This is when football goes wrong, it seems even fans of the same team are fighting each other. If this happened in England the whole world would know about it. Argentine club Newell's Old Boys' home game with San Lorenzo was suspended after a police officer was shot and wounded by hooligans in the city of Rosario on Saturday, local media reported. Two "barra brava" hooligans riding a motorbike took 10 to 12 shots at a rival faction of Newell's fans and officer Maximo Alegre was hit in the buttocks, the local newspaper La Capital (www.lacapital.com.ar) said. His life was not in danger. Police chief Cristian Sola of Rosario, 300 km north of Buenos Aires, and the Security Secretary for Santa Fe province, Horacio Ghirardi, announced the decision to suspend the match at the Marcelo Bielsa stadium. It was the third match suspended due to violence among fans in the 19-round Clausura, second of two championships in the season. Velez Sarsfield's home match against San Lorenzo in March was suspended after just seven minutes when a Saints fan died after fighting between fans and police. The remaining 83 minutes were played a month later with Velez winning 2-0. Two weeks ago, champions Estudiantes were leading 2-0 at Huracan when home fans rioted in the stands. The match was suspended in the 32nd minute and the rest of it was played behind closed doors on Thursday with Estudiantes winning 3-0. Violence is endemic in Argentine football and turf wars between rival factions of fans of the same team have become more common than fighting against supporters of other sides
Violence in football is rife in alot of foreign countries, yet England still has a stigma attached to us linking us with violence. I suppose all these movies about football hooligans made in England glamourising it doesn't help. I don't think we will ever lose that stigma.
Did any of you see the Ross Kemp on gangs episode when he was in Poland with the hoolies over there? They were all Nazi's, I mean, ****ing Nazi's in Poland after what happened to them during the war. Apparrently, a lot of Eastern European countries are the same with totally over the top openly racist veiws. I dunno, but maybe it has something to do with them all being in the former Warsaw Pact under the old Soviet Union.
