Lizzie45
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Riots break out with cars torched after Morocco beat Belgium.
https://www.itv.com/news/2022-11-27/riots-break-out-across-multiple-cities-after-world-cup-defeat
“Soccer isn’t the only game in town.”
Whereas, with all the idiots there are in the world, capitalism most certainly is…
There are also numerous instances of football hooliganism within national boundaries i.e. between teams of a particular nation.
Football hooliganism dates back to the Middle Ages in England. Fights between groups of youths often occurred during football matches organised between neighbouring towns and villages on Shrove Tuesdays and other Holy Days. Merchants concerned over the effect of such disturbance on trade called for the control of football as early as the 14th century. King Edward II banned football in 1314, and then King Edward III in 1349 because he felt the disorder and violence that accompanied matches led to civil unrest and distracted his subjects. A number of other monarchs and various authorities also tried to ban football throughout the centuries in England and Scotland but they were largely ineffective.
Hooliganism in the modern game of football in England dates back to its establishment in the 19th century. Individuals referred to as roughs were known to cause trouble at football matches in the 1880s, for example when they attacked the visiting team in a match between Aston Villa and Preston North End in 1885. Local derby matches would usually have the worst trouble in an era when fans did not often travel to other towns and cities, and roughs sometimes attacked the referees and visiting team’s players. Incidences of fan violence have been reported from the late 19th and the early 20th century in England and Scotland. In 1909, thousands of Rangers and Celtic fans rioted at the replay of the Scottish Cup Final at Hampden Park. Crowd troubles also extended to areas outside of the ground, into the town as well as trains and railway stations. For example, Leicester City fans vandalised a train in 1934, and several trains were damaged in 1955 and 1956 by Liverpool and Everton fans.
List of English football tribes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hooligan_firms#England
Trump suffers series of legal blows on taxes, Mar-a-Lago raid.
Millions of households will be spending nearly a third of their income on fuel by spring.
Saw this Pink Floyd tribute band earlier this week. Brilliant!
Sorry! Wrong thread. Mind you, the full set is as long as a film!
“Chelmsford, don’t you agree that the history of humankind (post-primitive communism) is the history of class conflict, and that it was inevitable the capitalist class would take over the world?”
Quite possibly. But the transition to socialism is a different matter entirely since it requires a majority of the world’s population (OK, working class) to both understand what is required and then to bring it about. Haha, no way! There’s more chance of me becoming the next Pope. 🙂
“like the deluded musings of a wacko like Scott Ritter”
Not sure that’s a legitimate or justifiable description of Ritter.
For seven years he served as a United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq in the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM), which was charged with finding and destroying all weapons of mass destruction and WMD-related manufacturing capabilities in Iraq.
Ritter became an outspoken critic of the Bush administration’s claims that Iraq possessed significant WMD stocks or manufacturing capabilities, the primary rationale given for the U.S. invasion of Iraq in March 2003. Prior to the war, Ritter stated that the U.S.and British governments were using the presence of WMD’s in Iraq as a political excuse for war.
“MODERATOR NOTICE
I will continue to edit out unnecessary insults or abuse”
Yet you will not chastise in any way those who dishonestly alter poster’s texts in order to suit their own purposes.
Nice to know this forum has a moderator who acts ‘impartially’.
“Just received a further 66 quid [from the government] towards my monthly electricity bill.”
“No you didn’t. The electricity company did. You were the government’s mule.”
Do you honestly think I give a flying fuck? All I know is that I have 66 quid to spend on something else.
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“Let them have some crumbs from the Master’s table”
Yeah, I guess, but really mustn’t grumble. Over the past month or so I’ve had a bloody big cake.
ALB: “For once I agree with Lizzie.”
More the Bore: “Maybe, ALB, you could make our pamphlets more hip, and halve their content for the short- attention -span – digital modern skimmer.”
So long as you don’t get to write them. Your palaverous style is guaranteed to send most readers to sleep – but perhaps that’s not necessarily a bad thing 🙂
