Comments on: Juventus – Parma clash postponed after fan death http://soccerlens.com/juventus-parma-clash-postponed-after-fan-death/6873/ Football News Fri, 25 May 2012 18:33:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: fuzzy http://soccerlens.com/juventus-parma-clash-postponed-after-fan-death/6873/#comment-84976 fuzzy Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:19:32 +0000 http://soccerlens.com/juventus-parma-clash-postponed-after-fan-death/6873/#comment-84976 While I'm not a supporter for fanaticism in football, I believe it is also one of the reasons that soccer is so popular worldwide. It doesn't mean that supporters need to be violent for a game to be popular but sometimes the passion that people have for this beautiful game just spills over. It is a serious problem definitely and some concrete action needs to be taken by the authorities(read govt and not UEFA). Fines or suspensions are simply not showing the effects. While there have been no deaths as such here in the US, but I do remember reading reports of rioting in Pittsburgh after Super Bowl XL. While I’m not a supporter for fanaticism in football, I believe it is also one of the reasons that soccer is so popular worldwide. It doesn’t mean that supporters need to be violent for a game to be popular but sometimes the passion that people have for this beautiful game just spills over. It is a serious problem definitely and some concrete action needs to be taken by the authorities(read govt and not UEFA). Fines or suspensions are simply not showing the effects.

While there have been no deaths as such here in the US, but I do remember reading reports of rioting in Pittsburgh after Super Bowl XL.

]]> By: Andrei http://soccerlens.com/juventus-parma-clash-postponed-after-fan-death/6873/#comment-84954 Andrei Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:28:23 +0000 http://soccerlens.com/juventus-parma-clash-postponed-after-fan-death/6873/#comment-84954 This is just getting ridiculous. I have been living in North America for three years and fans never get injured here. There are fights - really small fights - between rival hockey fans, but that is about it. The closest anybody has come to dying here was a hockey player whose spine was cracked by another player. If football cannot control fan violence, then there should be something done and if the Italian forces do not do something about all the indicents that occured in the past year and a half, then UEFA should certainly impose a ban on their league from European competition or something similar that would really hurt them and make them think about a solution because it is getting out of hand and we are not playing Rollerball here. The same applies for any otehr leagues in which fan vilence is at its premium (Cypriot league for example), not just Il Calcio!! This is just getting ridiculous. I have been living in North America for three years and fans never get injured here. There are fights – really small fights – between rival hockey fans, but that is about it. The closest anybody has come to dying here was a hockey player whose spine was cracked by another player.

If football cannot control fan violence, then there should be something done and if the Italian forces do not do something about all the indicents that occured in the past year and a half, then UEFA should certainly impose a ban on their league from European competition or something similar that would really hurt them and make them think about a solution because it is getting out of hand and we are not playing Rollerball here.

The same applies for any otehr leagues in which fan vilence is at its premium (Cypriot league for example), not just Il Calcio!!

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