Last night was disgraceful

[Kay B]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007150652,00.html

That old guy was just sitting there...and five police kept hitting him

[Matt]

Fucking Italians, they really need to get their act together.

[Ravster]

Saw this on the news yesterday. Fucked up Italians.

[the poe collector]

A cop hit one guy in the face 10 times?

Fuck the Police.

[dork]

damn, some of those pictures are hard to look at.

[homelesscarl]

That will teach him.

[Ravster]

^You what?

[Kay B]

There's always one idiot who makes a joke out of something...

[Raitei]

And again (Tottenham v Sevilla)

This time they decided to hit a man in a wheelchair.

I think it's just the (undeserved) reputation english football and its fans have

[Kay B]

I wouldn't say it undeserved reputation because to be fair English fans haven't done themselves any favors in the past...Though saying that they are the most famous football hooligans yet they are nowhere near the worst

Italians
Spanish
Turkish
Brazilians
Mexicans

Are all alot more violent than english...yet nothing gets said about them

[Matt]

I think it's just the (undeserved) reputation english football and its fans have

I wouldn't say it's undeserved. Up until quite recently (let's say the last 10 years maybe?) we were pretty bad going abroad, and it wasn't much better over here either.

But since then we've calmed down a lot more. Like Kay said, there a lot more countries that are now worse than us and don't get mentioned, the Turkish being the first one that pops into my head. I remember when Leeds played Galatasary in the Champion's League like 5 years ago, and I think 2 or 3 Leeds fans were stabbed to death.

No matter who it is, it's one of the other ugly sides of football that really needs to be stamped out.

[Kay B]

^ Agreed...

Thing is in england fans are separated its very hard for trouble to be started inside the ground, im not saying nothing happens inside because obviously you always have the odd incident, and than outside the ground games are always policed i mean there's only trouble with watford when we play luton yet even at chelsea watford last week our whole town center was FULL of police in vans and on horses...This doesn't happen in foreign country's as regularly as it does here, as fans pretty much sit where they like hence the reason rival fans are usually right next to each other.

I find it amazing that the italian FA still hasnt sorted this problem out, considering the violence has been going on for over 6 years now (they showed facts on football focus)