On Merseyside and elsewhere. On this Good Friday, God bless those who died.
Link: You'll Never Walk Alone...
To City, taking off Athletco Madrid who nobody want to play in Europe just like nobody want to play Burnley in EPL; To Villarreal, what a well-organized team, beating 2 European giants in a row.
Not against all seat stadium if it is safer than standing stadium, but I stood at all college football games that I attended in early 1990s. The tragedy never happened in America (college football fans are as crazy as European soccer fans). It is a great sport tradition, unique to European soccer and American college football. How could your body react, limited by that tiny seat, to the excitement from the games if you sit while watching games?
I'd just like to refer you to the book below. There has never been a remotely similar tradition of thuggery in American college sports.
Standing-room-only sections in British soccer games were a big part of the problem.
That tragedy was a direct result.
Link: https://www.amazon.com/Among-Thugs-Bill-Buford/dp/0679745351
In term of loudness of chants, noise, singing, cursing and stomping (and to some degree drinking), yes, college football fans at game are as crazy as European soccer's fans. European soccer hooliganism is a different issue, only unique to Europe.
Piss-poor crowd control. And out-of-control crowds.
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsborough_disaster
no-standing stadium, that's fine. I already said I don't against it if it is safer than standing stadium. I prefer standing at spectacular games like football and soccer (For watching romantic baseball, sitting makes sense) and I like all kinds of tradition if they are harmless.
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Do you suppose there were police instigators egging them on?
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