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Old 05-08-2008, 15:37   #14
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Re: Football Hooligans and now

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Originally Posted by garinda View Post
There's only one problem with your idea that football violence is a good idea for curbing youthful vigour, it's not only each other they hurt.

I went to football matches from the late sixties, all the way into the early eighties, your 'golden era' of football hooliganism, and I saw children whose heads were smashed open by flying bottles, and women and kids who were crushed by falling gates, battered down by so called football fans.

Personally I feel pity for those sad individuals who can only feel any self-worth by being part of a gang.
i never read it,like he was saying its a good idea, more making the point that it was a possible outlet,which has been rightfully clamped down on, n asking is that why the yobs vent anger on the streets nowadays, personally i think there may be summat in that statement, not that a return to what was is the answer, but it may well be part of the reason WHY.
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