What is it about the game Soccer that brings out the most destructive behaviour of a minority of fans,which seems to be a global problem (page 3)

Splash

You sound like a old git moaning about "young people nowadays".

Cofty just outed me lol !!

This thread seems to generalize a lot. Football does attract a lot of hooligans, but only because it is so popular all over the world. No other team sport can boast of having a representative team from every country, which makes the World Cup the biggest tournament on the planet.

It's indeed a shame the beautiful game appeals to mindless morons as well as decent well-mannered people, but there's little that can be done about it - aside from what is already being done, which is to ban known hooligans from attending games and spoiling it for other spectators.

Cedars

Splash

If you were to ban known hooligans from attending the game, half the players wouldn't be allowed to turn up.

Splash

cedars

Splash

If you were to ban known hooligans from attending the game, half the players wouldn't be allowed to turn up.

Oh dear, you see what I mean about generalizing?!

Cedars

MrFreeze

I'm going to disagree with you cofty. In my opinion, hockey is probably the most skillful and dynamic of all team sports.

cofty

I played in a hockey summer league a couple of years ago. Tactically there are a lot of similarities.

Room 215

Soccer = Hockey on dry land, with galoshes worn

RubaDub

------------ Started new thread on Soccer (Football) Rules so as not to hi-jack this one. ---------------

Rub a Dub

GromitSK

Crowd violence is very rare indeed in English football these days. I can't recall the last time I witnessed a single incident at or near MCFC for eg, I dont include the moron who threw a coin at the recent derby. The nutters who want to fight do it far away from the stadium, if it happens at all. There are very few cases of group football-related violence prosecuted in courts these days. Many families go to watch live football on a regular basis.

Football can be an exciting and entertaining game. I never played it after school and was no good at it then but it sets even my pulse racing at its best. This raises emotions and there is historical competitiveness between particular teams. There were over 47000 fans at the Liverpool-v-City game last weekend and not one incident of violence inside or outside the ground as far as I know.

Finally, it is a great leveller between people, I have lost count of the number of times I have travelled abroad and struck up a rapport with strangers, who often barely spoke English and I nothing of their language, purely based on football.

cofty

Its also a very accessible game. A league I helped set up in '96 at a local school hosts around 3-400 children every Saturday morning. There is so little equipment needed and the rules can be adapted to suit everybody from 6 year olds upwards.

Beaches, fields, plastic pitches, indoor halls. A ball and some cones and you have a game.

What is it about the game Soccer that brings out the most destructive behaviour of a minority of fans,which seems to be a global problem

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