When it comes to terrorism, the best thing about it is the things that we, the public never get to hear about. The work of the police and other agencies stops loads of possible terrorist attacks everyday but they never make the news. People do work that we never know about so that we can go about our lives with a little less fear.
ISIS or IS as we now seem to call them....(.are they trying to be fashionable and hip with the kids by shortening their names....does it make them more popular on Twitter ...soz ...lol IS ...) like making statements so staging a football event for 24 countries to travel to France and move about on a daily basis for a month in a country where they managed to commit the Paris atrocities must be a policing nightmare, a fact that would take up all of Europes policing to keep the fans safe.....
......"what was that you say....some fans don't want to be safe?"
Riots in the street, pubs set on fire, fighting in sections of the ground, people fighting people from other countries...or sometimes their own country, flares thrown onto the pitch....that one gets me....... I can't see the point in that....how do you manage to smuggle those in?
So rather than worry about where the next idiotic act of organised terrorism comes from, the police and authorities are spending their resources stopping the people they are trying to protect from beating merry hell out of eachother.
Is football violence a European problem....the World Cups in South Africa and Brazil weren't like this?
Does having 24 teams invited to one country bring a lot of old nationalistic hatred and old rivalries that the 8 country competition never did?
Is the qualification for the knockout stages going to be based on fan arrests rather than points and goal difference...looking forward to seeing the addition to league tables next season.
Does Interpol have their own version of the Panini sticker book where they swop pictures, I'll swop you 5 Muslim extremists for thirty Russian ultras....
I don't envy the authorities in France and across Europe their jobs this month.
Remember we don't talk about air safety everyday......only when mechanical or electrical failure causes a plane crash that could have been picked up by a mechanic or electrician who missed some small detail.
Let's have a football tournament where we are NOT talking about terrorism ....or events around the pitch.... In case you have been arrested, hospitalised, extradited from France or are currently hidden away planning other disruptions....there is actually some impressive football going on....but you were probably never interested in the first place.
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