Queenie
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There was a major international football (soccer to you lot 
) match in my home city of Manchester last night. Over 100,000 fans of the two teams playing (neither were local) came to the city to watch the match, either at the stadium itself or on one of 5 huge screens set up in various open squares around the city centre.
Just before the match, the biggest screen broke down - you can guess what happened next. There was a riot of biblical proportions that rampaged through the city. How no one died I will never know, I guess God was watching out for everyone.
This is around 200 "fans" attacking around 10 policeman (remember that UK policemen are unarmed):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/7402858.stm
If that isn't shocking enough, this is what they left behind in the city centre:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/7403492.stm
Those pictures show a place called Piccadilly Gardens, an area of open green space with water sculptures right at the heart of the city, designed for people to sit and have a coffee or eat their lunches. I think photo 1 on this link is the worst of all:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/7402414.stm
I am sorry to post this here so completely OT but I had to get it off my chest. I am absolutely sickened by these people who can come to a city, attack its police, trash it to beyond comprehension and then walk away laughing. Where does that mentality come from? I can guarantee you that if my son (or daughter, I'm sure it wasn't 100% men involved) EVER did something like this, they wouldn't know what hit them when they next saw me. Do these people have so little respect for the planet they live on and the people who live in it?
I was in Manchester with my mum on Sunday night, after another major football match - it's the end of the season when all the big finals are being played. Piccadilly railway station was crawling with police as was the city centre itself. Everywhere you looked were drunken fools. We ourselves witnessed an incident on the platform involving about 15 very drunk men who thought it would be fun to antagonise the police, call them horrific names and start a fight. Luckily within minutes about 25 more policemen appeared from nowhere and those idiots got arrested. it was made even worse by the fact that there were several children on the platform at the time who got to listen and see all that nonsense.
It really makes me sad and angry about the state of the world...
) match in my home city of Manchester last night. Over 100,000 fans of the two teams playing (neither were local) came to the city to watch the match, either at the stadium itself or on one of 5 huge screens set up in various open squares around the city centre. Just before the match, the biggest screen broke down - you can guess what happened next. There was a riot of biblical proportions that rampaged through the city. How no one died I will never know, I guess God was watching out for everyone.
This is around 200 "fans" attacking around 10 policeman (remember that UK policemen are unarmed):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/7402858.stm
If that isn't shocking enough, this is what they left behind in the city centre:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/7403492.stm
Those pictures show a place called Piccadilly Gardens, an area of open green space with water sculptures right at the heart of the city, designed for people to sit and have a coffee or eat their lunches. I think photo 1 on this link is the worst of all:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/7402414.stm
I am sorry to post this here so completely OT but I had to get it off my chest. I am absolutely sickened by these people who can come to a city, attack its police, trash it to beyond comprehension and then walk away laughing. Where does that mentality come from? I can guarantee you that if my son (or daughter, I'm sure it wasn't 100% men involved) EVER did something like this, they wouldn't know what hit them when they next saw me. Do these people have so little respect for the planet they live on and the people who live in it?
I was in Manchester with my mum on Sunday night, after another major football match - it's the end of the season when all the big finals are being played. Piccadilly railway station was crawling with police as was the city centre itself. Everywhere you looked were drunken fools. We ourselves witnessed an incident on the platform involving about 15 very drunk men who thought it would be fun to antagonise the police, call them horrific names and start a fight. Luckily within minutes about 25 more policemen appeared from nowhere and those idiots got arrested. it was made even worse by the fact that there were several children on the platform at the time who got to listen and see all that nonsense.
It really makes me sad and angry about the state of the world...
We have soccer (football) here...but it's not like that...or at least not where I have heard about rioting afterwards...
