Sunday 20 April 2008

Hooliganism-taking it to the streets


Tuesday the 15th




Just like any other day, the grass is green, the sky is gray, but there is something in the air. I smell it. A change in the winds. Fried onions and hot dogs, the very smells that could indicate only one thing. Football Match. A gathering of fanatic men, belching and screaming as they ascend the stairs of the stadium. They take their places, finding their seat is opposite the enemy. As they watch from afar and growl, they know. They feel it in their football-crazed, beer-driven hearts that today is the day. Today Wolves will score. They smirk at the opposing team's supporters.


Alas though, we have the upper hand. We the management, we the holders of power, we the authority and system of today, control them. NO ALCOHOL SERVED. Clever, and effective. A seemingly small cry of desperation against the ever growing hand of hooliganism, but yet it seems to take affect. No drunken fans today. No cursing men will shout out profanities and end up in pub brawls and knock outs and spend their evening in a cell.


The armed men and women of the law stand around the stadium waiting for the fans to end up on the streets. They taunt the idea of fights. A true hooligan will not stop his ways just because a couple of bartenders said no alcohol served here. They like the danger. The fact that a police man is standing 2 feet away from them while they punch the lights out of the enemy, thrills them. It's a weird adrenaline rush but it happens. It's not enough to ban alcohol from stadiums, just because it isn't there doesn't mean they wont drink before the match, and there is no way they wont drink after it.


This is a population of men brought up with the idea that getting totally drunk will excuse their actions. This is the future of pour little Britain, a community which revels in drunkenness and violence. Banning alcohol from the football grounds on certain matches, saying they can't drink before 10, is the absurd. It is common knowledge, and sense, that when you prohibit someone from doing something, 9 out of ten times that person will do anyway.


Unless people themselves, can change their acts, and clear up the mess they have laid upon us, the founders of this sect of hooligans will be the epitome of this on going battle against it. Not the beer which is served!!

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