in the 6 years I have been in the Uk I can only think of one or two episodes of real violence at a football (soccer) match and that was after the game in the streets between fans.
The scenes most Americans have in their minds of a football tragedy was not a fight - it was people being trampled to death and suffocated because too many people were left into the ground at too fast a pace and there was fencing at the front of the crowd that prevented people from moving away. So, that wasn't violence it was more on par with the night club disaster in Chicago recently.
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