ChiBlueBoy

May 5th, 2014 at 4:34 PM ^

I saw the title and immediately thought, "Of course it did. That was the next logical step."

I don't want to think about how it escalates from here.

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BlueHills

May 6th, 2014 at 1:37 PM ^

This all started in Istanbul, formerly Constantinople, in chariot race days!

In fact, the Nika Riots in 531 arose out of murders of one faction's members by another faction following a race, and resulted in the deaths of thousands of people. This became a political matter, so Justinian, then Emperor, came up with a plan that resulted of the execution of about 30,000 rioters in the Hippodrome, the stadium where the chariot races took place and the whole thing started.

Their descendants are still doing their sports riots thing.

So I blame Istanbul.

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LSAClassOf2000

May 5th, 2014 at 5:36 PM ^

That's pretty tragic. Condolences to that person's family and friends.

That being said, you sort of have to wonder about people who are so immersed in the outcome of a match that they would rip toilets from the bathrooms and toss them from the stands, perhaps knowing they would harm or kill someone below. According to the Bloomberg article on this inicdent, there were clashes a few days beforehand where fans were actually asked to leave early, but they also managed to make it rain American Standard-style even then, injuring three people in the process. 

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Yeoman

May 5th, 2014 at 9:17 PM ^

Some context for the non-soccer-fans here:

  • The match was at Santa Cruz, in Recife. The visitors were Parana, from Curitiba, 2000 miles away at the other end of the country. The two clubs aren't even rivals (and there's nothing in any of the reportage to suggest there was any unusual violence between the two sets of fans, just home supporters frustrated by the result).
  • Brazil's national leagues play in their winter, our summer. This was only the third game of the season; it's not like they were going to be relegated or miss out on promotion because they didn't win this one match.
  • This was Serie B. High level minor-league soccer, essentially.

I guess the equivalent would be furious fans ripping toilets out of the stadium bathrooms after an early-season game between CMU and Fresno.

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BlueinLansing

May 5th, 2014 at 5:53 PM ^

who had the toilet bowls dropped on them had done the same to another group of rival fans earlier this year.

 

Key lesson:  Don't throw toilet bowls on fans if you don't want toilet bowl thrown on you

 

 

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B-Nut-GoBlue

May 5th, 2014 at 6:51 PM ^

What? More futbol related casualties?! Color me shocked. The sport's followers scale a line of inhumanity. It's cute, for lack of a much better word, because that's just the way the sport is and I imagine helps add to the entertainment/rivalries/lore/etc. aspect to he sport. But it's pretty much sickening to me. This from a guy who actually doesn't hate soccer/futbol (though am not exactly an avid fan ).

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