“A proud boxing nation has been humiliated by what has gone on in Germany and both Dereck Chisora and David Haye should be ashamed of themselves. In an Olympic year our reputation for upholding the highest standards in sport must be protected more than ever before. These events have been a kick in the teeth for our reputation.”

These are the words of Robert Smith, the general secretary of the British Boxing Board of Control, who are to hold an investigation into the moronic behaviour last weekend of a couple of brawling Brits abroad which besmirched Munich’s Olympiahalle, where Olga Korbut so coquettishly strutted her stuff back in 1972.

The shameful occurrences before and after and Chisora’s World Boxing Council heavyweight bout with Vitali Klitschko have been well chronicled, beamed in all their glory around the world.

As for Chisora, he has already has had his own slap in the face from the WBC, who have withheld a third of his £200,000 purse for that weigh-in incident with Vitali and subsequently spewing water into Wladimir’s face just before the bell. Now the Board, taking into account his earlier biting of an opponent, for which he was suspended for four months, will surely throw the book at him.

Luckily the erudite Ukrainian showed admirable restraint in not ending the fight before it started by decking “Del Boy” (what a pugilistic plonker!) there and then.

Doubtless he too will have noted the contrast between what happened at the Velodrome, where there was genuine sporting rivalry between Sir Chris Hoy and Jason Kenny, and the unseemly brawl in the halle involving Chisora and Haye.

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Jeremy Hunt said before the Downing Street summit to tackle  homophobia and racism in football: “The behaviour of crowds has been that something that was socially acceptable 20 years ago is now socially unacceptable. Unfortunately, it seems still to be socially acceptable on Twitter.”

The summit and subsequent comments from the Cultural Secretary follow a number of high-profile cases involving Premier League players in racism rows.

Patrice Evra was apparently targeted alongside Anton Ferdinand after their on-field feuds with Liverpool striker Luis Suarez and England captain John Terry respectively.

Article source: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/302934/20120222/jeremy-hunt-twitter-reverts-social-acceptance-soccer.htm

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Piers Morgan is responsible for getting 35 people the sack after printing in the Daily Mirror falsely that these people were involved in the deadly football hooligan riots in Copenhagen between Arsenal and Galatasaray fans in the year 2000. These people were branded as violent thugs and hooligans. They all lost their jobs and were banned from Arsenal for life.

Smug twerp Piers admitted 8 years after the Daily Mirror got this wrong, that these people weren’t hooligans, but just people in the wrong place at the wrong time seeking to protect themselves and their kids.

He has even apologised on Twitter for it .

Sadly, the Mirror didn’t campaign to remove the labels they wrongly attached to these people neither did it campaign for them to get their jobs back or remove the stain they put on these people’s reputations.

Sadly, all of these people are still banned by Arsenal, which is why Arsenal fans dislike Morgan intensely and wish to let him know:

You are not welcome to sit amongst us or at our ground.

In our eyes you aren’t an Arsenal fan, just a grass.

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At least 70 Egyptians have been killed in violence following a soccer match in Port Said, when fans flooded the field seconds after a match was over, Egypt’s health ministry says.

It is one of the worst incidents of sports violence in Egypt in decades.

A security official and a medic said fans of the home team, Al-Masry, swarmed the field on Wednesday after a rare 3-1 win against Al-Ahly, Egypt’s top team. They threw stones, fireworks and bottles at the fans and injured some players.

A medic at a morgue in Port Said, a city on the Mediterranean coast, said some of the dead were security officers.

The causes of the deaths were not immediately known.

The ministry’s statement of 40 dead was carried on state TV.

The players were later taken to the locker room for protection, Sayed Hamdi, a player told state TV.

Soon after the violence, a soccer game in the Cairo Stadium between the Al-Ismailiya and Zamalek teams was called off in mourning for the violence in Port Said.

State TV showed video of sections of the Cairo stadium on fire. The announcer said angry fans of the Zamalek protested the cancellation and set some sections of the stadium on fire.

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“I hope an immediate and independent investigation will shed light on the causes of this tragic event,” said European Union foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton in a statement.

As Egypt began three days of mourning, the leadership of Egypt’s Football Association was sacked and the governor of the northern city of Port Said, where the match was staged, resigned. Rioting in one of the deadliest incidents in football history sent shares tumbling on the Cairo stock exchange.

“I have conveyed to the Egyptian authorities my deepest condolences to the people of Egypt for the tragic loss of so many lives,” Ashton added.

Article source: http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/fbl-egypt-unrest.exn

According to Antoine Boutonnet, head of the National Division for the Fight against Hooliganism (DNLH), “a worrying phenomenon is the return of racism in the stands”.

He cited a fan arrested for making a Nazi salute during a game at Brest on January 28th, as well as “six pseudo-Lyon supporters” who were arrested after “spraypainting the cars of Saint-Etienne supporters and a building with signs resembling swastikas”.

“Although the signs are weak for the time being, we’re taking them into account immediately and we are extremely vigilant,” added Boutonnet.

“There is zero tolerance and we won’t hesitate to intervene.”

Boutonnet also revealed that, although instances of hooliganism in and around stadiums had fallen, the use of flares and other pyrotechnic devices had risen sharply.

Since Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 resumed at the start of the season, police have made 432 hooliganism-related arrests and issued 341 stadium banning orders.

Article source: http://www.thelocal.fr/2627/20120221/

It was the worst incident of soccer violence in Egypt and the deadliest worldwide since 1996. One player said it was ‘like a war’.

The melee broke out after fans of Al-Masry, the home team in Port Said, stormed the field after a rare 3-1 win against Al-Ahly, Egypt’s top team. Al-Masry supporters hurled sticks and stones as they chased players and fans from the rival team, who ran towards the exits to escape, according to witnesses.

Hesham Sheiha, a health ministry official, said most of the deaths were caused by concussions, deep cuts to the heads and suffocation from the stampede.

Mohammed Abu Trika, a player with Al-Ahly, on the team’s station criticised the police for standing by and not intervening in the violence.

‘People here are dying and no one is doing a thing. It’s like a war,’ he said. ‘Is life this cheap?’

TV footage showed Al-Ahly players rushing for their locker room as fist fights broke out among the hundreds of fans swarming on to the field. Some men had to rescue a manager from the losing team as he was being beaten. Black-clothed police officers stood by, appearing overwhelmed.

Egypt’s state prosecutor ordered an immediate investigation into the violence, and the Egypt Football Association ordered an indefinite suspension of the annual championship. The parliament said it would convene an emergency session.

State TV reported the casualty toll, citing a health ministry official. A medic in the Port Said morgue, speaking on condition of anonymity, gave the same figures and said some of the dead in the clashes were security officers.

It was the deadliest incident of soccer violence since October 16, 1996, when at least 78 people died and 180 others were injured in a stampede at a stadium in Guatemala City before a World Cup qualifying match between Guatemala and Costa Rica.

The clashes and ensuing stampede did not appear to be directly linked to the political turmoil in Egypt, but the violence questions the ability of the state police to manage crowds in the wake of the popular uprising that forced President Hosni Mubarak to step down last year.

Essam El-Erian, a member of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood’s political arm, said the military and police were responsible for the violence, accusing them of complicity in a bid to stop critics who are demanding an end to the state of emergency that gives security forces wide-ranging powers.

‘This tragedy is a result of intentional reluctance by the military and the police,’ he said.

State TV appealed to Egyptians to donate blood for the injured in Port Said, and the military sent two aircraft to evacuate serious cases to the capital, Cairo.

State TV also reported that fans also set fire to the main stadium in Cairo after a soccer game between Al-Ismaili and Zamalek teams was called off on Wednesday because of the violence in Port Said, but nobody was injured. Stadium employees at the Cairo stadium said some of the bleachers were set ablaze, but firefighters put it out before it caused much damage.

The Port Said game was a face-off between two teams with a long history of fierce competition, Al-Masry, the home team, and Al-Ahly, which is Cairo-based and one of Egypt’s most popular teams. Al-Ahly was runner-up for the Asian club title in 1986, its best finish.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter said he was ‘shocked and saddened’ by the death, sending his condolences to the families of those who died.

‘This is a black day for football. Such a catastrophic situation is unimaginable and should not happen,’ he said in a statement.

‘I am very shocked and saddened to learn this evening that a large number of football supporters have died or been injured following a match in Port Said, Egypt.’

Article source: http://bigpondnews.com/articles/TopStories/2012/02/02/73_killed_in_Egypt_football_violence_714042.html

source: Agence France-Presse

CAIRO—At least 74 people were killed on Wednesday in fan violence after a football match in the Egyptian city of Port Said, in what FIFA called a “black day for football.”

The clashes in the northern city — blamed by the Muslim Brotherhood on supporters of fallen president Hosni Mubarak — came as the country struggled with a wave of incidents linked to poor security.

“The death toll has now reached 74, including one policeman, in the unrest after the match between Al-Ahly and Al-Masri,” the health ministry said in a statement.

A security official said the violence erupted as soon as the referee blew the final whistle. Fans of Port Said team Al-Masri, which beat Cairo’s Al-Ahly 3-1, invaded the pitch and began to throw rocks, bottles and fireworks at the Al-Ahly fans.

“I am very shocked and saddened to learn this evening that a large number of football supporters have died or been injured,” said FIFA President Sepp Blatter in a statement.

“This is a black day for football. Such a catastrophic situation is unimaginable and should not happen,” he said.

Egypt’s military ruler, Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, who took power when the veteran Mubarak was ousted by a popular uprising last February, sent two military planes to Port Said to fly out the players and the injured, state television reported.

The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s largest political force, accused Mubarak supporters of instigating the football violence.

“The events in Port Said are planned and are a message from the remnants of the former regime,” said MP Essam al-Erian in a statement on the Islamist group’s Freedom and Justice Party website.

“This tragedy is the result of negligence and the lack of army and police, and those running the country bear the responsibility,” Erian said in other comments, also posted on the FJP website.

“There are those who deliberately want to sow chaos in the country and place obstacles in front of the peaceful transfer of power.”

Erian said the collapse in security has come following calls for the complete lifting of the decades-old state of emergency, echoing the view of many who took to social networking sites to denounce what they say was a deliberate act.

Medics said some of the deaths were the result of stab wounds and that the death toll could rise even further as ambulances continued to ferry in the injured from the stadium.

Shops in Port Said, which sits at the entrance to the Suez Canal, shut their doors as private cars helped to shuttle the injured across the city to hospitals.

Prosecutor General Abdel Meguid Mahmud has ordered an immediate investigation into the violence, state television reported.

Parliament speaker Saad al-Katatni, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, said the People’s Assembly would hold an emergency session on Thursday at 11:00 AM (0900 GMT) to discuss the violence.

Newly elected liberal deputy Amr Hamzawi has called for the immediate sacking of the interior minister as well as the governor and security chief of Port Said.

State television broadcast footage of chaos on the pitch, with fans running in all directions, as photos of bleeding players circulated on the Internet.

Gunfire was also reported on the main road leading to Port Said from Cairo.

In the capital itself, a fire broke out at Cairo Stadium during the first half of a match between Zamalek and Ismaili clubs, prompting officials to cancel the fixture.

Emergency services managed to bring the blaze under control, a security official said.

Since last February’s ouster of Mubarak, Egypt has seen sporadic and sometimes deadly unrest coupled with a sharp rise in crime, linked to the scarcity of the unpopular police, who were heavily criticised for their crackdown on protesters during the uprising.

Earlier on Wednesday, gunmen raided a money transfer company in Cairo, state news agency MENA reported, bringing to five the number of armed robberies in less than a week in a country previously unaccustomed to such incidents.

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France’s top two football divisions have witnessed an unwelcome upsurge in racist abuse from the terraces in the 2011-12 season to date, a police report released on Monday revealed.

According to Antoine Boutonnet, head of the National Division for the Fight against Hooliganism (DNLH), “a worrying phenomenon is the return of racism in the stands”.

He cited a fan arrested for making a Nazi salute during a game at Brest on January 28, as well as “six pseudo-Lyon supporters” who were arrested after “spray-painting the cars of Saint-Etienne supporters and a building with signs resembling swastikas”.

“Although the signs are weak for the time being, we’re taking them into account immediately and we are extremely vigilant,” added Boutonnet.

“There is zero tolerance and we won’t hesitate to intervene.”

Boutonnet also revealed that, although instances of hooliganism in and around stadiums had fallen, the use of flares and other pyrotechnic devices had risen sharply.

Since Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 resumed at the start of the season, police have made 432 hooliganism-related arrests and issued 341 stadium banning orders.

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