{"id":19512,"date":"2016-06-12T16:59:30","date_gmt":"2016-06-12T15:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=19512"},"modified":"2016-06-12T16:59:30","modified_gmt":"2016-06-12T15:59:30","slug":"english-football-thugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=19512","title":{"rendered":"English Football Thugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking forward to the Euro 2016 competition. Naively, perhaps, the thought of violence among the fans hadn\u2019t even occurred to me \u2013 until reports began to surface of incidents between police and English supporters in the days before Saturday\u2019s match.<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"English Thugs in France\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 524px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 524\/296;border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"English Thugs in France\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/english_thugs.jpg\" width=\"524\" align=\"left\" height=\"296\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\"><\/p>\n<p>You can get into the argument about whether they are true \u201cfans\u201d or not until the cows comes home \u2013 the fact remains that they ARE English, they ARE there, and there ARE a lot of them. The single picture above makes it clear that it\u2019s not just a \u201csmall minority\u201d. Clearly, a very large number of those at the Euros are so incapable of holding their drink, many will fall to violence two seconds after sniffing a pint of beer. <\/p>\n<p>Every single one of them should be deported. When they get back, their passports should be confiscated for life, and any one of them who already has a criminal record should be chemically castrated so that they can\u2019t breed (although most of them have probably already been doing that since they were fourteen). This is exactly what happens when you don\u2019t punish people when they\u2019re younger, and it needs to stop.<\/p>\n<p>Mind you, if England is portrayed as being \u201cfull\u201d of football hooligans, it has to be said that Russia can boast a similar title \u2013 with the word \u201chooligan\u201d replaced by \u201cpsychopath\u201d. Russian media is incapable of seeing the truth in anything, be it world events or football, and <a title=\"Euro 2016: England and Russia given disqualification warning\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-36510550\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">God forbid that it should admit to any blame lying with its own people<\/a>, some of whom had managed to get into the ground for the match with martial arts equipment. If what I saw on TV was anything to go by, some of them were pretty much trying to kill people (and yes, Mr Russian reporter, that\u2019s what your psychopathic countryman <strong>is<\/strong> trying to do when he is seen repeatedly stamping on someone\u2019s head, or launching his whole weight into a punch to someone\u2019s face).<\/p>\n<p>As it happens, Uefa has threatened to expel both Russia and England from the competition. Personally, I think they should do it right now \u2013 kick England and Russia out today.<\/p>\n<p>Although it is unlikely to do anything for the collective Russian psyche, which is about 90 years behind the rest of the world at the best of times, it might provide a suitable wake-up call over here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking forward to the Euro 2016 competition. Naively, perhaps, the thought of violence among the fans hadn\u2019t even occurred to me \u2013 until reports began to surface of incidents between police and English supporters in the days before Saturday\u2019s match. You can get into the argument about whether they are true \u201cfans\u201d or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sport"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}