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Re: Rangers fans
You are putting words in my mouth if you think I support any of last night’s antics. If there’s one thing I’m not is defending them. Their behaviour was a disgrace. They are an embarrassment to their club and to themselves.
What I am saying is that the worst of it could have been avoided. What I am saying is that trouble should have been anticipated and measures put in place to avoid it.
You’re also putting words in my mouth with the “P” word which I did not at any time mention. Prohibition implies some sort of blanket ban over an extended period of time. I merely said that some sort of curfew be placed on the sale of alcohol before a certain time. Hardly 1920s Chicago to allow only the sale of alcohol (for a single day) from off licenses after 4 or 5. The Paddy’s day experiment was deemed a huge success here in Dublin and almost all the off licenses complied voluntarily. Many sporting events don’t allow alcohol consumption within their grounds so the link between crowd trouble and excessive boozeing is implicitly already acknowledged.
I go to most of the Irish home games but I will seriously be considering whether I will in the future take my son to any with me especially the Saturday night kick offs which seem to get worse and worse in terms of the drunken scumbags that turn up.
If the sale of alcohol had been controlled better you would be talking about maybe locking up a few hundred people at the most. Hardly beyond the authorities.
The same scenes incidentally will be played out in Moscow next week as the Russians being a nation of drunks don’t give a curse about public drunkedness. Their bone headed neo Nazi supporters will beat and probably kill someone and the police will beat some English fans within an inch of their life. Most of it booze fuelled.
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