gerbie

its impossible for people i work with to understand why i'm interested in football violence without them thinking im a hooligan myself. thing is if you've got 3,000 lads who have been drinking for a few hours and live about 30 minutes away its always going to be a "who is better than who" rivalry. its happened in boxing for years, even cricket between lancashire and yorkshire fans. but football is always highlighted because most teams play nearly every week. it is on the uprise over here with the lower league teams, but i think its strange that there are loads of people like me who can pick out a match where they can guarantee there will be trouble just because of the two teams involved and the authorities seemed suprised when something happens. (gladly 90% of my trips away with newcastle have just been about the football and having a few beers).