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2022-11-28 Europe

World Cup riot erupts as fans flip cars and set fires after Belgium vs Morocco match

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Posted by Besoeker 2022-11-28 04:26|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 ...Took me a minute to figure out that the Belgian fans were rioting in Belgium. Had they been doing so in Qatar, this would have been a very short article.

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2022-11-28 06:58|| 2022-11-28 06:58|| Front Page Top

#2 In American football the violence is conducted on the game field. In world football the violence is conducted off the game field.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-11-28 07:28|| 2022-11-28 07:28|| Front Page Top

#3 Is it just me or does this off the field violence the European equivalent of 2 minutes of hate?

Posted by DarthVader 2022-11-28 08:26|| 2022-11-28 08:26|| Front Page Top

#4 In the US fans riot when they win a championship, not when they lose.

Posted by jpal 2022-11-28 08:57|| 2022-11-28 08:57|| Front Page Top

#5 In Canada hockey fans riot when they win AND when they lose.

Posted by Too Old To Work 2022-11-28 09:04|| 2022-11-28 09:04|| Front Page Top

#6 Their excitement brings tears to our eyes.

Mostly due to burning vehicles and buildings, though.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2022-11-28 09:13|| 2022-11-28 09:13|| Front Page Top

#7 I'll wager the football hooliganism is a mask, to cover just regularly anarchist behaviour, a test of strength, wolves howling under the moon.

Posted by Dron66046 2022-11-28 10:07|| 2022-11-28 10:07|| Front Page Top

#8 In the US fans riot when they win a championship, not when they lose.

Lots of “Belgians” are North African colonists. As far as they’re concerned, their team did win.

I'll wager the football hooliganism is a mask, to cover just regularly anarchist behaviour

No doubt.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-11-28 11:46|| 2022-11-28 11:46|| Front Page Top

#9 The term "Belgium fans" implies that the rioters are fans of the Belgium football team. Other sources indicate that the folks doing the rioting are fans of the Morocco team who happened to have colonized Belgium (and the Netherlands). But we can't say that, can we?

Posted by Matt 2022-11-28 15:04|| 2022-11-28 15:04|| Front Page Top

#10 The "fans" were clearly Moroccans. Of course we're not supposed to say that.

Posted by European Conservative 2022-11-28 16:27|| 2022-11-28 16:27|| Front Page Top

#11 /\ Those pesky Moroccans, they've always been something of a steuerungsproblem EC :-)

Posted by Besoeker 2022-11-28 16:41|| 2022-11-28 16:41|| Front Page Top

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