Riots Erupt In Belgian And Dutch Cities After Morocco World Cup Win

[naomi24]

https://news.sky.com/story/riots-erupt-in-brussels-after-morocco-pull-off-world-cup-upset-beating-belgium-12756774

What is it about football that prompts this disgusting behaviour? I can't think of any other sport that has a similar effect.

[andy-hughes]

That's it, Naomi says so!!

(That small clunking noise is a case being rested!!) LOL!!!

[DTCwordfan]

Rather than Catholics vs. Prossies as in Celtic/Rangers or Liverpool/Everton what we have here is Catholics vs. Muslims, the one unifying thing between the Flemish and Wallies being their religion, this religious bloc extending over the northern border into the southern Cloggie-land, i.e. Maastricht up to Rotterdam. And so too the Muslim population as in north Brussels, Antwerp and up to Rotterdam, a recipe for a few tribal barnies.....

[DTCwordfan]

And there is a lot of Moroccans in the area....Germany more represented by the Turks and the French with the 'Hommes de sud'.

[naomi24]

DTC, do you really think there’s more to it than football?

[andy-hughes]

DTC - // Rather than Catholics vs. Prossies as in Celtic/Rangers or Liverpool/Everton what we have here is Catholics vs. Muslims, the one unifying thing between the Flemish and Wallies being their religion, this religious bloc extending over the northern border into the southern Cloggie-land, i.e. Maastricht up to Rotterdam. And so too the Muslim population as in north Brussels, Antwerp and up to Rotterdam, a recipe for a few tribal barnies..... //

I think you are empowering the thugs with a deal more sophistication in terms of motivation that they actually possess.

It's a chance to fight people who also want to fight, nominally about football.

It's nothing more complicated than that.

[Yeoma]

andy you have it in a nutshell there, imo.

[royfromaus]

[naomi24]

Does animosity between cultures require any degree of sophistication? I think not.

[royfromaus]

It's a chance to fight people who also want to fight, nominally about football.

It's nothing more complicated than that.
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And yet............................................

[DTCwordfan]

andy - that's a bit naive - there are some highly intelligent, deluded, sugar-stirring members on both sides out to catalyse the gorms to slug it out.

[andy-hughes]

DTC - As in any enterprise, hooliganism, drugs, wars, business in general ...

There are always a minority of bright people pulling strings, and a majority who just go along.

My points refer to the reasons for hooligans, I am perfectly aware of the controlling interests behind them, but that is not what we are talking about.

You can discuss the war in Ukraine in terms if the result, you don't have to delve into the political motivation controlling things ...

[DTCwordfan]

okay I'll efff off for the night and go and find some Moroccan to go and beat up down here - what a load of celebral tosh.

[naomi24]

Chill, DTC. ;o)

[DTCwordfan]

as to naomi's comment, cricket has had its moments over the century, so too baseball and American football as well as ice-hockey. some of th American football violence atschool level is disgraceful with parents known to attack the opposite parents and even the players, wit an appalling one in California about 10 years ago.

[andy-hughes]

DTC - // what a load of celebral tosh. //

That's cerebral tosh I think you'll find ...

[andy-hughes]

roy - // It's a chance to fight people who also want to fight, nominally about football.

It's nothing more complicated than that.
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And yet............................................ //

And yet ... what?

[royfromaus]

And yet post after post of...well I will let each and every individual finish of the sentence.

[andy-hughes]

roy - // And yet post after post of...well I will let each and every individual finish of the sentence.

Ok -

royfromaus - "And yet post after post of opinions and thoughts, and I have nothing of any interest to add to it."

How's that?

[naomi24]

Oh good grief! Yet another thread killed stone dead. Nothing left to say except abandon hope all ye who enter here!

[johnk]

Putin shot off some missiles, is that football's fault?