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...sure, there are those who feel that soccer violence is largely a symptom of deeper social and economic problems, perhaps even a direct result of Britain's 13.5% unemployment rate. In Liverpool, for example, 25% of the labor force is out of work. "We have football," says Psychologist Peter Marsh. "Other societies have street gangs." A 1980 study of soccer hooliganism in Britain found that four-fifths of those charged with soccer- related crimes were either unemployed or manual workers. Says Sociologist John Williams of the University of Leicester: "We must go into the community to find out why young...
...their home teams. Many of the groups have their own chants, symbols and even weapons of choice. The infamous Bushwackers of Millwall, a tattered docklands area of London, wear surgical masks during matches to hide their identities and favor small Stanley cutting tools to carry out their assaults. Some Liverpool supporters who attended the Brussels game insist that many fans dressed in the crimson of Liverpool spoke in the Cockney accents of Chelsea and West Ham, London neighborhoods whose clubs are known for their marauding followers. In fact, Liverpool fans had a reputation among the British for relative propriety...
...search for causes of the violence in Brussels went on, those touched by the tragedy made an effort to come to terms with their feelings. At a Requiem Mass held in Liverpool's Roman Catholic cathedral, the Archbishop of Liverpool, Derek Worlock, summed up the feelings of shocked and puzzled citizens. "If it comes to responsible human conduct and moral behavior," he said, "the answer lies in ourselves." At a service held in a hangar at a Brussels military airport on Saturday, Belgian Prime Minister Martens paid his final respects to 25 of the riot victims. He spoke...
Last week revived West's scene. Suddenly, there were two freakish disasters overseas, connected at first only by the fact that death was involved in each: thousands killed in a cyclone in Bangladesh, 38 by a flood of Liverpool fans at a soccer match in Belgium. It was not the casualty count alone that was stunning nor even, in the case of the soccer match, the display of what amounted to mass murder in the context of a game. What the world saw in Bangladesh and Belgium was nature out of control -- external nature in one place, human nature...
...things. There is no way to explain away cyclones, of course, but experts may be called in to analyze violence in sports or to invent measures guaranteeing that such a horror will never take place again. Not that rational activity is unwelcome after watching tapes of the boys from Liverpool publicly assaulting -- and killing -- the boys from Turin because the Italians were rooting for the wrong team. How does the mind begin to understand this? Bring out Elias Canetti's Crowds and Power and learn that mobs love destroying things, that "in the crowd the individual feels a . . . sense...