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CAIRO -- At least 74 people were killed and hundreds injured after soccer fans rushed the field in the seaside city of Port Said Wednesday following an upset victory by the home team over Egypt's top club, setting off clashes and a stampede as riot police largely failed to intervene.

It was a bloody reminder of the security vacuum that faces the Arab world's most populous country as instability continues nearly a year after former President Hosni Mubarak was swept out of power in a popular uprising.
 
I will never understand why soccer causes these riots . I guess the fans are so bored waiting for action , that they create some of their own .
 
It didn't have much to do with soccer. Many reports out of Egypt are saying this was more of a coordinated assasination of Al Alhy ultras by the Al Masry ultras and the police. The police locked portions of the stadium, allowed armed people into the stadium, then gave them free access to take the field and murder the Al Alhy fans. Al Alhy's ultras had played a large part in the Tahrir Sq. protests and had been protesting the current military rule.
 
it was a political riot. the ultras of al ahly were heavily involved in the revolution and since then with protests against the oppressive army regime, egypt clearly hasn't moved on yet and is fact still controlled by the army (who incidentally stood by and watched it all happen).
terrible scenes but i don't honestly think it had a whole lot to do with football. football tends to be heavily politicised in wherever its popular be it anti fascist clubs like aek athens, st pauli or livorno, clubs with a traditionaly fascist following such as lazio, hamburg or neo ***** at hansa rostock. barcelona are seen as a symbol of the catalan region in spain (indeed have the catalan colours displayed on their strips), athletic bilbao supporters regularly display banners in support of eta and want an independent basque country whereas real madrid were francos team of choice and traditionally do attract a more right wing support. here in scotland you have rangers who traditionally attract supporters with staunchly protestant pro union views whereas celtic fans are traditionally catholic and in support of an independent ireland although celtic have always been a club open to all whereas rangers had a no catholic player policy until the early '90s. my point is that riots at football games are very seldom anything to do with the actual football and more to do with politics/religion/class differences or in the case of international football history. football matches provide the spark as it places large numbers of people with opposing views in close proximity but they are not rioting because they are football fans they are rioting over differences that have nothing to do with 22 men kicking a bit of leather about.

at least that's my take on it
 
daschoo;4402987 said:
it was a political riot. the ultras of al ahly were heavily involved in the revolution and since then with protests against the oppressive army regime, egypt clearly hasn't moved on yet and is fact still controlled by the army (who incidentally stood by and watched it all happen).
terrible scenes but i don't honestly think it had a whole lot to do with football. football tends to be heavily politicised in wherever its popular be it anti fascist clubs like aek athens, st pauli or livorno, clubs with a traditionaly fascist following such as lazio, hamburg or neo ***** at hansa rostock. barcelona are seen as a symbol of the catalan region in spain (indeed have the catalan colours displayed on their strips), athletic bilbao supporters regularly display banners in support of eta and want an independent basque country whereas real madrid were francos team of choice and traditionally do attract a more right wing support. here in scotland you have rangers who traditionally attract supporters with staunchly protestant pro union views whereas celtic fans are traditionally catholic and in support of an independent ireland although celtic have always been a club open to all whereas rangers had a no catholic player policy until the early '90s. my point is that riots at football games are very seldom anything to do with the actual football and more to do with politics/religion/class differences or in the case of international football history. football matches provide the spark as it places large numbers of people with opposing views in close proximity but they are not rioting because they are football fans they are rioting over differences that have nothing to do with 22 men kicking a bit of leather about.

at least that's my take on it
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Thanks for the insight, American sports don't really have political ties like this so it can be hard to understand that there is more than a game going on in Europe and other places.
 
It reminded me a lot of the riot that happened in Yugoslavia between followers of Red Star Belgrade & Dinamo Zagreb in the early 90's. It was seen by many as a catalyst for the war between Serbia & Croatia.

I hope that this event doesn't lead to anything like that.
 
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