| Re: Why is it?
There is alot violence at the football in the UK, choose to accept that or not.
It's definatly not as rife as it used to be.
It's just more underground & away from the stadia/matches itself in the UK especially, because matches are so heavyily policed and the whole average 'football experiance' is sanitized.
You only have to take a look at other countries in the world like brazil, italy, argentina to know that violence is rife in football. Has been for many a year, and I think, always will be.
AS Chris says, you can go to matches week in and week out for years and never see a damn thing, but it doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
For the average football fan in the UK, 99.9% of the time it's a trouble free, happy go lucky trip.
You get your bus with the other fans, you pay your ticket money, you go to the game, you buy yer half time pie, then saunter home.
You've definatly got more chance of falling victim to a fight or violence walking around the city centre at the weekend than at a football game if you aren't looking for trouble.
It is there though.
You really cannot beat football in the passion stakes.
I've never known anything like it, and it's the very reason I love it so much.
It means something.
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