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Old 08-26-2009, 10:23 PM   #541
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Originally Posted by ukhotstove View Post
But this is my point exactly, a person got stabbed but they probably weren't the only person to be stabbed in England last night, it gets blown up out of proportion because it's a football game like were you state that "a thousand people brawling in the street" is blowing it out of proportion, there probably were thousands of people in the street but a small % involved in any fighting. I'd say at most 100-200 would have been fighting more than likely even less than that ammount, trust me I've been involved in football violence and this thousands of people go fighting at football matches is just a myth. When there is any fighting at football matches which occur less than what people would have believe you get 20-30 people fighting not thousands or even hundreds.
That's still newsworthy, though. A riot is a riot.
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