The good side of football supporters!

In India, it is cricket which rules the roost. We do have occasional outburst from the crowd like the infamous Eden Gardens standoff during the World Cup semi final between India and Sri Lanka. But generally the crowds in India are well behaved. In fact, the crowd at Chennai the place from where I hail is supposed to be one of the most non-partisan crowds in the world. They famously once gave a standing ovation to the Pakistani team when they beat India by 15 runs in a test match. Cheers! Ram

In the States we call your football, soccer. I have never been to a professional or semi-professional soccer game, only when the kids played and those games never got out of hand. I have, however, been to many professional American football games. They have a lot of tailgate parties and you do get a crowd that is drunk before the game even starts, however, other than being very loud, they never get out of hand. I think at times, there are fights that start out when they are playing playoff games, but that is never in the stadium, it happens usually in the parking lot and is most likely due to guys acting a bit crazy and drinking too much.

Majority of the soccer fans are nice and are there to enjoy the game. But there are a minority who is either hooligan or some racist creeps. They ought to be removed from the game. As for the sports in my country, the fans are generally well-behave. The furtherest they would go is a verbal tauntings.

Every country has his hooligans, so why should the country I live in be different? There are a lot of them, and they spoil the game. The only good thing they do is that they sing and make a nice atmosphere with that. But I don't think that they care about the team, they just need an alibi to make criminal groups. They like to fight, to injure others and to make war zone out of football. I am not saying that people should behave like on theater at the stadium and verbal aggression is at his place there, but fighting just because the other person supports the other team, is an act of weakness and low personality. Because of the hooligans stadiums in Romania are mostly empty. And of course because the stadiums are not so equipped either.

I am not a footy fan, but I do follow cricket. For a long time we have had a hooligan element to football, and I think that they find it convenient to hide behind popular culture- where they are least likely to be exposed. Now, of course, they are hijacking student protests.

Loving the picture nad they look as if they're really happy to be at the match, good to see kids having fun!!

i think that place is deserve for football and many people like to play football and more ever grounds may be filled up all English fans.

There are a lot of media reports about hooliganism here as well, but I've been going to games regularly in the past 10 years, and I've never seen any serious incidents. I've learned a few things in the meantime, there are certain games I avoid, and sometimes,when I suspect there may be trouble, I get a seat in a "quieter" part of the stadium than my regular seat, but all in all, it's nice and clean fun, and all those media reports are clearly doing a lot of harm, because they scare off women and children from coming to the games.