Whew, they won 3-2. No wonder everyone fights in the stands, it's the only way to make the game interesting.
During a basketball game, for example, there's always something going on (unless it's a blowout). Something important is always happening.
In soccer, though, you can bash a beer bottle over the head of the guy beside you, push the fatty in front of you, and head butt the German behind you, and still nothing will have happened during the game. A guy can knee you in the back, a boy can throw soda at you, and the score will still be 1-2. After 45 minutes of getting your @$% kicked, you decide to look up to see how the game's doing, it's 1-2.
So I guess I don't blame them for fighting. It's the Europeans' way of compensation, kind of like viagra.
It is only recently that I've ever heard Americans dis' soccer. Contrary to popular conservative belief it is NOT political and has as little to do with liberalism as does belly button lint. Nobody ever told me it was a gay sport when I was a kid yet I come from an ultra conservative background. Having played it as a child in pickup games, I can say that it is just as physically demanding as many other sports and I really don't understand the animus one sees towards the sport here on FR. The US military certainly aren't "girly men" but that was one of our favorite sports to play for PT- probably for the same reason it is popular throughout the world- it's cheap and you don't need anything more than a ball. I know nobody on this board is going to call the US Army a bunch of wimps because they like soccer.