Why are some soccer fans so violent?

Question

Notice I did say "some". There's been so much news about that lately. Is it a "nationalistic" thing?

Answer 1

They act like they worship their socer team. This is a form of idolatry. People should just go and enjoy the game. It's ok to cheer and of course want your team to win, but if it makes you violent something is wrong. You need some counseling. We are all from Adam and Eve so we should treat one another with love.
Of course if someone attacks you, you have the right to defend yourself. But hurting someone over a sport is 100 % WRONG !!!

Answer 2

It's called football bit*h!!! ok ok, i kid. :)
Anyways, as with any sports, passion and the moment of rivalry gets the heart pumping. It can be a nationalistic thing, If you watched the World Cup, ppl do get passionate, mostly England fans get the rap for this, but other ppl get riled up too. It is also a geography thing. Your town playing another town, since you called it soccer, i will assume you're american, so I will assume you know what i am talking about when i say it's like football (american style) with college teams battling out with other college teams from a near by town. There are only a handful of violent outburst in football(the world kind, not american) but they seem to an outburst on a epic scale. The Italian incident recently was due and it is always due to rivalry that stirs up the passion to want to win and the bad hats will instigate the matter and exploit it to a point of rioting, sometimes it works, most of the time it fails. So my answer as to why is some bad people in this huge crowd of supporters are worms and exploit these rivalries to create trouble.

Answer 3

I ask myself the samething all the time. I dont understand why some fans would try to tarnish the image of an otherwise great sport. I think it has a lot to do with the fact that when you get a lot of people in a small place, like a stadium, group think takes over. Once group think sets in, it only takes one idiot to set off a chain reaction of violence.

Answer 4

I don't know, but soccer (futbol) started a war between Honduras and El Salvador in 1969.
(They say the underlying cause was illegal immigration.)

Answer 5

because for the most part sport fanatics have no lives other than the sport they favor. they take out their frustrations of their miserable existance on people of their own kind. kind of like fighting with themselves.