LadyConstanze
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ORIGINAL: DocStrange I happened to be in Manchester England during a local football game, Manchester United versus Birmingham. After the game there was a complete police escort walking the team and fans for Birmingham back to the train station. We are talking police in riot gear, guard dogs on chains, streets blocked off, sirens. I was shocked at how violent just getting the opponent out of the city was. I was in Manchester and there was a game with a Scottish team, I really don't follow football because of the supporters and because players pretending to be mortally wounded when somebody looks at their hair, could have been the Celtics, can't really remember, hubby said the kind of guys only their mother's can love, but the whole inner city was basically cordoned off. It was almost like a war zone, no chance to get to the train station, I ended up just booking into a hotel. As a kid I loved football, but it just seemed to have turned into something weird. What I really miss in the UK is good ice-hockey, though on occasion there is rugby, which is also great, and oddly enough while quite a bit of booze gets consumed, they tend to keep the aggression on the playing field.
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