to put you fools straight. i've always called it football. i've called it football before you fools called it football... well since birth anyway. i was calling it what the Yahoo! soccer article was calling it, a copy and paste job if you will.

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holy shit people went crazy over there

this kind of shit disgusts me and first of all i hope they catch the fuker who did it. Being a Serie A fan, im very disappointed. I was also looking forward to the friendly against Romania...to hell with these bastards taking away my calcio like that!!

you aproach phenomenology when you discus sports-related riots.

heres how i look at it:

large numbers of people=random violence

unless you separate the populace by barriers.

but then theres always the argument that a high police presence "ruins the fun". to some, though, this "police-crowd" interaction is the fun that they show up for...

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I turned on this match a couple minutes before it really escalated.

I don't think the fact that Palermo scored their second goal off an elbow helped the situation.

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Originally posted by OurManFlint I don't think the fact that Palermo scored their second goal off an elbow helped the situation.

lol yes thats a good reason for a riot football fans are idiots.

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The mass for the policman is now on Rai. Its sad showing a funeral like this over a football match

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Why is it that soccer fans get so violent? We really don't have this problem in the US anymore with any of our major sporting events. I wonder if the violence could be attributed to the lack of major sporting events in these countries? In the US, if your team looses you just turn to different channel and watch another favorite team in a different sport. I watched the world cup last year and I'm trying to get into soccer, but what the heck is up with all the diving(ITALY)? It seems like all the players and fans are frustrated with the sport because it is so dam hard to score. The NFL, NHL, Nascar, NBA, MLB, all changed there rules over the last 40 years to make there sport more exciting for the fans, maybe soccer needs to do this.

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Originally posted by djverne Why is it that soccer fans get so violent? We really don't have this problem in the US anymore with any of our major sporting events. I wonder if the violence could be attributed to the lack of major sporting events in these countries? In the US, if your team looses you just turn to different channel and watch another favorite team in a different sport. I watched the world cup last year and I'm trying to get into soccer, but what the heck is up with all the diving(ITALY)? It seems like all the players and fans are frustrated with the sport because it is so dam hard to score. The NFL, NHL, Nascar, NBA, MLB, all changed there rules over the last 40 years to make there sport more exciting for the fans, maybe soccer needs to do this.

you're obviously american and don't understand - soccer IS exciting, like way too exciting. our passion for our team runs deep, it's a religion. while you can bear some team losing and just flip the channel we can't fucking stand it and flip out. the only solution would be to make the game unwatchable so people stop caring so much - but that's not a financially sound decision.

We have passion for are teams to but we don't riot when they loose. I almost forgot that soccer is Holy to you guys. Lol, you soccer fans remind me of the Sunni and Shiites except they don't have to pay an admission price.

Football (soccer) is more than a sport, at least in Europan society.

It's a social 'thermomether' in hundreds of cities: if the club lives good or bad days, it gets reflected on the diary life of the city, and also the essence of the town is reflected on the club history and principles, so is on the supporters. It's 'rooted' in society heart.

Football = social mirror. That's the way has been for more than one century.

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Originally posted by djverne Why is it that soccer fans get so violent? We really don't have this problem in the US anymore with any of our major sporting events. I wonder if the violence could be attributed to the lack of major sporting events in these countries? In the US, if your team looses you just turn to different channel and watch another favorite team in a different sport. I watched the world cup last year and I'm trying to get into soccer, but what the heck is up with all the diving(ITALY)? It seems like all the players and fans are frustrated with the sport because it is so dam hard to score. The NFL, NHL, Nascar, NBA, MLB, all changed there rules over the last 40 years to make there sport more exciting for the fans, maybe soccer needs to do this.

You can be passionate allright, but I assure you that you're not as much as Europeans or South Americans. I've seen your matches on tv, and there's no chanting whatsoever, the whole stadium is quiet. Like the guy above said, many have turned it into some sort of religion.