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Algerian soccer fans show their passport in travel agency to get a flight ticket for Sudan in Algiers. Tension between the two Arab countries, fuelled by the media and bloggers, has reached unprecedented levels with both sides reporting acts of violence and sabotage against their nationals and interests.
Football hooligans: Kuwait vows zero tolerance
Thousands of euphoric and vociferous Egyptians filled the main streets in Kuwait City on Saturday after their national team's win in a crucial match against Algeria for the 2010 World Cup finals.
By Habib Toumi, Bureau Chief
November 17, 2009
gulfnews.com

Manama: Kuwait's interior ministry has vowed a zero-tolerance policy towards security and traffic violations as the country braces itself for massive street jubilations by expatriate fans following the crucial football match between Algeria and Egypt on Wednesday.

"The ministry has taken all precautionary measures to tackle any attempt to break the law and there will be a zero-tolerance policy towards any breach of security or traffic. Parades and large assemblies will be strictly banned," Colonel Mohammad Al Sabr, the interior ministry spokesman, said. "Everyone has the right to celebrate and express happiness, but without abusing the rights of other people."

Thousands of euphoric and vociferous Egyptians filled the main streets in Kuwait City on Saturday after their national team's win in a crucial match against Algeria for the 2010 World Cup finals.

The ministry's warning and call for restraint came ahead of the final match between Algeria and Egypt on Wednesday in neutral Sudan to decide which of the two teams will qualify amid local concerns that street jubilations and joy triggered by a qualification would be marred by horrific verbal abuses and physical violence. More than 250,000 Egyptians live in Kuwait, making them one of the largest expatriate communities in the country. The Algerian community is much smaller.

Tension between the two Arab countries, fuelled by the media and bloggers, has reached unprecedented levels with both sides reporting acts of violence and sabotage against their nationals and interests.

Al Sabr said that expatriate football fans needed to reign in their enthusiasm and abide by the local culture and safety standards in celebrating victories and expressing public joy.

"While the ministry shares the expatriates' happiness, we urge them to express it within the confines of sports and fair play, without harming or hurting anyone and ensuring their own safety and that of other people," Colonel Mohammad Al Sabr, the interior ministry spokesman, said.
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Reading the comments on that video, this is one of the funniest I've ever seen - just a pity the thick twat didn't mean to be funny!

"The romansain got it last night in rome
No surrender "

No surrender to geography! Laughing
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Hooliganism: the ugly rush
By Eleni Antoniou
Cyprus Mail

WE WERE warned to stay back and hide the colours of our scarves and T-shirts. Having barbwire between myself and the police is not a first for me; I was involved in various demonstrations during my teenage years and am accustomed to large crowds of screaming, raving heads.

However, standing outside a football stadium with a group of aggravated fans pleading with policemen to let us through was unknown territory. We weren’t trying to cause trouble (at least I wasn’t), but the message was that if you don’t want to get your head smashed in, you should either “zip up and hide your colours or wait until the opposing team leaves.”

Football has always caused a stir in social properness since the English came up with hooliganism in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Although the English Disease can apparently be traced back to the Middle Ages, when Edward II banned football because he believed the disorder surrounding matches might lead to social unrest or even treason, it has somehow seeped into international social groups causing so much trouble. ‘Social unrest’ doesn’t even come close to describing it.

If you happen to have witnessed an act of hooliganism, you’ll perhaps portray it as the closest you’ll ever come to war. “Those were my exact feelings when I was 15 and I found myself caught up in the middle of a heated argument that quickly turned into a fist-fight and eventually a riot,” explains football fan Panayiotis Andreou, 27. He admits that it was an adrenaline-rush experience he felt the need to participate in. “When you’re at such a young age, when rebelling is in your blood, you don’t run. You stay and fight!”

Even before entering the stadium, the vibes are strong enough to make your stomach flutter with excitement for no apparent reason. It’s almost as if you know something could happen at any moment and unconsciously you’re preparing to run for your life, join in or take a spot where observation is boundless.

“I remember the first time I saw a fight break out in front of me. I froze and felt completely useless for not being able to stop it,” recalls Theodosia Larini, a 28-year-old lawyer. Indeed, it can be difficult and traumatising for a woman or a child when fans clash, however, everywhere you look, there are kids holding onto their father or mother’s hand, decked in the favourite team’s colours while groups of girls keep moving in, sometimes chanting or talking on their mobile phones, looking as though they don’t have a care in the world.

Gone are the days when football grounds were viewed as a female-free zone; today, the scene is open to all ages, races and sexes. Elena, 17, says: “I am a big fan of the sport anyway but I also regularly attend games because it’s always a fun environment. We meet up with friends and love the excitement and roughness of it.”

In the prime of hooliganism in Cyprus, one incident that remains in mind is the image of a middle-aged man being beaten to near death by a group of youngsters. His seven-year-old son witnessed the episode and once the angry mob was pulled away, the boy stood over his father’s still body, pulling his hair and trying to lift him.

As a 28-year-old married woman who occasionally feels the need to let loose and take in some excitement, there are very few places to do so in a small and prejudiced society like Cyprus. Imagine what it’s like for a hot-blooded teenager or socially pressured 35-year-old! Patrick Murphy, CRSS of the University of Lancaster once wrote: “While it will probably give the administrators of Cypriot football little comfort, it may be that the sport is acting as a kind of safety valve for aggressive male adolescent energies. “If these are chocked-off in the football context, they may be displaced and surface in other, perhaps equally if not more threatening social contexts.”

Despite a get-tough-on-hooligans law being passed almost two years ago, football-related violence hasn’t died down. While government and police are scratching their heads as to how incidents keep occurring, basic statements we were given by hardcore fans, which were almost impossible to find let alone talk, give a good indication.

One 25-year-old said: “We hate each other – even if it is for just 90 minutes.” Another, in his early 30s said: “We don’t feel it’s a game. It’s war. And it’s one that has been going on forever. Opposing teams like APOEL and Omonoia or AEL and Apollon will never like each other and there’s nothing anyone can do.”

While it was almost impossible to contact fans from any first division teams, one has to simply search the internet to see just how serious football fans can be. One video found on YouTube was titled: ‘Hardcore hooligans, stand your ground and fight’.

In the UK, more than 2,500 English football fans were banned from going to Euro 2004. This was based on a policy founded on the notion that hooliganism is the preserve of a small minority of trouble-makers. Target this marginal faction, so the official argument goes, and you will eliminate the problem. However, psychologists who specialise in crowd behaviour and who have made a special study of football fans’ behaviour, have arrived at almost diametrically opposite conclusions. They believe that many caught up in riots have no previous history of violence and instead are galvanised into actions by a sense of solidarity which emerges suddenly and powerfully, as a direct result of the way the authorities confront crowds.

Dr Clifford Stott, a psychologist at the University of Liverpool began to formulate his ideas after his study of the London poll tax riots in 1990, where it became clear that violence from a group of people who usually had not met much, or even at all before, emerges from the rapid but powerful development of a shared group identity.

This identity, he believes, is based on a strong sense of ‘them’ and ‘us’ which is often spurred on by certain police control techniques. Add to that the strong history that exists between Cypriot teams, the politics and the ‘small society’ factor and you have a recipe for disaster.

If UK police strategies have failed against football hooligans, evident of when one man was recently stabbed at a game between rival teams Millwall and West Ham, what hope could there be for Cyprus where police have declared they’re scared of arresting rampaging hooligans?
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Football hooligans clash in Germany
November 29 2009

Frankfurt - Football fans fought with each other and clashed with police in at least three German cities over the weekend, with 85 people arrested and at least nine injured. Disturbances occurred in Berlin, Bochum and Bielefeld and involved supporters of several Bundesliga clubs, police said Sunday.

A match Sunday between the youth teams of Schalke and Borussia Dortmund in Gelsenkirchen had to be abandoned after 25 minutes because of fighting between rival fans. A group of about 100 Schalke fans attacked 50 Dortmund supporters. Police detained about 20 Schalke fans.

In Berlin, rival fans of Hertha Berlin and Eintracht Frankfurt clashed at Saturday's game and police arrested 66 people. Eintracht fans also attacked stadium marshals at one of the gates of the Olympic stadium and two supporters were detained. Eintracht won the match 3-1.

Hamburger SV fans going to their club's game in Mainz trashed the train they were traveling in and damaged shops at the Bielefeld station when the train made a scheduled stop there. About 150 drunken fans were detained and later sent back to Hamburg on buses. The match in Mainz ended in a 1-1 draw.

Cologne fans rioted in downtown Bochum before Friday's 0-0 draw, resulting in 19 arrests and nine injured. - Sapa-AP

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Achtung HOOLIGAN!
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South Africa roll out buses with onboard jails ready for World Cup football hooligans
November 30, 2009

South Africa have come up with a practical solution for tackling football hooliganism during the World Cup next year. The host country have converted a fleet of former 65-seater council buses into mobile jails which will be present at all England matches during the tournament.

The buses, which have been nicknamed Jaws, have enough cells onboard for 20 prisoners, plus a specially converted court where a judge will be present. This way, anyone found to be misbehaving can be convicted immediately. Chief Inspector Vincent Mogopudi explained the system: “By having it at the scene of a crime, we can arrest people and process them on the spot. Minutes later they can be before a judge in an office at the front of the vehicle.” He warned that the worst perpetrators would be taken to a conventional prison straight away, or transported to an airport ready for deportation.

The Justice Buses were trialled earlier this year during the Confederations Cup Tournament. Now the unique coaches will be rolled out during the Football World Cup which kicks off in South Africa on June 11th next year to help clamp down on the problem of violent behaviour between football supporters. 25,000 England supporters are expected to descend upon the country next summer and it’s hoped the buses will prove an effective deterrent for many.
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Serbia journalist threatened by football fans
Associated Press
2009-12-07

A Serbian journalist says she has received death threats after exposing dozens of unpunished crimes linked to the nationalist-backed football fan groups.

Brankica Stankovic from B92 independent radio and TV station says the threats followed last week's airing of her popular documentary "Insider." It listed dozens of offenses allegedly committed by football fan leaders, including drug trafficking, violent attacks and even murder, which all remain unpunished.

Football hooligans were behind the fatal beating in September of a French Toulouse fan in downtown Belgrade and a series of recent attacks on foreigners, gays and liberals. Those groups are believed to be tied to far-right extremist groups and nationalists.

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Serbian hooligans had a direct connection to the ethnic cleansing and violence during the war in the Balkans in the 90s.
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Beach party riot that left hooligan dead - police and council failed
09 December 2009
dutchnews.nl

The police, justice ministry and Rotterdam council officials all made mistakes before, during and after the Hoek van Holland beach party during which police shot dead one man after coming under attack, according to an official report into the event. The report by the security and crisis management institute COT says just 45 police officers in uniform were on duty when they were attacked by hundreds of youths, according to Nos tv.

The public prosecution department said on Tuesday that none of the officers who fired their weapons into the crowd at the Sunset Grooves event in August would face charges. One 19-year-old was killed and five others injured by police bullets.

The institute said there had not been proper coordination when the permits to hold the event were given, the preparation showed failings and the risk of trouble was under estimated. For example, hours before the party started, police were aware a large group of football hooligans was planning to cause trouble, but that information was not passed on to officials on the ground or senior police officers.

'At the beginning of the event there were all sorts of signals that things were going wrong. These signals were not properly recognised... and no extra measures were taken, the COT report said.

Rotterdam mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb said he accepted all the researchers' recommendations and would be adapting procedures.

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I'm surprised that I'd not heard anything about this before now.
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Football hooligan guilty of murder
December 11, 2009

A football hooligan has been convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to 30 years in prison in an apparent bid by Serbia's authorities to battle a surge in extremist violence.

Belgrade's District Court ruled on Thursday that 24-year-old Bojan Hrvatin was guilty of stabbing a rival fan to death during a fight that took place on a train in 2006. The judge said the attack had been planned in advance. He said fans of Belgrade Rad club boarded the train armed with bars, knives and rocks, knowing their rivals were on it.

Football hooligans are widely blamed for last year's burning of the US embassy in Belgrade during Kosovo protests and a series of recent attacks on liberals, gays and foreigners in Serbia, including the fatal beating in September of a French Toulouse fan. Hooligans are known to have close ties to far-right groups and former militants who fought in the Balkan wars of the 1990s.

Three other fans of Belgrade club Rad also were convicted on Thursday of taking part in the 2006 brawl and sentenced to up to three years in prison.

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30 years is a good sentence - any arsehole who gets to 24 and is still being such a rat deserves it.
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Argentine hooligans get savvy with politics

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -Dozens of groups of football hooligans in Argentina are promising to clean up their act and end the violence that has been linked to some 150 deaths in and out of stadiums.

Of course, there is a catch. These politically savvy hooligans are looking for government support, and hoping their campaign to end the intimidation and vandalism will lead to stipends for many to follow Argentina at the World Cup next year in South Africa.

The effort is being organized by Marcelo Mallo, who campaigned for former Argentina President Nestor Kirchner, whose wife, Cristina, succeeded him as president two years ago. Mallo has formed Hinchadas Unidas Argentinas (Argentine Fans United), and filed papers to be recognized as a non-governmental organization, which could lead to some government aid.

The political links are not disguised. At stadiums across the country, banners urging Kirchner to run again - "Come back Kirchner'' or "Kirchner 2011'' - also carry the initials HUA. "HUA's main objective is to get rid of violence at the stadiums,'' Mallo explained in an Associated Press interview. "If these groups can produce social leaders who work in the neighborhoods, tomorrow they can be tools the government has at its disposal. They could help win votes.''

Sitting in Mallo's office was a self-described hooligan named Emiliano, a supporter of the club Huracan. He sported a large tattoo on his left arm and repeated several times he'd nearly been killed in brawls with rival gangs. Another hooligan, who identified himself using only a rude nickname, showed off a scar on his right leg, the remnant of a gunshot wound, he said.

"The new generation is working to make sure there are no more deaths,'' Emiliano said. "We want the hooligan groups to get along. Politicians throw chairs at each other in parliament, and nothing happens. We fight with each other and they say we are hooligans.'' Many are skeptical the hooligans can be tamed.

Reports suggest about 300 members of hooligan groups are planning to travel to South Africa. Many do not have the $7,000 needed to cover their costs, and a top government official said there will not be any free travel. "The government neither rewards, promotes nor finances trips,'' said Pablo Paladino, undersecretary at the national department of Football Security.

Though they may wish to go to South Africa, FIFA, the world-governing body of football, may try to keep them out. At the 2006 World Cup in Germany, many English hooligans had their passports confiscated by British authorities, which kept them from traveling to Germany.

Argentine hooligans, like their counterparts in Europe, have thrived on intimidation. Their songs and chants cut them off from other fans, and when hundreds stand shoulder-to-shoulder in the heart of a stadium - waving flags, beating drums and shooting off fireworks - other fans learn to stay far away. Outside the stadium, they scalp tickets to finance themselves and prepare for an after-game brawl, taking on rivals with fists and knife fights that can injure innocent bystanders.

Mariano Berjes, a former judge and one of the founders of the Argentine group "Let's Save Football,'' opposes the hooligan alliance and accuses it of working a deal with the government. "One has to seriously suspect ties, collusion and financing that is linked to the highest rungs of power,'' Berjes said. "If being in one of these hooligan groups allows for the chance of free travel to South Africa, tomorrow many may want to follow this violent path to get privilege.''
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Drop in the number of football hooligans arrested
December 22, 2009

The number of football hooligans arrested by the police fell last season, official figures revealed today. Home Office statistics showed there were 3,752 arrests at matches in England and Wales – a fall of two per cent on the 2007/8 season. Half were for disorder and around a third for alcohol offences. Other arrests were for ticket touting and violence.

Cardiff City topped the Championship arrest charts with 89 arrests, followed by the two Sheffield clubs while Bristol City had 66 fans arrested. Charlton Athletic had the fewest fans arrested with just 4.

Manchester United were top of the Premier League. Of the 1,600 arrests, 185 were followers of the league title holders. Relegated Newcastle United came in second and Fulham had the fewest fans arrested with just 13.

More than 3,000 fans are banned from watching matches. Of those, Leeds fans are the worst offenders with 162 coming under banning orders, followed by Cardiff City with 124 and Millwall with 110. Thirty-nine Bristol City fans are banned from attending matches. International matches involving England or Wales at home and abroad led to 35 arrests.

Policing minister David Hanson said: "Hooligans once blighted our national game, but we now set an example for the rest of the world in how we police football matches. I am pleased with the way clubs and police work together, but we must also praise fans for realising violence has no place in the modern game."

The full tables of shame.

Premier League arrests

Arsenal 133
Aston Villa 77
Blackburn Rovers 31
Bolton Wanderers 50
Chelsea 102
Everton 139
Fulham 13
Hull City 61
Liverpool 100
Manchester City 82
Manchester United 185
Middlesbrough 75
Newcastle United 144
Portsmouth 31
Stoke City 118
Sunderland 138
Tottenham Hotspur 71
West Bromwich Albion 26
West Ham United 65
Wigan Athletic 23

Championship arrests

Barnsley 31
Birmingham City 69
Blackpool 17
Bristol City 66
Burnley 67
Cardiff City 89
Charlton Athletic 4
Coventry City 36
Crystal Palace 19
Derby County 69
Doncaster Rovers 11
Ipswich Town 33
Norwich City 15
Nottingham Forest 78
Plymouth Argyle 23
Preston North End 22
Queens Park Rangers 33
Reading 9
Sheffield United 73
Sheffield Wednesday 74
Southampton 26
Swansea City 64
Watford 5
Wolverhampton Wanderers 61

Premier League bans

Arsenal 44
Aston Villa 79
Birmingham City 73
Blackburn Rovers 23
Bolton Wanderers 44
Burnley 30
Chelsea 63
Everton 56
Fulham 5
Hull City 53
Liverpool 78
Manchester City 53
Manchester United 74
Portsmouth 88
Stoke City 48
Sunderland 67
Tottenham Hotspur 39
West Ham United 55
Wigan Athletic 13
Wolverhampton W 98

Championship bans

Barnsley 41
Blackpool 28
Bristol City 39
Cardiff City 124
Coventry City 48
Crystal Palace 26
Derby County 34
Doncaster Rovers 21
Ipswich Town 18
Leicester City 57
Middlesbrough 82
Newcastle United 99
Nottingham Forest 50
Peterborough United 34
Plymouth Argyle 44
Preston North End 18
QPR 14
Reading 11
Scunthorpe United 22
Sheffield United 51
Sheffield Wednesday 36
Swansea City 65
Watford 9
West Bromwich Albion 37

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I'm surprised that Reading only had 9 arrests - I thought they were well known for being a bit norty.
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Short Arsed Hooligan Gets ASBO

BRITAIN'S shortest hooligan has been hit with a banning order after police discovered the 3ft 9in-tall (117cm) troublemaker was responsible for a mini-crimewave. Liam Wilkinson, 19, may be small but his drinking bouts have heaped misery on his long-suffering neighbours in the northern English town of Chorley.

A court in the town heard how Wilkinson blighted his local community by abusing and threatening residents after alcohol binges, damaging property, attacking neighbours' houses and climbing on rooftops.

Last week Wilkinson was banned from a large part of the town, but it only took the teenager a few hours to be accused of breaking the order after police were called to another incident. One neighbour said, "That lad is an absolute menace. People might feel sorry for him because of his size but he has caused all sorts of problems with his drinking and vandalism. He would be forever throwing eggs or stones at people and some locals were very frightened of him. He's obviously very distinctive and people were worried he would kick off at them whenever they saw him in the street. We're just relieved he is getting his comeuppance at last. The fact he is only small doesn't make him any less of a yob."

Sgt Kevin Mountain, of Lancashire Police said, "There were several antisocial behaviour complaints over a significant period of time about this young man's behaviour. It includes causing damage to property, climbing on roofs, throwing objects and being found drunk. The order is an attempt by Chorley neighbourhood police to search for long-term solutions to these issues."

Under the detailed order, Wilkinson is prohibited from "acting or inciting" others to act in an antisocial manner. He cannot use any abusive, insulting, offensive, threatening or intimidating language or behaviour or threaten violence or damage. He is also banned from getting drunk or being in possession of any open container of alcohol in any public street or open space. The teenager cannot throw any object, including stones and eggs in such a way as to cause damage, alarm, harassment or distress.

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I just realised he's not actually a football hooligan, but hey
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Authorities Count the Cost of Bonek Football Hooligans’ Unruly Behavior
thejakartaglobe.com (Indonesia)

With fans of Persebaya football club back home in Surabaya after their trip to Bandung to watch their team play, authorities are now trying to determine who will pay for the damage caused by hooligans to state railway company property. Surabaya Mayor Bambang Dwi Hartono has refused to compensate PT Kereta Api Indonesia for the damage caused by the hooligans, saying there was no such allocation in the city’s budget.

“There is no regulation concerning the payment of damages. If [the damages are] paid, we might break a rule. We might be investigated by the Supreme Audit Agency [BPK],” he said.

Bambang also aired doubts that the Persebaya supporters, known as Bonek — short for bondo nekat, Javanese for “reckless mob” — were responsible for all the damage. He pointed out that the train carrying the hooligans back to Surabaya had been pelted with stones as it passed through Central Java. Nur Amin, spokesman for KAI, said the attacks on the train had smashed windows and wrecked seats, fans, ceilings and toilets. The train engineer and a number of guards were also injured in the attack. KAI estimated the cost of repairs to be at least Rp 600 million ($64,200), not including the damage to stations along the way. “Of course, we will take steps to ensure that someone is held responsible for this,” Nur said.

Wastomi Suheri, chairman of the Surabaya Supporters Foundation, claimed that at least three hooligans died on the trip after falling from the roof of the train. One of them was still unidentified, while 30 others sustained head or facial injuries, he said.

A Fathoni, 21, a resident of Gresik, East Java, died when he fell off the train’s roof in Nganjuk, East Java, en route to Bandung. Ari Sulistiyo, 16, a student of a vocational school in Surabaya, died when he fell at Kali Ijo Bridge in Banyumas district, Central Java, after he became tangled in electric cables. “The unidentified body we believe to be a Surabaya supporter, despite the lack of ID. The body is now at a hospital in Banyumas,” Wastomi said.

The wounded fans are still being treated at several hospitals in Banyumas and Yogyakarta. Twelve have not returned home yet. We believe they are among the wounded supporters being treated at a number of locations. We will gather data immediately,” Wastomi said.
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Germans are an aggressive lot who hate to lose. With that in mind, rest assured they will give the World Cup their best shot
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I gotta get me one of them stab-proof vests. And a pair of bulletproof pants. But I gotta get 'em before them Visigoths and Vandals arrive.

You see, the Hun have been spreading the word that while us South Africans might have the World Cup this year, we also have poison-tipped assegais, short-handled stabbing spears, gigantic knobkerries, Zulu hunting dogs, the rinderpest and rabies-infested women trained to attack on command.

From the Reeperbahn to Ratzeburg, from Borgholzhausen to the Beerfest, sour krauts of all shapes and sizes are quivering in their Doc Martens. From the moment they touch down at OR Tambo International Airport, they fear it will be running gun battles all the way to their hotels and hand-to-hand combat to the stadiums.

Appeasement be damned. We have to be ready for them. Do not make the mistake of thinking they are here for the football. Look what happened in Namibia in 1904. A group of Germans came over on a package tour and ended up wiping out half the Herero and Nama populations. Something must have upset them - sand in the pampelmuse, probably - and we don't want a repeat this time around. The first sign of genocidal tendencies and we have to be on them like cane rats on baby doves.

When Germany played Poland in 1939, everyone thought it was just another friendly, but it turned out to be a major international fixture that dragged on into injury time for an extra six years. While relatively many Germans have managed to make the distinction between football and the violent annexation of foreign territories, we cannot assume that these are the ones we will be getting.

In June 1998, after a Fifa World Cup match in France between Germany and Yugoslavia, a French policeman was beaten to the point of brain damage by German fans. Apparently you can tell when a French policeman is brain damaged. Then, in 2001, Markus Warnecke, the German fan who led the attack, was found guilty, jailed for five years, banned from France for 10 years and from all sports facilities for five years. Markus will be the guy you accidentally bump into at the bar and spill your beer over on the night that Germany loses to Spain.

German history is littered with examples of soccer violence. Things got so bad at one point that football administrators, or Fussballverwalter, as they prefer to be called, had to build a 140km wall across Berlin to keep the fans of West Prussia United from murdering the fans of Brandenburg City. Sadly, this interrupted a tense Iron Curtain-raiser 10 minutes before full time, and led to the cancellation of the main game between Stalin XI and an invitation side from Britain, America and France.

There are other examples. In March 2005, German football fans fought police and rival fans at a friendly against Slovenia, damaging cars and shops and shouting racist slogans. The same thing happened in Slovakia. Again with the racist slogans. If they turn racist against people of their own race, I cannot begin to imagine what they will make of our darkies.

Speaking ahead of the 2010 World Cup, a prominent German politician said: "As you well know, you are to fight against a cunning, bold, well-armed, cruel foe. When you are face-to-face with them, remember: mercy will not be shown, prisoners will not be taken."

Okay, so that was Kaiser Wilhelm II addressing his troops on July 27 1900 before they left for China. Boxer Rebellion. Soccer World Cup. It all boils down to the same thing, really.

But it's not just the Teutons who are intent on portraying us as a country of flesh-eating barbarians. Fifa general secretary Jerome Valcke says the English media are also warning fans not to set foot in South Africa because it is "a crazy country". Well, of course it is. Along with our beaches, I see that as one of our strongest selling points. But to advise people to stay away because it's a dangerous country? Please. It is already 10am and I haven't heard a single gunshot.

Lots of pommies emigrate here and they seem quite happy. Of course they're happy. The sun is always shining, they can buy a house for the price of a lobster thermidor at The Ritz, cheap slaves are a dime a dozen and our darkies are more agreeable than the packs of drug-crazed West Indians that roam Hyde Park and terrorise the ghettoes of Knightsbridge and Chelsea.

Fleet Street's horror stories may well deter Henry Sprong and his snaggletoothed wife Agnes from coming over for the footie, but this is a good thing. We don't want their type here. This is the soccer World Cup, for God's sake, not a badminton tournament.

We want people who will visit South Africa precisely because danger lurks around every corner. We want their hooligans. Every speed-snorting, beer-quaffing, gay-bashing, dart-throwing, glottal-stopping one of them. There is nothing quite like an English soccer hooligan and he will make a worthy opponent for our muggers, hijackers, con artists and other assorted members of the local banditry.

In fact, their yobbos are so proficient in what they do, that Margaret Thatcher set up a war cabinet in 1985 to deal with what she sniffily described as "football hooliganism". She also used the opportunity to crush the trade unions, invade the Falklands and have a ménage à trois with Ronald Reagan and P W Botha.

Essentially, it comes down to this. If you plan on coming here for the World Cup and you don't know how to fight, negotiate with a prostitute or hold your liquor, you're going to get into trouble. If you drink pink drinks and think Gandhi had a point, I suggest you begin training right now. Pick fights in the pub, on the street or at home. Learn to say, "Jou ma se p**s." And make damn sure your running shoes are in good nick.
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Football fan injured at Premier League match dies
A football fan critically injured at a Premier League match has died in hospital, police said.
7 Feb 2010

The Blackburn Rovers supporter was found unconscious in a stand during Saturday's clash between Stoke City and Blackburn at Stoke's Britannia Stadium. He was treated at the scene for a head injury and cardiac arrest, then rushed to the University Hospital of North Staffordshire. But Staffordshire Police today said the man died in hospital just before 2am today. A spokesman said: ''A 30-year-old man was pronounced dead at 1.55am this morning at University Hospital North Staffordshire. 'The circumstances are being fully investigated and a 25-year-old man remains in custody and is helping police with their inquiries.''

The victim was found collapsed in the concourse area of the south stand just after the half-time interval, where a group of Blackburn supporters were gathered. Chief Inspector Adrian Roberts, match commander at the game which saw Stoke beat Blackburn 3-0, said there were just over 1,300 Blackburn fans at the game, and no Stoke fans were involved. West Midlands Ambulance Service said they were called to the stadium just before 4.20pm yesterday.

A statement on the Blackburn Rovers website said the man was among a 1,300-strong Rovers following in the South Stand. Stoke City said police were investigating the incident and the club would make no further comment.
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