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Football tonight.

I have heard that English fans are already being arrested in Munich.

Nicholas Beard ● 1567d20 Comments

So depressing. Some things never change

Stephen Gould ● 1567d

Boris and his Empire at Downing Street have set new low standards of behavior... which, amazingly, they deny...and TELL US TO MOVE ON as though WE were breaking the law.Until Boris and others are sacked.. hooligans will have no respect for Authority and will shame us at home and abroad....as the news from Munich suggests.

Jim Lawes ● 1567d

Don't think we have a riot? Think your post Nicholas is just that, some arrested and it gets a little twisted by others' thinking of the worst is happening Arrests yes, but that happens in the run-up to many internationals, just that we only report on our home nations. And if you follow club football your findwe are doing ok, unlike some European countries who have had a real problem with trouble. That is unless the news feeds are not covering the trouble How the flip does boris get into this ?

Julian Pavey ● 1567d

Thank you Julian, how anyone could twist football hooligans that has been around for decades on Boris is beyond me. The press are know saying there is a witch-hunt….clearly on this forum there is too 😂😂😂😂  Question if you are passionate about football and follow a team why would you want to be so disrespectful to the very team you claim to love? i reckon the handful of people who create trouble are not football fans just thugs, zero respect for anything great news they get arrested 👏👏👏👏👏

Jayne Thorburn ● 1567d

Blame it all on Boris eh, along with global warming, the Ukraine invasion etc etc. Anyone who has been to a football match recently will tell you that the old problem of alcohol and, more recently, drugs is what is behind the problem. The English fans have a problem which foreign fans on home soil are only too happy too incite. How many eastern European countries have had to play games behind closed doors due to racism ?

Peter King ● 1567d

"The press are know saying there is a witch-hunt"DARVO

Paul Campbell ● 1567d

It is super sad, they are an embarrassment to us all but most of all to the teams they shame, thugs

Jayne Thorburn ● 1567d

Many years ago I had a lovely lad working for me, clean, well dressed,  conscientious and clever.I asked him what he did at weekends."Oh, I'm a football hooligan."His idea was to get together with his mates, travel by train to away fixtures, and after the game meet on a suitable piece of waste ground and have a punch up with like-minded supporters of the opposition.  He asked, where's the harm?  Lets off steam, etc.  Of course once the 125 club was banned the whole thing became much more complicated.  How do the modern youth work off their aggressions?

James Roy ● 1567d

I thought England was playing Italy behind closed doors. This was put in place by the FA because of trouble.

Nicholas Beard ● 1567d

Yes,but not sure what your point is ?

Julian Pavey ● 1567d

Saying that other countries have problems, I was just pointing out Italy v England was being played behind closed doors. So clearly there is a problem here.

Nicholas Beard ● 1567d

Isn't this the result of the shocking scenes we saw at the Euro final last year? Our big chance to show the world we can stage a big event and it turned into chaos

Peter King ● 1567d

"Our big chance to show the world we can stage a big event and it turned into chaos."So the French then decided that the Champions league final was a good chance to show that they could make even more of a mess than we did.

Richard Greenhough ● 1567d

I think some think we are the only ones with a problem. Maybe a lack of knowledge and understanding and just seing our headlines when the media report Trouble happens all over the world and in other sports. Try looking at NFL or NHL in canada and the US.

Julian Pavey ● 1567d

The French police were awful and demonstrated how the semi-militarisation of some European police forces makes them too inflexible to manage different types of situations. Liverpool fans showed commendable restraint in the face of extreme provocation.But it's not easy to forget the images of England fans waiting outside the exits for Italian fans to leave the game and then indiscriminately battering them. That was sickening.

Paul Campbell ● 1566d

Would not disagree but I can't helpThinking some have an agenda that is more political but can't put it into words for being to obvious Some people are not stupid but it's very easy to dismiss as not true

Julian Pavey ● 1566d

Nothing whatsoever to do with Brexit, Bojo or even football, really.And not confined to these shores.It is a world wide problem,every country has hooligans who have piggy backed onto football.What about the unprovoked battering that England supporters took from paramilitary Russian supporters in 2018? It left at least one fan in a wheelchair for the rest of his days.Violence begets violence and some men, particularly young men, will be up for it.That mind set,with 6 or 7 pints for it to marinade is a recipe for trouble.

Keith Iddon ● 1566d

“ Violence begets violence and some men, particularly young men, will be up for it.That mind set,with 6 or 7 pints for it to marinade is a recipe for trouble”Strange though that these bravado hooligans with 6 or 7 pints under their belts were as good as gold at the World Cup in South Africa where the police made it perfectly clear that they had zero tolerance for football hooliganism and that they would shoot them with rubber bullets without hesitation!  And then, if they survived the shock, they would be thrown into an overcrowded prison where gang culture rules supreme.  Suddenly these  bravado thugs turned into little whimps!!  Europe is just too soft on these thugs.

Steve Taylor ● 1566d

The pictures of scowling Ingerland ''fans'' in Munich showed very little young men, more so 50+ nutters. Must all be a long way from their ancestral home at Cobham.

Peter King ● 1566d

Very few young men; or were all the young men very little chappies? Doesn’t matter the age. If you want to control these morons, take the lead from South Africa.

Steve Taylor ● 1566d