last nights football violence....

[JazMerkin]

I'm tentatively scheduled to go to Montreal next summer. I am intending to wear my Bruins hat the entire time and to mention Milan Lucic as many times as possible. I'm a Canucks fan first, but the Bruins and the Red Wings were my teams growing up, so they're 2a and 2b.

Then,if it happens, let me know, we'll be two to get the evil eye all around

football is the one sole sport that regales fans with such passion that more than often it does spill out onto the streets and crowd violence is all too common in our beloved game.

I could be seen anywhere in the world wearing a west ham tshirt and nobody would but flutter an eyelid. However if i were to wear it in areas of south london such as bermondsey/lewisham etc i would run the risk of someone smashing a bottle over my head.

West ham and millwalls rivalrly is one of the if not the most violent sporting conflict known. Violence erupts whenever the 2 sides meet, it goes right back to the days of the dockers and has continued ever since.

As ive already said i deplore the scum chucking bottles and bricks into random crowds not knowing whether or not it`ll hit a pregnant woman or an innocent bystander.

But if 2 sets of fans driven by hatred arrange an organised meet where they can get their frustrations out on eachother rather than innocent people i see no problem with football violence!

That's bollocks, I wear my Hammers shirt round Lewisham all the time, most people support Arsenal here & the white people here generally support Charlton rather than Millwall.

You also realize that those having an 'organized meet' don't care who they get once their bloodlust is up, as with the guy stabbed with his family before the game the other week.

As for the rivalry being the most violent, maybe in England, but Roma-Lazio, Rangers-Celtic & Galatasaray-Besiktas-Fenerbache are far more vicious than those in this country.