Discuss Football Violence a la Balkans at the The Intelligence Cell forum within the The Army Rumour Service website; Originally Posted by BrokenArrow
Originally Posted by vvaannmmaann
Football is still for poofs.
Granted, but ...
Another boring weekend in the countryside. Sadly it is estimated that some 25% of you men have ready access to firearms.
And an even larger perecentage (no doubt) have access to plastic garden furniture but for some strange reason, none seems to have been thrown.
Killing someone with plastic furniture takes time and patience - and have you even TRIED to take a 6 foot plastic table and half a dozen chairs to an away game?
And lots of practice (allegedly). I think the preferred method is to acquire some at the away game location rather than schlepping them with you.
Seriously, it's a far cry from football in for example Canada where I refused the placard saying 'Go Canada Go' and the only threat I felt was a nasty look for refusing said placard and a slightly annoyed sideways glance when I didn't applaud Canada winning a throw-in.
Unfortunately armed violence is a bit more endemic in this area of Europe for a whole lot of historical and not so historical reasons. Its a seperate topic but its is why lots of Balkanians of all persuasions are in some form of agreement with the "Hard Man at the Top" option of Government.
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