why does soccer always attract hooligans?

[AAP]

You don't hear of that shit in football or baseball.

 

[eat big]

It's more because it's much more important to them. Soccer to other people is what Football, Basketball and Baseball is to the US combined. The World Cup only happens every 4 years too. So much more is riding on it. It's a low scoring sport so any mistake can cause mayhem.

 

[jimmy d]

eurotrash drinking all day not really a ?

 

[mrplunkey]

You don't hear of that shit in football or baseball.

My guess:

1) Broad fan base, including what would be our WWE and NASCAR base which can be (but isn't always) a fairly rough crowd

2) A liberal opinion toward alcohol and it's distribution at the events

3) Long-standning country rivalries including situations where one country fought/controlled/ransacked the other -- and sometimes fairly recently.

 

[H_T_]

because it's the most boring sport on the face of the Earth.

 

[fortunatesun]

It goes back to the origins of the game. Kicking the severed head of your enemy around the town is one of life's guilty pleasures. Consequently, it's traditional to turn the blind eye when things get rowdy.

 

[dutchman063]

eurotrash drinking all day

....

 

[Longhorn85]

Some of us have been watching the World Cup hoping the hooligans would break loose eventually. I'm waiting for a fight in the stadium, but I hope they don't bring the damn thing down like they did years ago.

 

[mkazzbmf]

3rd world nations with nothing to lose, Europeans (think about it).......nothing going on but soccer or lousy TV shows.....I feel for um.



Kaz

 

[perkele]

because it's the most boring sport on the face of the Earth.

Another Golf and poker fan ^^