Comments on: $12,000 For A Soccer Ticket? Welcome To Moscow http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/12000-for-a-soccer-ticket-welcome-to-moscow-17570 Celebrity sports gossip since 2001 Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:38:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Brooks http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/12000-for-a-soccer-ticket-welcome-to-moscow-17570#comment-1266 Brooks Tue, 06 May 2008 03:32:38 +0000 http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/12000-for-a-soccer-ticket-welcome-to-moscow-17570#comment-1266 British soccer fans aren't a problem NOW. But they were. And thanks to insane policing of matches at home and abroad, the British hooligans have been effectively rooted out. Italians are a far different story. British soccer fans aren’t a problem NOW. But they were. And thanks to insane policing of matches at home and abroad, the British hooligans have been effectively rooted out.

Italians are a far different story.

]]> By: shades846 http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/12000-for-a-soccer-ticket-welcome-to-moscow-17570#comment-1260 shades846 Mon, 05 May 2008 23:53:07 +0000 http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/12000-for-a-soccer-ticket-welcome-to-moscow-17570#comment-1260 also the fact is the club sports in the US does not have that much away fans vist the grounds. That outside of the red sox's and Yankees most support outside of few teams such as them come from the local home fan's that supporting the home team. That if you then add the fact that european fans are travelling to other nations and to places that have different languages and cultures the possibility for problems are greater in european football than in the NFL, NBA or MLB. also the fact is the club sports in the US does not have that much away fans vist the grounds. That outside of the red sox’s and Yankees most support outside of few teams such as them come from the local home fan’s that supporting the home team. That if you then add the fact that european fans are travelling to other nations and to places that have different languages and cultures the possibility for problems are greater in european football than in the NFL, NBA or MLB.

]]> By: shades846 http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/12000-for-a-soccer-ticket-welcome-to-moscow-17570#comment-1259 shades846 Mon, 05 May 2008 23:47:41 +0000 http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/12000-for-a-soccer-ticket-welcome-to-moscow-17570#comment-1259 British football fans have one of the lowest levels of violence of any away support in Europe. The levels of arrests although not as low as I want it to be are much lower than they were during the 1980s and that the image of football hooligan is a dated one that put across by some of the more mainstream media in the US as it exotica even though there are riots and other problems in the US and Canada over sports events in the past (see the Ice hockey this season in the play off's) That the massive changes in the make up of allot of the away support means that most of the traditional hardcore element can't afford to go to such games at the CL final. In fact manchester united fans and Chelsea go to dozens of games per year across the Europe and there little or no problems. In today Europe most of the problems in football are in eastern Europe and Italy such that i would be more worried by the Russian neo Nazi thugs ambushing the fans on the way and from the ground and beating them up with knifes or worst. The cost of the ticket is so great because of the fact that United are one of the biggest teams in the world and that it does not help that Chelsea is owned by Russian and that he bought large number of hotel rooms already and that allot of the Russians want to see the game as well and are willing to pay these prices. British football fans have one of the lowest levels of violence of any away support in Europe. The levels of arrests although not as low as I want it to be are much lower than they were during the 1980s and that the image of football hooligan is a dated one that put across by some of the more mainstream media in the US as it exotica even though there are riots and other problems in the US and Canada over sports events in the past (see the Ice hockey this season in the play off’s)

That the massive changes in the make up of allot of the away support means that most of the traditional hardcore element can’t afford to go to such games at the CL final. In fact manchester united fans and Chelsea go to dozens of games per year across the Europe and there little or no problems. In today Europe most of the problems in football are in eastern Europe and Italy such that i would be more worried by the Russian neo Nazi thugs ambushing the fans on the way and from the ground and beating them up with knifes or worst.

The cost of the ticket is so great because of the fact that United are one of the biggest teams in the world and that it does not help that Chelsea is owned by Russian and that he bought large number of hotel rooms already and that allot of the Russians want to see the game as well and are willing to pay these prices.

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