You're all hypocritical thugs!

[bobbyinlondon]

The difference becomes whenever American fans travel overseas, you don't see them making headlines for starting fights in town centers, as in France in 1998 or Euro 2000, amd you don't hear of American fans getting stabbed as in happened in Turkey. British fans have a horrible rep, and deservedly so. Whenever they travel overseas, headlines follow them.

[Tomahawk]

I think somebody was stabbed at a recent Jets game. Ideally, it would have been shoulderpad Shawn.

I quit reading when I saw glamourized was spelled glamorised. Silly Brits.

[T_Section224]

that's funny.  i quit reading when i realized it took two whole posts to get the article on the board.

[cj2112]

That article is a joke.  A few years back, on a trip to England, the wife and I took in a Tottenham Spurs-West Ham United game at White Hart Lane (Tottenham's home stadium).  We went with a couple of buddies and their wives.  The whole time the wives were talking about non-football topics and commenting how cute West Ham's uniforms were (they look like referee uniforms).  Needless to say, within minutes all of the fans around us were throwing crap at us and scolding us for not singing along.  Security noticed, came over and gave us a talking to about not acting the way a Spurs fan would, and telling us that we are risking getting our asses kicked because our wives were distracting.

I can see this happening at an Eagles game but the fans were far more insane at White Hart Lane than at the Linc IMO.

[DutchBird]

The difference becomes whenever American fans travel overseas, you don't see them making headlines for starting fights in town centers, as in France in 1998 or Euro 2000, amd you don't hear of American fans getting stabbed as in happened in Turkey. British fans have a horrible rep, and deservedly so. Whenever they travel overseas, headlines follow them.

Except that in Euro 2000 the problem were the locals (in Brussels) and the Turkish fans were just as bad, if not worse. In fact, in recent times, some sections of the southern fans (Italians, Turks, Moroccans and the like) were just as bad, if not worse then the English, Dutch or German "fans" of the late 80's. Not to mention the fact that the pres at times played a very dubious role, up to the point of triggering riots in order to create "news."

Second, IIRC there were battery-snowballs in Denver, a shot 49-er fan in Dallas and the like. Though the author does make a point which certainly has some validity (American or American media hypocrisy concerning US vs non-US hooliganism) he falls again for the trap oof only going for Philly (and falling for the incompetence/biases of the American media he is complaining about).

[DutchBird]

I have sent the author of the article some comments..... though to a degree I do agree with his basic premise

[RezRob]

I actually maintained a fake british accent in my mind thruout. 

[fansince61]

We never dump dog shtein on rivals..we may have to play um but we don't have to feed um