Thread: Football within Eygpt

Egypt: Port Said football disaster - 2 February 2012 | World news | guardian.co.uk

If this happened in the UK everyone would be up in arms, would they call for football to be banned, how many people were killed?

Are we playing on a different playing field?

Would you send another country to play football in this country now?

Would fans be safe, would footballers be safe?

We have moved in leaps and bounds, which is good, however name calling can become worse than killing.
In one way a slip of the tongue, that would have been right a few months ago is not right now, but something that was wrong some months ago would be correct now, it's hard to understand that a white board is correct or a black board is correct as the laws change.

The most important thing is not the name, if I am white, green, black or blue, not forgetting yellow, that is what I am, however, the word after that can be more abusive than the word that some people find offensive.
If someone thought I was Italian, Indian, Pakistani, Spanish or whatever when I am tanned, that's fine, if I have no colour and people think I am English, Icelandic, Scottish, or whatever, that is fine too, it does not matter. What matters is the word after what you are called, that would not matter to me, but others are insecure I suppose.

My aim is people have been killed, murdered, why, do these people not realise, that they could be just like them, they are taking their lives for what?

Then on the other hand, do these people that like to play on words, not realise that they would be far more respected and show all others that a name is not an insult, it is something other than the name that people get offended by.

Football has some stance, all countries love football, therefore would they put the same restraints on all countries within the system?
You are moving away from the rules of football, or any sport, would a government be allowed to decide that this is acceptable.

I am not sure that I get lorraine's train of thought, but football tragedies have been known to occur in Europe, including Britain.

Remember the crush at Hillsborough on 15 April 1989 (Liverpool vs Nottingham Forest, 96 dead) and the Juventus versus Liverpool match (Brussels, 39 dead). I don't remember that on those two occasions the UK was really up in arms any more than Egypt now. And were there special meetings of the British Parliament?

Of course similar tragedies happened elsewhere. JR

Your playing a different ball game here, whether it is 2pm or 12pm, the difference remains to be unseen, they have also been playing with fire. What you are actually saying is let it lie, well, yes we will let it lie.

Indeed, even though I hate football more than any other sport and everything the boring phlegmatic game represents, to be fair, what happened in Egypt had more to do with the recent upheavals in their society and the underlying confrontations rather than anything to do with football-hooliganism as we know the phenomenon in Europe.

Football matches are not war, unless you are in a country that has problems.
Although I am not a football fan, I do listen to people who love football, most of the people see it as banter, they work together enjoy each others company and look after each other, when a football match comes they enjoy the game and hope they win, then enjoy their triumph, or are dissappointed by their loss.They have their silly banters, which some are quite witty and funny, however they are friends, just like brother and sister, and should they get hurt, then they would be the first to be by their side.
The have all had the elation of winning, they have all had the sadness of losing and walking away.
The dignity of walking away was lost, this has nothing to do with football, it has to do with politics within the country.