Violence flares in Leicester Square after England's shocking World Cup defeat

Daily Mail ^ | June 27, 2010 | Staff

[GAB-1955]

You certainly are. It's a common strategy to kick the ball deep out of your side of the field, get it out of bounds, and win the lineout (basically a jump ball with your eight forwards, two of which can actually jump).

Rugby Union and Rugby League are great sports which encourage overall fitness and strength, not like the high-strung sprinters in soccer. It doesn't encourage over-specialization, like American football. They are great sports. I loved playing loose head prop for Maryland's club.

[steel_resolve]

You’re absolutely right - there is nothing - n-o-t-h-i-n-g more badass than Rugby. It’s awesome.

[Dexter Morgan]

Actually, considering the difficulty of scoring in soccer and that this is the world soccer championship, a more fair comparison would be England vs. Germany to San Fransisco vs. Denver (55 to 10) in Super Bowl XXIV.

[justiceseeker93]

That German is out of his mind to get involved in the middle of a London street like that and put his life in jeopardy. When you win, you shouldn't do anything to rouse up the losers, especially when you are all by yourself surrounded by their fans. What a knucklehead!!! I would bet that alcohol had a lot to do with the whole incident.

BTW, England was robbed out of a goal by bad officiating. But I'd presume that the final outcome would have and should have been 4-2 in favor of the Germans. Do you think there would have been less of incident if that were the official result?

[Clemenza]

Hey Pommies, still gung ho about putting down the "unprepared" Yanks?

Every World Cup we get the Poms telling us how they will get to the finals and every year their sorry as-es underperform. As a friend of mine pointed out, the English are the Cleveland Caveliers of international Football.

[fortheDeclaration]

'One game changes everything'!

Isn't soccer suppose to bring about World peace?

[spetznaz]

Agreed ....Rugby is simply the manliest game out there (as is its cousin Aussie Rules). There is no stopping every second minute ....it is full on blast war. I am not dumping on American football (I like the strategy), but there is something about Rugby that is easily more visceral.

[SunkenCiv]

I think that soccer fans (hooligans) have done this in the past, they’re doing it now, and they will always do it in the future. But hey, at least when they get what pass for their brains beaten in, they have guaranteed national health care plans.

[justiceseeker93]

...they have guaranteed national health care plans.

Maybe, maybe not. It all depends if the bureaucratic gatekeepers approve of the medical services they might need to fix up their beaten-in brains.