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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (16670)	6/20/2000 5:12:00 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

Well... y'know... last Saturday I was right in the midst of the hooligan mess --time was 1 AM I guess. So, I witnessed first-hand how this whole hooligan mess works. I saw one Brit hooligan in shorts chasing away a dozen youngsters near the Bourse, Brussels. The guy was quite angry but he was alone and waving a wooden stick about that wouldn't harm a fly.... So the whole crazy bunch ran past me as if I was invisible?! I'm afraid that UK hooliganism is rooted in some deep "culture clash" that has developed between the British people and the Continentals. First, British fellows, like their American cousins, tend to be more extrovert than the locals --you can see it everywhere: if two US/UK guys come around in a crowd, a train, a restaurant, whatever, you hear their loud chattering a mile off.... Mix that with the media hammering that has depicted any average UK soccer fan as a potential animal and you can't prevent people from Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, etc. from feeling an anti-UK hatred when watching UK supporters drinking, singing and burping around in their usually quiet downtown caf‚s. Hence, provocation is just around the corner.... Yet, the blame stands mostly with the Brits and their rabid contempt for the Continent: just as UK elites despise their Continental counterparts' endeavour to foster the EU leadership, UK soccer-plebs raid Continental cities as if they were some superior Viking tribe giving pygmies a good belting. Moreover, as I noted in a previous post, it's frustrating for ghetto urchins to sit and watch unleashed UK soccer-fans going on a bashing spree while, at the same time, they're denied even a fraction of such a "jubilation". Belgian authorities find it "business-as-usual" to provide for a $30-million security plan to contain soccer violence, farmer demonstrations, or just any other corporatist street-claim. After all, as Brussels's police superintendant put it, "we all have a farmer in the family". Of course, the same goes for soccer --"we all have a hooligan in the family". However, "we don't all have a wog in the family!" Got the picture?? Gus.