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Among the Thugs: Rowdy Soccer Fans

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Argentinian soldiers advance with tear gas after over-excited fans rush the field. No country where soccer is popular (or, in the case of some nations, where it's treated as an unofficial secular creed) has been able to avoid violence by its fans forever. And in some places, of course, violence on and off the pitch is downright predictable.

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Jan 01, 1960
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