Hooligans won't win!
On a weekend when football remembered events at Hillsborough twenty four years ago it seems some want to use the game for violence.
Newcastle fans ran riot after the local derby. Pictures have gone round the internet of a Newcastle fan trying to fight a horse! I'm sure Newcastle Football Club are very proud of him!
The day before Millwall fans decided to fight each other!
Why wait to go to the home of football to do that?
Why use football and its sacred home to have a punch up?
At Griffin Park, home of Brentford FC, Portsmouth caused trouble. The South Coast club have applied to be owned by a fans group; I'm sure the events at the weekend won't help the cause!
Ninety six people lost their lives twenty four years ago and although football hooligans had nothing to do with it, at the time there was a lot of it going on.
Lessons have been learnt since that tragic day but it would seem only by the authorities; hooligans don't care!
It’s all about respect; respecting other fans. Banter is great! At the end of the day it’s about supporting your team through singing and cheering them on; it’s as simple as that.
Fans will stick up for their team no matter what; but is it worth taking a punch for?
Stabbed for?
Losing your life for?
England is in a bit of a state at the moment due to new benefit cuts, bedroom tax and high unemployment.
People are angry and that includes football fans. Football shouldn't be used as a vehicle for violence but it is, it seems.
Back in the seventies and eighties it was in the headlines every week!
The football authorities and Police can try and control it but that is all they can do. It’s up to the football fan at the end of the day.
The sad thing is it's football that's getting a kick in the balls.