You guys will love this one -

[post_hoc]

Soccer thugs are emerging new radicals with mindset for street warfare

THE greatest threat of terror on the streets of Australia is born not of the twisted ideology of young jihadists but at the hands of emerging new radicals who don’t need guns or bags packed with explosives.

Soccer thugs come armed with a mindset for street warfare, waging their belligerent campaign that has far less to do with any scoreboard and more with mob mentality.

They wrap their faces in scarfs, light flares, hurl bottles and issue ugly rants in guised ethnic cleansing campaigns legitimised by light-footed politicians and left wing hypochondriacs.

The new ‘ultra’ hooligan has been blamed for the violence that has marred this month’s 2016 UEFA Cup, watched by hundreds of millions around the world.

Critics have warned of a return to the dark days when footy hooliganism ruled the stands and gangs orchestrated hits on opponents.

This week France ordered the deportation of 29 Russian supporters responsible for the carnage leading up to the England-Russia opener in Marseilles.

For three days they went at it — French, English and Russians who punched, kicked and stabbed each other as riot police battled to contain the shirtless dimwits with tear gas.

The scenes that have plagued one of the world’s biggest football competitions has overshadowed any talk of which nation will emerge victorious.

But the tentacles of this kind of violence have already begun to strangle the streets of Melbourne.

It began a few years back when racist goons doing Nazi salutes stormed their way into the Australian Open.

It continued two years ago when A-League morons crusaded along Swan St, Richmond ahead of a showdown between the Western Sydney Wanderers and Melbourne Victory.

Then, earlier this month the same kind of nitwits raised their flags and lit flares to mark a soccer friendly between Greece and the Socceroos.

For more than two hours they ruled the streets of the CBD, resulting in peak hour congestion.

Police on horseback followed the pack as they approached Etihad Stadium but may as well have been at a Moomba Festival.

Not a single person was arrested.

Such a heavy police presence and lack of intervention led to obvious questions.

But police said the only strategy was to hold people to account when they breached legislation.

Police union secretary Ron Iddles said a hosing down of the laws had led to an “absurd’’ situation where officers’ hands were tied.

The cops can no longer move in on protesters for fear of impeding the messages of the unhinged.

Only when rallies spiral out of control can they take action.

Subsequently, we have all become spectators to a new contact sport. A kind of unregulated thuggery motivated less by club allegiance and more by our vexed differences.

Moreland councillors had front row seats when they approved a rally that resulted in left and right wing buffoons rolling up their sleeves in a suburb normally celebrated for its diversity.

“Bad things happen when good people stay silent,’’ Mayor Lita Gillies moaned.

“We live in a democracy and I was also brought up to believe you have to fight to make sure that democracy is maintained.’’

But megaphones and angry marches rarely lead to anything tangible. Just ask any one of the millions who marched against war in 2003.

When these protests inevitably spiral out of control, they become far less about the defence of identity or protecting free speech and more about the shallow ambitions of common thugs.

Only they understand the exhilaration of tearing a T-shirt or landing a solid right hook.

It’s up to all of us to stop it. Until then, we’ve all got ringside seats.

— Aaron Langmaid is a Herald Sun journalist.

I especially like the bit

"Not a single person was arrested.

Such a heavy police presence and lack of intervention led to obvious questions.

But police said the only strategy was to hold people to account when they breached legislation."

So the Journalist (and I use that term becuase he claims to be one) is unhappy because the police didn't arrest anyone despite no laws being broken. He appears to be calling for police to arrest people for NOT breaking the law.

I also love the use of Tier gas LOL

Now this so called Journalist, who wants people arrested for NOT breaking the law is this how desperate the AFL is getting? After all we all know that the Herald Sun is bought and pid for AFL mouthpiece.

[ParraEelsNRL]

Yeah robotic morons that have fallen hook line and sinker for the evil deeds to come. They have said their end game is the total destruction of the human spirit, these people are just showing that yes, it can be done if you are a simplistic little moron without any morals or thought for human compassion you can be trained to follow any number of things that are stupid and detrimental to human life, but meh, we gotta bash you because your teams colours are wrong. The mob mentality has always been there, it's just needed something to trigger it all off and sadly it isn't going off because of the bad stuff in the world, it's going off over a stupid childs sport.

These bottom feeders are really something, they wouldn't raise an eyelid if some moron kicked in all the shop windows and burnt them all to the ground in their own neighbourhood ruining the lives of so called friends and loved ones, yet will kill someone or protect themselves and others over what freaking team you support.

[Swans4ever]

Why do they keep calling the beautiful game when it causes such senseless violence.

[post_hoc]

Why do they keep calling the beautiful game when it causes such senseless violence.

Because most people realise the difference between what happens normally and what happens rarely. Something you seem to struggle with.

Because the game is beautiful, the way the ball moves, the strategy, the skill.

[Swans4ever]

Why do they keep calling the beautiful game when it causes such senseless violence.

Because most people realise the difference between what happens normally and what happens rarely. Something you seem to struggle with.

Because the game is beautiful, the way the ball moves, the strategy, the skill.

Are you for real they have had decades of this shit in Europe where they can't even place opposition supporters can't sit together - your in la la land if you think it's just some rare event by a very small majority!

[post_hoc]

295 million people play football
In 2010 3.4 billion people watched the World Cup

So yea it is a fucking small minority. Now go watch your insignificant meaningless sport

[post_hoc]

you mean the one that dominates the pissant sport that is professional soccer in australia right? the one thats so piss poor even soccer followers in this country dont follow the national league?

Lol, Yea mate, the AFL is a meaningless sport, a couple of million people in Australia give a fuck about it, no one else does. More people watch rugby league, rugby union and Football so like I said the AFL is a meaningless sport.

[NRL&NFLweLaughATafl]

Yeah were some crazy scenes between Russia and England last week in France.

[Swans4ever]

Yeah were some crazy scenes between Russia and England last week in France.

And who the fuck cares!

[Swans4ever]

you mean the one that dominates the pissant sport that is professional soccer in australia right? the one thats so piss poor even soccer followers in this country dont follow the national league?

Lol, Yea mate, the AFL is a meaningless sport, a couple of million people in Australia give a fuck about it, no one else does. More people watch rugby league, rugby union and Football so like I said the AFL is a meaningless sport.

Yeah keep pinning your credibility to what happens OS - like I said if they had the choice that boring ass bandit sport would be dead - but due to ignorant attitudes like yours it survives. What a vile corrupt sport!!! What sport needs to get money off 8 yr olds so it can pay its professional league??? Only soccer!!!

[post_hoc]

you mean the one that dominates the pissant sport that is professional soccer in australia right? the one thats so piss poor even soccer followers in this country dont follow the national league?

Lol, Yea mate, the AFL is a meaningless sport, a couple of million people in Australia give a fuck about it, no one else does. More people watch rugby league, rugby union and Football so like I said the AFL is a meaningless sport.

Yeah keep pinning your credibility to what happens OS - like I said if they had the choice that boring ass bandit sport would be dead - but due to ignorant attitudes like yours it survives. What a vile corrupt sport!!! What sport needs to get money off 8 yr olds so it can pay its professional league??? Only soccer!!!

I am really sorry that your sport is a joke internationally, I am sorry that your sport has no one outside of 4 states that actually give a toss about it. I am sorry that your sport has less people interested in watching it in the world than the sports you call boring such as Union, League and Football (think that says more about you than the rest of the world) I am truly truly sorry that less people are interested in playing your sport than Football Nationally and less interested in playing your sport in two of the largest states in NSW and Qld.

In reality your sport is a meaningless sport played by a few hundred thousand people worldwide and watched by a couple of million. That is your position in the world, I would accept it and know your place.

[post_hoc]

In reality your sport is a meaningless sport played by a few hundred thousand people worldwide and watched by a couple of million. That is your position in the world, I would accept it and know your place.

The beauty of it is, we do. Whats fun is watching you people blow a gasket at how irrelevant you are here in Australia, like you have some predetermined right to be respected here because of how big you are elsewhere.

Wookie, sorry mate don't give a toss, would rather your corrupt organisation wouldn't try to actively destroy my preferred game but hey, you guys are getting desperate. You play your little game in Victoria, the rest of us can play it everywhere.

[Xman]

In reality your sport is a meaningless sport played by a few hundred thousand people worldwide and watched by a couple of million. That is your position in the world, I would accept it and know your place.

The beauty of it is, we do. Whats fun is watching you people blow a gasket at how irrelevant you are here in Australia, like you have some predetermined right to be respected here because of how big you are elsewhere.

Wookie, sorry mate don't give a toss, would rather your corrupt organisation wouldn't try to actively destroy my preferred game but hey, you guys are getting desperate. You play your little game in Victoria, the rest of us can play it everywhere.

Tin foil hat post at its best. You may want to check your geography to see there are 8 teams located outside Victoria

[NRL&NFLweLaughATafl]

Yeah were some crazy scenes between Russia and England last week in France.

And who the fuck cares!

Pretty much the whole world cares and a lot more than the little one nation code called afl.

What happens when the two biggest football hooligan nations play each other.

[post_hoc]

In reality your sport is a meaningless sport played by a few hundred thousand people worldwide and watched by a couple of million. That is your position in the world, I would accept it and know your place.

The beauty of it is, we do. Whats fun is watching you people blow a gasket at how irrelevant you are here in Australia, like you have some predetermined right to be respected here because of how big you are elsewhere.

Wookie, sorry mate don't give a toss, would rather your corrupt organisation wouldn't try to actively destroy my preferred game but hey, you guys are getting desperate. You play your little game in Victoria, the rest of us can play it everywhere.

Tin foil hat post at its best. You may want to check your geography to see there are 8 teams located outside Victoria

And I'm guessing 3/4 of the players are from Victoria. Call it tin foil hat, call it long suspicions, call it opinion based on evidence. The easiest one to cite would be the memo from the court case of C7 sport, how they bought the old NSL TV rights and then didn't show it to protect the AFL.