Football just died in Italy this Weekend.

[juventus85]

yo,
I don't you if you saw it on tv, but after the gamy Catania Palermo, a police officer died after a hooligan threw a firework at him, which exploded in his face.
Soccer stands still at the moment in italy and they don't know when they want to start again.
Thats go nothing to do more with football, there were helicopters around the stadium, like they were at war!
Poor italy, thats the country which supposed to be Football Champion, I feel ashamed....no more words required!

[BoofyNY]

hopefully they will turn this into a way to keep messina in serie a just like last year.
but for real, hopefully this will be a real wake-up call to enforce stricter security and punishment for hoolaganism because in all honesty, its better to lose this one life now then to wait for a BIG emergency that would probaly happen soon enough.
i still don't understand what's with the flares and all that. peole are just asking for trouble.

[Crede]

Typical Italian fans.....throwing stuff then running away.

Terrible news, policeman was just doing his job.

Wasn't just a firework or flare either, it was a bomba carta. A home made bomb.

[Mayhs]

yeah man sorry about that i read about it and saw it on the news...its so bad

but hopefully it will spark a revolution in italy, you know it takes something bad to cause a reform in the world...

people need to realise the consequences of their actions when theyre in football crowds, ok you can put partial (20-30%) of the blame on gang mentality but the rest really is down to the individuals, its ashame football attracts so many idiotic people...you dont see this happen after basketball games do you?

[kormega]

^^
just cause basketball halls cant take 50-70K people. Greek, Turkish, Israel basket fans r crazy as fuck
Violence was always part of football, I have no prob if fans r fightin between theirselves, it's tradition
Sad when innocent people suffer from this dumbness