More senseless football (soccer) related violence in Italy. This time a fan is killed, strangely while sitting in a car. I suppose authorities will dream up some wacky explanation as to how the guy sitting in the car was the most dangerous one at the brawl. Or maybe they’ll blame everything on a nearby dog.
Tit for tat I guess, after a cop was killed while sitting in his car in February when a fan tossed a homemade explosive through the window.
This is just the stuff that makes international news. Smaller, non-fatal skirmishes happen constantly. Pseudo-solutions like stopping games and playing to empty stadiums for a week or two has done nothing to cool things down.
The way I see it, there are only two ways to resolve this issue permanently:
1. Play games to empty stadiums for a decade. Yes, a whole decade. Let the fucking hooligans watch games on TV and tear up their own apartments if they wanna get rambunctious. After 10 years they can reopen the stadiums to fans. By then the current generation of hooligans will have matured a bit (maybe) and the new generation of fans will not have grown up in that atmosphere and won’t be prone to kicking up trouble for the sake of kicking up trouble.
2. Inject valium into every man, woman and child as they enter the stadium.
If they’re gonna act like children, treat them like children.
Discuss.
I for one appreciate reasonable and tasteful football rioting. It’s a refreshing break from the half-assed bandwagonism we have here in the states. Just look at us! Red Sox play the Yankees and the police only have to worry about directing traffic. Are you people fans or not?!? The college scene is slightly better, where there’s the occasional Duke vs. UNC mattress burning or car flipping… but this nation-wide bottle-and-brick confrontations with riot control?! That’s so badassly italian.
Of course it’s tragic when somebody dies, especially somebody who apparently wasn’t rioting. What the Italians need to do is learn respectful rioting.. maybe use plastic bottles and the police use plastic bullets, ok?
Leif what’s to discuss?in 6 months time it will happen again and again.what’s truly irritating is the hypocrisy that we Italians have of debating the issue to death and reaching absolutely no conclusion only to promptly forget it all within a week or two. as far as I’m concerned the only people who said anything close to making sense are you and Lucas. so might as well blame the dog right?
Elfin – Tell me about it. I’ve held my tongue over this deportation of Romanians thing for two weeks now. Just knee-jerk lunacy that will be forgotten in two more weeks. Except by the Romanians of course. Why don’t the Romanians deport the Italians for enforcing slave labor and impregnating their women before skipping town with all the money?
I have to say I had been wondering why you hadn’t said anything about that. But as I said, that was just yapping for the benefit of an audience and nobody is talking about it anymore.