No Hooliganism?

[thesshhh]

Has there really not been any hooliganism from fans of any nation at this World Cup? I’ve not read any reports of it. Very impressive if that’s the case

[rockyracoon]

I don't think many are too keen on being thrown into a Russian prison.

[kvalidir]

Yeah it kind of an advert for Russian policing, I mean would you?

[Everhelpful]

Wait until Russia get knocked out.!!

[Canary42]

Just wait until closing time tonight on the streets of England.

[Peter Pedant]

// Yeah it kind of an advert for Russian policing, I mean would you?//

financial filter ? you have to have money and be able to read and write to get out there.

and no I dont think I would mix it with a russian policeman

[Arksided]

Lol @ Canarys' post ;-)

To the OP though none that I'm aware of either.

[ummmm]

There was some before the world cup even started. A Brit man has been given 3 year football ban. Probably quite a few scuffles that aren't being reported. I'd say near the stadiums are highly policed.

[ummmm]

There was a big scrap in a pub my son was. They got in a double decker bus with a huge TV in the garden. I don't think they realised how many people would turn up.

[mushroom25]

Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a f......

[douglas9401]

The authorities have visited known scum and given them chapter and verse on the consequences, apparently.

Mental illness will not be accepted as a defence.

[Zacs-Master]

Nor will being Scottish.

[EDDIE51]

Beside the point, but I see a LOT of empty seats. In the England match there some stands were half empty. Are they having problems selling all the tickets?

[Peter Pedant]

Didnt the russians brain someone in Liverpool ?
also they targeted fans in the last cup
and I think Salisbury has had an effect ....

[ummmm]

PP - IN the last world cup?

Eddie I think they ballsed up with the tickets.

[DTCwordfan]

re Canary's comment....
I took my daughter up to Leeds for Uni and she has a lovely studio apartment right in the centre. It was Tuesday when she moved in and there were plenty of fans around and police. She got her introduction to Yorkshire 'humour' at 2.30 in the morning, waking to the sound of the police in front of her block. Turns out it was a drunken football fan, his England shirt up over his nipples and that was it - so, in other words, he was stark-bolllock naked. The police were there, the line of questioning -
"Now what do you think young children or girls would think if they saw you like this?"

His response in the local burr, "They shud alll be in feckin' bed by now."

[ichkeria]

That was Italians Peter. They weren’t at the World Cup and were too busy anyway since they’ve now been elected to government :-)
Russian hooligans were never likely to materialise at home, the Poles were probably too sensible, the English too deterred by cost distance and er fears of hooliganism. Though some England fans were doing Nazi salutes in a bar in Volgograd - which for boneheadedness pretty much tops it, and were in any case turned on by compatriots.

[Peter Pedant]

// PP - In the last world cup? //

no in the 'pule ! - ter daah !
the world cup wasnt run in Liverpool, last time, remember

One of the Rooshan clubs playing in Liverpool as visitors - not residents or invaders had a right wing clan and they went out to bash home supporters ( and I thought killed one ). as in one luring a fan into an alley and five waiting for him.

Remember that Princess Anne fell off a horse in Kiev ( wha' - in the cup, then? ) whilst er riding it and they sent a neurosurgeon out to make sure she was OK.

[Peter Pedant]

thx Jim

// Though some England fans were doing Nazi salutes in a bar in Volgograd //

unwise - very unwise - see Jude Law in Enemy at the Gates - The Germans were lied to by their own side at Stalingrad, but the Press got the Zaitsev story and played it up on both sides. Terrible slaughter on both sides - I think 10% of the german prisoners taken at Stalingrad ( 250 000) made it back to Germany - some in 1956

When Feyrenoord played at Manchester some of the right wing Dutch fans marched down the street doing Nazi salutes - Chapel St Salford. This was terribly daring as it is against the law in Holland. I commented to a steward they should re read their history books

[Ken4155]

Did 132 of our known worst troublemakers not have their passports confiscated ahead of the World Cup? 132 may not seem like a high number, but hooligans are only a small faction of travelling fans and with the ringleaders removed from the front line, chances are no-one wants to step up. Don't know for sure, but other countries may have done the same which would go part way to reducing the number of incidents.

[Canary42]

Just like I said.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-44756829