Footballer Killed During Match

[ChillDoubt]

http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/28918021

What is it with football and its propensity for grabbing all the wrong headlines?

[black_cat51]

what a tradgedy

[ummmm]

Football attracts thugs...

[sp1814]

Blimey.

AOG - do you not realise how often you jump into other people's threads and try to make it about you??!!?

It's really very poor indeed.

And it's beginning to sound a bit...dare I say it...whiny.

[black_cat51]

i wonder why though? it's not like football is a particularly masculine sport

[sp1814]

Chilldoubt

Back to your question.

What a horrible story, and a totally unnecessary waste of a young life, compounded by the probability that whoever did this won't be found...

[ummmm]

It's strange, Black cat. You don't see it happening in other sports.

[black_cat51]

that was an answer to Umm btw

[black_cat51]

i know - an TBH it's not like you see it from the players and it spills into the crowd - ok so suarez bit someone, but you don't see it (thuggery on the pitch)all that often!

[sandyRoe]

North African football seems to attract a great deal of passion. Was it in Egypt a few years ago that hundreds were killed after rioting at a match?

[ummmm]

It's just an excuse.

[ummmm]

Sandy...what about that goal keeper that was shot for letting in a goal. Was it Brazil?

[sp1814]

ummm - it's was a Columbian goalkeeper.

[VHG]

He was a defender not a goalkeeper, and he scored an own goal.

His name was Andrés Escobar

[VHG]

But do you know what the most dangerous sport is?

Fishing !

More people die in the UK fishing than in any other "sport".

This was on the news yesterday

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-28910721

[ummmm]

Madness...

[DTCwordfan]

[anotheoldgit]

sp1814

Touched a raw nerve did I?

[DTCwordfan]

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