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**xanaxonlinexanax** · 04-07-2008, 04:32 AM

Poland is definitely one to watch on the Euro Hooligan front. I lived next door to a guy in uni who was Polish and he said football crowds tend to be very violent and very racist. And lets not forget our friends in South America, there are some brilliant (well...scary) footage on YouTube of various pitch invasions, crowd troubles, referees being chased down etc....

I think whenever you have a mixture of sports, men and alcohol there will inevitably be trouble, although given that football matches ten to attract the biggest audiences I'm not surprised this is where the biggest trouble is.

Plus, lets face it, we were good at it, and it made up for the under-achieving, overpaid losers on the pitch.

04-07-2008, 04:32 AM	#6
xanaxonlinexanax Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 540 Senior Member	Poland is definitely one to watch on the Euro Hooligan front. I lived next door to a guy in uni who was Polish and he said football crowds tend to be very violent and very racist. And lets not forget our friends in South America, there are some brilliant (well...scary) footage on YouTube of various pitch invasions, crowd troubles, referees being chased down etc.... I think whenever you have a mixture of sports, men and alcohol there will inevitably be trouble, although given that football matches ten to attract the biggest audiences I'm not surprised this is where the biggest trouble is. Plus, lets face it, we were good at it, and it made up for the under-achieving, overpaid losers on the pitch.
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