Oh please. I just pointed out that fan violence at sporting events is not unheard of here at all. It happens everywhere and that includes the US. However it certainly isn’t widespread to the point that it happens all the time as some people here claim.
The Heysel Stadium disaster occurred due to football hooliganism in which a retaining wall of the Heysel Stadium in Brussels collapsed on May 29, 1985 before a football match between Liverpool F.C. from England and Juventus F.C. from Italy. 39 people were killed, mostly Italian Juventus fans.
18 stabbed at Colombian soccer riot March 10, 2008 More than 80 injured. Video of the riot available. No word yet on whether or not the ghost of Andres Escobar was involved. Escobar was the player who was assassinated after accidentally scoring an own-goal in the 1994 World Cup.
1964:Lima, Peru: riot and panic following unpopular ruling by referee in Peru vs. Argentina soccer game. It is worst soccer disaster on record. Over 300 dead.
Ellis Park, South Africa 2001 The Premier Soccer League last night came under attack after 43 people were reported dead at the overcrowded Ellis Park Stadium after watching a game between soccer arch-rivals Orlando Pirates and Kaizer Chiefs.
1989: BRITAIN is still the sick man of Europe in soccer violence, for which it has, as Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher says, ''the worst record in the developed world.'' It set another one last weekend when 95 people, most of them youths from Liverpool, died pushing and squeezing their way into a soccer stadium in the northern city of Sheffield.
I could go on, but it's not worth the bandwidth.