9Saturday, April 14, 2007
Above, Man Utd fans and Italian police clashing at Man U's game at Roma. Football hooliganism has been a long standing problem in football ever since God-knows-when. However this year had been unfortunately a year whereby that had been many incidents involving soccer violence and it all started when a policeman was killed in Italy. An extensive study into this topic by bigbrohu has discovered many interesting facts about football hooliganism. In the 60s and 70s, football hooligans were a permanent fixtures at English soccer games and their presence were greatly felt during those times. Before and after matches, the respective gangs from different clubs would fight admidst their drunkenness. Up till today, English fans do still have a reputation as 'the drunken lot' and as everyone reading bigbrohu.blogspot.com should know by now, alcohol can indeed do alot of damage to people. What's more fascinating in my study is the hardcore fans from the Italian game, the Ultras. These Ultras have links to the Italian Mafia and also holds a stronghold in the club's management itself. They are seen as an integral part of a football club's support. More information shall not be divulged as Oonk Tong and the Italian Mafia have close-standing ties and we shall not try to disrupt that. Let's hope that scenes like above would not happen in the near future. We wonder if local gangs like 369 will start infiltrating our S-league stadiums but I guess that will be highly unprobable. Next topic to be discussed on bigbrohu.blogspot.com: Our ministers' increasing pay package. Stay tuned.
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