England fans attacked by hooligans

[AngryAmish]

"Hostility off the pitch erupted in violence last night as riot police shielded English supporters after an attempted ambush by drunken German mob

GERMAN riot police charged crowds of football supporters in the centre of Cologne last night at the end of England’s match against Sweden.
Police with batons drawn moved in to thwart what appeared to be an attempt by German football hooligans to attack English fans in the central Café Alter Markt.

Officers surrounded one bar where German fans were drinking and formed a human barricade between the Germans and English."

[saigon68]

1. Just soccer Hooligans

Nothing to see move along.

Good thing they have all that free time and energy.

[kenny blankenship]

3. It's a case of 'Man bites dog'

The reversal of expected roles makes it news. Usually it's British soccer 'ooligans running amok on the continent.

[saigon68]

17. Or as Vic Romano would say

Nice comeback Kenny

[brentspeak]

2. Better to attend an MLS game in the U.S. than a soccer match in Europe

You can get much better seats here, and no one attacks you.

[Owsley]

10. I'll take...

...the quality of play in the Premiership over the MLS any day. I'm not saying the MLS won't one day compete, but for now, I'd sacrifice the chance of fan hostility in order to watch two quality English clubs play.

Owsley

[Telly Savalas]

14. What is the probability of fan hostility at a Premierhip game?

Pretty close to zero for people not looking for trouble, isn't it?

[Celefin]

4. Riots in Cologne!!!

Yeah right...
they make it sound as if most of the city centre was a battleground
when it was about 40 drunken idiots.
*sigh*

You just can't make headlines with roughly three million fans
from a multitude of social and ethnic backgrounds
partying peacefully at the same time in the whole country.

Let the soccer-bashing commence.

[Stella_Artois]

5. Ban that "Sport" !!!!11!!!

It makes statiscally inevitable levels of violence that results in having hundreds of thousands of people together happen !

[The Backlash Cometh]

6. Oh, but what passion.

[LiviaOlivia]

9. What Europe needs is a 'Prohibition of Alcohol Act' like the US had

:evilgrin:...Look what it did for America.

[INDIA]

13. YEAH!

Just like the Super Bowl, and World Series, US Open, Olympics, RIOTS EVERYHWHERE!!!!

[EFerrari]

16. Not riots, just the breakdown of law and order in most American

cities due to bootleggers, the mob, the Feds -- oh, those were exciting times. :)

And for the record, BRASILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!

[demo dutch]

18. For the record ...Go Holland!!!

[Karenina]

8. Fuck the media!

We're REALLY having a grand old time in these parts.

[Celefin]

15. Right you are!

The only dangerous thing about the Worldcup is all that
work you don't get done and will have to catch up on.
Thinking about that...
*must.... watch... next... match*
um.. right!

Berlin! Berlin! Wir fahren nach Berlin!

;)

[Kellanved]

7. Give it a rest

The cup is incredible so far - very little violence and an extremely good time for tens of millions. Whith crowds that big, there are always some fringe arrests; compared to the usual super bowl riot there's no violence (no deaths, no destroyed cars, no serious injuries).

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

11. It wasn't me.

I swear.

(hides german police helmet behind back)

[MadHound]

12. Well, that's only because the British were the visiting team,

And playing short handed:rofl:

Seriously, before the World Cup started, England banned aprox 3700 of its more notorious hooligans from traveling anywhere abroad while the World Cup was going on. How can you expect these sorts of clashes to be fair when the British are handcuffed like that:sarcasm: