75 people killed at a soccer match!!! - WTF!?

[sws1]

Don't even know what to say.

[Soul Man]

I say that it's shocks me but at the same time it doesn't.

The stupidity that some of these soccer fans express is unreal as is the local police / government / facilities PREPARATION TO STOP STUFF LIKE THIS HAPPENING.

Shouldn't these people stage these matches FULLY EXPECTING a riot to occur? Seems to me they would be better prepared.

Oh and one thing - it's a game. Chill people.

[circusinthesky]

That's what happens when tensions are high. Soccer's just the excuse.

Also, you're the government of a volatile populace. Wouldn't you rather have them rioting on a playing field instead of in front of government buildings?

[robare99]

Let's just say American Football is for pussies.



Soccer is where it's at!!!


:love:

[a1briz]

Let's just say American Football is for pussies.



Soccer is where it's at!!!


:love:


+1...

It's not "just a game". But in this case it was just an excuse.

[MightyGuru]

http://images.headlineshirts.net/media/catalog/product/cache/3/image/5e06319eda06f020e43594a9c230972d/s/o/soccer_art_258.jpg

[shg]

Lol, soccer. While the riot was going on there was probably a player rolling around on the grass, screaming and holding his face because the ball bounced into his leg.

[cram]

damn. rushed against locked gates would suck.
too bad.
fanatics are... a bit to fanatic sometimes eh?

[dysorexia]

I love how people who argue about sports are much too fat to play them.

[MadFrank]

Perhaps the blood isn't dry enough yet for such levity? This isn't so much about Football, this time, as about politics. These people were murdered in a premeditated attack.

[EricPeterson]

I love how people who argue about sports are much too fat to play them.

:huh What does this have to do with the OP?

Perhaps the blood isn't dry enough yet for such levity? This isn't so much about Football, this time, as about politics. These people were murdered in a premeditated attack.

Exactly, there is a lot more to the situation than a football game, and the other subjects are off limits here.

[tapeworm]

I lost my hubcaps at Anfield.

[andrekp]

Perhaps the blood isn't dry enough yet for such levity? This isn't so much about Football, this time, as about politics. These people were murdered in a premeditated attack.

I wouldn't get TOO uptight about people calling it "soccer" since it's the Brits who both codified the game AND started calling it soccer - making it a perfectly acceptable and official name.

Soccer was originally called Association Football to distinguish it from other footballs, such as rugby. Since the Brits give a nickname to everything that has a name, it became "soccer."

[Nurk2]

Perhaps the blood isn't dry enough yet for such levity? This isn't so much about Football, this time, as about politics. These people were murdered in a premeditated attack.

I was kinda thinking this myself: too soon (too sad).

[Average Joe]

That's what happens when tensions are high. Soccer's just the excuse.

Also, you're the government of a volatile populace. Wouldn't you rather have them rioting on a playing field instead of in front of government buildings?

Yeah this have absolutely nothing to do with the game or the sport. A political clash, and a very sad one

[MadFrank]

I wouldn't get TOO uptight about people calling it "soccer" since it's the Brits who both codified the game AND started calling it soccer - making it a perfectly acceptable and official name.

Soccer was originally called Association Football to distinguish it from other footballs, such as rugby. Since the Brits give a nickname to everything that has a name, it became "soccer."

Well.. fair point, but I was just doing that as a kind of friendly ;) or 'ding' sort of thing - you know, a kind of transatlantic rivalry friendly dig. At the time I posted I didn't want to use a wink emoticon next to the serious post I was making, but I shouldn't really have included the reference at all in the post, due to it's disturbing content. Any levity seems rather trivial in the face of such barbarism.

I can't get the image out of my head of all those innocent fans trapped in the stadium and facing that onslaght of brutality. Of the people hearded into sections and then the stadium being set on fire around them. It makes me think of the genocide of the partition in India/Pakistan during the late 1940's. I still rejoice that Egypt has become a democracy, but democracy often comes at a terrible cost.

[DT7]

That's what happens when people are A-holes. Soccer's just the excuse.


Fixed it for ya.

[EricPeterson]

Fixed it for ya.

You dont think there might be a little more going on in Egypt right now than "people being A-holes?" :huh Maybe no one spanked them when they were kids.

[DT7]

You dont think there might be a little more going on in Egypt right now than "people being A-holes?" :huh Maybe no one spanked them when they were kids.


So you go from lambasting folks who suffer to spank their kids when they need it to defending those who killed or were killed because of a soccer game? A stinking game???

*I need to feel good...I need to feel good...nothing else matters, I need to feel good...*

[EricPeterson]

So you go from lambasting folks who suffer to spank their kids when they need it to defending those who killed or were killed because of a soccer game? A stinking game???

*I need to feel good...I need to feel good...nothing else matters, I need to feel good...*

You clearly have no idea what is going on in Egypt if you think this was all about a soccer/football game.

[Boris Bubbanov]

Unfulfilled expectations.

A lot of pent up frustration has gotten loose. People assumed everything would change but little in fact has. This particular football match is a sort of mini microcosm of the whole mess over there. You win "the game" and then you realize you haven't really won sh!t.

That's it in a nutshell. Lots of rage over there. You ask the question: Is it better to resign yourself to knowing your life is f@cked, or to begin believing your life will be transformed only to find after all the excitement, you are still f@cked.

F@cked, Chapter Two I guess we could call it. Frustration, anxiety. Can't be easy.

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I am NOT condoning this mayhem and death. This is just an explanation or analysis, if you like.