SOCCER GONE KA-RAZY

Damn…must be the season. The Italian Po-Po are locked and loaded for what’s bound to be a hooligans-gone-crazy-kinda day in Rome tomorrow. The Champions League quarterfinal, first leg match between AS Roma and Manchester United will be guarded by 1,400 officers…Captain of my Italian hormones, Francesco Totti, will not grace the field with his sexy Bono-esq self because he is suffering from a (gulp) ‘thigh-muscle-injury’. Wish I can say I’m to blame for it…Viva Roma.

Gotta love this…a group of Paris football fans started a shit storm when they unfurled a 25-meter banner reading: “Pedophiles, unemployed, inbreds: Welcome to the home of the Ch’tis” during the Paris PSG vs France’s Len match. Monday. (The banner refers to a film about the life of the Ch’tis, a nickname for the people of northern France.) President Nicolas Sarkozy, who was in the stands, ordered the banner to be removed…”The president wishes that this intolerable behavior will have the follow-up it deserves and will follow with great attention how the investigation progresses,” read a statement issued by Sarkozy’s office.

River Plate beat Arsenal de Sarandi 1-0 to go top of the Argentine Clausura championship on Sunday…and once again, victory comes with bloodshed. The “Barrabravas” are said to be ‘Argentina’s most notorious football fans” but seem to be a bunch of rejects if you ask me. The tough guys were having a ‘turf-war’ over ownership of the stadium terrace…and you think Raiders fans are nuts?

Wow, big surprise here too…no one could ever have guessed that a riot would break out at a Slavia and Sparta match-especially since they’ve had an opposing rivalry for what…um…over a century? Slavia Prague vs. Sparta Prague, the match ended 1-1.

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