(January 7, 2015 at 12:28 pm)abaris Wrote: Not with the intent to kill, but with the intent to cause bodily harm to opposing fans. The result however, 39 dead.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heysel_Stadium_disaster

I'm more than familiar with the reason for English teams being banned for 5 years mate, but those 39 people died because the stadium was a decrepit relic not fit for purpose, not because an opposing fan shot them with a Klashnikov. Quite apart from the fact that you had to go back 30 years to find that.

Sorry, but using football fans when discussing religious nutters who take up arms to shoot or blow people up is more than a bit of a stretch in my opinion.

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(January 7, 2015 at 12:24 pm)Alex K Wrote:

(January 7, 2015 at 12:12 pm)Hoopington Wrote: Terrible analogy. Not sure how often a football fan kills another because their team was merely insulted. My guess would be it being the exception rather than the rule.

Not very often. But there is for example a whole list of players and even a referee or two who were killed by fans, some even by their own. I'm not saying the two things are equivalent, but some people really get worked up about sports, and I was saying that if religion is just a few times as powerful in evoking those feelings, we have the makings of a terrorist.

I still think it's a very loose analogy, sorry

I tend to suspect that there is a lot more alcohol involved in sports riots.

So how about nationalism mixed with football?

http://www.irishcentral.com/news/1994-wo...24801.html#

(January 7, 2015 at 12:34 pm)abaris Wrote: So how about nationalism mixed with football?

http://www.irishcentral.com/news/1994-wo...24801.html#

You think that had ANYTHING to do with football?

Honestly?

(January 7, 2015 at 12:37 pm)Hoopington Wrote: You think that had ANYTHING to do with football?

Honestly?

Point is, if you're a fanatic on any cause you can find all kinds of reasons to harm or kill people.

(January 7, 2015 at 12:41 pm)abaris Wrote:

(January 7, 2015 at 12:37 pm)Hoopington Wrote: You think that had ANYTHING to do with football?

Honestly?

Point is, if you're a fanatic on any cause you can find all kinds of reasons to harm or kill people.

Those people were killed whilst watching football, there the link ends.

Like I said, it was a terrible analogy, compounded by awful examples.

(January 7, 2015 at 9:53 am)mralstoner Wrote: Cue the retards ...


https://twitter.com/anjemchoudary/status...3834722305

How is this guy not in jail yet?

Lack of conviction?

(January 7, 2015 at 12:15 pm)Minimalist Wrote: I wonder how many points Le Pen and the National Front just gained in the polls?

Good point. They're already popular. I can see them winning big in the future building on this atrocity.

(January 7, 2015 at 12:29 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Putin condemned the attacks as well. Thats awesome, yet passes laws outlawing gay activism. Sorry Putin, go fuck yourself!

Putin fucking himself may be illegal under Russia anti-gay laws.

(January 7, 2015 at 12:53 pm)Fidel_Castronaut Wrote:

(January 7, 2015 at 12:15 pm)Minimalist Wrote: I wonder how many points Le Pen and the National Front just gained in the polls?

Good point. They're already popular. I can see them winning big in the future building on this atrocity.

I don't think the timing of this and the fact that Le Pen is polling well is a coincidence, these fanatics would love nothing more than a national front victory.