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Barca fight back to take crown.

Barcelona came back from a goal down to beat 10-man London's Arsenal 2-1 to win their second European Cup in the 50th anniversary final in Paris. :)

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I doubt that Thierry Henry will sign for Barca now seeing as he was kicked off the park!

Congratulations

The world cup is just around the corner and if the behaviour of some Barcelona fans are anything to go by, then we are sure to get nightly reports of street violence that will make the Green/Mundane pugelistic encounter a bun fight. Why is there so much violence associated with football? Alpha males (an females) on the rampage usually wearing designer shoes. Is it something to do with their footwear: Believe it or not a lot of casuals and soccer hooligans keep their shoes as a momentum of their waring years. Never a dull moment in the world of feet

What say you?

Cameron
Hey, what do I know?

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Cameron Kippen

Unfortunately, street violence in Barcelona is not only related to soccer. From last two years, there have been an increasing of riots and loots every time a crowd gathered at night on the streets (parties, sports celebrations, demonstrations, etc). It have been published on newspapers that Barcelona not only attracts thousands of tourists, some undesirable individuals from around Europe and other countries have sheltered in Barcelona and they take advantage from this events for looting, destruction and fighting against police.

I do not know if they keep their shoes also for remembering their acts; but it is becoming a bothering problem.

Perhaps, it would sound like an Aldous Huxley book; but, it will be necessary to think about violence as something inherent to human being and the state should offer some kind of relief to this Alpha males (and females) individuals. How about an excursion to Irak? or Ice Hockey games would be more suitable?

javier

Street violence has been a constant feature in the UK since the 16th century. Then the hooligans were called foot pads and would rob, rape mane almost at will. A hundred years later gangs of well dressed young aristocratic men terrorised the street of Lodon. they were referred to as the Macaronis (because they preferred to wear fashionable Italian clothing). To send fear round the cobbled city streets they had metal snags attached to their buckled shoes which clanged loudly on the stone. No real difference three hundred years later with soccer casuals. The 18th and 19th centuries were not much better with drunken louts ruling the streets in the UK. Street violence became such as spectacle, boxing by the Queensbery Rules became a sophisticated sport and remarkably people came from all over Europe just to witness, the debauched behaviour in the streets. The influence of war did remove many of the populous from the streets but civil violence was still common in places like the US when GIs would rumble with spivs and zoot suiters. Trouble was so well known that GIs had to get a pass when on leave to visit New York. Post war saw street violence again with the Teddy boys, and a decade later no self respecting sun bather was safe when the English Mods and Rockers meet for at the English resorts for a fight. Street gangs reappeard in all the major cities and towns in the UK during the sixties as drugs became a major currency. By the seventies neo fascisim was very much on the agenda with skinheads spearheading the movement on the terraces of the soccer stadiums. The new order in the eighties was the upward mobile casuals, mostly young men aged from 17 - 35, dressed in designer gear but with no visible means of income. Removal of barriers to people movement in the Europe and the breakdown of the Soviet Union in the latter part of the 20th centurey has given further imputus to organised street violence with global events a mecca to hordes or revellers intent on violence. Large shifts of population mean it becomes easier to transport illicit cargo through custom points when the officialdom are otherwise engaged routing out ruffians. Already the German authorites have warned there will be an unprecedented increase in the number of illegal sex-workers in Germany during the world cup, brought in illegally from Eastern countries, many of them are working as white slaves.

Sadly me thinks we have not become more civilised.

Cheers
Cameron

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