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Sorry if fixtures, but this is the best article I've read on this subject. http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer/international/ken-early-russians-go-to-war-with-an-english-myth-1.2682005

I'm the first to say that some of the acts over the years by England fans were a disgrace. But for the last 16years at any tournament or international fixture the Hooligan element has largely been eliminated with England. Yet, it's the first time since Germany 2006 that tens of thousands have...

You obviously have some weird obsession with England fans. I was beginning to give you the benefit of the doubt and call you naively deluded. Now I think you are just plain ignorant bordering on xenophobic.

Your naivety implies yours.

Oh yes,English Hooligans drink too much and start a fight and luzz plastic chairs around. Euro Ultras (and now Russian thanks to your exporting theory) , wear bandanas over their faces, gum shields and have flick knives.

The very idea of ultras comes from Italy.

So by your logic, (post #95)my cousin and his pals should have just taken a kicking/stabbing instead of trying to protect themselves to get out of the situation. I wonder what you would have done Simster? Try to reason with the Russians perhaps? Also with England fans heading to Lille on the...

Rampage? Are you a Tory minister from the 1980's? St.George crosses are pretty standard at England matches. If you don't like them, don't fly them,

My cousin was down there. I didn't know he had gone, I only just found out as I'm not on Facebook all the time. But he said he and a few of his pals had to run from Russians twice. On the second occasion they were chased by Russian thugs with metal scaffold bars and knives. He said all they...

French government Ban booze at fans zones and near stadiums. As if booze is the reason Russian Thugs cause trouble. The old excuses come out from authorities, it's A, easy to blame England and B, easy to say it's Alcohol that's the fuel. Both untrue. All the tournaments from Japan 2002 onward...