Arteta is claiming it should be Arsenal ... ... personally I feel it could, and perhaps should, be played by two teams made up from the PSG squad
Bantz aside ... that was one of the most entertaining football games (can't really say 'match' ) that I've seen in a very long time ... it felt like an exhibition or testimonial... Italians teams have, historically, had a tendency to get somewhat brutally cynical with tackles, obstructions, and play acting when getting outplayed ... but to give last night's game a boxing analogy - they simply couldn't lay a glove on PSG - at times it seemed like they were chasing elusive shadows ... in lead boots.. I suspect we are going to see a lot more PSG shirts in our streets in the coming weeks ... ... and maybe on here!
2 dead and hundreds arrested in France following PSG's win .. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx2yv5n7424t
Pretty sure I read during the game that things were kicking off already. Feels like people with an axe to grind took their chances knowing there was a distraction.
Thing is - genuine fans are then deprived / punished - summer riots in Paris are an annual event attended by many and previously nowt to do with footie ...
Inter average age was 30, PSG 25 it showed big time PSG look electric reminds me peak Spurs under Poch 2017/18
Tough luck on the footie fans. Perhaps they might think twice if it's cancelled. Probably not though.
I think it's the same with a lot of alleged football violence in history, which I feel is linked with social issues in society, hence why you see these problems in Paris. Maggie Thatcher knew how to tame them, deprive them of their social pleasures through taxation and new regulations. I expect a lot of the football violence we had in the late 70's through to the early 80's was due to high unemployment. I also remember a lot of the football violence in Yugoslavia use to be linked to social issues, so much so they went to war. I'm not saying all football violence is through the above, but I reckon in Paris it's linked to far wider issues. Macron won't have the balls to ban a parade though, because it will just lead to more rioting, double edged sword.
If it's cancelled - chances are there will be even more trouble - least they should be able to control an 'official' parade ...
Thought I'd do a quick google on the **** I'm going on about, will be plenty of articles on it, going back decades I expect, but this was the first to pop up in my very brief search... https://www.varsity.co.uk/sport/22092 Final paragraph summary,,, The riot marked the beginning of the end for the Yugoslav First League. By the close of the 1990–91 season, Slovenia and Croatia declared independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, going on to form their own respective football league systems. The subsequent Yugoslav wars that raged thereafter would become one of the deadliest conflicts in Europe since the very war that gave rise to the football sides, with an estimated 140,000 thousand losing their lives and a further two million consequently displaced.
Oldham v Southend quite entertaining. Few challenges flying in and an early own goal has opened the game up. 1-0 Southend and Oldham have just hit the post.
