mancityvstoke
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French gangs attacked Northern Ireland's fans on their first night in NiceWhy have French ultras and Russians decided to attack England fans in the main and not Northern Ireland, Welsh and Irish fans and the vast majority of other countries competing in the Euros? England through years of rampaging through European cities have developed a reputation.
The chickens are now coming home to roost.
That's not Nice.French gangs attacked Northern Ireland's fans on their first night in Nice
Definitely takes the biscuit.That's not Nice.
Couldn't they have done it on Twattenberg instead last match?Aren't the Croats supposed to be attacking the Ref tonight?
Could be interesting.
Is that Shay Given with a set of cock n balls on the back of his head? Don't know what he's doing in an England shirt.
Yep.He would love that wouldn't he? More limelight the better.
The coppers underpaid them for work rendered.Wasn't there a fair bit of trouble between the Polish and the police?
Next week on BBC 2:
Russia's Hooligan Army
This World
At the 2016 European Championships, violent clashes between Russian and English supporters in Marseille put the spotlight on Russian
hooliganism. Russian hooligans injured over 100 English supporters, beating two into a coma, and it raised serious concerns ahead of Russia hosting the 2018 World Cup. Filmmaker Alex Stockley von Statzer travels to Russia to experience the country's football fan culture first hand. Featuring footage filmed in Marseille in 2016, rare interviews with members of some of the most feared firms like the Spartak Gladiators and Orel Butchers, and new footage of an organised fight for wannabe recruits, this show uncovers a world where brutal violence has become a mark of honour and a symbol of newly resurgent Russian masculinity.
Most Russian hooligans have moved away from the English movement that inspired them in the 70s and 80s. Today they are organised in firms that are teetotal, physically fit and trained in mixed martial arts. Police have enacted new laws promising bans and jail for any fans that cause trouble and are heavily policing stadiums. Alex travels to Oryol to speak to the Orel Butchers who violently attacked English fans in Marseille. We hear one hooligan taking relish in describing a merciless attack by a number of Russians who kicked an England fan in the head - an attack that was also caught on camera.
Alex also travels to Rostov, which will host five games at the World Cup, to film an organised fight in the woods. Here he meets with a local firm getting ready to audition for new members. Young men fight in a no holds barred brawl against young fighters from another local firm. It's a vicious clash similar to what was witnessed in Marseille and is one of the hundreds of fights that firms arrange all across Russia.