HarrowGill
Vital Youth Team
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Which is it? Is it "new" behaviour, or is it 'bin dipper" behaviour? Scallies have been doing this in major finals (apart from Hillsborough) since the 80's.
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To answer your questions, its not new behaviour. But the form of this behaviour hasmetamorphosed into a feral, unmitigated free-for-all or anarchy that came to a head over the weekend.
Back in the 1980s/90s, there were at least a few controlling or mitigating elements to what was an increasingly stigmatised pastime of football violence. Not only that, but there were stiff sentences, you were more likely to lose your job (and your home and your gf/wife). There were fewer weapons, and there were rules of combat (don't hit fans wearing colours etc.)
Nowadays? You've got ridiculously fat blokes in their 20s wearing flat caps or stone Island baseball caps but worn with Jack Wills or Lonsdale clobber straight from the Sports Direct catalogue, out of their box by lunchtime, dribbling and babbling incoherently, trying to look hard (and failing), urinating on memorials and statues, lobbing bottles of Heineken into the air at random (and without a care for the families and children in their immediate surroundings), threatening to stab stewards... all before taking a deserved crack to the jaw or skull from Igor and his fellow fighters from St Petersburg, replete with their matching Everlast joggers, gumshields, and tap-out bumbags. And then everyone sobers up complaining of the injustice of it all!
A lot of the 'lads' that you saw on Wembley Way on Sunday were a disorderly, disgraceful but dangerous mess that often dont have a secure job, no spouse, no hope, and frankly no care for the country or society they inhabit. It's a problem that transcends demographics and provinces across the country but was largely kept out from football for from about 1995 - until very recently.