to take on an entire section of a stadium?
- Agger, on 07/22/2008, -8/+37The rest of the world disagree, It's only children who need padding.
- barwe, on 07/22/2008, -8/+33The way of the English chavs...
- craighoxton, on 07/22/2008, -7/+32A few pints, a punch-up and their team wins 3-1 - not a bad result, lads
- mickstephenson, on 07/22/2008, -8/+24and baseball is a little girls game called rounders, but with longer bats.
- kevdotbadger, on 07/22/2008, -9/+25It's football, you dumb ass.
- meruru, on 07/22/2008, -5/+20"The trouble started after a handful of the Premier League club's supporters went into the north-east corner of the stadium where the US Major League Soccer team's most boisterous fans were based."
Wait a minute, the MLS has boisterous fans? - Pronoiac, on 07/22/2008, -6/+20Still nothing compared to some of those soccer brawls but we don't ***** around when it comes to football in Ohio.
- dondara, on 07/22/2008, -5/+17Yeah, all 8 of them
- dondara, on 07/22/2008, -6/+18*****. Fat guys in pads standing around waiting for the commercial break. Boring.
Points? Do you measure sex by how many times you come? - darkchild82, on 07/22/2008, -0/+12However small this fight may have been, hooliganism is an embarrassment to the great sport. *****, the very mention of 'hooligans' is now associated with football! (thanks to the Brits mostly)
- nikomo, on 07/22/2008, -8/+19It's called football because you actually use your FEET in it.
American football = handball more like it. - widgetmaker, on 07/22/2008, -2/+12It is, football involves kicking a ball for 90min, Yankie football is Rugby with safety gear.
- mickstephenson, on 07/22/2008, -3/+13lol armour-rugby... violent, yeah right.
and it's 90 minutes. - MacBigot, on 07/22/2008, -8/+17That mentality also explains why the USA is the largest holdout in the world to not adopt the metric system.
- Stavrosian, on 07/22/2008, -0/+10You are unfair on Brits. We had a very bad time of it 20-30 years ago, but we have almost entirely cleaned up our act (even though we still get all the criticism).
In Italy, policemen are murdered by 'Ultras', and traveling English supporters routinely don't know who is assaulting them more - the opposing fans or the police. In Holland, full-scale riots happen every year. In Germany, their fans attend tournaments wearing England shirts so that they can fight (and kill another policeman at Euro 2004) and have it get blamed on us. In Turkey, English fans are stabbed to death and nothing gets done about it. In Spain, black players are forced from the pitch in tears because of racist abuse, but England is still the place everybody has a go at, even though we are the only country who has ever managed to actually have a decent crack at kicking hooliganism out of the game. Pisses me off. - highlymodified, on 07/22/2008, -3/+12What if they become ruffians?
- kazamx, on 07/22/2008, -0/+9I was thinking that, takes some balls for a few of you to walk up to an entire stand and shout "Come and have ago if ya think ya hard enough"
For the group of Americans who were giving them *****, I wonder if they would have the same balls if their team ever comes over to the UK. - viniciusfontes, on 07/22/2008, -1/+10Here in Brazil the brawls at the stadiums nearly disappeared after two simple decisions:
1) You fight at the stadium, or throw things at the field? Your team is going to be punished. Badly.
2) No alcohol is sold at stadiums. Period.
I was on a match this weekend (Grêmio x Cruzeiro) and it's amazing the number of women and children watching the games again. It's a really good thing. - kevdotbadger, on 07/22/2008, -3/+12West Ham fans, expect nothing more.
- Fullvinyl, on 07/22/2008, -3/+11There had better be detailed strategy when they have 40 seconds between plays to catch their breath, more coaches and coordinators than the military has war planners shouting into the quarterback's helmet radio, and timeouts for ***** commercials. And seven points for carrying a ball across a line? And only FOUR legal instances where the FOOT can be applied to the BALL?
Please shut the ***** up and go back to ramming your head into goalposts a la Gus Frerotte. - pauls88, on 07/22/2008, -2/+10not all football (soccer?) supporters in the uk are like this, 0.0001% are hooligans
- Coffeedemon, on 07/22/2008, -0/+8I would hate to be a dustbin in Columbus tonight
- SimonTB, on 07/22/2008, -2/+10American football is rugby for bitches.
- widgetmaker, on 07/22/2008, -1/+930vs 100 and the Brits started it, yeah real rowdy..
- Patrikc325, on 07/22/2008, -5/+13See Team Ajax against Feyenoord for some good Hooliganism!!
- Meccabilly, on 07/22/2008, -2/+9It is not actually necessary to be a chav in order to be a football hooligan.
- belumaves, on 07/22/2008, -3/+10aww nuts... I had this happy feeling for years that soccer hooligans were all elsewhere, and now these people reveal that they are taking lessons... my world has crumbled around my feet...
maybe they won't get any better, because as far as a brawl goes, this one sucked. - drlha, on 07/22/2008, -4/+11Wrong, real football hooligans are not "soccer fans". They only attach themselves to a club for the violence side of things. This is one of the reasons you'll never see a hooligan wearing team colors.
- FlyCO, on 07/22/2008, -1/+7Clearly they've never been to Brazil as well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BonCmPnd9s - BlackOp, on 07/22/2008, -5/+11You have no idea.
- nicc, on 07/22/2008, -0/+6except in Italy...
- mllawso, on 07/22/2008, -0/+6Hold that thought -- I'm getting my road flares.
- bratterscain, on 07/22/2008, -3/+8Queue non-Americans fighting over how violent and manly their sports are while in other threads they're bashing Americans calling us violent warmongers.
- sgtbutterscotch, on 07/22/2008, -1/+6MacBigot, I thought it's cuz we're lazy and that would be hard to do.
- gfox, on 07/22/2008, -4/+9West Ham fans started it, going into the crew supporter section.
- firebook23, on 07/22/2008, -5/+10hooliganism does not happen until cars are lit on fire and the riot police are called in. then and only then can it be called hooliganism.
- IpecacNeat, on 07/22/2008, -0/+5Dugg up because I watched Eurotrip.
- jorisb, on 07/22/2008, -2/+7Oh man, I'm so jealous.
Up here we hardly ever fight to the death over sports anymore - mickstephenson, on 07/22/2008, -1/+6Rugby is everything you describe soccer should be but no one wears pussy padding
- smokedgouda, on 07/22/2008, -0/+5I don't see this type of hooliganism catching on here in the US. We already know what gangs are like, they just don't attach their allegiances to sports. Maybe if the UK had more Crips, Bloods and M-13 they wouldn't think this were such a cool thing to do.
- inactive, on 07/22/2008, -4/+9ZOMG! My tiny brain can't process all the play by play strategy going in a real sport, i have to watch a bunch of fat ass's play a game that can be simulated by placing figures on a vibrating board.
Give me a ***** break. - hitkaiser, on 07/22/2008, -0/+4And Spain
- Fullvinyl, on 07/22/2008, -0/+4That's what it is, *****.
- kevdotbadger, on 07/22/2008, -4/+8In the words of Alan Curbisley himself:
"We took the MLS game because we wanted to come to America. We wanted to show people what we’re about." -
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