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People are unbelievably obsessed with politics. They can't take a dump in the morning without ascertaining whether or not it was a liberal or conservative dump.
I wish those people would fall off of a skyscraper roof or something.
I don't know where Americans get this idea that we all have a big punch up at football (soccer) games because we don't. Perhaps back in the 1970's and sometimes in the 1980's we did see some soccer violence, but since then a lot has changed.
Grounds are now covered in CCTV cameras which monitored by Football Intelligence Units and any trouble results in Football Banning Orders, on top of prison sentences and other measures ranging from withdrawal of passports during International Competitions through to electronic tagging and having to sign on at a police station at match kick off time.
I have very rarely seen any problem in recent years, and away fans are generally whisked in and out via police escorted coaches and kept well away from home supporters. Whilst stadiums are now usually very plush and modern, all seater, very corporate and tickets a lot more expensive. Many stadiums have family areas and there is a large police presence on top of the large number of stewards. It's all a far cry from the game in the 70's and 80's.
Harrier thinks that the point is that soccer is boring if hooligans aren't scrapping in the stands.
There's some violence but it's not wide spread in terms of the English Premiership, and indeed Championship.They have a far greater problem in Europe and South America than the UK.
Certain matches in England require a lot of policing, in London West Ham v Millwall is never going to friendly, neither is Liverpool V Man Utd or Leeds v Liverpool, or indeed numerous local derby games from Newcastle v Sunderland to Mand Utd v Man City to other such local games across the country, and it is local derby games that are hardest to police, as the two sets of fans live in the same area. However given that tens of millions of people attend football matches in the UK, there are only a few thousand arrests ever made, so it's not endemic.
Liverpool seems to be involved in a lot of this soccer violence.
"Hey Jude...".
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